Pioneer women's swimming and diving team sails past Augustana

Schueler leads GC with 3 event victories

Results

GRINNELL, Iowa - Sarah Schueler '30 was a triple champion for the Grinnell College women's swimming and diving team and four others won two titles each in a 168-129 victory over Augustana College Friday night.

Schueler won the 200-yard butterfly (2 minutes, 17.21 seconds), 200 breaststroke (2:35.63) and 200 individual medley (2:18.82) at Russell K. Osgood Natatorium.

Alex Kruse '29 won 1- and 3-meter diving with scores of 266.78 and 255.00, respectively, and Kate Callender '30 won the 500 and 1000 freestyles in 5:25.98 and 11:11.76. Kruse's score in the 1-meter event ranks third all-time at Grinnell, and is the best since 2012, while Calendar's time in the 1000 is 18th.

Cassey Koch '30 won the 100 breaststroke in 1:11.74, Lisa Katsuta '30 won the 100 butterfly in 59.40 (a time that ranks 12th in GC history) and both also swam of the victorious 200 medley relay team that included Molly Ryan '27 and Tory Morse '29. Their time was 1:53.42.

Grinnell's other champ was Kate DeBoer '30 in the 200 backstroke. Her time was 2:15.74.

Individual runners-up for Grinnell were Nina Lyons '29 in the 1000 freestyle (11:22.17), DeBoer in the 100 backstroke (1:03.76), Maya Comer '29 in the 100 breaststroke (1:13.20) and 200 breaststroke (2:37.88), Katsuta in the 200 butterfly (2:21.69), Norah Nicol '30 in 1- and 3-meter diving (234.00 and 176.93) and Koch in the 200 individual medley (2:21.37). Nicol's performance at 1-meter is 13th all-time at GC.

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