No. 23 Gettysburg Grabs Three Wins in Opening Meet

Women’s Swimming 10/23/2021 11:53:00 PM

 The 23rd-ranked Gettysburg College women’s swimming team kicked off its season with a trio of dual-meet victories over Centennial Conference foes in the Bullets Pool on Saturday afternoon.
 
Gettysburg (3-0) won five races and accumulated 20 top-three finishes to out-distance its three opponents Saturday. The Bullets beat Dickinson College (155-106), Washington College (157.5-103.5) and Bryn Mawr College (193-68).
 
All five victories came from freshmen, including an opening win in the 200 medley relay. Lindsay Blake (Chester Springs, Pa./Downingtown East), Olivia Pyott (Lancaster, Pa./Manheim Township), Hope Murray (Darien, Conn./Darien), and Ava Collin (Berwyn, Pa./Conestoga) teamed up for a win in the first relay race with a time of 1:50.40.
 
Blake and Pyott doubled up with wins in individual events. Blake swept the backstroke races, winning the 100 with the only sub-minute time (59.47) in the field and leading a 1-2-3 finish by the Bullets in the 200 yard race at 2:12.24. Pyott cruised to an almost two-second victory in the 100 breast at 1:08.98 and won the 200 with a time of 2:30.85.
 
Freshman Mia Yancey (Wallingford, Pa./Strath Haven), the younger sibling of former Gettysburg men’s All-American Oliver Yancey ’21, turned in a strong debut with a trio of runner-up performances. Yancey took second in the 200 free (1:59.40), 100 free (54.60), and 200 IM (2:16.93). Yancey led at the halfway point of the 200 IM, but Alexa Luecke from Washington College snuck in front during the breaststroke and held off the hard-charging Bullet in the final 50 yards of freestyle to win by four-hundredths of a second.
 
Sophomore Morgan Krepp (Bethesda, Md./Ursuline Academy (Texas)) recorded a pair of individual runner-up performances, finishing in a tie for second alongside junior Annabel Gorman (Moorestown, N.J./Moorestown) in the 200 fly (2:17.99) and claiming the No. 2 position behind Pyott in the 200 breast (2:31.99).
 
Additional runner-up performances were recorded by junior Lauren Manning (West Hartford, Conn./Conard) in the 1,000 free (11:17.39) and sophomore Brooke Gardner (Wilton, Conn./Wilton) in the 200 back (2:13.26). Gorman also finished third in the 100 fly (1:01.80). After anchoring the 200 medley relay, Collin logged third-place finishes in the 50 free (25.41) and 100 free (55.01).
 
Gettysburg hosts Franklin & Marshall College on Saturday, Oct. 30, at 1 p.m.