The Gettysburg College women’s swimming team has its sights set on reclaiming that elusive conference crown this weekend when the Centennial Conference Swimming Championships return to the Bullets Pool.
Media Coverage
The 2020 Centennial Conference Swimming Championship will feature live video and live results for all seven sessions of competition. The meet will also be streamed to the TVs located in the John F. Jaeger Center for Athletics, Recreation and Fitness lobby. Additional information regarding tickets and local dining can be found on the championship website: https://gettysburgsports.com/2020ccswimchamps.
Schedule
The event will begin Thursday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. Each of the next two days will feature two sessions with preliminary swims at 10 a.m. and the finals at 6 p.m. Sunday’s prelims also begin at 10 a.m. and the final session will begin at 6 p.m. There will be a total of 36 events. A complete schedule of events can be found on the championship website.
Home Sweet Home
The CC Championship returns to the Bullets Pool for the sixth time. Gettysburg hosted the event in 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, and 2019. The natatorium, which opened in 2010, features eight competition lanes and eight warm-up lanes with a spectator gallery seating over 400 people.
Championship History
Gettysburg owns more Centennial titles (14) than any other institution. The Bullets won seven-straight crowns beginning with the inaugural season of the conference in 1994. It’s been seven years since the program last stood atop the podium at Franklin & Marshall College in 2013. Since then, Gettysburg has finished runner-up three times and third three times.
Gettysburg won the CC championship in each of its first two times serving as host in 2011 and 2012, while Ursinus College claimed titles at the Bullets Pool in 2015 and 2016. The Bears have won each of the last six championships, including last season when the team posted the third-largest margin of victory in meet history. Other institutions to win conference titles include Franklin & Marshall (2004-05, 2010) and Swarthmore College (2001-02).
Last Season’s Championship Meet
Ursinus claimed its sixth consecutive conference title with 816.5 points. Swarthmore placed second for the second year in a row with 676 points, while Gettysburg placed third with 595.5. Ursinus swept the major awards with Sophie Lear earning both Most Outstanding Performer and Rookie Outstanding Performer and Head Coach Mark Feinberg being named Coach of the Year. The Bears won a total of 14 races. The Bullets featured one gold medalist with Katie Cooper (Bridgewater, N.J./Bridgewater-Raritan) in the 200 breaststroke. Cooper and Megan Wojnar (Bridgewater, N.J./Bridgewater-Raritan) finished runner-ups in the 100 breast and 400 IM, respectively, while the 200 medley relay also grabbed silver.
All-Conference Performers
Cooper and Wojnar earned spots on the all-conference team as first-years in 2019. Cooper also earned all-league recognition alongside senior Becca Maroney (Darien, Conn./Darien), sophomore Katie Jenkins (Bow, N.H./Bow), and senior Kate Crilly (Shrewsbury, N.J./Ranney School) in the 200 medley relay. Crilly has totaled eight all-conference citations and was the silver medalist in both the 50 free and 100 free in 2018.
Gettysburg’s Top Times this Season
- 50 Free – Kate Crilly, 23.93*
- 100 Free – Cate Kosko (Yardley, Pa./Pennsbury East), 53.32
- 200 Free – Kate Crilly, 1:56.50
- 500 Free – Megan Wojnar, 5:08.59
- 1000 Free – Lauren Manning (West Hartford, Conn./Conard), 10:45.31
- 1650 Free – Lauren Manning, 17:47.80
- 100 Back – Hannah Wasson (Nazareth, Pa./Nazareth), 57.91
- 200 Back – Megan Wojnar, 2:06.04
- 100 Breast – Katie Cooper, 1:06.37
- 200 Breast – Katie Cooper, 2:25.12
- 100 Fly – Elissa Clancy (Ridgefield, Conn./Ridgefield), 58.88
- 200 Fly – Elissa Clancy, 2:13.00
- 200 IM – Katie Idank (Jackson, N.J./Jackson Memorial), 2:13.14
- 400 IM – Megan Wojnar, 4:33.79
- 200 Freestyle Relay – Fravel, Kosko, Wasson, Crilly, 1:36.88*
- 400 Freestyle Relay – Wasson, Bobeck, Kosko, Crilly, 3:35.74
- 800 Freestyle Relay – Crilly, Cooper, Wojnar, Bobeck, 7:53.14
- 200 Medley Relay – Wasson, Cooper, Clancy, Kosko, 1:47.30
- 400 Medley Relay – Wasson, Cooper, Clancy, Crilly, 3:55.65
*School Record
What to Watch
Outside of Crilly in the 50/200 free and Idank in the 200 IM, all of Gettysburg’s top times are held by sophomores and freshmen. Crilly enters the weekend as the top seed in the 50 free after posting a program record 23.93 at the Gettysburg Invite. She ranks second in the 200 free and third in the 100 free. Idank enters the weekend as the No. 2 seed in the 200 IM, less than three seconds off the pace set by F&M’s Tara Kupsky.
Cooper and freshman Talia Moss (Toronto, Ontario/Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute) form an impressive 1-2 punch for the Bullets in the breaststroke events. The pair will battle with a pair of Swarthmore swimmers, Annabella Boardman and Gaby Ma, for the top of the podium. Cooper is the program’s record holder in the 100 breast (1:05.40).
In the backstroke, Wasson looks to continue her impressive season as she enters the 100 ranked second behind Dickinson’s Sarah Caron. Wojnar is the top seed in the 200-yard backstroke and holds the program record at 2:05.59. The sophomore also heads into the weekend as the top performer in the 400 IM by nearly four seconds.
Clancy and Wasson will fly to the wall in search of a title in the 100 fly. Clancy comes in as the second seed at 58.88, while Wasson is just 0.06 second behind. Clancy and fellow first-year Annabel Gorman (Moorestown, N.J./Moorestown) are the team’s top performers in the 200 fly and are ranked third and fourth, respectively, in the conference.
The door is open for a new champion in both the 500 and 1,650 freestyle races following the graduation of Olivia Lyman from Dickinson. Wojnar and Manning are the top challengers for the Orange and Blue, the former sitting a very close second to Anna Lyn from Swarthmore in the 500 and the latter leading the conference by over five seconds in the 1,650 free.
Gettysburg will look to put up big points in the relay events. The Bullets enter the championship event holding the top times in all five relays, with less than a second margin in both the 200 and 400 free relays. Gettysburg’s 800 free relay time of 7:53.14 is 12 seconds faster than No. 2 seed Dickinson.
This story was originally posted on the Gettysburg College Website.