Centre swimming 1st and 3rd at Sewanee
The Centre College men's and women's swimming and diving teams were quite successful at the Sewanee-University of the South Invitational, with the women finishing first and the men third, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 3-4, in Sewanee, Tenn.
The women's team scored 844.5 total points to place first out of 10 schools. The Colonels finished 40.5 points ahead of NAIA member, the University of the Cumberlands (804), which finished second and 131.5 points ahead of fellow Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference member Sewanee (713).
The Centre women won seven events on the day to go along with seven second place finishes and eight third place finishes. Nine different athletes had at least two top three finish for the Colonels, including four members who won at least two events.
The quartet of sophomores Caitlin Rhodes (Louisville, Ky.), Liz Starr (West Chester, Ohio) and Erin Phillips (Knoxville, Tenn.) and freshman Alice Fleet (Franklin, Tenn.) won both the 100-yard medley relay (54.66) and the 200-yard medley relay (1:57.81).
Rhodes also set a new meet record in the 50-yard breaststroke (32.45) and was third in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:39.63), while Starr earned wins in the 50-yard butterfly (27.93) and the 100-yard butterfly (1:01.41) and was second in the 100-yard IM (1:04.40).
Freshman Meredith Angel (Campbellsville, Ky.) set a new meet record in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 25:05, breaking the previous record of 25.57 set in 2002 by Sara Atchison of Sewanee. Angel also recorded three second place finishes and a third.
Freshman Sadie Allen (Omaha, Neb.) won the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 2:01.59 and added one second place finish and three thirds.
The Centre men finished with a team score of 665 to place third overall out of eight teams. The Cumberlands won the men's title with a score of 1028, followed by Sewanee in second with 894 points.
Ten different members of the men's team captured at least one top three finish with eight of those finishing second or higher in at least two different events.
Sophomore Brad Erickson (Owensboro, Ky.) was the lone winner of multiple events, winning both the 50-yard breaststroke (29.72) and the 200-yard breaststroke (2:22.30). Erickson also had two second place finishes and a third place finish.
Sophomore Jimmy Tatgenhorst (Knoxville, Tenn.) won the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 49.37 to go along with four second place finishes and one third place finish.
"This has been a great start to the season for us," Centre head coach Dean Brownley said. "As a coach, I could not have scripted a better b beginning, but we swim Berea on Tuesday night and will have two very tough tests this coming weekend against DePauw on Friday night and turn around Saturday to face NCAA Division I opponent IUPUI. After two weekends of competing there will be no surprises and they will have scouted us and will know where we are strong and where we are not as strong, but tonight we are celebrating another landmark win for the women," Brownley added.
Centre will return to dual meet action, Tuesday, Nov. 7, when they travel to Berea, Ky. to compete against Berea College. The meet is scheduled to start at 6 p.m.
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