BROOKE ATKINS
Assistant Social Media Manager
The Fredonia swimming and diving teams packed up their bags and headed on one last away meet for the season, where both the men’s and women’s team came out with a victory.
The women walked away with one triple winner, two double winners and two solo winners clenching first.
“The energy in and out of the pool was exhilarating and overall we worked well and had great accomplishments,” junior Danielle Dembrow said.
A triple-winner was senior Sam Rokos in the 100-yard backstroke at 1:03:81, the 100-yard freestyle with :54.68 and the 200-yard individual medley at 2:18.39.
Placing first in two events was Dembrow in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:11.03 and also the 200-yard breaststroke at 2:36.07.
“Going into the meet I wanted to say consistent with the times I have been getting all season. The team was very excited for this meet because we got to compete against a team comparable with our own” said Dembrow.
The other double-winner was junior Meghan Bartlett in both the springboard diving events. Scoring 254.25 in the 1-meter and 269.95 in the 3-meter placed her in first.
Winning the solo events of the day were freshman Caroline Bilotti in the 200-yard butterfly at 2:31.62 and junior Chelsea Spiegel in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:36.46.
Finishing right behind them was senior Lauren Goeing who finished second in three events: the 100 breaststroke, the 200 breaststroke and the 200 individual medley.
As the season comes to a close, Dembrow says she is ready for her body mentally and emotionally to have a break, but she is still looking forward to seeing what the team and herself will accomplish at the championships.
As for the men’s swimming and diving, the Blue Devils won 10 individual events and one relay.
Winning two events were sophomores Bill Bradley and Nathan Link.
Bradley clenched first in the 200-yard butterfly at 2:06.40 and the 100-yard butterfly at :55.10.
Link placed first in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of :59.19 and the 200-yard backstroke with 2:09.05.
Winning the 200-yard freestyle with 1:52.67 was sophomore Ben Chatley. Freshman Jake Favret won the 100-yard breaststroke at 1:00.34 and senior Will Baker in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of :22.50.
Junior Adam Clouthier placed first in the 200-yard breaststroke and sophomore Graham Jones did the same in the 500-yard freestyle with 4:59.57.
Winning the 200-yard medley relay in 1:40.53 was Baker, Bradley Clouthier and Link.
In the diving portion of the meet, junior Arron Carlson placed first in the 3-meter event with 332.90 points and also had a meet-best of 293.55 points in the 1-meter board.
Rafael Santiago’s thoughts going into the meet were to solidify his dives for the meet and future meets.
“I am building confidence each and every season in the pool, and I just want to enjoy my last little bit of diving I have left,” Santiago said.
With Carlson’s scores and Santiago’s score in the 1-meter, they met or exceeded the NCAA zone-qualifying standard.
The Blue Devils will host their final home meet of the season this Saturday at 1 p.m. against Cortland. A senior day ceremony will be held before the meet.