COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – The Macalester College women's swimming and diving team began the 2023-24 campaign with a victory over the College of Saint Benedict in a dual meet Saturday afternoon at Saint John's Warner Palaestra Pool. The Scots won the team competition with 162.0 points to 131.0 for the Bennies.
The 200-yard freestyle relay team of senior
Jocelyn Radke (Indianapolis, Ind.), first year
Megan Chopskie (Cloquet, Minn./Esko), junior
Olga Merkadeau (Lafayette, Calif./The College Preparatory School) and sophomore
Emma Henry (Chesapeake, Va./Oscar Smith) won with a time of 1:42.13.
Sophomore
Skye Schmit (Stillwater, Minn.) won two distance events: the 500-yard freestyle (5:18.51) and the 1000-yard freestyle (10:51.61). Schmit qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 1650-yard freestyle last season. Henry also won a pair of events, taking the 200-yard backstroke in 2:14.76 and winning the 200-yard freestyle in 2:02.42. The Scots' other double winner was junior
Kate Yehle (Madison, Wis./James Madison Memorial), who won both diving events. Yehle scored 203.95 points in the 1-meter event and 194.95 points in the 3-meter event.
Radke placed first in the 100-yard freestyle in 55.58 and took second in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:02.53. Other winners included junior
Natalie Pollock (Madison, Wis./Madison West) in the 100-yard butterfly (1:02.68), and sophomore
Hannah Zurn (Hudson, Wis./Hudson) in the 200-yard butterfly (2:17.43). Zurn also was second to Schmit in the 500 freestyle in 5:30.19, while Pollock followed Henry in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 2:05.62.
Others swimming well included Chopskie, who was third in the 100-yard freestyle, first year
Nicole Tilzer (Tampa, Fla./Sickles), who was second in both the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke, first year
Claire Stretanski (Shavertown, Pa./Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School), who finished second to Schmit in the 1000 freestyle, and Merkadeau, who took third in the 50-yard freestyle.
Macalester continues its schedule on Nov. 4 with a dual meet at Carleton. The first event begins at 1:00 p.m. in Northfield, Minn.
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