Magnus Cup Invitational: Akron Dominates Final Day, Zips MCI Champs

Saturday, November 20

Cleveland, Ohio

9 & 5 PM

University of Akron

Magnus Cup Invitational

Magnus Cup Invitational: Akron Dominates Final Day, Zips MCI Champs

November 20 | Women's Swimming & Diving

Magnus Cup Invitational: Akron Dominates Final Day, Zips MCI Champs
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – The No. 24 ranked Akron Zips swimming and diving team dominated the final day of competition, winning 8-of-9 events en route to claiming the 2021 Magnus Cup Invitational Championship by 392 points at the CSU Busbey Natatorium on Saturday.

Over the three-day meet, Akron won 18 events and broke five meet records to score 1,769. 50 total points while Ohio earned runner-up with 1,377. 50 points.

On the final day of competition, junior Gail Workman (Cincinnati, Ohio) started the scoring for Akron with a win in the 1650-yard freestyle (16:57.34), while the Zips captured the Top 7 spots of the 100-yard individual medley. Senior Sarah Watson (Winnipeg, Manitoba) stopped the timer first with a 54.97 time followed by senior Andrea Fischer (57.98, Oak Grove, Minn.), sophomore Madeline Dyer (58.37, Akron, Ohio), sophomore Giovanna Cappabianca (58.47, Hudson, Ohio), junior Rachel Schiffli (58.58, Indianapolis, Ind.), freshman Kendall Craig (58.71, Evans City, Pa.) and junior Sara Bozso (59.38), Budapest, Hungary).

Akron continued its winning ways in the third event, claiming first and second places as Schiffli brought home the gold (24.52) and freshman Abigail Daniel (Bristow, Va.) earned the silver (24.74). Junior Weronika Gorecka (Wroclaw, Poland) and senior Paulina Nogaj (Radom, Poland) grabbed second (1:55.33) and third (1:58.89) in the 200-yard backstroke.

In the 100-yard freestyle, Watson bested the group with a record-breaking performance, setting a 49.23 meet record, replacing the 49.85 mark set in 2017 by Sadie Fazekas.

Fischer, Dyer and Bozso swept the 200-yard breaststroke with 2:13.59, 2:16.11 and 2:17.15, respectively, as the Zips also swept the Top 3 spots of the 50-yard backstroke event. Sophomore Madelyn Gatrall (Windsor, Ontario) touched first (25.22) followed by senior Lauren Cooper (25.60, Dublin, Ohio) and Gorecka (25.96).

Nogaj won the 200-yard butterfly (1:58.75) and the 400-yard freestyle relay team of Schiffli (51.03), Watson (49.09), junior Olivia DeRodes (50.97, Fremont, Ohio ) and Nogaj (49.50) finished the meet with a 3:20.59 win.

Akron will be back in action at Oliver J. Ocasek Natatorium on Friday-Sunday, Dec. 3-5 as the Zips host the 2021 Zippy Invitational, including men's and women's teams from Bloomsburg, Clarion, Cornell, Kaiser, Niagara, Oakland and Pennsylvania, while Akron, Buffalo and Toledo will only compete on the women's side.