No. 25 ranked Akron Swimming & Diving Posts Fourth Dual Meet Win at Toledo

Friday, January 28

Toledo, OH

5 PM

University of Akron

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Toledo

No. 25 ranked Akron Swimming & Diving Posts Fourth Dual Meet Win at Toledo

January 29 | Women's Swimming & Diving

No. 25 ranked Akron Swimming & Diving Posts Fourth Dual Meet Win at Toledo
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TOLEDO, Ohio – The No. 25 ranked Akron Zips Swimming & Diving claimed 14-of-16 events en route to a 212-88 dual meet win over the Toledo Rockets at the UToledo Student Recreation Center and Pool on Friday.

With the win the Zips moved to 4-1 in dual meet action as junior Sarah Watson (Winnipeg, Manitoba), senior Paulina Nogaj (Radom, Poland) and senior Olivia Gardner (Bromsgrove, England) each won two individual events. Watson claimed the 150-yard butterfly (1:28.14) and the 50-yard freestyle (23.54) while Nogaj recorded wins in the 150-yard backstroke (1:28.78) and the 50-yard butterfly (25.03). Gardner recorded wins in the 150-yard freestyle (1:23.20) and the 200-yard individual medley (2:05.87).

Other individual event winners included: senior Brooke Lamoureux (Victoria, Canada) in the 500 Free (5:06.76), freshman Abigail Daniel (Bristow, Va.) in the 100 IM (57.66), sophomore Madelyn Gatrall (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) in the 50 Back (26.26), senior Andrea Fischer (Oak Grove, Minn.) in the 50 Breast (29.78) and junior Sara Bozso (Budapest, Hungary) in the 150 Breast (1:44.88).

The Zips won both relay events as 200-yard medley relay team of Gatrall (26.35), Fischer (29.01), Watson (24.19) and Sofia Henell (23.39) stopped the time first with a 1:42.94 time. And, the 200-yard freestyle relay team on Nogaj (23.69), Watson (23.17), Rachel Schiffli (23.83) and Henell (23.31) topped the winner's podium.

In addition, junior Paige Kalik (Irwin, Pa.) captured the gold for the 3-meter diving event (282.60 points) and silver on the 1-meter board (263.33 points).

Up Next
The Zips will travel to Ohio State for the OSU Winter Invite on Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 10-12 at The Bill and Mae McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion in Columbus, Ohio.