DePauw swimmers drop pair to ranked opponents

CHICAGO - The DePauw women’s swim team lost to both the #7 University of Chicago and the 24th-ranked Calvin University, 231- 59 and 160-120, respectively, in its final double dual before the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships in February.

Tara Holder, earning DePauw’s sole first-place finish, swam the 1000-yard free in 10:58.57. Callan Plant took second place in the 1000-yard free with a time of 11:18.65.

Tarah Lang and Elise Umbach pulled in two top-three finishes in the Tigers’ double dual. Lang finished second in the 200-yard free (1:57.34) and grabbed third in the 500-yard free (5:19.77). Umbach earned second in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:09.16, and then third in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:30.39).

Alicia Delgado earned third in the 100-yard breaststroke, just behind Umbach. The Tigers completed the double dual with a total of 13 top-five finishes. Megan Mackenzie took fifth in the 500-yard free (5:24.67), Sammie Waples came in fifth in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:35.92), while Hailey Olsen and Grace Hilton finished fourth (2:12.21) and fifth (2:15.22) respectively in the 200-yard backstroke. Pulling in the Tigers’ final individual top-five finish was Maggie Peats after she swam the 200-yard IM in 2:18.04 for fifth.

Grace Hilton, Umbach, Emily Kaiser, and Lang finished fifth in the 200-yard medley.

The DePauw men’s swim team also fell to host #5 University of Chicago 243-47 and #14 Calvin University 219-75 in its final double dual meet before the North Coast Athletic Conference Championships.

The Tigers’ Brock Kinnamon led DePauw with individual points, taking third in the 1000-yard free with a time of 10:21.35 and in the 500-yard free (4:54.67).

Braden Mallery and Seth Fagen were two more Tigers who finished with top-five times in the 500-yard free (4:58.86) and 200-yard backstroke (2:01.10), respectively.

Kinnamon, Robbie Sheffield, Mallery, and James Shorney would close out the afternoon’s double dual with a fifth-place finish in the 400-yard free relay with a time of 3:16.75.