SCIAC Women's Swimming & Diving All-Conference Honors Announced
The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Confernce (SCIAC) announced the 2018 Women's Swimming & Diving All Conference awards as the leagues nine head coaches voted upon the Athlete, Newcomer and Coach of the Year while the All-SCIAC recipients were based on performance at the SCIAC Championships.
Pomona-Pitzer junior standout Madison Kauahi won the 50-yard with a meet and SCIAC record time of 23.30, and the 100-yard freestyle race in a meet record time of 50.82. In the 200-yard freestyle, Kauahi placed third with a time of 1:51.98. She was also the anchor leg of four winning relay teams for the Sagehens, including the 200-yard medley (1:42.33), the 400-yard medley (3:47.01), the 200-yard freestyle (1:33.79), and the 400-yard freestyle (3:27.29) squads. The 200-yard medley and 200-yard freestyle relay teams clocked new meet and SCIAC marks, while the 400-yard freestyle quartet set a new meet record.
Brooke Geske of Whittier was superb in her first SCIAC Championships en route to being named the SCIAC Newcomer of the Year. Geske won the 100-yard and 200-yard backstroke events with winning times of 56.11, just one-hundredth of a second ahead of the second place finisher, and 2:02.19 respectively. The first-year Poet also helped Whittier's 200-yard medley and 400-yard medley relay teams place third with times of 1:48.14, and 3:57.04.
Pomona-Pitzer head coach JP Gowdy and his staff earned the SCIAC Coaching Staff of the Year after he guided both the men's and women's programs to wins at the 2018 SCIAC Championships. Gowdy guided Pomona-Pitzer to the team's second conference championship in three years on the women's side as the Sagehens totaled 1,166 points - 151 ahead of second place Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS).
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SCIAC Athlete
of the Year |
SCIAC Newcomer
of the Year |
SCIAC Coaching
Staff of the Year |
Madison Kauahi
Pomona-Pitzer |
Brooke Geske
Whittier |
JP Gowdy
Pomona-Pitzer |
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| Women's 50-Yard Freestyle |
| Name |
Time |
Year |
Institution |
| 1. Madison Kauahi |
23.30 |
Jr. |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 2. Jocelyn Crawford |
23.55 |
So. |
CMS |
| 3. Hannah Zurmuhl |
23.56 |
So. |
Pomona-Pitzer |
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| Women's 100-Yard Freestyle |
| Name |
Time |
Year |
Institution |
| 1. Madison Kauahi |
50.82 |
Jr. |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 2. Grace Sanchez |
51.70 |
Jr. |
Cal Lutheran |
| 3. Natalia Orbach-Mandel |
52.00 |
Fy. |
CMS |
| Mardell Ramirez |
52.00 |
Jr. |
Cal Lutheran |
| Riley Hoffman |
52.00 |
Jr. |
CMS |
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| Women's 200-Yard Freestyle |
| Name |
Time |
Year |
Institution |
| 1. Mardell Ramirez |
1:50.28 |
Jr. |
Cal Lutheran |
| 2. Brittany Percin |
1:51.68 |
Jr. |
Caltech |
| 3. Madison Kauahi |
1:51.98 |
Jr. |
Pomona-Pitzer |
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| Women's 500-Yard Freestyle |
| Name |
Time |
Year |
Institution |
| 1. Mia Syme |
4:57.37 |
Fy. |
CMS |
| 2. Mardell Ramirez |
4:57.52 |
Jr. |
Cal Lutheran |
| 3. Vee Vanderpoel |
5:05.59 |
Sr. |
Pomona-Pitzer |
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| Women's 1650-Yard Freestyle |
| Name |
Time |
Year |
Institution |
| 1. Mia Syme |
17:04.54 |
Fy. |
CMS |
| 2. Elizabeth Carrade |
17:19.45 |
Sr. |
CMS |
| 3. Vee Vanderpoel |
17:44.83 |
Sr. |
Pomona-Pitzer |
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| Women's 200-Yard IM |
| Name |
Time |
Year |
Institution |
| 1. Alexa Melara |
2:06.93 |
Fy. |
Whittier |
| 2. Sarah Jin |
2:07.96 |
Jr. |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 3. August Key |
2:07.97 |
Fy. |
Redlands |
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| Women's 400-Yard IM |
| Name |
Time |
Year |
Institution |
| 1. Anna Newman |
4:32.97 |
Fy. |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 2. Vee Vanderpoel |
4:33.33 |
Sr. |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 3. Ivy Chen |
4:34.91 |
So. |
CMS |
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| Women's 100-Yard Butterfly |
| Name |
Time |
Year |
Institution |
| 1. Gemma Takahashi |
56.91 |
Jr. |
Caltech |
| 2. Sabrina Kwan |
57.03 |
So. |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 3. August Key |
57.09 |
Fy. |
Redlands |
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| Women's 200-Yard Butterfly |
| Name |
Time |
Year |
Institution |
| 1. Sabrina Kwan |
2:05.78 |
So. |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 2. Brittany Percin |
2:07.34 |
Jr. |
Caltech |
| 3. Wendy McAleer |
2:07.74 |
Jr. |
Redlands |
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| Women's 100-Yard Breaststroke |
| Name |
Time |
Year |
Institution |
| 1. Mackenzie Cummings |
1:04.42 |
Jr. |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 2. Bryn Edwards |
1:04.53 |
So. |
CMS |
| 3. Claire Bacon-Brenes |
1:04.63 |
So. |
CMS |
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| Women's 200-Yard Breaststroke |
| Name |
Time |
Year |
Institution |
| 1. Claire Bacon-Brenes |
2:21.02 |
So. |
CMS |
| 2. Alexa Melara |
2:22.06 |
Fy. |
Whittier |
| 3.Mackenzie Cummings |
2:23.52 |
Jr. |
Pomona-Pitzer |
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| Women's 100-Yard Backstroke |
| Name |
Time |
Year |
Institution |
| 1. Brooke Geske |
56.11 |
Fy. |
Whittier |
| 2. Sarah Jin |
56.12 |
Jr. |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 3. Jocelyn Crawford |
56.30 |
So. |
CMS |
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| Women's 200-Yard Backstroke |
| Name |
Time |
Year |
Institution |
| 1. Brooke Geske |
2:02.19 |
Fy. |
Whittier |
| 2. Sarah Jin |
2:03.80 |
Jr. |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 3. Angela Ling |
2:05.52 |
Jr. |
Pomona-Pitzer |
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| Women's 200-Yard Medley Relay |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Angela Ling, Mackenzie Cummings, Alex Seidel, Madison Kauahi |
1:42.33 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 2. Jocelyn Crawford, Claire Bacon-Brenes, Janet Tran, Natalia Orbach-Mandel |
1:44.84 |
CMS |
| 3. Lexi Mauldin, Alexa Melara, Esther Choe, Brooke Geske |
1:48.14 |
Whittier |
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| Women's 400-Yard Medley Relay |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Sarah Jin, Mackenzie Cummings, Sabrina Kwan, Madison Kauahi |
3:47.01 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 2. Ivy Chen, Bryn Edwards, Allie Umemoto, Natalia Orbach-Mandel |
3:53.15 |
CMS |
| 3. Lexi Mauldin, Alexa Melara, Esther Choe, Brooke Genske |
3:57.04 |
Whittier |
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| Women's 200-Yard Freestyle Relay |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Hannah Zurmuhl, Sabrina Kwan, Kate Denend, Madison Kauahi |
1:33.79 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 2. Jocelyn Crawford, Natalia Orbach-Mandel, Laura Dickinson, Riley Hoffman |
1:34.53 |
CMS |
| 3. Grace Sanchez, Mardell Ramirez, Alexia Rojas, Brianna Baldwin |
1:36.83 |
Cal Lutheran |
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| Women's 400-Yard Freestyle Relay |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Hannah Zurmuhl, Alex Seidel, Kate Denend, Madison Kauahi |
3:27.29 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 2. Riley Hoffman, Janet Tran, Emma Stacy, Natalia Orbach-Mandel |
3:28.70 |
CMS |
| 3. Grace Sanchez, Alexia Rojas, Brianna Baldwin, Mardell Ramirez |
3:33.33 |
Cal Lutheran |
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| Women's 800-Yard Freestyle Relay |
| Name |
Time |
Institution |
| 1. Janet Tran, Mia Syme, Riley Hoffman, Elizabeth Carrade |
7:36.40 |
CMS |
| 2. Vee Vanderpoel, Katherine Lauerman, Anna Newman, Kirsten Mortimer |
7:43.17 |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 3. Molly Davis, Teresa Gerhold, Carina Laukaitis, Joanna Spyrou |
7:49.86 |
Chapman |
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| Women's 1-Meter Diving |
| Name |
Score |
Year |
Institution |
| 1. Maia Presti |
505.85 |
Sr. |
CMS |
| 2. Kellyn Toole |
474.55 |
Jr. |
Chapman |
| 3. Emma van der Veen |
423.55 |
Fy. |
Pomona-Pitzer |
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| Women's 3-Meter Diving |
| Name |
Score |
Year |
Institution |
| 1. Kellyn Toole |
443.90 |
Jr. |
Chapman |
| 2. Emma van der Veen |
432.25 |
Fy. |
Pomona-Pitzer |
| 3. Maia Presti |
423.05 |
Sr. |
CMS |