Madeleine Kan of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges won the individual national title in the 100-yard butterfly to lead the Athenas in a charge up the standings on the second day of the NCAA Division III Women’s Swimming & Diving Championship.
Full Results
The Athenas are tied for 10th with 73 points, trailing Pomona-Pitzer Colleges in seventh place on 91 points still just 11 shy of the top five.
Nina Aballea was the next-highest finisher in the SCIAC at fifth place in the 200 Free, a race where rookie
Ellie Burkhardt also placed eighth after qualifying in third during the morning preliminaries. Fellow Sagehens
Bennett Jones and
Chesna Pelka placed 10
th and 16
th in the 400 IM and 200 Free, respectively. Kan’s teammates
Sun Young Byun and
Mackenzie Mayfield also finished in sixth and 12
th, respectively, in the 100 Fly. The 200 Free Relay team of
Francesca Coppo,
Sabrina Wang, Burkhardt and Pelka capped the night with a fourth-place finish less than half a second shy of a medal.
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