Owls sweep home meet with 13 event wins

11/6/2026 8:21:00 PM

GAMBIER, Ohio – After an almost three-week competition break, the Kenyon College women's swimming and diving team dominated against conference opponents, Ohio Wesleyan University and Oberlin College, for the second meet of the 2026-27 season. The Owls combined for a score of 191 points against the Battling Bishops' 34 and put together a score of 195 points to outweigh the Yeowomen's 43. The team swept the meet with first-place finishes from two relay teams, nine individual events, and both diving competitions.

Wasting no time, the Kenyon team won the first relay event of the evening, that being the 800-yard medley relay. Ashlyn Widmer, Michaeldimi Procopiou, C.J. Woare, and Kate Bogan swam to a first-place time of 8:56.98. The Owls also closed the meet with a relay win from Afsana Rawlins, Mariyana Shalamanova, Kate Dunagan, and Deniz Guvenc. The quartet finished with a winning time of 1:38.90.

Both Rawlins and Shalamanova topped their respective fields when the individual races began. Rawlins in the 100-yard butterfly, finishing with a time of 59.23, and Shalamanova in the 100-yard freestyle, winning at 54.02.

Adding to the individual results, Kelsey Van Eldik won the 50-yard freestyle, finishing with a time of 24.59. In the 200-yard freestyle, the top-five finishers were all Kenyon swimmers. Nora Lee Brown led the field, ringing up a winning time of 1:54.75.

Sophomore Nina Schuerer added to that success and took first-place in the 1,000-yard freestyle, with a time of 10:41.15, and sophomore Nora Kortuem won in her individual race, clocking a time of 2:12.53 for the 200-yard individual medley.

In the 200-yard backstroke, senior Sofia Giordano swam to first-place with a time of 1:01.39. Dunagan won the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:16.72, and Bogan took a first-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke with a winning time of 1:08.00.

In the diving well, Lucy Cassell-Kelley took home both board finishes. Cassell-Kelley won the 3-meter diving competition with 217.65 points and was victorious off the 1-meter board, racking up 253.86 points.

The Owls will be back in action tomorrow, November 7, at the Steen Aquatic Center. The team will take on conference rival Denison University in a head-to-head dual meet at 10 a.m.

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