Friday, October 22
Bethlehem, Pa.
5 p.m.
Lehigh University
131
vs
111
West Chester
Lehigh improves to 2-0 with home victory over West Chester
10/22/2021 11:04:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The Lehigh women's swimming and diving team improved to 2-0 on the season for the first time since the 2019-20 campaign following a big home opening-victory, 131-111 over West Chester Friday evening at Jacobs Pool.
Led by freshman diver Sarah Gill, the Mountain Hawks (2-0, 1-0 PL) reeled off seven first place finishes to get the victory over the Rams.
On the boards, Gill improved upon her scores from last weekend against Loyola with personal bests in both the one-meter and three-meter diving events. Her score of 260.63 in the one-meter dive was just five points off the cut to qualify for NCAA Zone Diving Championships as a freshman.
"Sarah (Gill) just continues to dominate and I'm just so proud of that, she's doing a great job," said head coach Rob Herb. "We're really getting a lot of points there and with a couple of other girls not here, we were able to balance everything with her.
"Everyone is just winning one event right now, so it's been just a complete team effort, whether it's one girl or another, we're doing such a good job"
The Mountain Hawks started off the individual events with a victory in the 1650-yard freestyle, won by freshman Natalie Martin with a time of 17:47.50. Martin also came in second in the 500-yard freestyle (5:15.14).
Sophomore Noel Fresa picked up a first-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle with her time of 24.65 and Junior Sarah Hardy followed that up with a victory in the 400-yard individual medley (4:31.29). Junior Danielle Prekop came in second (4:35.60).
Heading into the 200-yard butterfly, Lehigh placed second and third behind solid swims for Hardy (2:06.29) and sophomore Julia Stevens (2:06.87).
Fifth-year senior Ann Foley showed her dominance once again in the 100-yard freestyle, defeating second place finisher Fresa by just under two seconds at 51.88.
Junior Hallie Wilson claimed a win in the 200-yard backstroke at 2:06.74, finishing just in front of freshman Willa Werwaiss (2:07.62).
Prekop and senior Liz Olszewski finished second and third place in the 200-yard breaststroke at times of 2:25.78 and 2:26.55, respectively.
Finally, the Mountain Hawks rounded out the night with a first-place finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay as the team of Fresa, Stevens, Rogowski and Foley swam away in a time of 3:32.71. The quartet of Martin, Manthorp, Kelsey Thompson and Werwaiss finished in third place at 3:44.09.
"We came in with a completely different attitude and ramped things up," said Herb. "We knew that every time we stepped onto the block, our purpose was to win. So, you could just see it tonight throughout all the strokes.
"For our women, it was a real tough competition tonight that came right down to the end and we were lucky to come on top with the victory."
Lehigh will try to get to 3-0 to start the regular season when taking on Rider at Jacobs Pool Saturday at 1 p.m. The meet will be the final one before the Mountain Hawks host archrival Lafayette on Nov. 19.
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Led by freshman diver Sarah Gill, the Mountain Hawks (2-0, 1-0 PL) reeled off seven first place finishes to get the victory over the Rams.
On the boards, Gill improved upon her scores from last weekend against Loyola with personal bests in both the one-meter and three-meter diving events. Her score of 260.63 in the one-meter dive was just five points off the cut to qualify for NCAA Zone Diving Championships as a freshman.
"Sarah (Gill) just continues to dominate and I'm just so proud of that, she's doing a great job," said head coach Rob Herb. "We're really getting a lot of points there and with a couple of other girls not here, we were able to balance everything with her.
"Everyone is just winning one event right now, so it's been just a complete team effort, whether it's one girl or another, we're doing such a good job"
The Mountain Hawks started off the individual events with a victory in the 1650-yard freestyle, won by freshman Natalie Martin with a time of 17:47.50. Martin also came in second in the 500-yard freestyle (5:15.14).
Sophomore Noel Fresa picked up a first-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle with her time of 24.65 and Junior Sarah Hardy followed that up with a victory in the 400-yard individual medley (4:31.29). Junior Danielle Prekop came in second (4:35.60).
Heading into the 200-yard butterfly, Lehigh placed second and third behind solid swims for Hardy (2:06.29) and sophomore Julia Stevens (2:06.87).
Fifth-year senior Ann Foley showed her dominance once again in the 100-yard freestyle, defeating second place finisher Fresa by just under two seconds at 51.88.
Junior Hallie Wilson claimed a win in the 200-yard backstroke at 2:06.74, finishing just in front of freshman Willa Werwaiss (2:07.62).
Prekop and senior Liz Olszewski finished second and third place in the 200-yard breaststroke at times of 2:25.78 and 2:26.55, respectively.
Finally, the Mountain Hawks rounded out the night with a first-place finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay as the team of Fresa, Stevens, Rogowski and Foley swam away in a time of 3:32.71. The quartet of Martin, Manthorp, Kelsey Thompson and Werwaiss finished in third place at 3:44.09.
"We came in with a completely different attitude and ramped things up," said Herb. "We knew that every time we stepped onto the block, our purpose was to win. So, you could just see it tonight throughout all the strokes.
"For our women, it was a real tough competition tonight that came right down to the end and we were lucky to come on top with the victory."
Lehigh will try to get to 3-0 to start the regular season when taking on Rider at Jacobs Pool Saturday at 1 p.m. The meet will be the final one before the Mountain Hawks host archrival Lafayette on Nov. 19.
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