Davies Breaks School Record at Navy Invitational

Saturday, January 31

Annapolis, Md.

12:00 PM

Lehigh University

Navy Invitational

Photo by: Hannah Ally

Davies Breaks School Record at Navy Invitational

1/31/2026 9:06:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving

Results

ANNAPOLIS, Md.- Lehigh women's swimming and diving traveled to Annapolis, Md. to compete at the Navy Invitational on Saturday. The Mountain Hawks faced off against a majority of Patriot League competitors, with the field for the invite consisting of American, Bucknell, Lafayette, Lehigh, Navy and Shippensburg.

Lehigh won one event at the invite off the back of Eliza Johnson. The first year took the win in the 50-yard freestyle, which was her first time swimming this event collegiately. She swam 23.87. The Mountain Hawks also took second in the event, thanks to fellow first-year Genevieve Cody who swam 23.88. Johnson was also Lehigh's top finisher in the freestyle at the 200-yard distance. She placed fifth, finishing in 1:52.82. She was one of three top-15 finishers at this distance, as sophomore Claire Coughlin placed 12th with a collegiate best time of 1:54.66, and junior Darrah Shuff finished 15th at 1:55.23.

Shuff and Coughlin also competed in the 500-yard freestyle. Shuff was Lehigh's top finisher at third, swimming 5:03.15. Coughlin was right behind in fourth, swimming a personal best distance to do so. She touched at 5:04.94, which was twelve seconds better than she has ever swam at the college level. Caitlin Hofmann swam a collegiate best to place in the top ten as well. The senior placed ninth with a time of 5:12.14. Shuff's best event on the day was in the 1650-yard freestyle. As her first time swimming this distance in college, she placed second overall with a time of 17:17.11.

Sophomore Clara Moschella was the top placing Mountain Hawks in two events. She swam a collegiate best time in the 100-yard freestyle, where she placed 12th in a field of 62 swimmers. She also earned a fourth place finish in the 200-yard individual medley. Moschella's time of 2:06.94 paced Eliza Johnson's sixth place finish (2:08.02), as well as a seventh place finish from junior Eliza Meth (2:08.11).

Sophomore Zoe Davies continued her historic season swimming the 100-yard breaststroke. She lowered her own school record down to 1:02.99, earning second place in the process. She was one of three Mountain Hawks to swim new best times and place in the top ten. Senior Caitlin Deitch set a new personal record by 16 hundredths of a second, swimming 1:06.13 and placing fifth. Not far behind was first-year Emma Gyorkos, who's seventh place finishing time of 1:06.38 was a season's best.

Deitch and Gyorkos were both Lehigh's top finishers in other events. In her first collegiate swimming of the 400-yard individual medley, Deitch finished as the runner-up, swimming 4:31.59. Gyorkos finished sixth in the 200-yard breaststroke, swimming 2:21.96, another collegiate best time.

First-years Sophie Perry and Bonita Zuo swam collegiate bests while leading Lehigh in backstroke events. Perry placed fourth at 100 yards (57.36), and Zuo earned third in the over 200 (2:04.78).

The diving events included top ten finishes by two different Mountain Hawks. Junior Kate Whitaker placed ninth at the one-meter height, scoring 203.45 points. First-year Jayden Yochai led the way at three meters, scoring 223.20 to place 10th.

Lehigh now sets their sights on the Patriot League Championship. This four day meet will see the Mountain Hawks back in Annapolis February 18-21.