By Hailli Woo
Staff Writer
This weekend, our swimming Shorewomen traveled to Franklin and Marshall to join the rest of the Centennial Conference for a championship meet. The competition commenced Friday morning and continued until Sunday evening. As a team, Washington College finished seventh out of eight teams at the event.
Senior Ellie Miskiel medaled in both of her breaststroke events, earning gold in her 200-yard with a time of 2:26.15. Miskiel has gone undefeated in that event all season. Ellie also won silver in her 100 with a time of 1:07.94.
Miskiel said, “The biggest expectation going into this weekend was just to have fun and swim fast. This was the weekend we’ve been working towards all season and in the end the hard work definitely paid off.”
Senior Carly Ogren and sophomore Julianna Fritzinger both added points to the board in their individual events.
Ogren earned 12th in the 200-yard freestyle, 13th in the 500-yard freestyle, and 14th in the 100-freestyle, while Fritzinger received 12th in the 400 yard individual medley, 12th in 200 yard breaststroke and 13th in the 1,650 yard freestyle. Freshman Megan Obarowski contributed with her 13th place in 400-yard individual medley with a time of 4:48.96 and 14th in the 200-yard butterfly with a season best time of 2:16.57. Junior Alicia Howard led off the 400 yard medley relay with a WC season best in the backstroke leg. Miskiel, Howard, Maxwell, and Ogren were sixth in the 200-yard freestyle relay in 1:40.81. Maxwell, Tomasura, Fritzinger, and junior Ashley Maurizi placed seventh in the 800-yard freestyle relay in 8:17.55.
Miskiel said, “Champs is a high intensity and incredibly fast meet and we were able to go in and swim fast and final in a lot of events, which was great. We have been tapering the past couple of weeks which was beneficial for seeing fast and best times across the board. The best thing now that we can do now that we’re in the off season is just stay in the pool and start strong right from the get-go next year.”
Ursinus won the meet, winning their first Centennial Conference Championship ever in womens swimming.