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Women's Swimming & Diving Wins 10 Events in 2017-18 Opener
9/30/2017 5:17:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Six Bison combined to win 10 individual events during the Bucknell women's swimming & diving team's season-opening meet against UMBC Saturday at Kinney Natatorium.
Maggie Wyngowski's victory in the 400 IM was a highlight for the Bison. In her first collegiate meet, she clocked a time of 4:25.03, the seventh-fastest in school history.
Wyngowski also won the 200 IM, touching the wall in 2:06.45.
Emma Hadley swam to victory in the 100 backstroke (57.81) and 200 backstroke (2:03.90). Tally Ford won both the 1-meter (199.28) and 3-meter dive titles (219.98) while Mary Weinstein took the 100 (1:07.97) and 200 breaststroke crowns (2:25.06).
Megan Koczur (50 freestyle, 24.87) and Abigail Rosenberg (100 freestyle, 53.69) rounded out Bucknell's first-place finishers.
The Bison also posted 11 runner-up finishes in individual events and two in relays. They are listed below:
Julie Byrne (200 backstroke, 2:04.23)
Palma Foschi-Walko (100 IM, 1:01.78)
Hadley (50 butterfly, 26.97)
Mia Haggerty (500 freestyle, 5:14.40)
Abby Merriman (1,000 freestyle, 10:39.00)
Libby O'Hare (100 breaststroke, 1:09.69)
Katherine O'Shea (200 freestyle, 1:58.32)
Rosenberg (50 freestyle, 24.91)
Paige Schoelkopf (3-meter dive, 197.78)
Lindsay Smalec (200 butterfly, 2:11.84)
Smalec (50 backstroke, 28.75)
Wyngowski (50 breaststroke, 31.15)
Byrne, O'Hare, Smalec, Rosenberg (200 medley relay, 1:47.99)
Foschi-Walko, Hadley, O'Shea, Steph Boyd (400 freestyle relay, 3:37.95)
No team scores were kept at the event. The Bison return to action on Oct. 13 and Oct. 14 when they travel to Bryant and Boston University.
