Greensboro, N.C. -- The University of Lynchburg men's swimming team placed second in the 2024 Old Dominion Athletic Conference championships for the second year in a row, and the women placed third.
The men entered the final day of the meet five points behind Bridgewater but took over the Eagles in the standings thanks to nine swimmers in A-finals Saturday night including a gold medal from Colton Schnars. The 2023 swimmer of the meet won the 200-yard backstroke with a 1:51.52. Schnars holds the ODAC and championship record in the event with a 1:48.91 from a season ago. He was also on the fourth-place 400-yard freestyle relay Saturday along with Miles West, Wyatt Dacus, and Ryan Legge. Schnars anchored the relay that went 3:09.13.
To start the night and begin fueling the men's comeback, Ahmad Woodson placed fourth in the men's 1,650-yard freestyle with a 16:23.92, and Erik Witt came in seventh with a 16:40.14. Woodson reset the school record in the event, a mark he previously held from his freshman performance at the conference championships in 2023.
Witt and Maximo Jacquet were in the A-final of the 200-back event that Schnars won, finishing seventh and sixth, respectively. Owen Howery competed in the B-final placing 10th with a 1:56.77.
West, Legge, and Dacus swam in the 100-yard freestyle finals. West placed eighth in the A-final, Legge came in ninth during the B-final, and Dacus placed 15th.
Ryan Bambrick went 2:07.61 in the 200-yard breaststroke to secure seventh place. Miles Fitzgerald came in 12th place in the B-final joined by Nathaniel Milligan in 15th.
Andrew Fiore bumped himself up to the All-ODAC first-team after a 1:52.53 performance in the 200-yard butterfly: good for second place. Landon Ellis was also in that A-final and finished seventh. Ben Myers and Henry Walz, swimming in the B-final, came in 12th and 14th, respectively. Lynchburg's full all-conference release will come out on Monday, Feb. 12.
The women held onto third place Saturday after another gold-medal performance from Claire Galloway and nine individual A-final qualifiers in total. The graduate student won the 100-yard breaststroke on Friday night and earned an NCAA B-cut twice in the process between prelims and finals. She doubled down Saturday with another gold medal in the 200 breast with a 2:22.51 and school record. Savy Borroughs played a major part in earning two more medals for the Hornets Saturday after coming in second place in the 100 free with a school-record 52.20. The junior freestyler also swam the second leg of the 400-free relay with Regan Leach, Molly Spano, and Sophia Schorr. The quartet went 3:35.78 and placed third.
Charlotte Grieve placed 11th in the 1,650 free with a 19:00.67, and Madeline Corbett placed 13th with a 19:28.66.
Lindsey Hair grabbed a fifth-place finish in the 200 back going 2:10.34. In the B-final, Caitlyn Moore and Brynn Dyer finished 11th and 13th, respectively.
As Borroughs was going for silver in the 100 free, Schorr was in the A-final as well and secured an eighth-place finish in 54.38. Leach tied for 13th in the B-final of the event.
As Galloway was going for gold in the 200 breast, Delaney Kennedy and Abigail Schneider joined her in the A-final with fourth and sixth-place finishes. In the B-final, Grace Zalkind secured ninth place, and Caroline Inskeep finished 11th.
In the final individual event of the night, Spano and Grieve finished fourth and fifth in the 200 fly. Savannah Solenberger finished in seventh, and in the B-final, Corbett and Sarah Phipps went 13th and 14th.
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