Hannah Orbach-Mandel<\/strong> led the way for the Ladies as she was a key player on four relay victories for Kenyon. She anchored the 200 medley relay in 23.22, a full second faster than any other 50 freestyle split of the day. The other notable race of the day was the leadoff leg of the 3 x 500 freestyle relay. Denison’s Campbell Costley<\/strong> put the Big Red in the lead by swimming a 5:05.12 against Kenyon’s Marysol Arce<\/strong>‘s 5:13.55. Arce is the reigning NCAA Champion in this event, while Costley finished third last year, less than three seconds behind. Costley’s split is easily the fastest 500 in the nation so far for Division III.<\/p>\n In the men’s meet, the Denison men handedly won the team title 164-128 over the Lords. After narrowly losing the 200 medley relay, the Big Red team of Jack Lindell<\/strong>, Bebe Wang<\/strong>, P.J. Desmet<\/strong> and Alec Carlson<\/strong> won the 200 backstroke relay in similar fashion. Their time of 1:33.84 was just enough to edge the Lords’ 1:33.93. Kenyon fought back, breaking the meet record in the 200 breaststroke relay as well as the 3 x 500 relay. In the end, it was not enough for the dominant Denison squad. Lindell was a part of three winning relay teams as was Wang.<\/p>\n Photo Courtesy: Widener Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n The Widener women took down Misericordia 191-65 while the men did the same 167-89. A simple lack of depth held back the Misericordia teams against two strong Widener squads. Grace Nikolski<\/strong> won two events for Misericordia (100 and 200 breast) while Josh Grzech<\/strong> and Aidan Bergan<\/strong> placed 1-2 for the Cougars in the 100 back. Ricky Averill<\/strong> and Thomas Scott<\/strong> did the same in the 200 breast, as did Averill and Nick Lucca<\/strong> in the 100 fly.<\/p>\n For Widener, none other than All-American Ian Gaynor<\/strong> stole the show as he blasted a 21.01 50 freestyle. This is the fastest time so far for Division III by nearly half a second. He also won the 100 free in 46.41 and was a member of the winning 200 medley and 400 free relay teams. Jillian Bujanowski<\/strong> and teammate Christine Kunzler<\/strong> each won three events for Widener. Bujanowski was victorious in the 100 and 200 backstroke and 200 IM, while Kunzler won the 50, 100 and 200 freestyle.<\/p>\n Photo Courtesy: UW-Eau Claire Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n Division III swimmers and divers are putting up fast times right from the get go this season. On both the men’s and women’s sides, reigning NCAA Champions and All-Americans are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":176279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[58833,59014,25481,25200,58963,46161,59015,58968,45441,46677,33381,59016,59011,58962,59013,59012,45745,33346,59017],"class_list":["post-225360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","tag-2016-17-ncaa-division-iii-college-coverage","tag-bebe-wang","tag-campbell-costley","tag-carolyn-kane","tag-denison-swimming","tag-diana-pimer","tag-eau-claire-swimming","tag-grace-nikolski","tag-hannah-orbach-mandel","tag-ian-gaynor","tag-jack-lindell","tag-keene-state-swimming","tag-kenyon-relays","tag-kenyon-swimming","tag-kt-kustritz","tag-marysol-arce","tag-ryan-boraski","tag-samantha-senczyszyn","tag-trinity-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n![\"widener-athletics\"](\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/widener-athletics.jpg\")
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