The Oakland Golden Grizzlies swept the women’s and men’s team titles at the Horizon League Swimming Championships for a fourth consecutive season over the weekend in Chicago.<\/p>\n
The Oakland women finished with 842.5 points, well ahead of runner-up Milwaukee (626.5). Rounding out the top five were Illinois-Chicago (417), Wisconsin-Green Bay (401) and Cleveland State (382).<\/p>\n
On the men’s side, Cleveland State scored 663 points to make things a little bit more interesting, but Oakland ended up scoring 839.5 points to pull away. Cleveland State finished second, followed by Illinois-Chicago (522), Wright State (423.5) and Wisconsin-Green Bay (391).<\/p>\n
Oakland’s\u00a0Patricia Aschan<\/strong> was the meet’s top performer and received the Swimmer of the Meet award for her efforts. First, she won the 200 IM in 2:00.72, and later on she added wins in the 400 IM (4:15.06) and 200 back (1:58.19) to her ledger.<\/p>\n Also earning multiple wins was teammate Holly Morren<\/strong>, who swept the 50 free (22.58) and 100 free (49.14), setting a new meet record in the later distance and\u00a0Illinois-Wisconsin’s\u00a0Brie Hines<\/strong>, the winner of the the 500 free in a meet record-time of 4:49.22 and also the 1650 free in 16:38.68.<\/p>\n In diving, Wright State’s\u00a0Kyah Fleckner\u00a0<\/strong>won both the 1-meter (score of 297.75) and 3-meter (312.85).<\/p>\n Oakland took home four relay wins: the 800 free (7:21.25), 200 free (1:31.50), 400 medley (3:45.51) and 400 free (3:21.63) and also got individual wins from\u00a0Takara Martin<\/strong> in the 100 breast (1:01.22) and\u00a0Rachel Waite\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 breast (2:11.94).<\/p>\n