Women's Swimming and Diving wraps up home schedule with sweep of Ohio Wesleyan, Bluffton in tri-meet

January 19, 2024

ADA — The Ohio Northern men's swimming and diving team wrapped up its home schedule with a tri-meet sweep of Ohio Wesleyan and Bluffton in a home tri-meet on Friday night.

The Polar Bears defeated Ohio Wesleyan 117-77 and topped Bluffton 140-46. OWU defeated BU 133-42 to complete the tri-meet.

The Basics

Records: Ohio Northern (6-5 overall), Ohio Wesleyan (2-5 overall), Bluffton (1-8 overall)
Venue: ONU Sports Center - Ada, Ohio
Ohio Northern 117, Ohio Wesleyan 77
Ohio Northern 140, Bluffton 46
Ohio Wesleyan 133, Bluffton 42

Meet Highlights

Senior Katie Bend (Carmel, Ind.) won the 1000-yard free in 11:39.71.
Junior Mara Brown (Fremont/Ross) won the 100 fly in 1:03.28.
Senior Shelby Starkey (Bellefontaine) won the 100 back in 1:01.27.
Junior Hannah Eversole (Cincinnati/Mount Notre Dame) won the 500 free in 5:56.11.
Eversole, Brown, junior Morgan Fernandez (Huber Heights/Wayne) and junior Annie Richters (Troy/Miami East) opened the meet by winning the 200 medley relay in 1:58.12.
Richters, freshman Ashleigh Nelson (Byron Center, Mich.), junior Sydney Selinsky (Dover/Tuscarawas Central Catholic), and Starkey finished the meet by winning the 200 free relay in 1:47.51.

Notables

The meet consisted of 13 events, including nine individual races, two relays and two diving events.
Ohio Northern won just six of the 13 events but used overwhelming depth to push to the victories.
The meet is the ninth of 11 regular-season contests for Ohio Northern.
Austin Veltman is now 26-26 in his sixth season as head coach of the Polar Bears.

Up Next

The Polar Bears return to action on Saturday at 4 pm when they travel to Baldwin Wallace for their final OAC regular season meet.