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Swimming and
Diving Teams Remain Atop WIAC Championships
WIAC
Swimming & Diving Championships
The UW-Stevens Point men�s and women�s swimming
and diving teams maintained their leads through two days of the Wisconsin
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships in Oshkosh.
The men�s lead was expanded to 26 points over
second place UW-La Crosse with the Pointers having 607 points and Eagles
totaling 581 points. The Pointer women have 630 points, while UW-La Crosse
has 613.5 points. The meet concludes on Saturday.
The Pointers had three individual champions on
Friday. Peter Nowak took the men�s 400-yard individual medley in 4:21.02
to win by six-hundreths of a second and Garth Newport claimed the men�s
100-yard butterfly in 50.75 seconds to edge defending champion Matt
Grunwald of UW-Stevens Point, who was second in 51.20 seconds. Jennie
Roskopf won the women�s 100-yard breaststroke in 1:08.27 for the lone
Pointer women�s title.
The men�s team added a pair of second place
finishes with Alex Anderson in the 100-yard backstroke in 53.76 seconds
and Matt Sievers in the 100-yard breaststroke in 57.77 seconds.
Stevens Point native Elizabeth Herder, the
defending champion in the women�s 100-yard backstroke, was upended by
UW-La Crosse�s Fallon Toomsen and finished second in 1:00.16. Amy Bennett
was second in the 200-yard freestyle in 1:56.60 and Lindsay Correll was
second in the 100-yard butterfly in 58.55 seconds as both finished behind
conference record-setting performances from UW-La Crosse as the Eagles set
four records on the day.
Day 1 WIAC Swimming and Diving
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