Women's Swimming | 11/2/2024 12:40:00 AM

BLOOMSBURG, Pa. – The Bloomsburg women's swimming team won eight of the 11 events and collected 14 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) championship meet times, Friday afternoon. The Huskies defeated Edinboro 142-56 and picked up a 139-64 win over Kutztown.
 
The Huskies opened the meet with a 1-2 finish in the 400-yard medley relay. Gabi Walsh (Elizabethtown, Pa./Elizabethtown), Sadie Ludwick (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cedar Cliff), Rylee Wenzel (West Lawn, Pa./Wilson), Morgan Holmes (Monroeville, Pa./Gateway) won the race with a time of 4:03.14 while Grace McBlain (Aldan, Pa./Monsignor Bonner), Vanesa Valli (Beaver Falls, Pa./Blackhawk), Ashley Martin (Middletown, N.Y./Pine Bush), and Samantha Linsey (Camp Hill, Pa./Cedar Cliff) took second with a time of 4:04.97.
 
Madison Osanitsch (Shippensburg, Pa./Shippensburg) took second in 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 11:12.04 and Ella Dittmar (Collegeville, Pa./Perkiomen Valley) finished third with a time of 11:33.34.
 
A pack of Huskies set their season bests in the 200-yard free as Sidney Beers (DeBois, Pa./DuBois Area) won with a PSAC-cut time of 2:01.59 and Sarah Pickel (Ambler, Pa./Wissahickon) took fourth at 2:03.99. Martin finished fifth at 2:07.12 and Jordyn Kinnee (Frederick, Md./Oakdale) took seventh at 2:08.95.
 
Wenzel won the second-straight race for the Huskies with a PSAC time of 24.62 while Rachel Cunningham (Hanover, Pa./South Western) came in third with a PSAC time and season-best time of 24.89.
 
Valli won the 200-yard IM with a PSAC-cut and season-best time of 2:15.83. McBlain also posted a season-best time and earned a PSAC cut time as she took second with a time of 2:17.39. Linsey came in fourth with her PSAC time and season-best time of 2:17.76.
 
The Huskies won their fourth-straight race as Catie Strayer (York, Pa./Central York) captured first with a season-best and PSAC-qualifying time of 2:19.46 in the 200-yard butterfly. McKenna Mizikar (Latrobe, Pa./Mount Pleasant Area) posted a season-best time of 2:25.09 to take fourth.
 
Cunningham won the 100-yard freestyle with her season-best time of 54.59 to earn a spot at the PSAC championships. Beers took third with her PSAC and season-best time of 55.29 while Linsey took sixth with a PSAC-qualifying and season-best time of 55.96.
 
Walsh won her individual race as she took first with a PSAC-qualifying and season-best time of 2:11.14. McBlain finished third with her PSAC-qualifying and season-best time of 2:13.13 and Osanitsch posted a season-best and PSAC qualifying time of 2:15.45.
 
Holmes and Martin posted season-best times in the 500-yard freestyle. Holmes took second at 5:34.93 and Martin came in fourth at 5:38.42.
 
Sadie Ludwick (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cedar Cliff) came in second with a PSAC-qualifying season-best time of 2:34.01 in the 200-yard breaststroke. Ruben post a season-best time of 2:38.30 to take sixth and Kinnee came in seventh with a time of 2:38.93. Avery Wenzel (Reading, Pa./Wilson) took eighth with a career-best time of 2:40.49.
 
Beers, Cunningham, Rylee Wenzel (West Lawn, Pa./Wilson), and Holmes closed out the meet with a season-best time of 1:39.47 to win the 200-yard freestyle relay.
The Huskies have little time out of the pool as they host Susquehanna tomorrow at the Nelson Field House pool at 3:00 p.m.