Women's Swimming | 11/23/2024 1:16:00 AM

LANCASTER, Pa. –  Rylee Wenzel (West Lawn, Pa./Wilson) and Morgan Holmes (Monroeville, Pa./Gateway) continue to add to their impressive resume as the pair hit an NCAA 'B' cut in the 50-yard free to lead the Bloomsburg women's swimming team at the Franklin & Marshall Invite. The Huskies are currently second overall in the team standings.
 
Wenzel hit her first B cut of the day with a 23.82 in the prelims and dropped .46 off of her time to take second overall in the A finals and touch the wall at 23.36 for an NCAA 'B' cut. Morgan Holmes (Monroeville, Pa./Gateway) took fifth in the 50-yard free with her NCAA cut at 23.72. Holmes dropped .43 off of her prelim time. Sid Beers finished 12^th overall and fourth in the B Finals with a time of 24.29.
 
Madison Osanitsch (Shippensburg, Pa./Shippensburg) opened the day with a fourth-place finish in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:07.42.
 
Grace McBlain (Aldan, Pa./Monsignor Bonner) took fifth overall in the 200-yard IM at 2:09.64 while Vanesa Valli (Beaver Falls, Pa./Blackhawk) finished 14^th overall and seventh in the B finals with a time of 2:13.91.
 
The 400-yard medley relay team of Gabi Walsh (Elizabethtown, Pa./Elizabethtown), Valli, Wenzel, and Holmes finished fifth overall with a time of 3:55.30 while the team of McBlain, Sadie Ludwick (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cedar Cliff), Ashley Martin (Middletown, N.Y./Pine Bush), and Beers took 13^th overall with a time of 4:00.91.
 
Julia Riegel (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks South), Beers, Holmes, and Wenzel closed out the meet with a second-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:36.39. McKenna Mizikar (Latrobe, Pa./Mount Pleasant Area), Jewel Little (East Stroudsburg, Pa./Stroudsburg Area), Sarah Pickel (Ambler, Pa./Wissahickon), and Samantha Linsey (Camp Hill, Pa./Cedar Cliff) took 16^th overall with a time of 1:41.25.
 
The Huskies get back in the pool Saturday morning for the prelims at 10:00 am followed by the finals that evening on Day Two of the F&M Invite. Currently, the Huskies are in second with 294 team points.