Spartans Win Road Meet Over Kenyon

Nov. 9, 2019

Results

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State swimming and diving beat Kenyon College on Saturday. The Spartan men beat the Lords 200.5-98.5, and the Spartan women beat Ladies, 157-143.

The men took home eight first-place finishes and the women finished with 13.

"We had some pretty good swims and our divers really did well," said head coach Matt Gianiodis. "Jakob Heberling broke a pool record and beyond that they really scored well. Our whole team swam really well, and I thought we did a great job. Erin Szara was a double win, which she usually is. All-in-all, the week we had and coming down here the day off we had great results and I thought the effort was there."

Setting a new Kenyon pool record was sophomore Jakob Heberling in the 3-meter with a score of 346.80. He also took first in the 1-meter with a 339.15 score.

Five Spartans finished with two victories in today's contest.

Junior Erin Szara claimed first in the 100 breaststroke for the sixth time this season (1:04.17) and also won the 200 breaststroke, 2:21.27.

Senior Allie Heineman picked up her fourth-consecutive win in the 50 freestyle, 24.19, and her second-consecutive in the 100 freestyle (53.17).

Picking up his third-consecutive 100 freestyle win of the season was junior Aidan Farley with a time of 45.89. He also finished first in the 400 IM, clocking a time of 4:02.65.

In both the 100 and 200 breaststroke, sophomore Jonathan Lee took first place with respective times of 57.47 and 2:04.74, respectively.

The freshman Emma Inch clocked times of 2:05.28 and 4:32.33 in the 200 butterfly and the 400 IM, respectively, to take first place in both races.

Two Spartans claimed their first wins of the 2019-20 season.

Senior Scott took first in the 200 butterfly, 1:53.04, while sophomore Lucy Schenden finished first in the 1000 freestyle (10:24.98).

Claiming her first victory as a Spartan was freshman Liz Quarin in the 500 freestyle, touching the pad at 5:09.93.

For his third-consecutive win in the 50 freestyle, senior Payton Woods clocked a time of 20.76.

Sophomores Lauren Biglin and Sam Villani finished first in their respective events of 200 freestyle and 100 backstroke. Biglin finished with a time of 1:55.87 and Villani clocked a 57.20 time.

The women's 200 medley relay came in first place with a time of 1:43.76 from Villani, Szara, Kasey Venn and Heineman.

On the diving side, junior Amanda Ling took first-place finishes in both the 1-meter and 3-mete. She recorded her third-consecutive win in the 1-meter and second-consecutive in the 3-meter with scores of 318.70 and 277.70, respectively.

The Spartans are back in competition on Nov. 22-24 as they head down to Indianapolis, Ind. to participate in the Meet of Champions.

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Players Mentioned

Lauren Biglin

Aidan Farley

Jakob Heberling

Allie Heineman

Emma Inch

Jonathan Lee

Amanda Ling

Liz Quarin

Lucy Schenden

Erin Szara

Kasey Venn

Sam Villani

Payton Woods