Nov. 4, 2017 Final Stats (PDF) | Final Stats (HTML)
OXFORD, Ohio - The Miami University women's swimming and diving team beat Bowling Green 215-85 to earn its first victory of the season. The RedHawks improve to 1-2 on the season (1-1 MAC) and the Falcons drop to 3-2 (0-2 MAC).
Miami earned first place finishes in 14 out of 16 events. Eight athletes recorded more than one first-place finish and 16 recorded a top-three finish.
"I think this meet was really great," said head coach Hollie Bonewit-Cron. "It was nice to be back in our home pool, especially coming off of a great meet against Akron last week. Our women were really able to step up and perform. There are still some areas where we need to make some improvements but I think overall it was great to be back in our pool."
In the 1000 Free, Miami captured first, second and third place. Junior Ella Moynihan finished first (10:16.66), senior Shay Spelman second (10:26.80) and sophomore Claire Doerr third (10:28.47).
In the 500 Free, the RedHawks also took the top three times with sophomore Emma Bradley finishing first (5:01.94), Moynihan coming in second (5:02.83) and sophomore Molly Zilch rounding out the top three (5:07.43).
Zilch finished with the fastest time in the 200 Free (1:53.59). Junior Peyton Mosbaugh finished first in the 100 Free (52.97). Moynihan earned third place in the 50 Free (24.63), just 0.02 seconds behind first place.
Red-shirted senior Pei Lin swept the diving events, scoring 362.85 in the three meter and 330.52 in the one meter. Lin outscored the second-place finisher by over 40 points in the three meter and over 30 points in the one meter.
In the 200 Back, Miami took the first three places with sophomore Izzy Herb finishing first (2:04.42) and sophomore Hannah Fuchs (2:04.47) and senior Rachel Baker (2:05.61) finishing second and third, respectively.
The RedHawks finished one-two-three in the 100 Back. Sophomore Carolyn Jungers finished first (57.54), junior Abby Stone finished second (58.74) and senior Katie Kuhl finished third (59.34).
In the 200 Breast, senior Holly Schuster finished first (2:18.56), red-shirted senior Elise Campbell second (2:20.05) and Jungers third (2:24.71).
In the 100 Breast, Campbell won the race (1:02.60) with Schuster coming in second (1:03.77).
Herb won the 200 Fly (2:04.97). Mosbaugh was the runner-up in the 100 Fly (57.20) and Herb finished third (57.80).
Miami finished one-two-three in the 400 IM. The first to finish was Fuchs (4:26.73), followed by Schuster (4:30.66) and Jungers (4:31.89).
The RedHawks took first and second place in the 800 Freestyle Relay. In first place was Moynihan, Zilch, Bradley and Stone (7:41.79). In second place was Campbell, Doerr, Mosbaugh and freshman Gracie Taylor (7:46.90).
400 Medley Relay Herb, Schuster, Mosbaugh and Campbell won the 400 Medley Relay (3:49.17).
Both the Miami women and men travel to Michigan State on Saturday, November 11 for a 12 p.m. dual meet.