'On This Day' Senior Day Results in Pair of Victories for Express Swimmers
'On This Day' is a Wells College Athletics feature series taking a look back on events that occurred on this day, Jan. 24, three years ago in 2018.
The Wells College men's and women's swimming teams won on Senior Day. The men's team won 74-19 and the women's team 69-16 in a home dual meet Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, at the Schwartz Athletic Center against SUNY Delhi.
The night started and ended with recognition of five Wells seniors who were competing in the final home meet of their Wells careers – Kaitlyn Schwend, Arthur Brooks, Owen May, Ian Ronan, and Shawn Snell were honored in a pre-meet ceremony.
The latter four men closed the meet by swimming the 200-yard freestyle relay and winning with a time of 1:53.76. Owen May swam 1:08.10 in the 100-yard butterfly and moved into ninth on the Wells record board in that event. May was second in the 200 IM.
In other results for the men's team, Ian Ronan won the 100-yard freestyle in 1:00.33 and the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:10.67. He was second in the 200 IM. Arthur Brooks took first in the 200-yard individual medley in 2:30.07. Brandon Sprague won the 1,000-yard freestyle in 12:41.98 and the 500 free in 6:21.93.
Aaron Connolly won the 200 free in 2:19.79 and took first in the 100-yard backstroke in 1:17.14. Richard Ford was second in the 200 free. Wells started the meet with a victory in the 200-yard medley relay in 2:01.55 by Brooks, Ronan, May, and Sprague.
The Wells College women's swimming team took its third dual-meet victory of the 2017-18 season for the Express.
Schwend won the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 1:07.69 and the 500-yard freestyle in 6:06.57 as the lone member of the women's senior team to compete.
Shannon Simmons won the 50 free in 30.07 seconds, which was 28-hundredths of a second faster than teammate Anna Bozeat in second place in 30.35. Simmons also took the 100-yard backstroke, again edging Bozeat.
Cloutier won the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:34.84 and took second in the 100-yard butterfly in 1:14.03. Amy Storti was first in the 100-yard freestyle in 1:12.52. Tiffany Core won the 100-yard breaststroke for the Express.
Wells had the only entries in the two relay events. The group of Simmons, Cloutier, Schwend, and Bozeat won the 200-yard medley relay in 2:14.75 and the team of Asa Cade, Paetyn Burish, Emily Cooper, and Storti won the 200-yard freestyle relay in 2:16.66.
Meet Results: https://wells-express.com/sports/mswim/2017-18/files/012418_delhi.htm
