GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Hannah Fathman highlighted day two at the MIAA Swimming and Diving Championships, winning the 50 free. After day two, the Albion College women's team sits in third place with 204 points, as the men are in fourth with 189.
Fathman defended her title in the 50 free, swimming a 23.00. This is the third time in four years Fathman won the event.
Fathman, Kaitlyn Kreb, Mattie Smith and Charlotte Nguyen started the night taking third in the 200 yard free relay (1:37.47). The B team of Emily Evers, Chalondra Jewell, Mikala Muccino and Laurel Campbell placed ninth for the Brits. On the men's side, Billy Barr, Kelvin Crone-Willis, Jalen Hung and Ethan Boersma swam a 1:27.08 for fourth. In ninth was Albion's B team of Esteban Sanchez-Sink, Owen Schaaf, Cam Thompson and Richard Pifer.
In the 500 yard free, Evan Steele placed 12th with a 4:56.67, a season best.
Smith took fourth in the women's 200 yard IM with a time of 2:08.00. Alexis Glaser finished tenth while her sister, Alyssa Glaser, was 16th. In the men's event, Hung finished 11th and Sanchez-Sink 16th.
Freshmen Kreb and Nguyen were 12th and 13th in the 50 free. Barr's 20.73 was good for fifth on the men's side.
On the diving boards, junior Sarah Weissman took seventh, moving up a spot from prelims for a 344.25 in the women's 1-meter. Jeremy Romero was the runner-up in the men's 3-meter, scoring a 374.65. Thompson scored as well, finishing seventh.
Ending the night, the women's 400 yard medley relay team of Alexis Glaser, Smith, Kreb and Fathman placed third (3:59.85). In the B heat, Evers, Muccino, Nguyen and Campbell took ninth. The men's team was fourth (Hung, Crone-Willis, Boersma, Richard Pifer) and the second team of Steele, Schaaf, Caleb Galvan and Sanchez-Sink was tenth.
The Britons continue the championships tomorrow with prelims at 10 a.m. and finals at 5 p.m.