Solid Opening Day for Tiger Swimming & Diving At NCAC

Wittenberg Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving
Photo by John Coffman
February 12, 2025
Results

GRANVILLE, OH - Wittenberg Swimming and Diving kicked off the 2025 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Championships with a solid opening night. The Tiger women's team recorded 106 points across two relay events to stand in seventh place heading into a busy Day 2, while the Tiger men recorded 98 point across the same two relays and are in eighth place.

Kenyon leads the women's competition after the first three events - two relays and the three-meter diving - of the 2025 championships with 281 points, followed by Denison with 236, and Wooster with 135. On the men's side, Denison is tops after two relay events with 140 points, followed by Kenyon with 124, and Oberlin with 118.

For Wittenberg's women, the 200 medley relay finished sixth with a time of 1:49.12 after a spirited three-way battle that ended with the Tigers just .7 off the time recorded by fourth-place Wooster. The swimmers in that relay - freshman Lilly Cook (Rensselaer, IN / Rensselaer Central), sophomore Sophie Paskiet (Toledo, OH / St. Ursula), freshman Teagan O'Connor (Fort Wayne, IN / Carroll), and junior Shania Stone (Cincinnati, OH / Princeton) - beat their seed time by more than two seconds.

The night concluded for the Tiger women with a seventh-place finish in the grueling 800 free relay. The quartet of freshman Elisabeth Josellis (Warsaw, IN / Warsaw Community), freshman Annie Gammon (Cincinnati, OH / Cincinnati Country Day), junior Addie Payne (Sidney, OH / Sidney), and junior McKenna Clark (Waynesville, OH / Carroll) posted a time of 8:18.86, which was nearly 15 seconds better than their seed time.

For the Tiger men, the 200 medley relay team of junior Owen Gabel (New Bremen, OH / New Bremen), junior Mason Steen (Leroy, OH / Riverside), freshman Tatum Paglia (Indianapolis, IN / Ben Davis), and freshman Orry Farrington (Waterville, OH / Anthony Wayne) beat their seed time by four seconds en route to a ninth-place finish. The relay touched the wall in 1:42.50.

In the final event of the night for the men, the 800 free relay finished eighth in a time of 7:42.05. The four swimmers who took to the pool in that relay were Gabel, sophomore Aidan Dannenfelser (Cincinnati, OH / St. Xavier), freshman Nathan Rabun (Marion, OH / Wynford), and Steen.