GREENSBORO, NC (March 20, 2024) – The Tufts University women's swimming & diving team's 200 medley relay closed Wednesday's action at the NCAA Division III Championships with a school-record and fourth-place finish to highlight the Jumbos' first day at the national championship meet.
The 1:41.13 record time for the 200 medley relay was produced by first-year
Elena Harrison, sophomore
Quinci Wheeler, sophomore
Jade Foltenyi and senior
Jillian Cudney. They broke their own previous school record of 1:41.30 from the New England Small College Athletic Conference meet in February. Wheeler and Foltenyi repeat as All-Americans in the event from last year's sixth-place finish. It's Wheeler's fourth and Foltenyi's third national honor overall. The All-American recognition is the first for Harrison.
A three-time NCAA qualifier (2022-24), Cudney also had her best-ever individual performance at the NCAA Championship meet today. She was just 0.03 off her own school record in the 50 freestyle preliminaries with a 23.14 to make the championship final. Then tonight she tied her record of 23.11 to tie for fifth in the championship final. Between this and the relay, Cudney is now a nine-time All-American.
Sophomore
Madeleine Dunn in the 500 freestyle earned an honorable mention All-American spot with her 4:56.82 time on Wednesday morning for ninth in the preliminaries. Then in the consolation final tonight, she was eighth to end up 16th overall with a time of exactly five minutes. This is her second straight All-American honor in the 500 free and third overall.
Head coach
Adam Hoyt's Jumbos scored 44.5 team points today for seventh place thus far. Five Jumbos earned All-American honors in three events.
Junior
Lara Wujciak and Foltenyi were in the 200 individual medley preliminaries this morning. Wujciak timed 2:12.16 for 54th place, and Foltenyi touched in 2:12.82 for 55th.
Junior
Cierra McCarty also qualified in the 500 free for Tufts and was 45th overall with her 5:10.74 preliminary mark. Harrison made her NCAA debut in the 50 free preliminaries this morning and swam 24.43 (51st).
Day two of the women's national championship on Thursday will have the 200 freestyle relay, 400 individual medley, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle, one-meter diving and 400 medley relay.
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