GREENSBORO, NC (March 21, 2024) – The Jumbo 200 freestyle relay placed 10th nationally on day two of the NCAA Division III Women's Swimming & Diving Championships Thursday at the Greensboro Aquatic Center.
The foursome of first-year
Sydney Stasz, junior
Emma Claus, sophomore
Isa Chambers and senior
Jillian Cudney combined on a 1:33.69 time for second place in the consolation final and 10th overall tonight. That's an honorable mention mark for the Jumbos. Cudney earns her third All-American award of the meet and 10th for her career, while it's the first-ever national recognition for the other three.
Making her first NCAA appearance, sophomore diver
Malia Leung had a successful day. She qualified for the consolation finals with a 404.40 score in the prelims. She then scored 418.25 in the consolation finals for 11th and her first career honorable mention All-American award.
The Jumbos are 10th in the scoring column after two days at the meet with 64.5 team points.
Sophomore
Jade Foltenyi narrowly missed swimming in the finals of the 100 butterfly tonight due to a 17th-place finish in a 55.67 time. She was 0.18 behind the 55.49 time that was 16th for the final spot in the consolation final. Also in the 100 fly, junior
Lara Wujciak was 32nd (56.29) an first-year
Elena Harrison was 35th (56.33).
For the 400 individual medley preliminaries, the Jumbos had a trio of performers. Sophomore
Madeleine Dunn was 25th in a 4:29.23 mark, sophomore
Maddie Hagberg swam 4:38.05 for 33rd and junior
Cierra McCarty placed 34th (4:38.95).
The 200 freestyle saw Tufts sophomore
Quinci Wheeler swim 1:53.19 in the preliminaries for 37th place.
In an unfortunate result during the 400 medley relay preliminaries Thursday morning, Tufts' seventh-seeded team was disqualified due to an early start by one of the swimmers.
Friday's women's events at the NCAA meet are the 200 butterfly, 100 backstroke, 100 breaststroke and the 800 freestyle relay.
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