LEWISTON, ME (January 24, 2025) – The Tufts University women's swimming & diving team returned to action in full on Friday and earned a 146-68 victory at Bates College. The Jumbos had a solid overall performance against a good Bates team that was fourth at the NESCAC Championship last year.
For Tufts, graduate student
Jillian Cudney led the way with a pair of victories while also contributing to a relay win. She led 1-2-3 finishes for the Jumbos in both the 50 freestyle and 50 butterfly with times of 23.65 and 26.06, respectively. Cudney also held the anchor role for the winning 200 freestyle relay (1:36.06), joined by junior
Isa Chambers, sophomore
Elena Harrison and first-year
Sweeney Su.
Harrison had one of the stronger Jumbo swims of the night with a 2:07.33 PR to win the 200 individual medley. She was also the lead leg in the Jumbo 400 medley relay that had started the meet with a 3:54.50 time for second place. Senior
Abby Miller, senior
Lara Wujciak and junior Quincy Wheeler were also part of that foursome.
Those three would have top Tufts performances individually. Wheeler won the 100 freestyle in the middle of the meet with a 52.04 touch, while Wujciak in the 50 backstroke (28.14) and Miller in the 50 breaststroke (31.27) were both runner-ups.
Junior
Madeleine Dunn added a 1:52.51 victory in the 200 freestyle. Su scored second in the event with a 1:54.51 mark that is a personal best. In a two-person 500 freestyle race, Tufts first-year
Lila Strober was fastest with a 5:09.39 finish.
In the diving events, junior
Malia Leung surpassed the NCAA qualifying mark (255) in the one-meter event while winning with a 269.18 score. Jumbos made up the top three as first-years
Luci Karp (253.65) and
Riley Metz (244.28) followed Leung. In three-meter, Karp won (247.43) while Leung (242.40) was second and senior
Nika Renshaw (239.33) took third.
First-year
Clara Behling was second behind Cudney in the 50 free at 24.74 seconds. She also led Tufts' second 200 free relay that was the runner-up in 1:37.07, where she was joined by senior
Emma Claus, junior
Katharine Skelly and Wheeler.
Skelly was second behind Cudney in the 50 fly with her 26.54 mark, while senior
Cierra McCarty was runner-up after Harrison in the 200 IM (2:10.65).
Jumbo thirds were scored by
Isa Chambers in the 50 back (28.30), first-year
Angelina Sagaow in the 50 free (25.12) and junior
Jade Foltenyi in the 50 fly (26.77).
For host Bates, Sarah Palmer won the 50 breastroke in 29.99 seconds and swam the second leg of the Bobcats' winning 400 medley relay (3:53.56).
The Jumbos will be back in action again tomorrow when they host MIT at Hamilton Pool on Senior Day. Ten team members will be recognized in a ceremony prior to the start of the meet.
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