By: Brendon Reese
WOOSTER, Ohio – Mount Union's women's swimming and diving team finished in third place after the first day of the Wooster Invitational on Thursday evening.
The Purple Raiders finished with a team score of 370 which is just 24 points behind second place Frostburg State. Wooster leads the event with a team score of 411.
Top Finishers
- 200-yard freestyle relay: team consisting of senior Isabelle Parr (Brunswick), freshman AJ Sliman (Amherst / Marion L. Steele), freshman Chloe Parr (Brunswick) and senior Abby Calaway (Berea / Berea-Midpark) won the event with a time of 1:40.02
- 200-yard individual medley: sophomore Riley McCombs (New Middletown / Springfield Local) finished third with a time of 2:13.48
- 50-yard freestyle: Parr, I. finished third with a time of 24.28
- 400-yard medley relay: team consisting of Sliman, McCombs, Parr, I., and freshman Rydell Reif (Buffalo, N.Y. / Sweet Home) finished in fourth place with a time of 4:09.35
Team Scores
- Wooster 411, 2. Frostburg State 394, 3. Mount Union 370, 4. Wittenberg 244, 5. Rose-Hulman 199, 6. Shawnee State 185, 7. Kalamazoo 182, 8. Westminster 174, 9. Heidelberg 172, 10. Albion 27
The Raiders are back in action again tomorrow for the second day of the Wooster Invitational at Wooster High School with prelims beginning at 10 a.m. followed by diving at 2 p.m. and finals at 6 p.m.
