Women’s Team Highlights Swim and Dive’s Senior Day

Titans honored graduating seniors, Keebler, Murphy, Stroh, and Pinto

1/21/2023 6:26:00 PM

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - The Illinois Wesleyan University men's and women's swimming and diving teams wrapped up its full weekend of swimming with a tri-meet against Carthage College and Illinois Institute of Technology at Fort Natatorium Saturday, Jan. 21. The Titans also recognized its four graduating seniors in Anna Keebler (Verona, Wis. - Middleton), Shannon Murphy (Medinah, Ill. - Lake Park), Emma Stroh (Normal, Ill. - University High), and Shannon Pinto (Bloomington, Ill. - Normal Community HS) during the event.

The IWU women's team swept the deck defeating Carthage by a final score of 155-105 and Illinois-Tech by 171-86. The men's squad dropped to both Carthage and Illinois-Tech, 194-85 and 189-88, respectively.

Senior Lauren Feddersen (Champaign, Ill. - Centennial), who will be returning for a fifth-year, freshman Kayleigh Kuschewski (Batavia, Ill. - Batavia), and junior Natalie Wajda (Park Ridge, Ill. - Maine South) paced the Titans women's squad with two individual wins and one relay win at the meet. Feddersen swam first-place times in the long-distance 1000 yard freestyle (11:09.53), in the 400 yard individual medley (4:449.74), and anchored the 400 yard free with a final team-time of 3:49.64.

In the women's 100 yard breaststroke, Kuschewski touched in first with a time of 1:01.83 and in the 200 yard backstroke with a time of 2:12.59, a career-best. The Batavia, Ill. native also placed first in the 100 yard back (1:01.83) and was the leadoff in the winning 200 yard medley relay (1:54.28). Wajda joined Feddersen and Kuschewski with two individual wins in the 200 yard free (2:00.86), in the 500 yard free (5:28.47), and was the anchor in the winning 200 yard medley relay as well.

Other Titans on the women's side to clinch a first-place time include sophomore Hadley Fudge (Stanford, Ill. - University) in the 100 yard freestyle (56.73) and junior Bella Calcagno (Lemont, Ill. - Lemont Township) in the 200 yard butterfly (2:21.28). Both Fudge and Calcagno were a part of the two winning relays during the meet.

Leading the men's team, junior Lane Wagner (Danville, Ill. - Danville) earned two individual wins. Wagner notched first in the 200 yard back (2:00.30) and in the 200 yard fly (1:59.60).

IWU returns to the pool next Friday, Jan. 28 for a dual with Division I University of Illinois-Chicago at Fort Natatorium in Bloomington, Ill. The meet is scheduled to start at 6 p.m.

IWU Individual Results
Women's 1000 Yard Freestyle
1. Lauren Feddersen 11:09.53
6. Emma Stroh 12:27.75

Men's 1000 Yard Freestyle
3. Henry Moore 10:29.15

Women's 200 yard Freestyle
1. Natalie Wajda 2:00.86
3. Alexa Starkey 2:05.09
4. Natalie Porter 2:05.20
6. Julianna Boyle x2:08.22

Men's 200 Yard Freestyle
4. Alex Kula 1:50.90
7. Sam Fogarty 1:51.50

Women's 100 Yard Backstroke
1. Kayleigh Kuschewski 1:01.83
5. Anna Keebler 1:07.78
9. Cally Tate 1:14.07

Men's 100 Yard Backstroke
2. Jay Jenkins 56.16
6. Colin McKibben 1:00.24

Women's 100 Yard Breaststroke
2. Hadley Fudge 1:08.28
5. Shannon Murphy 1:17.78
6. Sydney Dunlap 1:19.21

Men's 100 Yard Breaststroke
7. Donald Tichy 1:05.34

Women's 200 Yard Butterfly
1. Bella Calcagno 2:21.28

Men's 200 Yard Butterfly
1. Lane Wagner 1:59.60

Women's 50 Yard Freestyle
2. Natalie Wajda 26.07
9. Cally Tate 29.91

Men's 50 Yard Freestyle
2. Ethan Lowder 22.41
3. Sam Fgoarty 22.70
4. Jake Kalenoski 23.02
8. Shannon Pinto x24.04

Women's 100 Yard Freestyle
1. Hadley Fudge 56.73
4. Alexa Starkey 58.94
11. Cally Tate 1:07.62

Men's 100 Yard Freestyle
3. Sam Fogarty 49.46
7. Ethan Lowder 51.82
9. Henry Moore 52.79

Women's 200 Yard Backstroke
1. Kayleigh Kuschewski 2:12.59
5. Anna Keebler 2:25.21

Men's 200 Yard Backstroke
1. Lane Wagner 2:00.30
6. Colin McKibben 2:08.65

Women's 200 Yard Breaststroke
2. Lauren Feddersen 2:32.93
3. Natalie Porter 2:39.22
4. Shannon Murphy 2:44.23
5. Sydney Dunlap x2:46.52
9. Emma Stroh x2:59.62

Men's 200 Yard Breaststroke
6. Jay Jenkins 2:25.40
7. Donald Tichy 2:26.72

Women's 500 Yard Freestyle
1. Natalie Wajda 5:28.47
2. Alexa Starkey 5:29.96
3. Julianna Boyle 5:35.81

Men's 500 Yard Freestyle
4. Alex Kula 5:09.09

Women's 100 Yard Butterfly
2. Bella Calcagno 1:04.04

Men's 100 Yard butterfly
6. Jake Kalenowski 56.22
7. Ethan Lowder 56.38
11. Colin McKibben 1:00.06
13. Henry Moore x1:00.37

Women's 400 Yard Individual Medley
1. Lauren Feddersen 4:49.74
2. Kayleigh Kuschewski 4:52.62
4. Natalie Porter 5:03.20
5. Shannon Murphy x5:03.95
10. Sydeny Dunlap x5:32.83

Men's 400 Yard Individual Medley
2. Lane Wagner 4:21.25

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