The swimming and diving season commenced this past weekend as the Kenyon swimming and diving teams took to the water to compete in the Kenyon Relays. The women’s and men’s teams emerged victorious as they both won all nine of the swimming events and multiple divers recorded top finishes during the diving events. In all, the Owls amassed a total of 119 points, taking the top spot in a field of five teams: Case Western Reserve University, the College of Wooster, Ohio Wesleyan University and Wittenberg University. 

Women: The women showed their dominance in the pool as seven different swimmers won at least two of their events. The most decorated Owl from the meet was Sydney Geboy ’25, who took home an impressive five wins. The Owls started making waves as the fierce foursome of Geboy, Lisa Torrecillas-Jouault ’26, Jennah Fadely ’25 and Kelsey Van Eldik ’28 brought home a win in the 200-yard medley with a time of 1:45.60. Geboy’s other victories on the day came in the 200-yard backstroke, 500-yard crescendo, 200-yard butterfly and 200-yard freestyle.

The Owls continued to make a splash throughout the competition, racking up even more wins. Van Eldik helped the Owls bring home wins in four other events: the 200-yard breaststroke, 200-yard butterfly, 400-yard individual medley and 200-yard freestyle. Other multi-win swimmers included Fadely and Gabrielle Wei ’25. 

Kenyon also found success in the diving portion of the afternoon as Nadia Milovich ’28 placed third from her dive on the 1-meter board, getting a score of 252, and Olive O’Dorisio ’27 earned fourth with a score of 236. Milovich also strutted her stuff on the three-meter diving board finishing fourth with a score of 248, while Lucy Cassell-Kelley ’27 and O’Dorisio took fifth and sixth, respectively. 

Men: The men also showed their poolside prowess, winning all nine of their swimming events as well as one out of their two diving events. Kenyon started off its campaign with a 200-yard medley relay win with a quartet of first-year swimmers: Charlie Green ’28, Zach Schuster ’28, Neil Abrahamson ’28 and Spencer Stultka ’28. The men continued to dominate the field in the other eight events, with at least nine different swimmers taking home wins in more than one event. In his first meet as a Kenyon swimmer, Schuster helped the Owls to four more event wins including the 200-yard freestyle, 200-yard breaststroke, 200-yard butterfly and the 400-yard individual medley.

Kenyon also dove to a win on the one-meter diving board, as Owen Peterson ’26 stood at the top of the podium with an impressive score of 314.55. Peterson also found his way to the podium in the three-meter, finishing second. First-year James Lackner ’28 finished fifth in his first collegiate performance as well.

With this first victory in the books for both teams, the men’s and women’s teams will each jump back into the water in just two weeks when they take on Ohio Wesleyan and Denison University in back-to-back contests.