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Fortune is OAC Champion and Ashbaugh Sets School Record on Second Day of OAC Championships

Chandler Ashbaugh and Maddie Fortune
Chandler Ashbaugh and Maddie Fortune

AKRON, Ohio -- Junior All-Ohio Athletic Conference diver Maddie Fortune (Akron/Firestone) is the OAC 3-meter diving champion and junior All-OAC performer Chandler Ashbaugh (Napoleon) set a school-record as the Baldwin Wallace University women's swimming and diving team remain in fifth place after two days of competition at the OAC Championships in the Ocasek Natatorium on the campus of the University of Akron.

The Yellow Jackets are fifth of seven teams with xx points.

Fortune won the 3-meter diving event with a career-best 405.65 points.  She was the runner-up last year and earned her second straight All-OAC honor in the event.  Fortune now has three career All-OAC diving honors.

Ashbaugh earned All-OAC honors and placed second in the 100-yard butterfly in a school-record time of 58.98 seconds.   She has earned two All-OAC honors and has set three individual records in the first two days (50-yard freestyle as part of 200-yard freestyle relay and 200-yard individual medley on day one).  Also, Ashbaugh was a member of the 200-yard freestyle record-setting team.  The 50-yard freestyle record had stood since 1992.

In addition, freshman Jordyn Miller (Ann Arbor, Mich./Pioneer) placed sixth in the 200-yard freestyle in a career-best time of 1:58.75.

In relay action, the 200-yard medley team of Miller, senior Olivia Vocke (Napoleon), Ashbaugh and senior Kayla Eyster (Canton, Mich./Plymouth-Canton) finished fourth in a season-best time of 1:54.87.  The 800-yard freestyle team of freshman Allison Seemann (Napoleon), Vocke, senior Academic All-OAC performer Emily Payne (Ligonier, Pa./ Ligonier Valley) and freshman Nicole Gladish (Fairview Park/Fairview) placed sixth in a season-best time of 8:53.75.

BW closes out the OAC Championships on Saturday, February 21 with the prelims at 10 a.m. and the finals at 5:30 p.m.