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Dondorfer and Steen OAC Championships, Women’s Swimming and Diving Takes Third at OAC Championships

OAC Champions Mallory Dondorfer and Ella Steen with Head Coach Laura Demaline
OAC Champions Mallory Dondorfer and Ella Steen with Head Coach Laura Demaline

AKRON, Ohio – Junior All-OAC and Academic All-OAC stroker Mallory Dondorfer (Mentor) and freshman diver (Madison/Painesville Riverside) each won an Ohio Athletic Conference Championship as the Baldwin Wallace University women's swimming and diving team finished in third place at the three-day Ohio Athletic Conference Championships hosted by Wilmington College inside the Ocasek Natatorium on the campus of the University of Akron.

BW, who had nine All-OAC performers, three OAC Champions and one All-OAC relay team, was third of six teams with 499 points.  John Carroll University won its eighth straight OAC title with 912 points.

Individuals

  • Dondorfer claimed her third career championship, earned her eighth career OAC accolade and third of the championships as she won in a career-best time of 2:11.24
  • Steen earned her second career All-OAC honor as she claimed the title in the 1-meter with a career-best 373.20 points
  • Freshman All-OAC diver Isabel Hershkovicz (Strongsville) earned her second career All-OAC honor as she was third in the 1-meter with a career-best 338.40 points
  • Senior All-OAC stroker Tia Reed (Bluffton, S.C.) finished fifth in the 200-yard breaststroke in a time of 2:31.90
  • Freshman freestyler Melina Roberts (Westlake) earned her first career All-OAC honor as she placed third in the 200-yard butterfly in a career-best time of 2:16.52.  Roberts also finished seventh in the 1650-yard freestyle in a career-best time of 19:24.36
  • Sophomore stroker Morgan Ingalls (Erie, Pa./Harbor Creek) was eighth in the 200-yard backstroke in a time of 2:16.46
  • Sophomore freestyler Rachel Fibbi (Pittsburgh, Pa./Upper St. Clair) took 13th in the 100-yard freestyle in a career-best time of 57.04

Relays

  • The 400-yard freestyle unit of Dondorfer, Fibbi, senior Academic All-OAC freestyler Lauren Slife (Westfield Center/Cloverleaf) and sophomore freestyler Ariel Lisy (Strongsville) placed fourth in a time of 3:46.27