TOWSON, Md. – After a month away from the pool, the Towson University women's swimming and diving teams travel Lewisburg, Pennsylvania to compete in the Bucknell Invitational Dec.6 -8
th. This is the last meet to wrap up the fall schedule.
The meet is scheduled to begin with preliminaries Friday morning at 10 and finals start at 6 p.m. inside Kenney Natatorium.
Towson will compete against Bucknell, Fordham, Davidson, La Salle, Rider and UMass (divers only).
Swimming Spotlight
Before each meet, the swimming and diving program will introduce us to someone in the senior class who will share highlights and their expectations of the season. This meet we introduce you to senior
Jacki Schoening.
The business marketing major is from Raleigh, North Carolina and is thirlled for the mid-season championship meet at Bucknell.
"Bucknell is our mid-season championship meet so our excitement level is extremely high for some fast swimming across all three days of the meet," said Schoening.
"Everyone has some high expectations going into Bucknell because we will be suited and partially rested. Everyone is hoping to go best times and place really well and I think that everyone has a great chance of achieving those goals."
During the quick winter break Jacki and the Tigers get to travel to Florida for a fun training session and its one the team is looking forward too.
"I am looking forward to our training trip to Florida in January," said Schoening. "It will be the first one for our team and it will be great to train in a new location."
As a senior of course, one can only look forward to the Colonial Athletic Championships (CAA) and for the two-time defending CAA champion in the 100 breaststroke, Schoening is ready to leave her final mark.
"The other meet I am really looking forward to is CAAs in February, we will be fully rested and excited to compete," said Schoening.
"As a team we definitely want to be in the running to win CAAs this year and have tons of fun doing it. We are really focused on racing well and having fun along the way."
Jacki Schoening normally competes in the breaststrokes but believe it or not she actually enjoys doing the relays. As such a very charismatic person, her enjoyment comes just from the cheers her teammates give.
"Hearing them cheer gives me motivation to swim fast for not just myself but for everyone on the team as well," said Schoening. "I also am really motivated by swimming on relays because it is a lot of fun and there is so much more energy being behind the blocks with your teammates."
Introducing the Depth Chart
The Tigers have numerous student-athletes competing in multiple events this year. To give you a glimpse they have the following:
Butterfly:
Megan Cowan,
Maddi Mangum,
Andrea Ducar and
Lauren Cavanagh
Backstroke:
Meghan Jones,
Reagan Martin,
Alex Diacumakos
Breaststroke:
Jacki Schoening,
Kalyn Fetter and
Katie Nunez
Sprint Freestyle:
Annemarie Schnoor, Nunez,
Ava Enriquez
Mid-Distance/Distance Freestyle: Jones and
Meagan Clark
Tigers Last Time Out
Towson defeated UMBC 162-133 on Saturday, Nov. 2 in Burdick Hall.
Christina Coleman won the 1-meter dive (233.03) and
Sarah DiGaetano won the 3-meter dive (258.08).
Maddi Mangum,
Kalyn Fetter,
Andrea Ducar and
Annemarie Schnoor captured first in the 200-yard medley relay (1:45.68).
It was a 1-2 finish in the 1000-yard freestyle as
Meagan Clark (10:33.24) and
Sarah-Margaret Locke (10:36.95) came in first and second, respectively. Other top performers included
Karlee Carminati winning the 500-yard freestyle (5:05.98) and Schoening winning the 200-yard breaststroke (2:29.21).
Scouting Bucknell
The Bison defeated Loyola 171-129 on Saturday, Nov. 23. The Bison had 10 first-place victories. Emma Hadley (100 & 200 backstroke), Maddie Hartigan (100 & 200 freestyle) and Abby Merriman (500 & 1,000 freestyle) each won two events.
Bucknell went 1-2-3 in the 500 freestyle, 1000 freestyle and 1-meter dive.
Scouting Fordham
The Rams defeated Stony Brook 182-111 on Friday, Nov. 22. Molly Dunn posted a career-best and winning score of 297.45 in the 1-meter dive. Three different women won multiple events, starting with Caitlin McNary taking first in the 1000 freestyle (10:29.00), 100 freestyle (53.55).
Scouting Davidson
The wildcats competed against Old Dominion on Saturday, Nov. 2. Siena Senn won the 200-yard (1:53.99) and 500-yard (5:04.25) freestyles. Isabella McElrath won the 100 butterfly (59.25) and Sarah Shepherd won the 200 individual medley (2:06.29).
Scouting La Salle
The Explorers fell to Villanova 187-106 last Tuesday, Nov. 26. Sophomore Phoebe Shaya won both events on the boards. On the 3-meter she scored 271.35 points and the 1-meter scored 255.98. Freshman Lauren Fenn placed second in the 100 back with a time of 59.52.
Scouting Rider
The Broncs fell to La Salle (183-116) and Delaware (220-73) in a dual meet on Saturday, Nov. 9. Sophomore Kylie McMahon finished first overall in the 100 butterfly (57.94) and third in the 200 butterfly (2:08.67).
Senior diver Meg Tomakyo won the 1-meter dive event with a score of 254.40. She also finished second in the 3-meter with a mark of 226.95.
Scouting UMass
The Minutewoman divers competes at the Terrier Invitational on Saturday, Nov. 23. Maja Boric won the 1 –meter dive with a top score of 272.80 after posting the top-qualifying score of 266.40. Beth Luther finished 16
th over the first six dives.
The Meet Matchup
Last year at the Bucknell Invitational, Towson won the invitational with a score of 1564 after the three day event for the second consecutive year. The Tigers had eight first-place victories with multiple Tigers finishing in first in different events.
Schoening won the 100-yard breaststroke (1:01.46) and the 200-yard breaststroke (2:16.37). Towson also had first-place finishes in the 1-meter dive and 3-meter dive. The 400-yard medley relay team and 200-yard medley relay team also finished in first.
Tigers in the Community
The Towson University athletics department deems community service as one of its highest priorities to give back to the Greater Baltimore area.
- For the 7th consecutive year, the department exceeded 10,000 hours of community service to the Greater Baltimore region, finishing with 11,162 hours of community service in the 2018-19 academic season.
- Towson ranked #1 nationally for community service and won the 2018 National Championship for Community Service through the Helper Helper NCAA Team Works Competition.
- Towson had a 97% participation rate, attended 118 community service opportunities and volunteered with 19 organizations.
- Towson won the 2018 Volunteer of the Year Award from Susan G. Komen of Maryland.
