Tate 200 2nd

Women's Swimming and Diving Nathan Baliva

Tate Breaks Another Record, Women Finish Fifth

Sophomore Cally Tate (Monmouth, Illinois) set another school record and finished in second place overall during the final day of the Midwest Conference Swimming & Diving Championships at Grinnell College on Saturday. The Monmouth College women's team moved up again on Sunday and finished in fifth place with 225 points while the men also gained a spot and finished in sixth place with 228 points.  

WOMEN
Tate qualified for the A final in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:11.02. In the final she broke her own school record by more than two seconds, swimming 2:07.11. Tate finished second overall for 17 points and her second runner-up finish of the weekend. 

Nicole Fitch (Marengo, Illinois) swam the fourth fastest 1650 freestyle in Monmouth history in 19:13.93. Her 10th place finish earned seven points. 

Aiden Bach (Stetsonville, Wisconsin) swam 2:37.78 in the 200 breaststroke preliminaries to reach the A final. She bettered the time in the final and finished sixth in 2:37.00, the fourth best time in school history. 

Mady Gaus (Herscher, Illinois) qualified for the B final in the 200 butterfly in 2:31.44 while Rudy Poffinbarger (Rockford, Illinois) qualified in 2:33.92. In the final, Gaus finished 11th in 2:31.44 and Poffinbarger was 13th in 2:34.74. 

The women's 400 freestyle relay team of Tate, Fitch, Bach and Claire LaBadie (Griffith, Indiana finished seventh in 3:51.47.

MEN

Kody Coyne (Bluffton, Indiana) cracked the top 10 in the 200 breaststroke with a swim of 2:18.42 in the prelims and Ethan Main (Oneida, Illinois) also qualified for the B final. Coyne finished ninth overall as he won the B final in 2:17.81 for the ninth best time in school history. Main earned four points in 13th place at 2:24.79. 

Luke Foster (Galesburg, Illinois) swam the 9th fastest 200 backstroke in the preliminaries in 2:03.38. He swam 2:03.68 in the B final and finished 12th to earn five points. Colin Heslin (Nashville, Tennessee) swam 2:06.65 in the prelims and 2:04.47 to finish 15th in the finals for two points. 

Heslim swam the 6th best 200 butterfly in school history in the prelims with a time of 2:06.23 and Eli Wills (Blue Springs, Missouri) also set a top-10 PR in 2:11.26. In the B final. Heslin swam 2:04.85 to finish 12th and Wills was 13th in 2:11.72. 

The men's 400 freestyle relay team of Tariq McLarty (South Holland, Illinois) , Foster, Wills and Tristan Kennon (Flossmoor, Illinois) finished sixth in 3:16.33. 

Jaeden Peters (Greenfield, Indiana) finished eighth in the 1650 freestyle with a time of 8:02.84 as he earned 11 points. Brady Hild (Tremont,  Illinois) picked up four points with a 13th place finish in 20:27.88.
 
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Players Mentioned

Brady Hild

Brady Hild

Senior
Tristan Kennon

Tristan Kennon

Senior
Ethan Main

Ethan Main

Sophomore
Kody Coyne

Kody Coyne

Freshman
Luke Foster

Luke Foster

Freshman
Tariq McLarty

Tariq McLarty

Freshman
Jaeden Peters

Jaeden Peters

Freshman
Eli Wills

Eli Wills

Freshman
Nicole Fitch

Nicole Fitch

Sophomore
Mady Gaus

Mady Gaus

Senior

Players Mentioned

Brady Hild

Brady Hild

Senior
Tristan Kennon

Tristan Kennon

Senior
Ethan Main

Ethan Main

Sophomore
Kody Coyne

Kody Coyne

Freshman
Luke Foster

Luke Foster

Freshman
Tariq McLarty

Tariq McLarty

Freshman
Jaeden Peters

Jaeden Peters

Freshman
Eli Wills

Eli Wills

Freshman
Nicole Fitch

Nicole Fitch

Sophomore
Mady Gaus

Mady Gaus

Senior