Coe News
Sat, Dec. 10, 2011 - [Swimming]
Amanda Ickes was one of five Kohawks to set season best in Coe's dual meet against Franklin.
Amanda Ickes was one of five Kohawks to set season best in Coe's dual meet against Franklin.

FRANKLIN, Ind. - The Coe College women's swimming and diving team improved to 3-0 with a 118-95 win over Franklin Saturday.  Five different Kohawks on the men's and women's teams posted season best times.

The Kohawk women earned a win in the 200-yard medley relay to start the meet.  Coe's team of Shannon Loria (Palatine, Ill./William Fremd), Amanda Ickes (Marion, Iowa/Xavier), Darci Schultz (Naperville, Ill./MacArthur) and Megan Kroll (Woodbury, Minn./Stillwater) finished in 2:05.62.  Coe also had a team place third, as Haley Otis (Des Moines, Iowa/Dowling), Nichole Lattin (Monroe, Wis./Monroe), Kelly Strohm (Cherry Hills Village, Colo./Regis Jesuit) and Chloe Drapes (Shorewood, Wis./Shorewood) finished in 2:21.38.

Kenni Sterns (Longmont, Colo./Silver Creek) won the 1,000-yard freestyle in 11:43.87, finishing nearly 12 seconds ahead of the second place finisher.  Mickey Meyer (Dubuque, Iowa/Hempstead) was third in 13:20.53, while Rebekah Isack (Mokena, Ill./Lincoln-Way East) was fourth in 13:57.67.  On the men's side, Zachary Ahles (Andover, Minn./Andover) was third in 12:53.58.

Erica Czajka (Denver, Colo./George Washington) finished third in the 200-yard freestyle in 2:14.94, while Lindsay Meade (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Kennedy) was fourth in 2:15.95.  Otis placed fifth in 2:25.33.  Colin Conway (Wauwatosa, Wis./Milwaukee Lutheran) was third for the Kohawk men in 2:21.57.  In the 50-yard freestyle, Ariana Uding (Chicago, Ill./Whitney M. Young) won in 26.73, while Schultz was third in 28.69.

Loria and Lattin placed third and fourth in the 200-yard IM, as Loria finished in 2:37.90 and Lattin timed in at 2:39.96.  On the men's side, Aaron Buseman (Niwot, Colo./Niwot) was third in 2:31.87.  Coe swept the one-meter diving, as Elizabeth Curley (Omaha, Neb./Millard West) won on the women's side with a score of 115.60 and Ken Otton won the men's with a score of 97.20.

Sterns was second in the 100-yard butterfly in 1:07.32, while Kroll was fourth in 1:15.05.  Uding recorded a season best in the 100-yard freestyle, winning in 58.43, while Czajka was second in 59.25.  On the men's side, Ahles also posted a season best in 1:00.50, placing fourth, while Martin Benoit-Xavier Guilloume (Phalenpin, France/Deforest de Leuarde) was fifth in 1:05.89.

Otis placed second in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:16.49, while Lattin was fourth in 1:24.17.  On the men's side, Buseman posted a season best 1:10.74, placing third.  Andi Queisner (Fort Madison, Iowa/Fort Madison) was third in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 6:09.99, while Meyer placed fourth in 6:22.73.

Ickes turned in a season best in the 100-yard breaststroke, finishing second with a time of 1:15.77, with Queisner placing third in 1:20.43.  Conway also turned in a season best on the men's side, placing third in 1:20.62.

Coe's 400-yard freestyle relay team of Czajka, Uding, Queisner and Sterns won in 4:04.61, while the team of Schultz, Meade, Meyer and Isack was second in 4:23.03.  The Kohawk men's team was second in 4:10.82, with that team consisting of Ahles, Buseman, Conway and Guilloume.

The Kohawks return to action on Dec. 30, as they participate in the Venice Invite in Venice, Fla.