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Illinois swim and dive team has season filled with mixed results

May 8, 2017

Filed under Sports, Swim & Dive, Women's Sports

Coming into the 2016-17 season, the Illinois swim and dive team had 12 newcomers on the roster and only three seniors. However, this did not seem to hold back the team this season. Illinois got off to a quick 4-0 start to its season when it had home meets on back-to-back days in October. The Illini’s ...

Illinois swim and dive team breaks records at Big Ten Championship

By Erich Fisher, Staff writer

February 20, 2017

Filed under Sports, Swim & Dive, Women's Sports

The Illinois swim and dive team shattered several school records but placed 12th at the Big Ten Championship this past week in West Lafayette, Indiana. On the first day of competition, the relay team of seniors —Amelia Schilling, Gabbie Stecker, Audrey Rodawig and junior Samantha Stratford — set a new school recor...

Illinois swim and dive heads to Big Ten Championships

By Erich Fisher, Staff writer

February 15, 2017

Filed under Sports, Swim & Dive, Top Stories, Women's Sports

Illinois swim and dive head coach Sue Novitsky and her squad arrived in West Lafayette, Indiana, to compete Wednesday in the Big Ten Championship. There will be four days of competition, concluding Saturday, with each day being an all-day event. Sophomore Megan Vuong isn’t worried about having...

Kuhn shines at UIC Diving Invitational

By Erich Fisher, Staff writer

February 6, 2017

Filed under Sports, Swim & Dive, Women's Sports

Sophomore Madeline Kuhn turned in an impressive performance at the UIC Diving Invitational on Saturday, winning the three-meter diving event and placing second in the one-meter diving event. Kuhn tallied 266.90 points to get the first place honors in the three-meter diving event. She was 1.9 points s...

Sentimental Senior Day celebrations not enough to help muster win over Nebraska

By Erich Fisher, Staff writer

January 23, 2017

Filed under Sports, Swim & Dive, Women's Sports

It was an emotional scene before the start of Saturday’s Illinois swim and dive meet when seniors Audrey Rodawig, Amelia Schilling and Gabbie Stecker received their bouquets of flowers. Tears soon became noticeable from the three seniors as each one came to the realization that Saturday’s meet again...

Illinois women’s swim & dive finish 1-3 over Winter Break

By Mike Gasick, Assistant sports editor

January 17, 2017

Filed under Sports, Swim & Dive, Women's Sports

The Illinois women's swim & dive team won one of the three meets it competed in during winter break. The Illini began their competition with a home meet against Arkansas. Senior Amelia Schilling won the 200 free in the first event of the meet. Three other Illini swimmers would win individual...

Illinois swim and dive team has promising start

By Erich Fisher, Staff writer

December 12, 2016

Filed under Sports, Swim & Dive, Women's Sports

Editor’s note: At the time of publication, Swim and Dive was still competing.At the midseason point, the Illinois swim and dive team are off to a 6-1 start and a very respectable second place finish at the Missouri Invitational. After winning back to back home meets on Oct. 21 and 22, the Illini hit t...

Illinois swim and dive looks to its freshmen

By Erich Fisher, Contributing Writer

December 7, 2016

Filed under Sports, Swim & Dive, Women's Sports

With a team consisting of twelve freshmen, it wouldn’t have been unusual to assume that there might be some growing pains with this year’s Illinois swim and dive team. But within the team and coaching staff, the 6-1 start to the season and a second-place finish at the Missouri Invitational w...

Illinois swim and dive dominates Indiana State

By Erich Fisher, Contributing writer

November 7, 2016

Filed under Sports, Swim & Dive, Women's Sports

After suffering its first loss of the year last week, the Illinois swim and dive team bounced back with a powerful performance in Terra Haute, Indiana, coming out with an 184-77 victory. Saturday’s meet gave the Illini the chance to give some of their younger swimmers the opportunity to gain mor...

Illinois swim and dive team suffers first loss of the season

By Erich Fisher, Contributing writer

October 31, 2016

Filed under Sports, Swim & Dive, Women's Sports

Junior Samantha Stratford had her best performance of the year so far, taking first place in three events on Saturday against Rutgers and Northwestern. However, the Illinois swimming and diving team could not rally behind her performance, resulting in a 178-122 loss to Northwestern in its first road...

Freshmen swimmers prove to be up to the challenge

By Erich Fischer, Contributing writer

October 24, 2016

Filed under Sports, Swim & Dive, Women's Sports

The Illinois swim and dive team freshmen showed they could compete at a Division I level this weekend when Friday’s meet against Michigan State and Marshall came down to the last heat. The Illini trailed by three before entering the final event of the meet: the 200-yard freestyle relay. The...

Illinois swimming competes in first meet of the year

By Erich Fisher, Contributing writer

October 10, 2016

Filed under Sports, Swim & Dive

The Illinois swimming teams squared off against each other Friday for the only time this season. The orange team defeated the blue team 117-98, behind the performance of junior Sam Stratford. She broke her own pool record in the 200-yard IM and her meet record in the 100-yard backstroke. Strat...