Grinnell College’s Kelly Bruce ’12 has been named the Midwest Conference Women’s Swimming and Diving Performer of the Week.
Bruce, from Middleton, Wis. (Middleton), set a school record in one-meter diving and broke two pool records as the Pioneers won a 169-116 dual meet at Coe College Saturday. Bruce had a score of 277.50 while winning the one-meter event, breaking the previous program best of 275.60 set by Jo Schaalman in 1998.
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Kelly Bruce ’12 (pictured) broke a school record as the Grinnell College women’s swimming and diving team rolled past Coe College 169-119 Saturday in Cedar Rapids.
Bruce won the one-meter diving event with a score of 277.50, breaking the previous Pioneer best of 275.60 set by Jo Schaalman in 1998.
Bruce also won three-meter diving with a score of 287.02. She set pool records in both events, as well.
Other Pioneer...
Grinnell College’s Beth Gillig ’15 has been named the Midwest Conference Women’s Swimming and Diving Performer of the Week.
Gillig, from Frankfort, Ky. (Northfield Mount Herman), was a perfect 4-of-4 in the Pioneers’ dual meet victory at Macalester College on Saturday. She won individual titles in the 100-yard backstroke (1:04.28), 100 freestyle (56.91) and 400 individual medley (4:57.65). The latter two times each rank fourth in the...
The Grinnell College women’s swimming and diving team posted nine event victories on its way to an easy 163-114 win at Macalester College Saturday afternoon.
Individual winners for Grinnell were Emily Bajet ’12 in the 200-yard butterfly (2:28.80), Morgan Bober ’12 in the 100 butterfly (1:02.90), Beth Gillig ’15 in the 100 backstroke (1:04.28), 100 freestyle (56.91) and 400 individual medley (4:57.65), Kelly Bruce ’12 in one-meter...
A pair of high finishes helped push the Grinnell College women’s swimming and diving team to a fourth-place finish at its own invitational Saturday at Russell K. Osgood Pool.
Kelly Bruce ’12 earned an NCAA Division III National provisional mark for the second time in two days, doing so in three-meter diving with a score of 421.35. She placed second with that effort.
Danielle Phillips ’15 added a third-place finish in the 100-...
Kelly Bruce ’12 (pictured) claimed third place to pace the Grinnell College women’s swimming and diving team Friday at its own invitational at Russell K. Osgood Pool.
Bruce tallied a score of 411.55.
Danielle Phillips ’15 placed fourth in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:35.26 and swam on the fifth-place 800 freestyle and 400 medley relay teams that had times of 8:26.80 and 4:16.26, respectively.
Beth Gillig ’15 also swam...
The Grinnell College swimming and diving teams will host their own annual invitational Friday and Saturday at Russell K. Osgood Pool.
The men placed second at last year’s meet with 1254.5 points, just a bit behind champion Gustavus Adolphus’ total of 1312.5 in the seven-team field.
Grinnell’s women were fourth in 2011 with 556 points. The University of Nebraska-Omaha placed first in the 12-team meet with 1176 points.
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The Grinnell women’s swimming team took runner-up honors in a trio of events Tuesday during a dual meet with Connecticut College at Naples, Fla.
The Pioneers had second-place efforts from Beth Gillig ’15 in the 200-yard freestyle (2:04.45), Nikki Pyle ’12 in the 100 backstroke (1:04.38) and the 200 medley relay squad of Sara Hannemann ’14, Emily Bajet ’12, Kristina De La Torre ’14 and Lauren O’Hair ’12 (1:58.46).
Placing third...
A pair of event victories Saturday sent the Grinnell College women’s swimming and diving team to its second Pioneer Classic title in as many years at Russell K. Osgood Pool.
Danielle Phillips ’15 (left) was first in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:09.88) and Kelly Bruce ’12 (right) captured top honors in one-meter diving (383 points).
Grinnell had a pair of runner-up finishes, with Emma Falley ’15 doing so in one-meter diving (348....
Grinnell College’s Kelly Bruce ’12 (left) captured the three-meter diving crown with a meet-record score of 389.25 at the Pioneer Classic swimming and diving event Friday at Russell K. Osgood Pool.
That effort helped Grinnell to first place in the team standings with 241 points, 51 in front of runner-up Coe College in the 13-team field.
Two other Pioneers finished in the top five in diving, as Emma Falley ’15 was fourth with a...
