Swimming Travels To Fishers, Ind. for Butler Double Dual

Sunday, September 30

Fishers, Ind.

12 PM

Xavier University

Butler Quad

Swimming Travels To Fishers, Ind. for Butler Double Dual

09.28.18 | Swimming

Meet set for Sunday, Sept. 30 at 12 PM at Fishers High School

By: Hayley Schletker, Xavier Athletic Communications

CINCINNATI - Xavier swimming opens up its 2018-19 slate against outside competition by traveling to Fishers, Ind. for the Butler Double Dual. The meet is set for Sunday, Sept. 30 at 12:00 p.m. at Fishers High School.

THE MEET

Butler Double Dual
September 30, 2018 – 12:00 PM
Fishers High School

Xavier will face hosts Butler along with St. Louis, Eastern Illinois and Evansville.
At last season's Butler Invite, Musketeers collected the top spot in 10 events.
Overall, the women finished in the top spot for a third-straight year, collecting wins over Saint Louis, Indiana State, Evansville, Butler and Valparaiso.
The men finished second with team wins over Evansville and Valparaiso, falling narrowly to Saint Louis.

THE OPPONENTS

BUTLER

Butler, which only fields a women's team finished last season's BIG EAST Championships with 235 points, the highest total ever recorded for BU at the championship meet.
BU finished in fifth place, behind Villanova, Georgetown, Seton Hall and Xavier, and ahead of Providence.
The Bulldogs had two Championship finalists at last season's conference meet, then-sophomore Grace Grzybek, who matched her school record time in the 200 back to placed seventh, and Emma Spotts in the 200 breast, taking eighth place with a time of 2:23.60 after swimming a 2:22.42 in the prelims.

SAINT LOUIS

At last season's A10 Championships, St. Louis finished eighth of 11 on the women's side
The Bilikens men finished fifth of eighth at the 2018 A10 Championships.
SLU's men collected four gold medals, including the 100 free, 500 free and 100 fly for 2018 graduate Ryan McCoy and the 800 free relay title.

EASTERN ILLINOIS

EIU's men finished fifth of six at last season's Summit League Championship.
2018 graduate Steve Fishman earned the highest finish throughout the championships for the Panthers, touching the wall second in the 100-IM at 51.09.
EIU's women finished sixth of six at the Summit League Championships in 2018.

EVANSVILLE

Evansville's men finished fifth of six at the 2018 MAC Championships.
UE's women finished seventh of eight at the Missouri Valley Conference Swimming and Diving Championships in 2018.

UP NEXT

Xavier returns to the pool on Saturday, October 6, 2018 at 1:00 PM when the Musketeer take on University of Louisville at the Ralph R. Wright Natatorium.

WOMEN'S ROSTER

Xavier's women return 21 letter-winners from 2017-18, including six of seven All-BIG EAST honorees. Among the returnees are Emily Conners, Caroline Gaertner and Abigail Garner, who each earned All-BIG EAST in multiple events.
Conners was one of only four women at last season's Championship meet to earn All-Conference honors in seven events, joining a trio from conference champions Villanova. Conners, a junior, collected three school records in the 50 free, the 100 free and the 200 free, setting NCAA B-Cuts in the 50 free and 100 free. Conners also took part in four second-place finishing relays.
Xavier also returns senior Caroline Gaertner, who earned All-BIG EAST honors in five events, including the 100 back, in which she finished second and set an NCAA B-Cut time. Gaertner also picked up a third-place finish in the 100 fly and competed in three silver-medal relays.
Abigail Garner earned All-Conference honors in a pair of events, helping the Musketeers finish second in both the 200 free relay and 400 free relay.
Becca Titterton, Tianna Vozar and Samantha White also earned All-BIG EAST in 2018, each helping Xavier collect second-place finishes in four of five relays during the meet, setting new school records in the 400 free relay and the 400 medley relay. Xavier also broke the school record in the 800 free relay, finishing fourth.
Xavier also returns seniors Annie Cummins (Fly/Back), Laura Dicus (Free/Back/Fly), Maggie Kauffeld (Fly/IM/Free), Katie Kerr (Free), Anne Locker (Back/Fly) and Jenna Wilkes (Fly/IM/Free), juniors Riece Drew (Back/Free), Ali Fort (Back/Free) and Emily Saugstad(Free/IM), and sophomores Maureen Cummins (Free/Back), Lorelei Gaertner (Fly/Free), Alison Herman (Back/IM/Breast), Taylor Hogan(Fly/Back/IM), Emma Kauffeld (Free/IM) and Delaney Sprague (Breast/IM).
Xavier lost three seniors to graduation, including Regan DeWitt, Molly Ford and four-time All-Conference honoree Paxtyn Drew, but added three-person recruiting class, of Tilly Baldwin, Kelly Harris and Lydia Schaeffer.

MEN'S ROSTER

Xavier returns 16 letter-winners from the 2017-18 season, including seven All-BIG EAST team members.
Sam Johanns earned All-BIG EAST in six events in 2018, including a pair of individual events. Johanns collected a pair of third-place finishes, in the 50 free and the 100 back, breaking his own school record in the 100 back in the process. Johanns also helped the Musketeers to a pair of second place finishes and a pair of third-place finishes in relays.
David Bunnell earned All-Conference honors in five events in 2018, including taking second in the 100 fly. Bunnell also took part in four relays, collecting two silver medals and two bronze.
Matthew Dyer continued to lead the Musketeers in the breast stroke events last season, taking second in the 200 breast and third in the 100 breast at the BIG EAST Championships, setting an NCAA B-Cut time in the 100 breast. Dyer also took the breast stroke leg of the 200 medley relay and 400 medley relay that took second and third, respectively.
Sophomore Alex Sironen helped the Musketeers collect top three finishes in three relays during his freshman season, including a second place finish in the 400 free relay.
In his first conference meet, Nick Mahoney collected a silver medal in the mile.
Enrique Hernandez and Jared Ritz also earned All-BIG EAST honors, helping Xavier finish in the top three in four of five relays.
Xavier also returns seniors Chase Baldwin (Back/IM) and Nathan Runyon (Back/Fly), juniors Brandon Abboud (Free Mid/Fly), Landon Clark (Fly/IM) and Patrick Hackett (Free Distance/Fly), and sophomores Noah Coomler (Free Sprints), Bradley Jackson (Fly/Free/IM), Christian Thomas (Free/Back) and Cameron Weese (Breast/IM).
Xavier lost three seniors to graduation, Owen Dougherty, two-time All-BIG EAST Team member Bobby Snader and three-time all-conference honoree Alex Wolfred, who joined the Musketeers as a member of the coaching staff.
Xavier men's swimming added a six-person recruiting class, Matthew Geraghty, Roark Lundal, Ben Quon, Elliot Steinberg, Daniel Stroh and Cothalee Watko.