The UW Oshkosh men’s and women’s swim and dive teams fell to UW-Whitewater with scores of 92 and 141 points, respectively, last Saturday at Albee Hall.
Whitewater won the dual meet by scoring 196 points from its men’s team while the women’s side scored 158 points.
UWO opened the meet with the 200-yard medley relay races which the men’s team took third place while the women’s team took second place. In the second event of the meet Titans’ Callee DeBruin took first place with a time of 11:03.65, scoring 9 points in the women’s 1000-yard freestyle. In the ninth event of the meet, Oshkosh’s Damen Seremet took first place in the men’s 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:01.64, scoring 9 points. The Titans’ Rowan Sinclair took first place in the women’s 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:18.58 scoring 9 points while teammate Millie Belik took second place. In the 16th event Maya Indiraraj took first place in the women’s 1-meter dive, finishing with a score of 208.05 while UWO’s Paige Vitek took second place.
In the women’s 100-yard freestyle Callee DeBruin took first place with a time of 55.85 scoring 9 points while Kori Burnett takes second place for Oshkosh. The Titans’ Sienna Della-Peruta took first place in the women’s 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:16.37, scoring 9 points, while Payton Purdy took third place.
UWW spoiled the men’s 200-yard breaststroke, placing all three swimmers on the podium, but in the women’s event UWO’s Bella Cichon took second place while McKenna Keepers took third place. Oshkosh’s Elias Landolt took third place in the men’s 500-yard freestyle while in the women’s 500-yard freestyle DeBruin took first place with a time of 5:27.33 for her third first place finish of the meet. Behind her was Brianna Wesenberg who finished in second place.
Oshkosh’s Leo Ramirez-Gutierrez took first place in the men’s 100-yard butterfly scoring 9 points with a time of 55.32 while his teammate Julian Koller took third place scoring 3 points his time was 56.61. The Titans’ Charley Cook took first place in the 3-meter dive with 199.20 points. The UWO women’s team placed three on the top podium as Maya Indiraraj took her second first-place finish of the meet with a time of 214.57 while her teammates Olivia Santiago took second along with Paige Vitek taking third place.
In the 200-yard individual medley, the Titans also had two finishers in the top three with Charlie Mason finishing in second place with a time of 2:04.59 scoring while Sienna Della-Peruta took first place in her second event win of the meet for the Titans with a time of 2:21.17.
UWO’s men’s and women’s teams finished in second place in the 200-yard freestyle relay.
Overall, the Titans combined for a total of 11 first place finishes, 18 second place finishes and 13 third place finishes. UWO’s next meet will be on Saturday, Nov. 8, at 11 a.m. against Lawrence University in the Gene Davis Invitational in Appleton.
