Day Two Results
LANCASTER, Pa. – First-year
Caelan Ladd highlighted Women's Swimming's second day of competition at the Centennial Conference Championships, winning a gold medal in the 500-yard freestyle on Saturday at Franklin & Marshall College.
Ursinus currently ranks fourth in the team standings behind 144 team points. No. 15 Swarthmore paces the pack with 291 points, with Gettysburg College (229) ranking second. No. 16 Johns Hopkins (225.5) sits in third and Franklin & Marshall (103) rounds out the top-five of the nine team field.
Ladd became the first Bear since Melissa Leonard '24 to win the 500-yard freestyle by earning a personal best time of 4:58.72. Her time now ranks second all-time in program history behind Leonard's mark of 4:57.95 in 2023 and 20th in Division III this season.
Next, in the A-Final of the 200-yard IM, junior
Morgan Valeriano placed fourth overall with a time of 2:05.98 which ranks as a personal best and just shy of Peyton Lyons' record of 2:05.94 in 2017. Classmate
Melanie Hahn took eighth in the B-Final by touching the wall at 2:12.24, but her prelim time of 2:10.15 marks as a career best.
The Bears closed out the meet by finishing third in the 400-yard medley relay as the team of Ladd, Valeriano, junior
Sylvi Lynch and senior
Sara Bozzomo combined for a time of 4:00.13. On Thursday, Ursinus also placed fourth in the 800-yard freestyle relay as the group of Ladd, Bozzomo, Hahn, and Valeriano earned a time of 7:44.11.
The Bears will return to action tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. as the prelims for the 400 IM, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, and 100 backstroke will take place.
