The Basics:

Score:  Women 625.5 (2^nd) | Men 652.5 (2^nd)
Meet: Roanoke at the 2020 ODAC Swim Championships
Location: Greensboro, N.C.

The Lead: Sunday marked the final day of the 2020 ODAC Swim Championships. The RC men and women both finished runner-up as 20 Maroons were named All-ODAC for their performances over the, four-day, event.

Women's highlights:

• A quartet of RC women placed in the top six of the 1650 Freestyle. Izzy Mack posted a final time of 17:31.34 to finish runner-up while Grace Fountain touched third. Julia Volz finished 5^th, just .16 of a second behind, while Quinn Keatley came home 6^th.
• Maddie Andrews posted a 3^rd place effort in the 200 Backstroke when she touched at 2:06.02.
• The winning time in the 100 Freestyle was 51.48, Kimberly Large (4^th) touched in 52.70 and Hannah Petty (5^th) finished in 53.28 giving the Maroons another pair of top five finishes.
• Sarah Virginia Scott earned all-conference honors when she placed 6^th in the 200 Breaststroke.
• In the final individual event, Maria Vinson collected 5^th place points with a time of 2:13.01 in the 200 Fly.
• Petty, Vinson, and Large teamed with Reilly Bird for a runner-up finish in the 400 Freestyle Relay.
• The RC women finished with 625.5 points, trailing only the Generals of Washington and Lee with 991.5 while Randolph-Macon rounded out the top three (560.5).

Men's highlights:

• On day after setting the ODAC and Championship Meet record in the 400 IM and 100 Breaststroke, Connor Kinkema was again making history. Kinkema bested his record time of 2:02.14 in the 200 Breaststroke when he touched the wall in a time of 2:02.09.
• Not to be outdone, Josh Rauch took aim at the ODAC and Meet records in the 1650 Freestyle. Rauch posted a time of 16:23.58 to put his name in the conference record books by overtaking the Meet record of 16:26.03 and the ODAC mark of 16:25.98. In the same event, Jake Bowery finished 5^th with a time of 16:59.10,
• The 100 Freestyle would see Brian Grimmett come home 3^rd while Ben Tate would add a 2^nd place finish in the 200 Fly.
• Tate and Grimmett would return to help Xavier Williams and Cole Hensen post a final time of 3:08.46 to finish runner-up in the 400 Freestyle Relay.
• Roanoke would finish the event in 2^nd place with 652.5 points. Washington and Lee would sweep the titles with 887.5 and once again Randolph-Macon would finish 3^rd (432).

During the event 20 Roanoke College women and men would be named to the All-ODAC Teams.

First Team:

• Maddie Andrews
• Reilly Bird
• Kimberly Large
• Izzy Mack
• Connor Kinkema
• Josh Rauch
• Ben Tate

Second Team:

• Grace Fountain
• Sarah Virginia Scott
• Maria Vinson
• Brian Grimmett
• Nick McGrath
• Austin Orange
• Davis Wheeler

Third Team:

• Quinn Keatley
• Caylyn McNaul
• Hannah Petty
• Julia Volz
• Jake Bowery
• Jack Vaughn

Up next:  The NCAA Swim Championships get started on March 18^th.