Grove City women roll to PAC Swimming & Diving title 2/11/2017 10:32:09 PM Thursday results Friday results Saturday results PAC Championships site GROVE CITY, Pa. (pacathletics.org) – The Grove City College women captured their league-best 15th Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Swimming & Diving Championship Saturday evening. The team title is Grove City’s ninth straight. The conference championships were held at Grove City’s James E. Longnecker Competition Pool. Longnecker Pool has been the home of the league’s swimming and diving championships since 1990. Grove City led the six-team championship field with 909 points. Westminster College finished as the runner-up with 772 points and was followed by Saint Vincent College in third (594), Washington & Jefferson College in fourth (437), Chatham University in fifth (340) and Bethany College in sixth (137). PAC Most Valuable Performer in Swimming honors went to Grove City freshman Anne Shirley Dassow (Lookout Mountain, Tenn. / Chattanooga Christian). Individually, she claimed PAC titles in the 100 butterfly (55.75), 100 backstroke (57.30) and 200 butterfly (2:01.91) while achieving NCAA Division III provisional qualifying standards in each. She also established new Longnecker Pool, PAC open and PAC Championships records in the 100 butterfly. Dassow also swam on Grove City’s winning 200 freestyle (1:36.16), 400 medley (3:53.97) and 200 medley relays. The Wolverines’ 200 medley relay established new Longnecker Pool, PAC open and PAC Championships records while meeting the Division III provisional qualifying standard with a winning time of one minute, 45.61 seconds. Chatham senior Emily Hinson (Elizabethtown, Pa. / Elizabethtown Area) was named the PAC’s Most Valuable Performer in Diving after claiming titles in the 11-dive, three-meter event (495.70) Thursday and 11-dive, one-meter event (477.45) Saturday. Her preliminary score of 496.15 points on the one-meter board Saturday set new PAC open and PAC Championship records as well as a new Longnecker Pool record. Hinson qualified for the Division III Regional Championships in both events. PAC Swimming Coach of the Year honors went to Grove City ninth-year head coach Dave Fritz for the seventh time since the 2010 season. Chatham’s Charlie Hauser, now in his fourth season with the Cougars, claimed the PAC Diving Coach of the Year award for the second-straight year. Chatham was selected as the recipient of the PAC’s Team Sportsmanship Award. Westminster senior Anne Tillie (Fallston, Md. / Fallston) won the 1650 freestyle title with a time of 17 minutes, 48.30 seconds. She finished fifth in the event last season. Chatham sophomore Christine Mikita (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Penn Hills) was the runner-up (18:00.22). Grove City freshman Britt Byer (Canonsburg, Pa. / Canonsburg) swam to a first-place finish in the 200 backstroke with a time of two minutes, 8.59 seconds. Saint Vincent sophomore Marla Turk (Painesville, Ohio / Riverside) was the runner-up (2:08.70). W&J freshman Chloe Magyari (Columbus, Ohio / Upper Arlington) won the 100 freestyle with a time of 52.92 seconds. Westminster sophomore Caroline Novak (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Upper St. Clair) finished as the runner-up (53.07). Westminster first-year Maggie Manolis (Jeannette, Pa. / Jeannette) captured the title in the 200 breaststroke with a time of two minutes, 23.11 seconds. Grove City freshman Kaylyn Froebel (Dublin, Ohio / Jerome) was the runner-up (2:23.69). Westminster closed the event with a victory in the 400 freestyle relay (3:34.42). Members of the winning relay were Novak, first-year Nicole Stengel (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Carlynton), Tillie and junior Megan Douds (Bethel Park, Pa. / Bethel Park).