| Lake Forest College Sports Information
February 11, 2007 Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID Lake Forest Men Place Third, Women Fifth at MWC Championships
Junior diver Maggie Rezac (Omaha, Neb./Marian) recorded career-best marks while winning both the 1-meter and 3-meter events. Her score of 493.80 off the 1-meter board on Friday was 125 points better than the runner-up and established a new school and conference record. She posted a mark of 504.80 in Saturday’s 3-meter competition, 174 points ahead of the second-place finisher. Rezac was named MWC Diver of the Year for the second time in her career after the meet. Senior Chelsea Bueter (Swisher, Iowa/Prairie) also won a pair of individual events and has now captured 13 conference championships, including 11 individual titles in 12 tries. After placing second in the 200-individual medley with a time of 2:13.25 on Friday, she touched the wall first in the 400-IM in 4:43.16 on Saturday and in the 200-breaststroke on Sunday with a time of 2:29.01. Junior Michael Ojdana (Cincinnati, Ohio/St. Xavier) posted the only individual victory for the Forester men when he won Saturday’s 200-freestyle in 1:45.35. It was the fifth individual conference championship of his career. Ojdana also placed second in the 500-freestyle on Friday with a time of 4:45.29, just 24 one-hundredths of a second behind the winner. He was also the runner-up in Sunday’s 1650-freestyle when he finished just 65 one-hundredths of a second out of first with a time of 16:52.07. Ojdana also helped the men’s team capture conference titles in three of the meet’s five relays. He and senior Derek Drayer (Albuquerque, N.M./Eldorado), freshman Josh D’Angelo (Ann Arbor, Mich./Pioneer), and sophomore Dustin Koch (Carmel, Ind./Carmel) won the 200-freestyle relay (1:27.25), the first event of the meet, on Friday. Drayer, Koch, Ojdana, and junior Nick Primrose (Mayfield, Ohio/Mayfield) also closed out Friday’s competition with a victory in the 400-medley relay (3:39.00). The same four men who prevailed in the 200-freestyle relay on Friday returned to the winners’ stand on Sunday after capturing first in the 400-freestyle relay (3:14.86), the final event of the meet. On the women’s side sophomore Jenna Sasanfar (Tonka Bay, Minn./Minnetonka) recorded third-place finishes in both the 100-baskstroke (1:03.30) and 200-backstroke (2:17.24). Senior Anne Haas (South Berwick, Maine/St. Thomas Aquinas) was fifth in the 1650-freestyle (19:18.05), seventh in the 500-freestyle (5:34.24), and 11th in the 200-freestyle (2:08.72). The top six swimmers in each morning’s preliminaries qualified for the evening’s finals and, in addition to Ojdana, eight other Lake Forest men placed among the top six in at least one event. On Friday junior Stephen Crabbe (Tucson, Ariz./University) was fifth in the 500-freestyle (5:05.49), Koch placed third (2:02.97) and Drayer fifth (2:05.70) in the 200-IM, and Josh D’Angelo finished third (22.50) and Primrose sixth (22.77) in the 50-freestyle. On Saturday Koch was the runner-up (54.48) and senior Jon D’Angelo (Ann Arbor, Mich./Ann Arbor) placed fifth (55.78) in the 100-butterfly, Josh D’Angelo finished just .37 seconds behind Ojdana in second place in the 200-freestyle (1:45.72), and freshman Devin McIntyre (Roscoe, Ill./Hononegah) was fourth (57.10) and Primrose fifth (57.84) in the 100-backstroke. Ojdana, Crabbe, and the D’Angelo brothers also finished second in the 800-freestyle relay (7:15.24). Finally, Sunday’s top performances included McIntyre placing third in the 200-backstroke (2:04.36), Josh D’Angelo finishing third (48.69) and Drayer fifth (49.79) in the 100-freestyle, freshman Phillip Miatkowski (North Andover, Mass./North Andover) claiming sixth in the 200-breaststroke (2:23.66), and Jon D’Angelo placing third (2:02.51) and Koch sixth (2:07.07) in the 200-butterfly. The Forester men extended their streak of finishing among the top three teams in the league to 24 years.
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