Lake Forest College Sports Information
February 5, 2005
Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID

Foresters Take 3 of 4 in Final Meet Before Conference Championships
 Colwell, Bueter, Swett and Ojdana combine for 8 individual wins

Erin Colwell and Michael Ojdana helped pace the
Forester swimming and diving teams.

LAKE FOREST, IL - The Lake Forest College swimming and diving teams gave their fans plenty to cheer about as they celebrated Senior, Alumni and Parents' Day during their final home meet of the year Saturday (February 5). In a double dual meet the women's squad defeated North Central College 86-22 and Illinois Institute of Technology 60-52, while the men cruised past North Central 73-8 and lost to the Scarlet Hawks 63-44.

Four Foresters provided a good deal of the scoring punch with two victories apiece. Junior Erin Colwell (Northfield, MN/Northfield) won the 200-meter freestyle (2:22.38) and 100-meter backstroke (1:17.36) and sophomore Chelsea Bueter (Swisher, IA/Prairie) captured the 100 butterfly (1:08.56) and 200 individual medley (2:30.48).

For the second consecutive week, freshman diver Kendall Swett (Akron, OH/Hawken) swept the 1-meter and 3-meter diving competitions with national meet-qualifying numbers. She scored 297.30 points off the 3-meter board and 264.25 off the 1-meter.

The final dual winner was freshman Michael Ojdana (Cincinnati, OH/St. Xavier), who was first to the wall in the 100 (55.92) and 200 (1:59.36) freestyles. He also claimed a victory as part of the 200-meter freestyle relay team.

Freshmen Mia Hable (Hudson, OH/Hudson) and Nicholas Primrose (Mayfield Heights, OH/Mayfield) registered the Foresters' ninth and tenth individual wins of the meet. Hable took first in the 400-meter freestyle (4:56.60) and added a runner-up finish in the 800 freestyle (10:06.94). Primrose's triumph came in one of the most exciting races of the meet. His time of 25.70 in the 50-meter freestyle was just two hundredths of a second better than that of Luke Shorette of IIT.

The Lake Forest men's squad opened and closed their meet with relay victories. In the 200-meter medley, Primrose teamed with junior Aaron Koop (Newton, KS/Newton) and sophomores Jon D'Angelo (Ann Arbor, MI/Ann Arbor) and Derek Drayer (Albuquerque, NM/Eldorado) to post a time of 1:58.36. Primrose and Drayer then combined with Michael Ojdana and freshman Steven Crabbe (Tucson, AZ/University) to take the 200-meter freestyle relay in 1:42.48.

The Foresters are on the road this weekend at the Midwest Conference Championship Meet at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Competition begins at 10:00 a.m. Friday (February 11) and concludes Sunday evening. Preliminary heats and finals will take place on all three days.

Lake Forest Results: Women | Men