Complete Final Results
January 19 – Jenny Meltz broke her own school record in the 1,000-yard freestyle, and Corey Myers won both diving events with national-qualifying scores to lead the Oberlin College swimming and diving team to a dual-meet sweep over John Carroll on Saturday afternoon.
The Yeomen had a very convincing 161-116 victory, while the Yeowomen earned a hard-fought 149-145 decision.
“All in all we had some very good swims,” head coach Mark Fino said. “We still need to work on a few little things before we head into what I hope should be a very strong conference championship meet.
Meltz, a first-year from Andover, Mass., completed the 1,000-yard free in 10:51.57 to best her old school-record mark of 10:53.13 that she set earlier this season at the Wooster Invite (12/01/07). She also added a victory in the 500-yard free with a time of 5:21.17.
Myers, a senior from Nesconset, N.Y., cruised to victories in both diving events – tallying 287.02 points in the 1-meter event and 288.30 points off of the 3-meter board.
Overall, Oberlin won 23 of the 32 events in the meet. The men’s “A team” tandem of Jon Vimr, Daniel Holm, Corey Spiro, and Scott McInerney, who all registered individual victories during the meet, got the winning started with a victory in the 200-yard medley relay (1:45.71).
John Hugens followed suit with a win in the 1,000-yard free – completing the course in 11:08.84 and later returned to win the 200-yard back (2:18.09). After his great start in the 200-yard medley relay, Vimr returned to take top honors in the 200-yard free (1:52.48) and 500-yard free (5:09.90). McInerney followed suit by winning the 50-yard free – checking in at 23.47.
Another member of the winning-relay unit, Holm, tabbed an individual win in the 100-yard breast with a time of 1:07.05 and also secured a victory in the 200-yard breast with mark of 2:29.22. Spiro also shined with a victory in the 200-yard butterfly – tapping the wall in 2:07.93, before completing the butterfly sweep with a winning time of 57.25 in the 100-yard fly. In the final individual event of the afternoon, Spiro recorded his third win of the day with a time of 4:40.23 in the 400-yard IM.
After Meltz’s outstanding performance in the 1,000 yard free, first-year Sara Kadi kept things going for the Yeowomen with a victory in the 200-yard free (2:01.00). The sensation rookie also added wins in the 400-yard IM (4:46.18) and 100-yard butterfly (1:02.10).
Laura Fries followed Kadi’s first victory with a mark of 1:04.70 to win the 100-yard back and later returned to take top honors in the 200-yard back with a time of 2:18.52.
Kiri Ulmschneider clocked in at 2:18.84 in the 200-yard fly – besting the second place finisher, Kim Kern, of JCU by nearly 22 seconds (2:40.55) before winning the 200-yard breast in 2:39.09.
Sophomore Shannon Gallagher recorded a mark of 57.71 to win the 100-yard free.
Oberlin will have its final tune-up before the conference championship meet when NCAC foe Ohio Wesleyan invades the Robert Carr Pool on Friday, Jan. 25, at 6:30 p.m. | 
