Women's Swimming & Diving vs. Stonehill
Friday, November 15 | 5 p.m.
Morse Pool | Babson Park, Mass. 

SERIES HISTORY
•    Babson and Stonehill will matchup in a dual meet on Friday for the second consecutive season. 

LAST MEETING
•    The Beavers took first place in five events and recorded nine runner-up finishes in a 133-129 loss to Stonehill on November 11, 2023, in Babson Park. 
•    April Kupsky '24 won the 200 butterfly and came in second in both the 200 breaststroke and 200 IM, while senior Audrey Daniels was first in the 100 breaststroke and second in the 100 butterfly. 
•    Vera Belfonti '24 touched the wall first in the 100 butterfly, junior Jenny Chung won the 500 free and the quartet of Daniels, juniors Catherine Curry and Sophia Sznewajs and sophomore Sylvie Racicot came in first in the 200 free relay for the Beavers. 

ABOUT THE BABSON WOMEN
•    The Beavers (4-3) are coming off a dominating 206-72 win over Clark in a dual met back on November 2. 
•    Daniels (50 breast, 100 free), first-year Samantha Gilbert (100 butterfly, 100 breast) and fellow rookie Julia Netishen (50 free, 100 back) all recorded two wins apiece for the Beavers, who came in first in 14 of 16 events against the Cougars. 
•    Senior Emily Tran was first in the 50 back, junior Vangella Randell won the 1000 free and Racicot paced the field with a time of 2:04.39 in the 200 free. 
•    First-year Tuana Turhan recorded a victory in the 500 free, classmate Marta Gershanok was first in the 100 IM and senior Elina Sung followed up a second-place showing on the 1-meter diving board with a first-place finish in the 3-meter diving event. 

ABOUT THE SKYHAWKS
•    Stonehill (0-3) is looking for its first win of the season after suffering a 178-76 loss at Niagara last Saturday. 
•    Grace Idowu won the 100 free with a school-record-time of 53.12, helped the 200 free relay team take second place and added third-place showing in the 100 free to lead the Skyhawks. 
•    Maddie Gomez set a new school record with her time of 5:19.26 in the 500 free on the way to placing fourth and also came in fourth in the 200 free. 
•    Taylor Belanger came in second in the 100 breaststroke, Lilith Peterson was third in the 200 breast and Elizabeth Weston added a third-place result in the 100 back. 

TOP TIMES
•    Netishen set a new program record in the 50 free with a time of 24.13 against Bentley on October 26, and her time of 1:00.64 in the 100 back has her as the fourth fastest individual in the event in program history. 
•    Turhan's time of 2:12.90 is just over three seconds off the pace of Babson Hall of Famer Meg Lynch's '08 school record time of 2:09.47, and her time of 58.89 in the 100 butterfly is less than a half-second behind Belfonti's school record set last winter. 

UP NEXT
•    Both the Babson men and women conclude their competition schedule for the opening semester at the Fisher Invitational hosted by Roger Wiliams on November 22-23.