HARRISONBURG, Va. – James Madison used a plethora of individual medal finishes to emerge victorious, 197-111, over Richmond in non-conference swimming and diving action on Saturday at Savage Natatorium.
 
The Dukes move to 4-2 in dual meets while the Spiders drop to 2-4.
 
JMU won 13 events, including sweeps of both boards and all three relays.
 
Dive

• Lexi Lehman won the 3-meter board with an NCAA Zone qualifying score of 285.83. Lindsey Hammar (272.55), Maddie O'Mera (246.68) and Maddie Yager (239.93) took up the next three finishes.
• In the 1-meter, Yager took home the gold with a score of 246.38. Five Dukes followed behind her in Lehman, Felicity Ryan, Hammar, O'Mera and Abi White.

 
Relays

• The team of Lauren Aylmer, Suzanne Earnshaw, Madison Cottrell and Jamie Cornwell took home the gold in the 200 Medley Relay with a time of 1:46.08.
• In the 400 Medley Relay, a time of 3:56.42 secured a win for Aylmer, Devan Taylor, Sarah Gaudet and Cornwell.
• Jordyn Schnell, Emily Drakopoulos, Abby Zindler and Alaina Park used a time of 1:37.22 in the 200 Free Relay to secure the relay sweep for the Dukes.

 
Individual

• Five different races (50, 500 and 1000 Frees, 100 Fly and 200 IM) saw the Dukes take the first two finishes, while Angela Ritchie (2:06.61), Abby Maguire (2:11.48) and Rachel McCoy (2:11.59) swept the 200 Fly.
• Cottrell took home two wins, swimming a time of 2:22.98 in the 200 Breast and a 57.82 in the 100 Fly.
• Alex Volk took home the 50 Free win with a time of 23.73.
• Grace Bousum won the 500 Free with a time of 5:07.77, while Jess Pryne finished second (5:10.23) and added a win in the 1000 Free with a time of 10:31.34.
• Schnell swam a time of 1:54.65 to win the 200 Free.
• In the 200 IM, Park won with a time of 2:12.59.

 
Up Next
The Dukes will take the rest of 2022 off and will compete next on Jan. 14, 2023 in a dual meet at Marshall.