ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The Gannon University women's swimming and diving team won six events—including a pair by junior Sterre van de Goor (Oss, Netherlands/Sint-Joriscollege)—and notched nine runner-up finishes but could not catch a solid RIT team and lost Saturday's dual meet by just eight points, 154-146.
 
Van de Goor touched the wall first in both distance freestyle events (the 1000 free in 10:48.91 and the 500 free in 5:15.96, ahead of teammates Madalyn Myers (Murrysville, Pa./Franklin Regional) and Chenay Date Line (Johannesburg, South Africa/Crawford College Sandton), as the Golden Knights finished 1-2-3 in that event.) Myers also finished second in the 1000 free with a time of 10:56.57.
 
The other standout performance of the day came from Kyla Miller (Wilbraham, Mass./Minnechaug Regional) in the diving portion of the meet, claiming victory in the three-meter event with a total of 216.90, besting RIT's Kay Oliver's 213.95. Other Golden Knight divers in the event included Alexandra Briggs' (Newark, N.Y./Newark Senior High) third-place total of 172.45 and Nicole Spiegel's (East Amherst, N.Y./Clarence) fifth-place mark of 147.05.
 
Miller also performed well on the one-meter boards, with a runner-up finish of 216.55. Briggs took fourth place with a 169.55, Spiegel claimed fifth with a 162.80. and Madeline Kless (Highland Heights, Ohio/Mayfield) notched a total of 156.90.
 
Other Gannon victories on the day included a 1-2 photo finish in the 200 freestyle from Date Line (first place in 1:59.27) and Irati Arzalluz (Lasarte-Oria, Spain/Santo Tomas Lizeoa) in second (1:59.39, just 12 hundredths of a second behind.) Francesca Nemetz (Greensburg, Pa./Hempfield Area) was the winner in the 200 fly (2:14.09) and freshman Hannah Jacobs (Johannesburg, South Africa) made her dual meet debut with a victory in the 100 fly (time of 59.44.)
 
The Golden Knights' depth allowed them to keep pace with RIT, exemplified in events like the 50 freestyle, with a 2-3-4 finish from Alex Pannemann (Clinton Twp., Mich./Chippewa Valley) (25.54), Lily Cunningham (Lavista, Neb./Papillion-La Vista) (25.60), and Lexi Mills (Livonia, N.Y./Livonia) (25.94.)
 
View a complete list of Gannon's top times in each event below.
 
Gannon Women's Swimming Top Times
Women's 400 Medley Relay – Kunf, Dietz, Jacobs, Cunningham (2^nd place – 4:04.91)
Women's 1000 Free – van de Goor (1^st place – 10:48.91)
Women's 200 Free – Date Line (1^st place – 1:59.27)
Women's 100 Backstroke – Kunf (3^rd place – 1:03.01)
Women's 100 Breaststroke – Dietz (2^nd place – 1:09.78)
Women's 200 Butterfly – Nemetz (1^st place – 2:14.09)
Women's 50 Free –  Pannemann (2^nd place – 25.54)
Women's 100 Free – Arzalluz (2^nd place – 54.75)
Women's 200 Backstroke – Kunf (2^nd place – 2:15.99)
Women's 200 Breaststroke – Dietz (2^nd place – 2:33.73)
Women's 500 Freestyle – van de Goor (1^st place – 5:15.96)
Women's 100 Butterfly – Jacobs (1^st place – 59.44)
Women's 400 IM – Myers (2^nd place – 4:48.71)
Women's 400 Freestyle Relay –Date Line, Jacobs, Beck, Arzalluz (2^nd place – 3:40.86)



The Golden Knights now begin to ramp up in preparation for the prestigious three-day Magnus Cup event at Cleveland State University from Nov. 17 to Nov. 19.