ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. – The Gannon University women's swimming and diving team won three events—Kyla Miller (Wilbraham, Mass./Minnechaug Regional) in three-meter diving as well as Madalyn Myers (Murrysville, Pa./Franklin Regional) in the 500 and 1000 free —and notched a pair of runner-up finishes in the 200 IM and 400 freestyle relay but could not overcome Division I St. Bonaventure in Saturday's dual meet, 195-103.
 
The meet began early in the morning with both one-meter and three-meter diving events. Gannon's Kyla Miller (Wilbraham, Mass./Minnechaug Regional) claimed victory in the three-meter portion with a total of 208.43. Alexandra Briggs (Newark, N.Y./Newark Senior High) (172.50, third place) and Nicole Spiegel (East Amherst, N.Y./Clarence) (143.63, fourth) were Gannon's other finishers on the three-meter boards. Miller finished in second place in the one-meter event with a score of 210.98, not too far behind St. Bonaventure's Kylie McKee (first place, 226.35.) Briggs (153.68, fourth) and Spiegel (142.88, fifth) again rounded out the event.
 
The Knights were dominant in the distance events on the day, beginning in the 1000 freestyle with a 1-2 finish by Madalyn Myers (Murrysville, Pa./Franklin Regional) (time of 10:44.05) and Sterre van de Goor (Oss, Netherlands/Sint-Joriscollege) (10:46.86.) Myers added another victory in the 500 free in 5:12.49, leading two other Golden Knights (Chenay Date Line's (Johannesburg, South Africa/Crawford College Sandton) 5:16.47 and van de Goor's 5:20.56) in a sweep of the top three positions.
 
Freshman Isabella Dietz (Pittsburgh, Pa.) swam an incredible race in the 200 IM (2:11.92), finishing in second place—just six hundredths of a second behind the Bonnies' Beth Thomas and her time of 2:11.86.

The relay team of Lily Cunningham (Lavista, Neb./Papillion-La Vista), Nomvula Mjimba (Harare, Zimbabwe/The Wykeham Collegiate), Irati Arzalluz (Lasarte-Oria, Spain/Santo Tomas Lizeoa), and Date Line also claimed a second-place finish in the 400 free relay with a time of 3:36.43.
 
The Golden Knights now begin to ramp up preparations for the PSAC Championships, taking place from Feb. 15-18 at the Graham Aquatic Center in York, Pa. The Knights' diving contingent is scheduled to compete at the Rich Sentner Diving Invitational at Westminster College (Pa.) on Saturday, Feb. 4.
 
View a complete list of Gannon's top times in each event below.
 
Gannon Women's Swimming Top Times
Women's 200 Medley Relay – Beck, Dietz, Jacobs, Arzalluz (3^rd place – 1:48.48)
Women's 1000 Free – Myers (1^st place – 10:44.05)
Women's 200 Free – Date Line (3^rd place – 1:56.99)
Women's 100 Backstroke – Beck (4^th place – 58.94)
Women's 100 Breaststroke – Dietz (3^rd place – 1:08.63)
Women's 200 Butterfly – Nemetz (3^rd place – 2:12.78)
Women's 50 Free –  Pannemann (3^rd place – 24.67)
Women's 100 Free – Mjimba (4^th place – 53.98)
Women's 200 Backstroke – Kunf (4^th place – 2:08.89)
Women's 200 Breaststroke – Dietz (3^rd place – 2:30.64)
Women's 500 Freestyle – Myers (1^st place – 5:12.49)
Women's 100 Butterfly – Jacobs (3^rd place – 59.12)
Women's 200 IM – Dietz (2^nd place – 2:11.92)
Women's 400 Freestyle Relay –Cunningham, Mjimba, Arzalluz, Date Line (2^nd place – 3:36.43)