QUINCY, Ill. – The women's and men's swimming teams played host for the first time in program history on Friday (Oct. 14) to St. Ambrose University at the QU Health and Fitness Center Pool. The women's team fell to the Bees 145-42 and the men's team won eight of eleven individual events but dropped the meet 110-86.
Hawks head coach Bryan Christiansen liked what he saw from his squad, "We had an outstanding meet today, our kids swam really well."
Although the score didn't end in the Hawks favor, to coach Christiansen, it's reflective of the progress being made by the teams, "it was a much closer score than I thought it was going to be. We add a few more people to this roster and we're there."
This was just the second ever meet the Hawks have been a part of as a program with the first taking place on (Oct. 1) at Lewis University. An upside for all swimmers in hosting a first ever meet is the potential to set new record times for the pool, which every event winner did in the meet.  
When a program is so near its inception, it can be difficult to gage the future. To coach Christiansen, there's already been a noticeable shift in the right direction "we're honestly a lot closer than I thought we would be at this point to being a potential force in the conference."
Both the women's and men's teams will be in action again tomorrow, (Oct. 15) in Leavenworth, KS for the University of Saint Mary Relays.
 
Women's Top Finishers
1000 Yard Freestyle
Chantal Tiesinga - 11:22:21
200 Yard Freestyle
Nancy Olson- 2:05.58
50 Yard Freestyle
Izabella Sparrow- 25.56
200 Yard Butterfly
Nancy Olson- 2:29.22
100 Yard Freestyle
Chantal Tiesinga- 59.27
200 Yard Backstroke
Izabella Sparrow- 2:18.36
200 Yard Breaststroke
Faith Cummings-2:31.11
200 yard Freestyle Relay
Izabella Sparrow- 25.23
Nancy Olson- 26.34
Chantal Tiesinga- 27.43
Faith Cummings- 26.72
Total time – DQ
 
Men's Top Finishers
400 Yard Medley Relay
Jeronimo Augurusa Franco- 52.91
Kyle Scritchfield- 1:00.82
Borna Kisasondi- 49.59
Martiniano Montero- 48.16
Total time- 3:31.48
1000 Yard Freestyle
Wyatt Walsh- 9:55.09
200 Yard Freestyle
Martiniano Montero- 1:49.92
50 Yard Freestyle
Borna Kisasondi- 21.42
200 Yard IM
Ethan Anderson- 2:05.16
200 Yard Butterfly
Ethan Anderson- 2:03.22
100 Yard Freestyle
Borna Kisasondi- 47.44
200 Yard Backstroke
Jeronimo Augurusa Franco- 1:57.24
200 Yard Breaststroke
Wyatt Walsh- 2:11.71
200 yard Freestyle Relay
Martiniano Montero- 21.86
Ethan Anderson- 21.60
Kyle Scritchfield- 22.64
Wyatt Walsh- 21.69
Total time- 1:27.79