THE FACTS
Gettysburg finishes second
What: Centennial Conference women's swimming championship
When: Thursday-Sunday, Feb. 20-23
Where: Lancaster, Pa.

THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg won three of the five individual events on the final night at the 2025 Centennial Conference championship hosted by Franklin & Marshall. The Bullets finished second with 869 points, which was 447.5 points clear of third place in the final standings.

THE LEADERS
• Ava Berry (Raleigh, N.C./Sanderson) medaled in every event in which she competed for the Bullets, bringing home a gold in the 1,650 free to close out her weekend. She added two silvers and a bronze, swimming NCAA B-Cut times in three of her four events.

FOR THE FOES
• Swarthmore won fourth straight title with a record-setting 1,017 points to top the Bullets by 148 points.

THURSDAY RECAP:
• Audrey Csokmay (Potomac, Md./Richard Montgomery), Maya Knoller (Bernardsville, N.J./Newark Academy), Bramley Hawkins (Camp Hill, Pa./Camp Hill) and Valerie Lawton (Yardley, Pa./Pennsbury) led off the night with a silver medal in the 200 medley relay. The combined time of 1:44.19 ranks third in program history and hit the NCAA B Cut. In the B-Final, Mia Morreale (Short Hills, N.J./Millburn), Olivia Pyott (Lancaster, Pa./Manheim Twp.), Kristen Racicot (Trumbull, Conn./Trumbull) and Delaney Reck (Pawcatuck, Conn./Stonngton) finished runners up with a time of 1:45.68, which is sixth in program history.
• The 800 free relay wrapped up the night with another silver and NCAA B-Cut but added a program record to the ledger. Ava Collin (Berwyn, Pa./Conestoga), Ava Berry, Mia Yancey (Wallingford, Pa./Strath Haven) and Lanie McKenzie (Wilmington, Del./Charter School of Wilmington) combined for a time of 7:34.48, which was nearly three seconds faster than the previous record set at last year's conference championship. Collin's split of 1:54.20 over the first 200 yards ranks third in program history. Maggie Sedlak (Darien, Conn./Darien), Olivia Evans (Egg Harbor Twp., N.J./Egg Harbor Twp.), Emma Anderson (Manhasset, N.Y./Manhasset) and Caitlyn Evans (Belford, N.J./Red Bank Catholic) combined for the runner-up finish in the B-Final with a time of 7:51.46.

FRIDAY RECAP
• Ava Berry opened the Friday night session with her second straight bronze medal in the 500 free. After qualifying third in a time of 5:02.48, she bettered her previous best this year and posting a time of 5:02.01 in the A-Finals to claim the bronze by 0.10 seconds and better her No. 2 program all-time mark. Maggie Sedlak and Paige McKim were also in the championship final, placing fifth (5:07.87) and seventh (5:10.47), respectively. Sedlak bettered her prelim time by three seconds and turned in the No. 8 time in program history. Caitlyn Evans was second in the B-Final, placing 10th overall with a time of 5:08.59, which was nearly five second better than her qualifying time.
• Lanie McKenzie and Mia Yancey went silver-bronze in the 200 IM for the Bullets. McKenzie, who turned in a personal-best time of 2:06.17 to be seeded second in the prelims, bettered her No. 2 all-time mark with an NCAA B-Cut time of 2:05.15 in the finals. Yancey was third with a time of 2:06.34. Mia Morreale rounded out the A-Finals in eighth place with a time of 2:08.33. Emma Anderson and Olivia Pyott competed in the B-Finals, finishing 12th (2:09.37) and 15th (2:11.88), respectively.
• Delaney Reck made it three bronzes in three individual events for Gettysburg on Friday night, placing third in the 50 free with a time of 23.89 seconds. She led a quartet of Bullets to the wall. Ava Collin finished fourth (23.91), Valerie Lawton was fifth (24.14) and Maya Knoller touched sixth (24.14). Collin's time was a personal best, ranking sixth in program history. Olivia Evans qualified for the B-Final, finishing 16th with a time of 24.73 seconds.
• Morreale, Pyott, Hawkins and Yancey combined to close out the second night with silver in the 400 medley relay, becoming the first Gettysburg quartet to break 3:50 in the event with a time of 3:49.73. The program record was also an NCAA B-Cut time. McKenzie, Knoller, Kristen Racicot and Collin were runners-up in the B-Final, finishing 10th overall with a time of 3:54.93.

SATURDAY RECAP
• Delaney Reck, Maya Knoller, Valerie Lawton and Mia Yancey combined to open the night with a silver medal in the 200 free relay, turning in an NCAA B-Cut and program-record time of 1:33.56. of Mia Morreale, Lanie McKenzie, Olivia Evans and Ava Collin won the B-Final with a time of 1:35.50, which is seventh in program history.
• Ava Berry added an individual silver to her individual bronze in the 400 IM. After bettering her program record with a B-Cut time of 4:28.63 in the prelims, she bettered the mark in the finals with a time of 4:27.78. Emma Anderson placed seventh (4:37.15) while Caitlyn Evans competed in the B-Finals, placing 10th overall (4:38.56).
• Bramley Hawkins and Kristen Racicot finished 4-5 in the 100 fly with times of 57.98 and 58.03 seconds, respectively. Racicot posted a time of 57.79 in the prelims that ranks sixth all-time.
• Yancey grabbed the Bullets' first gold medal of the weekend, winning the 200 free with an NCAA B-Cut time of 1:51.79. Maggie Sedlak finished fifth (1:55.15) while Lawton was eighth (1:56.99). Collin won the B-Final with a time of 1:55.14. Sedlak's time is eighth in program history.
• Pyott brought home bronze in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:05.15. Knoller was sixth (1:06.42) while Audrey Csokmay was eighth (1:07.52). Racicot won the B-Final in a time of 1:09.20.
• Reck, the top seed in the prelims, led a silver-bronze finish in the 100 backstroke for Gettysburg. She turned in the No. 2 time in program history with a mark of 56.88 seconds. Morreale finished third with a time of 57.11. McKenzie placed sixth (57.88) and Lindsay Blake was eighth (58.29). Olivia Evans finished 16th with a time of 1:00.98

SUNDAY RECAP
• Ava Berry started the final session in style, pulling away over the last 50 yards to win the 1,650 free by more than three seconds and claim her first individual gold with an NCAA B-Cut time of 17:14.33, which is No. 2 in program history. Paige McKim finished fifth with a time of 17:50.68, which ranks ninth in program history. Caitlyn Evans placed sixth with a time of 18:02.70.
• Mia Morreale made it back-to-back golds for the Bullets. After setting the pace in the prelims by breaking her own program record with a time of 2:03.95, she more than a second off that time in the finals to win the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:02.79. Lanie McKenzie posted the No. 2 all-time mark to earn the silver with a time of 2:04.36. Lindsay Blake won the B-Final with a time of 2:08.86.
• Mia Yancey just beat out Ava Collin for the bronze medal in the 100 free with a time of 51.60 seconds. Collin had the No. 2 time in program history with a time of 51.67. Delaney Reck and Valerie Lawton made it 3-4-5-6 for the Bullets. Reck was fifth with a time of 52.14 for fourth all-time while Lawton had a time of 52.41 for fifth all-time. Maya Knoller won the B-Final with a time of 52.59 seconds.
• Olivia Pyott won the 200 breaststroke with an NCAA B-Cut time of 2:19.72, just 0.14 seconds off her own program record. Audrey Csokmay finished eighth with a time of 2:27.32 while Emma Anderson won the B-Final with a time of 2:25.94.
• Maggie Sedlak placed fourth in the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:07.50 while Kristen Racicot was sixth with a time of 2:08.96, which ranks fifth in program history. Bramley Hawkins finished 10th (2:13.09) while McKim was 12th (2:15.03).
• Yancey, Lawton, Morreale and Collin combined for NCAA B-Cut time and silver medal in the 400 free relay, closing out the night with a time of 3:27.29. Reck, Knoller, Olivia Evans and McKenzie finished second in the B-Final, placing 10th with a time of 3:32.63.

NEXT UP
The swimmers who have been invited to the NCAA championship meet will be announced on Wednesday evening.