The Notre Dame women’s swimming team followed the men by winning their portion of the Shamrock Invitational, 260-109, over Akron. The highlight was a program record set by Kelly Straub. In the 1-meter, she scored a 340.35 over her six dives. The previous record was set in 2012.
The Irish also got key performances from Bayley Stewart, who clocked in at 1 minute, 53.46 seconds in the 200-meter backstroke, and Coleen Gillilan, who had a 1:55.37 in the 200 butterfly. Both of those times were pool records, bringing the total number of pool records set by both the men’s and women’s teams during the Shamrock Invitational to seven.
In the morning session, Gillilan won the 100 breaststroke in 1:01.40 and joined the team of Carly Quast, Cailey Grunhard and Ellie Jew to win the 200 medley relay in 1:39.27. Luciana Thomas took the 400 individual medley in 4:13.25, Stewart won the 100 backstroke in 53.35, and Kallie Chelsvig clocked in a 1:49.49 to win the 200 freestyle.
For the afternoon session, Madeline LaPorte won the 1,650 freestyle in 16:25.48. The final win came from the 400 free relay team of Gillilan, Quast, Rachel Wittmer and Skyler Fore (3:19.51).