CHESTER, Pa. – The Widener Women's Swimming team returned from sunny Florida to cruise to a win over Immaculata on Friday night.
 
The 148-39 win puts the Pride at 5-2 in the season and 2-1 in MAC standings.
 
The Pride opened the meet with a quick 1-2 finish in the 200-yard medley relay. Touching first was Jenna Angelucci, Anna Durboraw, Mary Sanders, and Lauren Kalsbeek with a 1:59.88. Sophia Sapnas, Cate Blaum, Kaitlyn Fahy, and Olivia Downs hit in a 2:01.34 taking second.
 
Sally Meyers continued her distance dominance with a 11:17.86 in the 1000-yard free to take first by nearly four minutes.
 
The 200-yard free featured a slew of Pride swimmers. First year Olivia Giambalvo took first with a 2:09.01 while Sanders snuck into second with a 2:11.59 for her first individual event of the season. Sanders' time would qualify her for the MAC Championships in mid-February.
 
Fahy led a 1-2-3 finish in the 50-yard free with a 27.66. Blaum split the first years in her first meet of the season with a 28.33 while Margaret Eckenroth took third with a 29.11.
 
The 400-yard individual medley showed two Pride swimmers who took a 1-2 finish. Durboraw led the charge with 5:19.15 as Shea Rane registered a 5:31.77.
 
Out of the first break, sophomore Kylie Rodi dueled with Madeline Casale from Immaculata where she won in a 1:08.25.
 
A 1-2-3-4 finish was seen in the 100-yard free where Meyers led with a 57.34. Giambalvo would follow with a 59.47 and Gabby DiGiovanni would see the water for the first time this season as she stopped the clock with a 59.55. To round the dominance, Patricia McDonald took fourth in a 1:03.97.
 
Kalsbeek's backstroke was enough to take first in the 100-yard back as she registered a 1:04.14. Fahy snuck into second with a 1:07.77.
 
Angelucci, the distance specialist, took first in the 500-yard free where she would finish in a 5:51.82.
 
In the final individual event of the night, Blaum captured first in the 100-yard breaststroke with a 1:19.98 while Taylor Sholl touched second in 1:22.73.
 
The B-lay would close the meet out in the 200-yard free relay with a first. The team of Kalsbeek, Sophia Sapnas, Durboraw, and Angelucci touched in a 1:48.53. Giambalvo, Olivia Downs, Sholl, and Meyers took second in a 1:49.00.
 
UP NEXT
Widener will hit the road for the final time this season to take on the 3-3 (2-2 MAC) Arcadia Knights in a 11 a.m. start.