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GRINNELL, Iowa  – The Grinnell women captured its second straight championship while the Lake Forest men snapped a 12 year run by Grinnell for a championship at the 2014 Midwest Conference (MWC) Swimming & Diving Championships.

The Grinnell women have now won 15 of the last 16 women’s championships and finished the three day event with 894 points. Lake Forest finished runner-up on the women’s side with 685.5 points while Carroll had 427 points for third place. The Lake Forest men captured its first championship since the 2001 season with 944 points while Grinnell (893) and Monmouth (396) rounded out the top-three.

Five more MWC records were broken on Sunday that include Ian Dixon-Anderson (Grinnell, 1650-freestyle), Emily Bowens (Lake Forest, 200-backstroke), Garr Punnett (Lake Forest, 200-butterfly), and both the men’s and women’s 400-freestyle relay teams from Grinnell.

Five swimmers earned NCAA “B” cut times that include: Ian Dixon-Anderson (Grinnell, 1650-freestyle), Garr Punnett (Lake Forest, 200-butterfly), Michael Brus (Grinnell, 200-backstroke), Kristopher Korth (Lake Forest, 200-breststroke), and Emile Siroit (Lake Forest, 200-butterfly)

Here are the gold medalists from the final day of competition:

1650-yard Freestyle
Men: Ian Dixon-Anderson (Grinnell) 16:03.54*B
Women: Taylor Winter (Lawrence) 17:40.75

200-yard Backstroke
Men: Michael Brus (Grinnell) 1:46.86B
Women: Emily Bowens (Lake Forest) 2:06.57*

100-yard Freestyle
Men: Zach Wenner (Lake Forest) 47:18
Women: Alex Dunn (Lake Forest) 53.11

200-yard Breaststroke
Men: Kristopher Korth (Lake Forest) 2:05.36B
Women: Hayley Levin (Grinnell) 2:28.04

200-yard Butterfly
Men: Garr Punnett (Lake Forest) 1:53.02*B
Women: Brooke Rowley (Lake Forest) 2:10.82

400-yard Freestyle Relay
Men: Grinnell (Kyren DiMarzio, Kevin Bennett, Joe Lytle, Michael Brus) 3:06.47*
Women: Grinnell (Chloe Briney, Hayley Levin, Beth Gillig, Beth Tsuha) 3:42.23*

Notes: * - Conference Record; A – NCAA “A” Cut; B – NCAA “B” cut


After the meet the individual award winners were announced which were as follows:

Women’s Diver of the Meet: Christina Pekar (Lake Forest)
Men’s Diver of the Meet: Daniel Goldstein (Grinnell)
Women’s Swimmer of the Meet: Hayley Levin (Grinnell)
Men’s Swimmer of the Meet: Michael Brus (Grinnell)
Women’s Coach of the Year: Andrew Multerer (Carroll)
Men’s Coach of the Year: Erin Hurley (Grinnell)