UW-Milwaukee Drops A Pair To UW-Green Bay

Green Bay Snaps Panthers 13-Dual Win Streak
Sophomore Danielle Wenger won twice ands broke the school record in the 500 freestyle but it was not enough as the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee women's swimming & diving team dropped a 150-93 decision to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Saturday afternoon at the Dorschel Natatorium.

The Phoenix - the four-time defending Horizon League champions - won four of the first five events and never looked back. The loss snapped the Panthers record-tying 13-dual win streak and gives them a 13-3 record to conclude the regular season. Green Bay improves to 12-1 in the battle of league heavyweights.

"Green Bay is a really good team that is swimming very well right now," UWM head coach Erica Janssen said. "We had a lot of solid swims across the board but the results were not what we were looking for. We swam well - the times were okay - but it was just not enough."

Wenger set a new school record in winning the 500 free, touching the wall in 5:04.01 to eclipse Kelsey Ogle's 2008 school standard of 5:04.27. In addition, Wenger also won the 1000 freestyle in 10:26.67.

Senior Molly Finn also got in on the record-breaking, setting a new pool record in winning the 200 butterfly in 2:07.55.

There were numerous close finishes on the day, but none of them seemed to go UWM's way. Freshman Sarah Wardecke was on the wrong end of two of them, falling in the 50 free by 14-hundredths (24.47 to 24.33) and in the 100 free by just one-hundredth of a second (53.14 to 53.13).

Sophomore Ellie Gross was touched out in the 200 free, as her time of 1:55.29 was less than a second behind the winner. In the diving events, senior Ashley Hall was second on the one-meter board with 258.45 points and sophomore Kelsey George was second on the three-meter with 240.38.

Milwaukee is off for the rest of the month before hosting the Horizon League Swimming & Diving Championships, starting Feb. 25 at the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center at the Rite-Hite Family YMCA in Brown Deer, Wis.

UWM Men Fall In Regular Season Finale, 126-117
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee men's swimming & diving team took the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay down to the final event of the meet Saturday, only to fall, 126-117, in the regular season finale for the team. Junior Jeremy Waldhart and sophomore Dan Heraly each won twice, but the Phoenix prevailed in the final event of the day, the 400 freestyle relay, to escape with the dual win and snap the Panthers win streak at six. Milwaukee finishes 10-5 in dual meets on the year, its most victories since the 1995-96 campaign.

The 400 medley relay team and freshman Nolan Sinkler also posted wins on the day.

"It came down to the last event of the day and we got touched-out," UWM head coach Erica Janssen said. "It was a tough meet to lose. The guys swam like a team today and we had solid swims across the board. Now we have two and a half weeks left to do something big at the end of the season."

The 400 free relay team of freshman Kyle Trelka, senior Andrew Belton, junior Ed Lichinksy and sophomore Jake Kalinowski touched the wall in a season-best 3:07.27, only to see UWGB edge them out at 3:07.00.

Waldhart won the 200 backstroke in a pool-record time of 1:52.14. He also claimed the victory in the 200 IM with a time of 1:55.34.

Heraly won the 500 freestyle in 4:41.94 and also topped the field in the 1000 free in a time of 9:47.64.

The 400 medley team of Waldhart, freshman Sam Keele, freshman Jordan Diel and Kalinowski got things started nicely for UWM, winning the race in a pool-record time of 3:27.68.

Sinkler won the 200 free in a time of 1:44.54. Trelka had a solid afternoon, coming in second place in both the 50 free and the 100 free with very close finishes. His time of 21.72 in the 50 trailed the winner's time of 21.21 and he also went 47.05 in the 100.

Freshman Brady Huemann was touched out of a win in the 200 breaststroke, falling by 18-hundredths (2:10.41 to 2:10.23). Freshman Evan Green was in the same situation, taking second in the 200 butterfly when his time of 1:56.73 was touched-out by the winning time of 1:56.09.

Milwaukee is off for the rest of the month before hosting the Horizon League Swimming & Diving Championships, starting Feb. 25 at the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center at the Rite-Hite Family YMCA in Brown Deer, Wis.