INDIANA, Pa. --- The Golden Eagle women's swimming & diving team finished out the 2023 calendar year with a tri-meet sweep on Saturday, beating IUP and Frostburg State in Pidgeon Natatorium. Clarion beat the Crimson Hawks by a score of 162-79, and the Bobcats by a 202-34 margin.
 
The Golden Eagles stacked points in a number of events, putting multiple racers at or near the top of their respective events to build their advantage. They started the day with a win in the 200 Medley Relay, with the foursome of Zoey Beck, Ava Rosely, Hannah Greenway and Madelynn McTeer leading the field by nearly three full seconds, at 1:46.96. Joslyn Jurski – who posted a pair of NCAA B cuts a week before – was the first individual to win an event on Saturday, leading the way in the 1000 Free with a time of 10:33.37.
 
The first big stack of points came in the 200 Free, with Clarion swimmers making up the top three spots. Amanda Fetsko took first with a time of 1:58.04, followed by Erika Zimmerman in 1:58.36 and Jordan Kutchak at 2:00.45. The Golden Eagles repeated that trick in the 50 Free, with Greenway (23.73), McTeer (24.78) and Beck (25.32) finishing 1-2-3.
 
Michaela Hinkson and Emma Dorsey kept the momentum rolling in the 100 Fly, with Hinkson winning by posting a time of 58.95. Dorsey was not far behind her, touching the wall in 59.87. Jurski won her second individual event of the day late in the meet, taking the top spot in the 500 Free with a time of 5:10.77, and Ava Rosely closed out the individual events with a winning time of 1:07.72 in the 100 Breast.
 
The team rounded out the night with a clean sweep of the top three spots in the 200 Free Relay. Kutchak, Fetsko, Jurski and Haley Miller were the top finishers, posting a time of 1:38.50, followed by Dorsey, Maddy Murphy, Rosely and Gabrielle Webster's 1:42.90. Hinkson, Maria Wold, Zimmerman and Allison McMurray took third overall with a time of 1:43.02.
 
In the diving events, Katie Madigan led a quintet of Golden Eagles in the 1-Meter dive, posting a score of 235.81. Just behind her was Alexa Gonczi, who posted a mark of 232.31. Luna Castellanos was the victor in the 3-meter Dive, posting a score of 254.93. Gonczi was second there as well, finishing with a 250.58.