CLEVELAND, Ohio – The St. Bonaventure women's swim and dive team concluded competition at the Magnus Cup Saturday evening. As a team, the Bonnies finished seventh in the mid-season invitational, beating out Little Three rivals Niagara and Canisius.
 
Starting the meet out on Thursday, the 200-free relay of Halle Myers, Nele Vetter, Anna Bojana Forjan, and Ellie Kraus claimed a podium finish with a time of 1:33.00.
 
Bojana Forjan led the way for the Bonnies, making four A-final races over the three-day event. The sophomore finished 10^th in the 200-IM (2:06.83), sixth in the 100-back (55.70), fourth in the 200-back (2:00.85), and fifth in the 50-back (26.04).
 
Senior Daciana Colon also competed in the backstroke races. Colon's top finish came in the 200-back where recorded a time of 2:01.72 to finish sixth.
 
Kraus was also a major contributor for the Brown and White, finishing eighth in the 50-free with a time of 23.50 and 10^th in the 50-fly (25.25) and 100-free (51.45).
 
Senior Halle Myers qualified for three A-final races. Myers' best finish of the meet came in the 50-fly where she took sixth place, touching the wall in 24.68. She also competed in the 100-fly (55.57) and 100-free (50.76).
 
Myers' time of 50.76 in the 100-free is the second-fastest recorded by an Atlantic 10 Conference athlete this year.

Akron claimed the team title with 1728.5 points followed by Tulane (1358.5) and Xavier (723.5). Bowling Green, Cleveland State, and Toledo finished fourth through sixth ahead of the Bonnies in seventh. SBU tallied 506 team points just behind Toledo's 513. Behind Bona were Niagara, Youngstown State, Canisius, IUP, Ashland, Le Moyne, and Valparaiso. 
 
QUOTES FROM HEAD COACH MIKE SMIECHOWSKI
 "In my two years here, this was my favorite meet as the coach of our women's team. When you take over a rebuild, the hardest part is trying to build a championship culture at a place without a recent championship pedigree. We have a group of women that are capable of redefining women's swimming and diving at Bona's because of who they are as leaders and competitors. They have great character, enthusiasm for each other and accountability."

"This weekend showed me that we are capable of competing. We may not have won the meet, but we beat reigning MAAC champions Niagara who are incredibly well-coached and are a team with championship DNA. We comfortably beat Youngstown State who beat us earlier in the year in a dual meet and challenged the upper half of the teams who has teams that quite frankly have operated in a different tier of competition than our program the past 20 years."

UP NEXT
The Bonnies concluded the 2024 portion of their schedule Dec. 3 as they travel to Buffalo for a dual meet with Canisius. 
 
BONNIES RESULTS
 
200 FREE RELAY
3. Halle Myers, Nele Vetter, Anna Bojana Forjan, Ellie Kraus 1:33.00
13. Maris Sadowski, Hana Wienckowski, Amy O'Rourke, Caitlyn Clements 1:36.31
 
500 FREE
17. Alessandra Haas Ren 5:03.44
22. Phoebe McClaren 5:06.00
26. Nele Vetter 5:05.72
 
50 BREAST
12. Anna Beth Blankenship 30.14
25. Sarah Gonzalez 30.55
 
50 FREE
8. Ellie Kraus 23.50
27. Caitlyn Clement 24.21
35. Amy O'Rourke 24.28
 
200 IM
10. Anna Bojana Forjan 2::06.10
 
400 MEDLEY RELAY
5. Anna Bojana Forjan, Anna Beth Blankenship, Halle Myers, Ellie Kraus 3:45.51
14. Daciana Colon, Sarah Gonzalez, Nele Vetter, Amy O'Rourke 3:51.99
 
200 MEDLEY RELAY
6. Anna Bojana Forjan, Anna Beth Blankenship, Halle Myers, Ellie Kraus 1:42.78
 
400 IM
23. Phoebe McClaren 4:36.47
 
100 FLY
9. Halle Myers 55.57
 
200 FREE
20. Nele Vetter 1:54.49
27. Kathryn Beyer 1:54.84
 
100 BREAST
20. Anna Beth Blankenship 1:06.02
26. Sarah Gonzalez 1:06.05
30. Kathryn Lyons 1:07.48
 
100 BACK
6. Anna Bojana Forjan 55.70
13. Daciana Colon 56.33
27. Eylul Alli 58.44
33. Maggie Holst 58.55
 
1650 FREE
11. Phoebe McClaren 17:19.97
 
800 FREE RELAY
6. Anna Bojana Forjan, Ellie Kraus, Nele Vetter, Kathryn Beyer 7:36.04
 
50 FLY
6. Halle Myers 24.68
10. Ellie Kraus 25.25
17. Amy O'Rourke 25.73
27. Hana Wienckowski 26.46
 
200 BACK
4. Anna Bojana Forjan 2:00.85
6. Daciana Colon 2:01.72
19. Kathryn Beyer 2:07.29
27. Maggie Holst 2:07.84
31. Eylul Alli 2:05.23
 
100 FREE
7. Halle Myers 50.76
10. Ellie Kraus 51.45
15. Nele Vetter 51.46
24. Amy O'Rourke 52.61
 
200 BREAST
9. Anna Beth Blankenship 2:22.00
26. Kathryn Lyons 2:25.19
27. Sarah Gonzalez 2:25.59
37. Paris Christie 2:28.75
 
50 BACK
5. Anna Bojana Forjan 26.04
14. Eylul Alli 27.08
17. Daciana Colon 27.32
21. Maggie Holst
 
200 FLY
20. Nele Vetter 2:10.16
26. Caroline Murray 2:11.42
 
400 FREE RELAY
4. Anna Bojana Forjan, Ellie Kraus, Nele Vetter, Halle Myers 3:23.38
 

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