BALTIMORE – The UMBC women's swimming and diving squads won all but one event in a 227-70 victory over VMI at the UMBC Aquatic Complex. .

Senior Caroline Sargent (Trumbull, Conn.) continued her outstanding fall by capturing the 200 freestyle (1:58.42) and 200 backstroke (2:08.59) events. Graduate student Natalija Marin (Belgrade, Serbia) won both butterfly events for the first time since achieving that feat at Towson on Nov. 2, 2019.

Three Retrievers captured gold for the first time in their collegiate careers. Senior Courtney Spelman (Monrovia, Md./Urbana) finished first in the 100 breaststroke (1:09.06), junior Taylor Holderfield (Chicago, Ill.) touched first in the 400 IM (4:41.70), while freshman Colleen Adams (State College, Pa.) earned gold in the 500 freestyle (5:19.39).

Other winners for UMBC were;

·       Sophomore Roaa Farag (Cairo, Egypt) - 1000 free (11:07.09)

·       Sophomore Nyah Stahl (Mount Wolf, Pa.) – 100 back (1:00.30)

·       Sophomore Makaela Hill (Catonsville, Md./Catonsville) – 50 free (24.75)

·       Senior Alexis Bruington (Olney, Md./Magruder) – 1 meter dive (194.00)

·       Senior Tonia Papapetrou (Nicosia, Cyprus) – 100 free (55.08)

·       Junior Jenna Gwinn (Baltimore, Md./Mount de Sales -200 breast (2:27.76)

The Retrievers do not compete against until they take part in the ECAC Winter Championships in East Long Meadow, N.Y. on Dec. 3-5.