ST. JOSEPH, Minn. – In its third competition since the holiday break, the College of Saint Benedict Swim and Dive Team will host Gustavus Adolphus in a dual competition on Senior Day at the Warner Palaestra Pool in Collegeville. Diving events are set to start at 9:30 a.m., and swimming events start at 2 p.m.
During the dual competition, CSB will honors its seniors in a special ceremony around 3 p.m.
It has been a solid start to the season for CSB, which has a 4-4 record in dual competitions with this dual next on their schedule. The Bennies also had six program top-10 marks at the Rochester Invite (Dec. 5-7), led by sophomore
Mary Morris. This season, Morris has 14 event wins, including 12 individual titles, and
Megan Bartels, who was named CSB's first MIAC Swimmer of the Week since Nov. 2, 2021, has seven events wins. Sophomore Diver
Ella Kowalczyk has won the 3-meter board twice, including a career-best 207.80 score in the loss to Macalester. She also has a trio of second places in diving competition. In its most recent competition, CSB lost a dual to DII St. Cloud State, 206-82, but had wins from
Rachel Schlueter in the 100 backstroke and a victory in the 200 freestyle relay, clocking 1:44.96, which was just off its season-best of 1:44.53.
After competing at Carleton, the CSB Swim and Dive Team returns home to host Gustavus Adolphus in a dual meet on Senior Day at 1 p.m., Feb. 1 at the Warner Palaestra Pool in Collegeville.
2024-25 - Top Performances – CSB
50 freestyle ---
Mary Morris, 25.20;
Rachel Schlueter, 25.78;
Liz Hansen, 25.91.
100 freestyle -- Schlueter, 54.48; Morris, 56.26; Alvia Kortuem, 57.26
200 freestyle --- Morris, 1:56.12;
Lauren Sitzman, 2:02.27; Kortuem, 2:04.73
500 freestyle --- Morris, 5:31.24; Sitzman, 5:37.87;
Morgan Stout, 5:43.62
1000 freestyle --- Kortuem, 11:58.26;
Natalie Pfau, 11:58.37;
Morgan Stout, 12:00.79
1650 freestyle – Stout, 19:37.36; Pfau, 19:52.46; Kortuem, 19:57.87
50 backstroke --- Schlueter, 27.81;
Claire Canfield, 28.14; Morris, 28.76
100 backstroke --- Schlueter, 59.08; Morris, 59.16; Sitzman, 1:01.17
200 backstroke --- Morris, 2:06.57; Canfield, 2:10.41; Sitzman, 2:13.27
50 breaststroke ---
Megan Bartels, 33.08; Hansen, 34.44;
Jayda Alholm, 35.61
100 breaststroke --- Bartels, 1:10.38; Hansen, 1:13.69; Alholm, 1:14.80
200 breaststroke – Bartels, 2:33.81; Alholm, 2:44.73; Canfield, 2:46.06
50 butterfly --- Schlueter, 27.92; Kortuem, 29.46;
Millie Pratt, 29.95
100 butterfly --- Schlueter, 1:01.82; Morris, 1:03.06; Kortuem, 1:03.42
200 butterfly --- Canfield, 2:20.35;
Autumn Larson, 2:27.69;
Anna Boomgaarden, 2:31.54
100 IM – Schlueter, 1:03.74; Bartels, 1:06.44
200 IM --- Canfield, 2:14.65; Morris, 2:15.21; Bartels, 2:21.37
400 IM --- Canfield, 4:45.79; Bartels, 5:19.41;
Josey Jackson, 5:26.82
200 Free Relay --- 1:42.09 (
Grace Morphew, Schlueter, Morris, Ahholm)
400 Free Relay --- 3:42.82 (Morris, Morphew, Canfield, Schlueter)
800 Free Relay --- 8:10.52 (Sitzman, Kortuem, Canfield, Morris)
200 Medley Relay --- 1:51.18 (Canfield, Bartels, Schlueter, Morris)
400 Medley Relay --- 4:03.17 (Morris, Schlueter, Canfield, Bartels)
1M Diving (6 dives) –
Ella Kowalczyk, 180.55;
Sabrina Buffetta, 178.30;
Emma Netland, 165.40
3M Diving (6 dives) – Kowalczyk, 207.80; Buffetta, 186.50; Abigail Stevens, 160.05
Schlueter, Canfield, Bartels lead CSB against Carleton
Juniors
Megan Bartels and
Rachel Schlueter along with sophomore
Claire Canfield led the College of Saint Benedict swim and dive team, which recorded one title, six second place finishes and 11 top four finishes in falling in a dual competition to Carleton, 281-82 on Feb. 25.Canfield won the only individual title in the 200 backstroke by clocking 2:14.69 while
Maddie Stutelberg was fourth in 2:27.71 and
Josey Jackson, fifth, 2:31.01. Canfield was also second in the 200 IM with a clocking of 2:20.80. Schlueter continued to swim well as she placed second in a pair of individual events. She was second in the 100-backstroke in 1:02.62, followed by Canfield third at 1:02.44. First-year
Grace Morphew was seventh in 1:15.64. And, Schluter was also second in the 100 freestyle at 56.29. Schlueter and Bartels also led CSB relay teams to a pair of second place finishes. In the 200 medley relay, CSB clocked 1:53.44 with a relay of Schlueter, Bartels, Canfield and
Liz Hansen. Schlueter and Bartels also led a CSB team in the 200-freestyle relay to a second-place finish in 1:45.37. Hansen and Alholm also were part of the team. Bartels earned a pair of second place finishes in the breaststroke events. She clocked 1:10.38 in the 100 breaststroke, which bettered her season-best mark (1:10.68). In the same race Hansen was fourth in 1:14.80. In the 200 breaststroke, Bartels finished second in 2:36.53 with first-year
Alivia Kortuem, fourth, 2:46.93 and sophomore
Jayda Alholm, fifth, 2:50.74.
Schlueter, Canfield lead CSB against SCSU
Led by
Rachel Schlueter and
Claire Canfield, the College of Saint Benedict swim and dive team had two wins and recorded seven top three finishes in dropping a dual meet to NCAA DII St. Cloud State, 206-82, at the Warner Palaestra Pool on Jan. 18. Junior
Rachel Schlueter won the 100 backstroke in 1:01.91 with first-year
Maddie Stutelberg, sixth, 1:09.45 and sophomore
Anna Boomgaarden, seventh, 1:15.41. Schlueter was second in the 100 freestyle in 56.07.
Liz Hansen placed eighth in the same event in 58.22. The Bennies also claimed a victory in the 200-freestyle relay by clocking 1:44.96, which was just off its season-best of 1:44.53 at the Rochester Invite. CSB had a team of senior
Liz Hansen, sophomore
Jayda Alholm, Schlueter and sophomore
Claire Canfield. In the relay, the Bennies took the top four places with its second-place team, clocking 1:50.64 with junior
Mikayla Haskamp, junior
Megan Bartels, first-year
Grace Morphew and first-year
Ava Niksich. Sophomore
Claire Canfield had a pair of second place finishes. She led a second and third place finish for CSB in the 200 butterfly. Canfield clocked 2:28.37 with first-year
Autumn Larson, third, 2:37.41. In the 200 backstroke Canfield was second in 2:16.09 while sophomore
Emma Neely, third, 2:40.12. CSB had a third-place finish from Bartels in 2:41.36 and a fourth-place finish by first-year
Alivia Kortuem in 2:46.82 in the 200 breaststroke. First-year
Natalie Pfau placed second in the 1,000 freestyle in 12:14.53 while junior
Morgan Stout placed third in 12:18.16. In the diving competition, sophomore
Ella Kowalczyk led the way for CSB. She was fifth on the 3-meter board with 191.35 points with senior
Sabrina Buffetta at 177.30 in sixth place and first-year
Abby Stevens, eighth at 172.15. On the one-meter board, CSB was led by Kowalcyzk, who was 6
th at 178.06 with Buffetta, 7
th, 170.65; and first-year
Emma Netland, 8
th, 160.00.
Morris & Schlueter lead impressive effort at Rochester Invite
Sophomore
Mary Morris and junior
Rachel Schlueter led an impressive performance by the College of Saint Benedict swim and dive team at the Rochester Invite, which concluded on Saturday, Dec. 7. CSB placed eighth with 387 points among both NCAA DII and DIII teams at the Rochester Invite.
The Bennies finished with six program top 10 marks, including three by Morris and two by Schlueter, who were also part of a relay squad with yet another in the program top 10. At the competition, CSB compiled numerous season-bests, career-marks and all-time program top 10 results. Morris had an impressive performance at the Rochester Invite, including three top 10 program marks in CSB history. She placed fourth in the 200 back with a clocking of 2:06.57, a mark that is fourth in CSB school history, The sophomore standout also recorded the fifth best 200 freestyle swim in school history by bettering her previous best by over three seconds with a clocking of 1:56.37 and a seventh place finish among a field of swimmers from DII and DIII schools. Morris also had the eighth-best 100 back clocking in program history of 59.31. She was 16
th in the competition. Schlueter placed fifth all-time in program history in the 100 back by going 59.12. She placed 14
th in the race. The junior standout had another program top 10 mark by going 1:04.11 in the 100 IM and placed 23
rd. She also had season-career best in the 100 butterfly with a 1:01.92 clocking. In addition, she was 18
th in the 100 free in 54.48. The CSB 400 medley relay squad finished 19
th with a 4:03.17 clocking, a mark surpassing the previous best mark this year by 11 seconds and a result that ranks 10
th all-time in CSB program history. The relay squad included Morris, Schlueter, sophomore
Claire Canfield, and sophomore
Megan Bartels. In the 400 IM, sophomore
Claire Canfield had a career-best of 4:45.79. She also had a season-career best of 2:14.65 in the 200 IM. In the 200 backstroke, Canfield had a personal-best of 2:11.29 and placed 12
th while
Lauren Sitzman was 23
rd in 2:13.01. The 200 freestyle relay of Morris,
Grace Morphew,
Rachel Schlueter and
Jayda Alholm had a season-best in 1:42.09 and placed 25
th. The 200 medley relay, which included Canfield,
Megan Bartels, Schlueter and Morris had a season-best of 1:51.18, which was just out of CSB all-time top-10. In the 800-freestyle relay, which included junior
Lauren Sitzman, first-year
Alivia Kortuem, Canfield and Morris, which finished a season-best 20
th in 8:10.52. Three CSB swimmers carded season-bests in the 500 free including first year
Alivia Kortuem at 5:45.59 (28
th), junior
Morgan Stout, 5:48.95; and first year
Autumn Larson in 5:49.66.
Megan Bartels also had a personal-best in the 200 breasts with a clocking of 2:33.81. The 400 free relay of Schlueter, Canfield, Morphew and Morris placed 18
th in 3:42.82.
CSB places third at Gustavus Goblisch Invite
CSB swim and dive team, led by
Ella Kowalczyk,
Claire Canfield,
Megan Bartels, and
Rachel Schlueter, had another impressive swim and dive performance by placing third among six teams at the Gustavus Goblisch Invite on Saturday (Nov. 23). In diving, sophomore
Ella Kowalczyk was second on the one-meter board at 175.75 points and took fourth on the three-meter board with 172.80 points. On the three-meter board CSB had three of the top six finishers and two of the top four on the one-meter board. Soophomore
Claire Canfield had a pair of top three finishes, including second in the 400-IM in 4:58.90, which was a season best. She then placed third in the 200 IM in a season-best 2:20.79. Junior
Rachel Schlueter, who was a member of two relays that finished fourth, was third in the 100-backstroke in 1:01.22 and also placed fifth in the 100-butterfly in a season-best 1:04.57. Aside from solid work on relays, junior
Megan Bartels had a pair of strong efforts in breaststroke event as she was third in the 100 breaststroke in 1:13.39. She also was third in the 200 breaststroke in 2:38.70.
Bennies roll past Hamline, 183-42
Led by four total events by
Mary Morris and two individual titles from
Claire Canfield, the College of Saint Benedict swim and dive team (4-2) rolled to a dual win over Hamline, 183-42, on Friday (Nov. 8). In total, the Bennies, which had a series of season-best across individual events and relays, captured 11 victories in 13 contested events, hich included both diving boards and two relays. Sophomore
Mary Morris won two more individual events (10 on the season) and was part of two winning relay squads. She swam lead off in the 400-medley relay, which finished in a season-best 4:14.09. The squad also included
Megan Bartels,
Rachel Schlueter and
Liz Hansen. In the 400-freestyle relay, Morris led off again for a team that clocked 3:58.05 to win the event. The team also included
Emma Neely,
Jayda Alholm and
Josey Jackson. As an individual, she captured both the 200-IM with a season-best 2:15.21 and the 100 butterfly by clocking in at 1:03.06, which is a team-season-best this year. Another individual double winner was sophomore
Claire Canfield, who led a 1-2 finish in the 100 backstroke with a season-best clocking of 1:02.19.
Lauren Sitzman was second in 1:06.25. The two CSB swimmers also finished 1-2 in the 200-freestyle with Canfield recording a season-best time of 2:06.69, which was just ahead of Sitzman at 2:06.83. First-year
Alivia Kortuem was third in 2:09.98. Bartels was third in the 200 IM in 2:25.86, captured another 100 breaststroke win in a season-best 1:10.84. Schlueter had a second win by capturing the 50-freestyle for the second straight competition in 26.34. She finished just ahead of senior
Liz Hansen in 26.66. Sophomore
Ella Kowalczyk and senior
Sabrina Buffetta both captured an event win in diving. On the one-meter board, Kowalczyk scored 169.55 points to edge past Buffetta, who had 163.55 points,
Abby Stevens was third with 154.00 points. Buffetta captured the 3-meter board with 170.05 points with Kowalczyk, second at 167.40 points. Junior
Morgan Stout led a 1-2 finish in the 1000-freestyle by clocking a season-best 12:18.47 (2
nd best by a CSB swimmer this year) for her first individual win of the season. Sophomore
Jayda Alholm was second in 12:27.02.
Bartels earns MIAC Swimmer of the Week after Bennies split double dual
Junior
Megan Bartels and sophomore
Mary Morris both captured a pair of event wins to lead the College of Saint Benedict swim and dive team to a split in a double dual with St. Olaf on Saturday at the Warner Palaestra Pool on Nov. 2. In its first home event, the Bennies used six total event victories to defeat St. Catherine, 169-131 and battle St. Olaf in a 180-120 setback in the double dual. Morris has had a dominating start to the season with two individual event wins in each of the duals. Counting two relay wins, including a part of the 400 free relay today, she now has 10 event wins – eight as an individual. Today, she won the 200-freestyle in 1:59.56, which was just .09 off her season best. In capturing the 200-backstroke, Morris also had a big performance with a 2:10.61 clocking. Morris was part of three winning events after anchoring the 400-freestyle relay to a win in 3:44.89. The relay for CSB also included junior
Mikayla Haskamp, senior
Liz Hansen and sophomore
Rachel Schlueter. Bartels captured both the 100 and 200-breaststroke events. In the 100-breaststroke, Bartels finished in a season-best 1:11.21 and matched the winning effort with a season-best 2:34.81 clocking to capture the 200-breaststroke. She ranks first in the MIAC in the 200 and third in the 100 breaststroke. Schlueter led a dominant performance in the 50-free with a victory in a season-best 26.02. In the diving competition, sophomore
Ella Kowalczyk continued her solid start to the season by placing second on both boards. She was second with 190.95 points while
Sabrina Buffetta placed fourth on the three-meter board. Then, Kowalczyk recorded a second place in the 1-meter board in 180.55. Buffetta also shined again with a third-place finish in 178.30 on the one-meter board. The Bennies placed second in the 200-medley relay in 1:53.57 with a squad of Morris, Bartels, Schlueter and
Liz Hansen.
Morris, Kowalczyk and Canfield win events but CSB falls to Macalester
CSB, which was led by two individual event wins by
Mary Morris and one each by
Ella Kowalczyk and
Claire Canfield, dropped a 150-93 dual decision to Macalester on Saturday (Oct. 26). Morris continued her outstanding start to the season with two more individual event wins, which gives her six on the season. Morris captured the 200 freestyle in 1:59.47 or four seconds in front of the field. She also won the 100-backstroke in 1:00.31 as she edged Macalester's Verity Wray-Raabolle by :34 (1:00.65). Kowalczyk won her third straight 3-meter board competition by recording a personal and season-best 207.80. She was also second on the 1-meter board with a score of 179.60. CSB sophomore
Claire Canfield captured her third event win of the season with a victory in the 100 butterfly in 1:04.75. Canfield was also third, and
Megan Bartels, fourth in the 400 IM with clockings of 5:00.32 and 5:21.88, respectively.
Bennies record 2nd straight dual win Minnesota-Morris
For a second straight meet, the College of Saint Benedict swim and dive team dominated with nine events wins to move to 2-0 in dual competition with a 152-70 victory over Minnesota Morris at the Warner Palaestra Pool on Saturday (Oct. 19). Sophomore
Mary Morris again shined in the pool by recording two individual wins and also swam on a winning relay at the dual, which officially opened their home swim and dive schedule. Morris led off CSB's victorious 200 medley relay, which clocked 1:54.64 and included
Megan Bartels,
Rachel Schlueter and
Liz Hansen. In addition to the relay, Morris cruised to a 10-second win in the 200 IM as she clocked 2:19.30 to finished ahead of three other teammates which finished second through fourth. Junior
Mikayla Haskamp was second in 2:29.75 followed by Schlueter in third at 2:30.65 with
Lauren Sitzman, fourth in 2:31.11. Morris and Hansen finished 1-2 in the 200-yard free style with Morris clocking a winning time of 2:02.96 and Hansen finishing second in 2:10.32. For the second straight day, Hansen won the 50-free style as she clocked a 25.91. Schlueter captured her first individual title of the season with a 56.36 clocking in the 100-freestyle as CSB finished with five of the top-six placers in the race. After winning the 100-breaststroke on Friday, Bartels captured her second individual title with a 2:40.07 clocking for the victory in the 200-breaststroke. Canfield also won her second individual event title by cruising to a nine-record win in the 200-butterfly with a clocking of 2:26.15. CSB's
Anna Boomgaarden was third in 2:39.01 in the 200-butterfly. Sitzman also had her first event win of the season by winning the 200 backstroke by nearly six seconds in 2:19.41. CSB placed three of the top four in the event including Stutelberg, third in 2:28.96 while sophomore
Emma Neely was fourth in 2:39.16. For the second straight day, sophomore
Ella Kowalczyk won the 3-meter diving competition with a score of 188.80. She was also third in the one-meter board with a score of 170.05. Junior
Sabrina Buffetta was second on both boards with a score of 186.50 on the three-meter board and on the one-meter board had a total of 174.10.
CSB opens with dual win over Minnesota-Morris
Mary Morris,
Claire Canfield,
Megan Bartels and
Liz Hansen accounted for two individual/relays wins to lead the College of Saint Benedict swim and dive team to a 148-74 dual win over Minnesota Morris in road nonconference competition on Friday (Oct. 18). Morris captured the 500-yard freestyle in 5:31.24 as CSB had four of the top six finishers in the event. Morris also won the 100-yard backstroke in 1:02.05 with first-year
Maddie Stutelberg, third in 1:09.77. Sophomore
Claire Canfield also had a solid opening season performance with a win at the 400 IM in 5:00.20. CSB captured the top three spots with
Megan Bartels, second in 5:19.41 followed by sophomore
Josey Jackson in 5:27.07. Canfield, who was third in the 200 freestyle in 2:08.45, also led off for CSB's winning 400-yard medley relay, which clocked 4:16.90. Aside from Canfield, the relay included Bartels,
Rachel Schlueter and Hansen. Hansen also had an individual win by capturing the 50-freestyle, clocking 26:31 to edge Schlueter in 26.35. In the race, CSB took four of the top five places. Bartels also shined in her first meet of the year as she also had two wins (relay/individual) by winning the 100-breaststroke in 1:12.77. Korteum (1:07.81) and Larson (1:08.44) finished first and second in the 100 butterfly as CSB took four of the top six spots. In diving, sophomore
Ella Kowalczyk won the 3-meter diving with 180.55 points, outscoring teammates. On the one-meter board, Buffetta was second at 171.40; followed by Netland in third at 165.40 and Kowalczyk, fourth
