FULL RESULTS
 
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The ninth-ranked University of West Florida women's swimming and diving team took wins over Florida Southern and North Florida and fell in a battle to Florida State in a quad meet on Saturday afternoon. The Argonauts were led by swimmers and divers alike in the effort, with Grace Sommerville picking up a win for UWF.
 
"The delayed start in the swimming presented a bit of a setback, and I thought the team handled that very well today," head coach Andrew Hancock said. "Our spirit and support for each other keeps improving every meet, and we're well on track to have that be a difference-maker at the end of the year. We do still have things to work on, but the quality of some of our performances is very high and as good as anything we've ever seen at this point of the year."
 
UWF owned the distance swims, starting with Sommerville's win in the 500 Free. Her time of 5:09.62 paced the field by nearly 8 seconds. The Argos also shined in the 1,000 Free where Madeline Pitt and freshman Christina Kilpatrick took top-five finishes. Pitt's 10:25.97 was good for a B-cut in the event and second place in the meet, and Kilpatrick came in fourth at 11:04.99.
 
Pitt recorded another top five, going 2:07.21 in the 200 Fly. It was a strong event all the way around for UWF, with Sommerville (2:09.52) and Ardinn Grabenhorst (2:12.33) finishing seventh and eighth, respectively. Pitt (58.45), Grabenhorst (1:00.41) and Hannah O'Toole (1:00.98) each placed in the top six in the 100 Fly, with Pitt coming in second.
 
One of the best races of the day came in the final event, when the Argos 200 Free Relay team of Taby Read-Cayton, Brooke Ferrara, Ashley Leisher and Danica Burnett finished in 1:39.46 – less than a half-second behind Florida Southern.
 
Rookie Morgan Ayers continued her strong fall with a 1:06.41 in the 100 Breast, putting her in fifth in the event. O'Toole and Manon Milczynski also brought in top 10 finishes in the event. The 200 Breast was even better for Ayers and Milczynski, as the pair finished second and fourth. Ayers was just a couple seconds off the UWF freshman record pace, finshing at 2:25.12.
 
Taby Read-Cayton picked up her own top-five finish with a 24.64 in the 50 Free, and Burnett pulled off top 10s in consecutive events, with a 25.06 in the 50 Free and a 54.45 in the 100 Free – she came in eighth and sixth in those swims.
 
Strong diving performances from Jesstina Farrell, Mariah Constantakos and Carson Bronnenberg led the day off, and all three student-athletes scored over 200 in the 3-meter event. Farrell took the top score for the Argonauts in both diving events, scoring a 217.43 in the 1-meter and a 226.28 in the 3-meter.
 
Constantakos took a 222.30 in the 3-meter, and Bronnenberg posted some of her best scores in each event, going 202.13 in the 3-meter and 196.73 in the 1-meter.
 
"I'd like to congratulate our divers on their performances," Hancock said. "They competed against some of the best athletes in the country today, and we always appreciate their contributions. We appreciated it even more today because it gave us a little breathing room against some of these teams."
 
The divers will head to Alabama for a diving-only meet next weekend, before heading to the Delta Diving Invitational on November 17-19 at Delta State. The swimmers will have next weekend off and will wrap up the fall at the Panther Invitational in Melbourne, Florida, on November 17-19.