The UW-Whitewater men's swimming and diving team improved to 2-0 after it defeated Luther College, 150-75, on Homecoming weekend in the Williams Center Pool.

Full Results

The Warhawks won every event, taking the top three spots three times and the top two nine times.

The meet started with UW-W going 1-2 in the 200 medley relay with the team of Dan Bielski (Chanhassen, MN/Minnetonka ), Alex Carroll (Downers Grove, IL/Downers Grove North), Ben Wynn (Glendale/Nicolet) and Alex Gidlow (Aurora, IL/Metea Valley) taking first, 1:40.54, and the B-team going 1:44.22, just 0.19 ahead of Luther's A-team.

John Devroy (Kenosha/Bradford) won the 1000 free (10:44.61) and the trio of Josh Kanute (Geneva, IL/Marmion Academy) (1:49.65), Joe Devroy (Kenosha/Bradford) (1:50.07) and Sam Bowman (Onalaska/Onalaska) (1:52.97) went 1-2-3 in the 200 free. Gidlow and Ryan Stuart (Frankfort, IL/Lincolnway East) finished first and second in the 50 freestyle with times of 22.67 and 23.24, respectively.

John Devroy (Kenosha/Bradford) and Jake Shackelford (Wauwatosa/Wauwatosa East) were the top two finishers in the 400 IM as Devroy had a time of 4:21.27 with Shackelford right behind him with a time of 4:21.53.

Wynn won the 100 fly (54.49), Kanute won the 100 free (50.22), Joe Devroy (Kenosha/Bradford) won the 100 back (54.05), Devroy took the 500 free (4:59.97) and Spencer Twining (Janesville/Parker) won the 100 breaststroke (1:03.68) to finish the individual events.

The team of Wynn, Devroy, Kanute and Gidlow finished the meet with a victory in the 200 freestyle relay in a time of 1:29.67, over three seconds faster than the closest finisher.

The Warhawks will return to action when they travel to Green Bay for the Phoenix 1-2-3 to swim against UW-Green Bay and St. Cloud (MN) on Friday, November 9.


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