Both Kenyon College women's and men's swimming and diving teams earned a sweep at the North Coast Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Championships this weekend.

The Kenyon College Ladies earned their twenty-second overall Championship with an astounding three-day total of 1,611 points, easily besting the Denison University, which finished second with 1,512.5 points and Wittenberg University, which finished a distant third with 827 points.

The Ladies won four of six events in Saturday’s session and were triumphant in 11 of the 20 events contested throughout the three-day championship. Junior Jessica Connors was Kenyon’s featured swimmer on the final day of competition. She broke her own conference record in the 200-yard breaststroke by touching the wall with a time of 2:19.48. Her previous record came at last year’s championship, when she clocked in at 2:20.02.

Earlier in the evening, Kenyon sophomore Jaime Straub started the Ladies off with a tight win in the 1,650-yard freestyle. She won the event in an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 17:19.11, edging Wittenberg's Becca Searcy by 1.64 seconds.

Junior Rebecca Allison followed up by turning in another NCAA automatic qualifying time, as she won the 200-yard backstroke by stopping the clock at 2:04.66. It was the second backstroke title in as many years for Allison, who collected a total of three individual titles and one relay title during this year’s championship.

The Ladies didn't let up there. Senior Danielle Korman registered another automatic qualifying time in the 200-yard butterfly, but had to settle for second place after Denison’s M.C. Dain touched less than a tenth of a second ahead of her. Kenyon then capped off its crown by winning the 400-yard freestyle relay. The team of Katie Randall, Allison Johnson, Tracy Menzel, and Jessica Wise clocked in with a season-best time of 3:31.20

The men were only leading by just 29 points going into the final day, unitl Kenyon College Lords showed the heart of a champion Saturday and pulled away from Denison University to capture their eighth straight and twenty-second overall NCAC crown.

Kenyon finished the championship with 1,646 points. Denison checked out with 1,606 points, and Wabash College placed third with 974.5 points.

Denison nipped at Kenyon throughout out Saturday’s session. The Big Red won the first event of the night, the 200-yard backstroke, but the Lords managed to stay in front on the scoreboard by taking second through fifth place. Over the next two events, Denison turned the tables. Kenyon got wins from Jimmy Berger in the 100-yard freestyle and Joey Gosselar in the 200-yard breaststroke, but once again depth played a key role and the Big Red used it to build a 1,432-1,429 lead.

That lead, however, was short-lived. In the next event, the 200-yard butterfly, the Lords regained control for good. Senior Andrejs Duda won the event with an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 1:49.44. Kenyon swimmers claimed five of the next six positions without a Denison swimmer placing in the top eight. The KC lead then ballooned to well over 100 points.

Duda’s win was his third individual win of the meet. Thursday, he won the 200-yard individual medley in a conference record time and Friday he won the 100-yard backstroke. He also swam a leg on Kenyon’s winning 400-yard medley and 800-yard freestyle relay teams. For his efforts, Duda was selected as the NCAC Swimmer of the Year.

Overall, Kenyon won 11 of the 20 events contested in the three-day championship. Denison won eight events, and Allegheny College won one.