The Emory University Swimming and Diving teams each picked up victories on Saturday afternoon at the Woodruff Physical Education Center, with the men defeating the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) 153-106, while the women earned a 178-79 win over SCAD and a 184-66 victory over Brenau University.

The Emory women remained undefeated on the season with the two victories, improving to 4-0 overall, while the Emory men raised their record to 2-1 on the campaign with the win over SCAD.  The SCAD men dropped to 0-2 on the year, while the SCAD women, who also beat Brenau 136.5-124.5, now stand at 2-1.  Brenau, which only fields a women's team, is 0-3 for the season after the pair of losses on Saturday.

Emory's women claimed first-place finishes in 13 of the 14 events, while the men won eight of their 14 events on Saturday.

The Eagles swam to first-place finishes in all four of the relay events at the meet.  For the women, the combination of sophomores Claire Liu, Annelise Kowalsky, Kristine Rosenberger and senior Nancy Larson won the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:47.12, while Liu, sophomore Marissa Bergh, freshman Julia Wawer and Larson won the 400-yard freestyle with a mark of 3:33.20. For the men, it was the team of sophomore Mitchell Cooper, junior Andrew Wilson, senior Hayden Baker and freshman Oliver Smith winning the 200-yard medley with a time of 1:33.58, and freshman Alexander Hardwick, freshman Wes Duke, junior Matt Kuhlik and Smith winning the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 3:07.04.

Hayden Baker and Wilson each won a pair of individual events at the meet as well.  Baker claimed victories in both the 200-yard butterfly (1:54.61) and 100-yard butterfly (50.60 seconds), while Wilson won the 100-yard breaststroke (56.38 seconds) and the 200-yard individual medley (1:55.16), the former good for the Emory men's only NCAA 'B' cut time of the meet.

Other individual first-place finishes for the Emory men came from sophomore Christian Baker in the 200-yard freestyle (1:42.69), Hardwick in the 100-yard freestyle (46.64 seconds), and senior Eric Ruggieri in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:07.27).

Emory women's swimmers totaled five NCAA 'B' cut performances at the meet, including event-winning efforts from Kowalsky in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:05.24) and 200-yard individual medley (2:06.95), Liu in the 100-yard backstroke (56.94 seconds), and junior Ellie Thompson in the 200-yard backstroke (2:04.64).  Freshman Ming Ong added a second-place finish in the 200-yard individual medley in a 'B' cut time of 2:07.39.

Sophomore Marcela Sanchez-Aizcorbe swept the butterfly events with wins in both the 100-yard butterfly (58.87 seconds) and the 200-yard butterfly (2:09.26).  Other event winners for the Emory women included senior Megan Beach in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:26.65), senior McKenna Newsum-Schoenberg in the 1000-yard freestyle (10:25.01), freshman Cindy Cheng in the 200-yard freestyle (1:54.28), Bergh in the 50-yard freestyle (24.35 seconds) and Larson in the 100-yard freestyle (52.85 seconds).

Emory's swimmers will be off until the Miami (Ohio) Invitational from December 4^th – 6^th, the team's final meet of the 2014 portion of its schedule.  The Eagles' divers will be back in action on Saturday, November 22^nd, hosting the Emory Diving Invitational.