Worcester, Mass. —

Junior Samantha Halvorson (Chesapeake, Va.) notched a pair of event wins to help the U.S. Coast Guard Academy women's swimming & diving team to an early 4-0 start with a sweep of Worcester Polytechnic Institute's quintuplet-meet on Friday night. The Bears defeated the hosting Engineers, 191-88; Babson College, 164-115; Brandeis University, 234-53; and Smith College, 192-105.

Halvorson was the top swimmer in the 50 free and 200 back, posting respective times of 24.50 and 2:10.64. Sophomore Julia Thomas (Chandler, Ariz.) was third in the 50 free at 25.70, followed by classmate Eleanor Murphy (McLean, Va.) at 25.86. Freshman Margaret Erwin (San Antonio, Tex.) was third in the 200 back, touching the wall in 2:10.64.

Erwin rounded out a good collegiate debut by finishing second in the 100 back (1:00.29). Junior Madelyn Paxton was fourth in the same race 1:01.71. She notched another win for the Bears on the day with her performance in 200 IM, where she swam 2:13.92, while Erwin followed as runner-up at 2:25.92. Paxton also took third in the 100 fly (59.55), with sophomore Kendra Hiigel (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) and freshman Andie Ko (Cary, N.C.) right behind her with respective times of 1:00.30 and 1:00.71.

Freshman Quinn Putchinski (Rockwall, Tex.) was stellar in her collegiate debut, notching her first career win in the 1000 free at 10:54.66 and adding a runner-up effort in the 500 variant (5:18.95). Senior Zoe Suhajda(Colorado Springs, Colo.) took third in the 1000 at 11:12.92.

Junior Mikayla Jolley (Las Vegas, Nev.) added a pair of second-place efforts in the 200 free (2:00.15) and 200 breast (2:34.16). Senior captain Tessa Breitbart (Roseville, Calif.) took second in the 200 fly (2:12.30), with Ko following in third (2:12.71). Fellow senior captain Kathleen O'Shea (Decatur, Ga.) was the 100 free runner-up at 55.23, also placing sixth in the 100 breast (1:11.76) behind freshman Abigail Lawrence(Chandler, Ariz.) who was Coast Guard's top performer in the event (1:11.59)

Freshman Meghan Roberts (Glen Rock, N.J.) was second in both diving events, scoring 202.70 on the 1-meter and 177.45 on the 3-meter. Coast Guard was also second in both of the day's relays as Halvorson, O'Shea, Paxton, and Thomas clocked 1:51.89 in the 200 medley and Halvorson, Thomas, Murphy, and O'Shea finished the 200 freelay in 1:39.21. The Bears also took third in the latter event behind a 1:43.47 from senior captain Jaida Lippy (Phoenix, Ariz.), Hiigel, Jolley, and Feyk.

Coast Guard women's swim & dive will be back in the water next Saturday, October 7th, on road trip to Wheaton College (Mass.) for a tri-meet with he Lyons and Springfield College.