The Sewanee Tigers on the women’s side, and the DePauw Tigers for the men are leading the 2001 SCAC Championships after the first day of competition. Sewanee is out in front by only 13 points, while DePauw holds a commanding 63-point margin.

DePauw’s AND Trinity’s men’s 200 Free Relay team qualified for the NCAA ‘B’ pool, in only the fourth race of the finals session. That would be a trend for the evening as many times from the session were qualifying times or SCAC record times.

Next came Trinity’s Dylan Stentiford, who shattered both the SCAC Championship Meet and the Open Meet records on the way to qualifying for the ‘B’ pool as well. He was only 2.4 seconds from making the ‘A’ pool qualifying mark.

In the women’s 200 Yard IM, J.H. Chapman of Sewanee and Christy Jayne of Trinity both qualified for the ‘B’ pool, finishing less than one second apart in the finals. Elliott Mueller of DePauw narrowly missed setting a record for the SCAC Championships in the men’s 200 Yard IM, but still managed to qualify for the NCAA’s (‘B’ pool).

The women’s 50 Yard Freestyle was the fastest race in SCAC history, as the top three finishers ALL broke SCAC Championship meet records. Ingrid Udris, Katie Payne, and Hester Wagner beat the old mark of 25.17. Udris had actually established a new mark in the morning’s preliminaries with a time of 25.15 – the same time recorded by the third place contender in the final race. Udris was .05 seconds from a qualifying time for nationals. Dan Garrison did make the qualifying time for DePauw in the 50 Yard Freestyle

With a time under four minutes, the Trinity women’s 400 Yard Medley Relay team qualified for nationals (‘B’ pool), and also beat both the SCAC Championship Meet and the Open Meet records by nearly three seconds. DePauw did just about the same in the same race for the men, setting a new record for the SCAC Championships and SCAC Open Meets, and qualifying nationally as well (‘B’ pool).

As far as the teams went, Trinity jumped out to an early lead on the women’s side, winning three of the top eight positions in 1-meter diving. Trinity won first and second place to give them the advantage. On the men’s side, DePauw held a very large lead following 3-meter diving, as they captured the top four scores. Sewanee stood third on the women’s side, and second on the men’s side. Hendrix also had a strong diving performance on the men’s side, leaving them only two points behind Sewanee.

Just an hour later, DePauw’s women managed to capture the lead away from Trinity, narrowly in front of Sewanee, who also moved up quickly. The DePauw men increased their lead over Sewanee, putting both teams in command of the meet. Trinity’s men made a big jump into third place.

Another 45 minutes passed, and Sewanee’s women took the lead away from DePauw by a slim margin. Trinity was still just behind the two in third place. The men’s team from DePauw still held a large lead, but moving up was Trinity, who passed up Sewanee’s men.

The next scores came in only 20 minutes later, and Sewanee had increased their lead on the women’s side to 21 points. Trinity’s women’s team had moved back into second place, barely edging out DePauw by three points. DePauw still held a big lead for the men at 65 points, but Trinity seemed to be inching closer. Sewanee’s men still held onto third place, but were losing ground to the leader.

Following the 50 yard freestyle, another team score was tallied, and the Sewanee women pulled a little more ahead, pushing the lead to 25 points over Trinity. DePauw now trailed Trinity by 10 points on the women’s side, with one event remaining for the day. The men’s places all stayed the same as well, and DePauw held on to their 65-point lead. Sewanee was trailing Trinity by 20 points after that event.

In the final event of the day – the 400 Yard Medley Relay – Trinity’s women won to gain ground on DePauw for the lead, while DePauw’s men kept themselves far ahead with a win in the final event. DePauw’s women trail Trinity for second place by 22 points, while Sewanee’s men trail Trinity for second by 56.5 points.