June 2010

Alex Meyer ('06) was named to the U.S. roster for the 2010 Mutual of Omaha Pan Pacific Championships based on his top four finish in the 2010 USA Swimming Open Water National Champtionships.

See "Eight Open Water Swimmers Named to Pan Pac Team," at USA Swimming.

March 2010

Logan Todhunter ('08), swimming for Williams College, wins three national titles at the Division III National Championships in Minneapolis and was named the 2010 Swimmer of the Meet:

The Ephs finished with 367 points -- their highest point total since the inaugural women's NCAA Championship Meet in 1981. Sophomore Logan Todhunter, who won national titles in the 200 IM and the 100 and 200 butterfly, was named 2010 Swimmer of the Meet, and head coach Steve Kuster was tabbed 2010 Women's Coach of the Meet.

Logan won the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:25.78; set a national record of 52.94 in the prelims of the 100-fly and won the national title with a 53.56; and won the 200 IM with a time of 2:02.57.

See: http://williams.prestosports.com/sports/wswimdive/2009-10/News/NCAASDay4320

Bonnie Patchen ('08), also swimming for Williams College, took second in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:30.75 at the Division III National Championships.

For full Division III National Championship results, see Swimming World Magazine.

Alex Meyer ('06), swimming for Harvard, took the Ivy League title in the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 9:01.87 and won awards for career-high point swimmer and meet-high point swimmer:

The Crimson maintained its stronghold in the distance events, as Alex Meyer took the title in the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 9:01.87, nearly nine seconds ahead of the second-place finisher. . . . Meyer was given two awards at the end of the meet as he received the Harold S Ulen Award (career high point swimmer) and the Phil Moriarty Award (meet high point swimmer).

See: http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/mswimdive/2009-10/releases/SDM100306_Ivy_Finals

March 2009

Logan Todhunter ('08) wins big in the Division III National Championships in Minneapolis:

Day 2:
The star of the day for the Ephwomen was first year Logan Todhunter, who
captured the first national championship of the meet for the Ephs in the 100
yard butterfly (53.54), not to mention breaking the Division III national
record, and then helped lead two relay teams to high points.

In the 200 yard freestyle relay, Todhunter, along with junior Lisa Cucolo,
sophomore Erin Altenburger, and first year Carolyn Geller, placed fourth
(1:34.65). In the 400 yard medley relay, Alternburger, Geller, and
Todhunter teamed up with senior Courtney Asher to claim another fourth place
finish (3:48.00).

The Ephwomen also helped maintain their fourth spot in the overall standings
by having three swimmers in the top nine of the 400 yard IM. Senior Amanda
Nicholson, the defending national champion, claimed a second place finish
(4:17.24) and a school record, while first year Bonnie Patchen (4:26.80) and
sophomore Ellen Ramsey (4:27.35) finished sixth and ninth respectively.

Day 3:
The star for the Ephwomen was again first year Logan Todhunter, who
continued her amazing rookie campaign by grabbing the title in the 200 yard
butterfly (1:57.80). Not only did Todhunter swim to her second title in as
many days, but set another national record time with her 1:57.71 time in the
morning preliminaries.

Fellow first year Bonnie Patchen made it an Eph sweep of the top two
positions as she went from sixth in the preliminaries, to second in the
finals (2:02.45).

The Division III National Championship site has an interview with Logan.

January 2009

Logan Todhunter ('08) appears in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd":

First year Williams College swimmer Logan Todhunter (Ithaca, NY) was unable to participate in the Ephs first swim meet of the year at Connecticut College due to injury, but she stirred up the home crowd with her collegiate debut vs. Division I foes Boston College and Fordham University on December 6th.

Todhunter impressed with two individual wins and two school records as Williams downed both Boston College (176.5–123.5) and Fordham University (152-147) to improve to 3-0 on the year.

Todhunter posted first place finishes and school records in the 200-yard butterfly and the 100-yard butterfly. Todhunter's record time of 2:02.77 in the 200 was almost two full seconds faster than the previous Williams best of 2:04.64 set last winter by Chrissy Haley. In the 100-yard butterfly Todhunter was timed in 56.05, which was 7/10 of a second faster than Zibby Stokes' 56.75 in 2000.

She also swam the butterfly leg on the 200-yard IM relay won by the Ephs in 1:47.41. For her stellar performance Todhunter was selected to appear in this week's Sport's Illustrated and also accorded NESCAC Swimmer of the week honors.

Todhunter is the 24th Eph to appear in Faces in the Crowd since August of 1989.

Against archrival Amherst on January 10th, Todhunter lowered both of her school records in winning the 100-yard butterfly in 55.83 and the 200-yard mark to 2:01.94.

This past weekend she helped the Ephs improve to 7-0 on the year, win the Little Three title and she won three individual events, none of which were butterfly events. Todhunter placed first in the 200-yard freestyle (1:55.77), 200-yard backstroke (2:12.67), 200-yard individual medley, and 200-yard medley relay (1:50.51) alongside senior Courtney Asher, fellow freshman Anna Szymanski, and junior Lisa Cucolo.