AKRON, OHIO – Manchester University claimed top-eight efforts in all four relays during day one competition at the 2016 Ohio Athletic Conference Swimming Championships Thursday. The men’s 400-yard medley relay freshman unit of Guerby Ruuska, Andrew Hinds, Quinn-Michael L’Heureux and Nathan Koch topped the marks, placing sixth in 3:52.75, good for a new school record that topped the old standard by three and a half seconds. MU’s men added a seventh in the 200-yard freestyle relay, clocking a 1:33.96 with the same four team members, while the women’s 200-yard freestyle relay squad of freshman Annika Barce, sophomore Annika Harley, freshman Ashton Krider and freshman Nichol VonHolten swam to a 2:01.6 and the 400-yard medley group of Barce, sophomore Emily Clark, and freshmen Jamie McBride and Mikki Goetz recorded a 4:31.91 which were both good for seventh-place endings. The 400-yard medley event turned over a new program best on the board at Strauss-Peabody Aquatic and Fitness Center, smashing the former standard by better than 10 seconds. Individually, Goetz, Hinds and McBride added to the Black and Gold’s record-setting ways. Goetz raced to a 6:00.4 in the 500-yard freestyle to top the old mark by three-thousandths; Hinds swam a 2:03.85 in the 200-yard individual medley to bust up the former standard by more than three seconds; and McBride did the same in the women’s 200-yard IM going 2:26.41 to override the current mark by better than six seconds.
