ROCHESTER, Mich. - The Oakland Men's and Women's Swim and Dive team completed the first day of competition back home in the Oakland Aquatic Center resulting in a number of remarkable victorious finishes for the night until they return back to the pool tomorrow morning at 10:00 am.

Kicking it off for the night was the women's 200 medley A relay team consisting of Susan LaGrand, Taylor Bailey, Sophia Davis, and Ronja Riihinen making a first-place finish with a time of (1:43.85). On the flip side, the men's C relay team with Luis Fernando Oliveira, Kieron Bezuidenhout, Dane Herrick, and Valance Washington jumped in to complete the 200 medley relay, (in heat one), with a first-place finishing time of (1.34.67). Heat two consisted of Oakland's A team stringed together by swimmers Marko Khotynetskyi, Christian Bart, Sofus Balladone, and Sam McKenzie who touched in at a time of (1.29.04) to secure another early first-place finish for the Golden Grizzlies.

The 1000-yard freestyle was claimed by Oakland's Jonas Cantrell as he swam in at a speedy time of (9:31.55), and notably, Angelina Baker took third with a time of (10:33.67). Cantrell later dominated the 500-yard freestyle coming in ahead of his competition with an impressive time of (4:36.40).

Speeding things back up in the pool, Oakland took the title for the 100-yard backstroke across the board with LaGrand roping in the win for the women with a time of (55.04) and Khotynetskyi taking the win for the men with a time of (48.41). Not only this, but the two would then continue on bring in two more first-place wins, individually, in the men's and women's 200-yard backstroke events with times of (2:01.44, LaGrand) and (1:48.82, Khotynetskyi). Additionally, LaGrand stacked another first place win with her time in the 200-yard IM (2:04.63). 

The 50-yard freestyle titles were swiped by Golden Grizzlies Jordyn Shipps as she swam in at a time of (23.92) for first place, and Bart grabbed the first place slot for the men punching in a final time of (20.45) in the water. Extending to the 100-yard freestyle, Oakland upheld their winning position as McKenzie claimed his first place time of (44.90), and for the women, Shipps tallied her second freestyle win with a final time of (51.95). Shipps also took home the gold in the 100-yard butterfly with a final time of (55.51). 

Notably, graduate student Taylor Bailey earned her first-place title in the women's 200-yard breaststroke with a final time of (2:18.11), with Oakland's Bella Gary right behind her in second place at (2:23.06). 

The diving team wrapped up day one with victories from Victoria Sanders in the women's one-meter diving contest with a final score of (257.20), and Ellie Chalifoux with a final score of (253.15) taking the first two slots on the leaderboard for the weekend. 

Oakland wrapped up night one with the 400-yard medley relay competition and they took both titles under their wings with first-place finishes from both the men's and women's A relay teams (3:30.24, women), and (3:02.21, men).

The Golden Grizzlies return back to the pool tomorrow morning at 10:00 am to complete the remainder of the competition. 

Saturday schedule:

400 MEDLEY RELAY

1650 Freestyle

200 Freestyle

50 Backstroke

50 Breaststroke

100 Butterfly

50 Freestyle

DVG Break

100 Freestyle

100 Backstroke

100 Breaststroke

500 Freestyle

50 Butterfly

DVG Break

100 IM

200 FREE RELAY