PITTSBURGH - The Duquesne swimming and diving team will start its bid for a third conference title this week when they travel to the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio for the 2022 Atlantic 10 Women's Swimming and Diving Championship. The meet will take place Wednesday, Feb. 16 through Saturday, Feb. 19 with each championship meet session streamed live on ESPN+. (Direct links are provided below.)
 
The Dukes look to continue their seven-year stretch of finishing in the top three at the conference meet, which includes back-to-back Championships in 2018 and 2019.  
2015: Third Place
2016: Second Place
2017: Second Place
2018: First Place
2019: First Place
2020: Third Place
2021: Second Place
 
In total, the Dukes came away with 13 medal-winning performances in 2021 which included eight individual and four relay medals. 
 
Individual Medals

• Gold: 200 IM
• Gold: 200 Free*
• Gold: 100 Back
• Gold: 400 IM
• Silver: 100 Butterfly
• Silver: 400 IM*
• Silver: 200 Butterfly
• Bronze: 200 Back*
• Bronze: 100 Free*

Relay Medals

• Gold: 400-yard Medley Relay
• Bronze: 200-Yard Medley Relay
• Bronze: 800-Yard Free Relay
• Bronze: 400 Free Relay

*Medals earned by current championship roster members
 
The 2022 team features a number of returners from the 2021 second-place squad and a lot of depth. In the pool, Graduate student Mendy De Rooi has broken three school records since joining the Dukes (50-yard Freestyle, 100-Freestyle, and 100-yard Butterfly).
 
Sophomore Regan Linkous earned two medals in 2021 and comes into the championship with a number of first-place and top-three finishes. She looks to repeat or best her third-place finish in the 200-yard backstroke.
Senior Hanna Everhart, a ten-time medalist and one of the most decorated medalists in school history, looks to three-peat in the 200-yard Freestyle, having taken home the gold both in 2020 and 2021. Everhart has also been a key member of a number of top-placing relay teams. Given their depth, the Dukes have a lot of flexibility for relay line-ups and will contend for medals in all five relays.
 
The diving team has an opportunity to make a strong impact as well. Junior Sydney O'Donnell, the 2020 1-meter bronze medalist also finished fourth in the 3-meter in 2021, started the season by breaking her own 3-meter board record. She has had a strong season, having already registered an NCAA Zone cut score on both the 1-meter and 3-meter boards.
 
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

DAY 1: Wednesday, February 16
Prelims – 1:00 PM
1-meter Diving
Watch here (ESPN+)
 
Finals – 5:00 PM
200 yard Medley Relay
1-meter Diving
800 yard Freestyle Relay
Watch here (ESPN+)
 
DAY 2: Thursday, February 17
Prelims – 10:00 AM
500 yard Freestyle
200 yard IM
50 yard Freestyle
Watch here (ESPN+)
 
Finals – 6:30 PM
500 yard Freestyle
200 yard IM
50 yard Freestyle
200 yard Freestyle Relay
Watch here (ESPN+)
 
DAY 3: Friday, February 18
Prelims – 10:00 AM
400 yard IM
100 yard Butterfly
200 yard Freestyle
100 yard Breaststroke
100 yard Backstroke
3-meter Diving
Watch here (ESPN+)
 
Finals – 6:30 PM
400 yard IM
100 yard Butterfly
200 yard Freestyle
100 yard Breaststroke
100 yard Backstroke
3-meter Diving
400 yard Medley Relay
Watch here (ESPN+)
 
DAY 4: Saturday, February 20
Prelims – 10:00 AM
200 yard Backstroke
100 yard Freestyle
200 yard Breaststroke
200 yard Butterfly
1,650 yard Freestyle (all but top-heat)*
*Begins at 1:00 PM
Watch here (ESPN+)
 
Finals – 6:00 PM
1,650 yard Freestyle (top heat)
200 yard Backstroke
100 yard Freestyle
200 yard Breaststroke
200 yard Butterfly
400 yard Freestyle Relay
Watch here (ESPN+)