Dukes Earn Pair of Wins in Tri-Meet to Begin Season

Saturday, October 18

Philadelphia, Pa.

11 a.m.

James Madison University

177

122

La Salle

10/18/2025 10:40:00 PM | Swimming & Diving

PHILADELPHIA – James Madison swimming & diving began the season with a pair of wins, taking down La Salle, 177-122, and Drexel, 179-120, on Saturday at La Salle's Kirk Pool.

JMU came away with five individual wins, four from swimming and one from diving, and won a relay.

Quoting Head Coach Dane Pedersen:
"Obviously coming away with two wins is a great way to start the season, but the coaches are really excited about what we saw: energy, positivity, application of things we're working on in practice and the team generally had fun together. It was an awesome day all around."

Diving

The Dukes placed two on the 1-meter board, as Natalie Jones came in second with a score of 279.30 and was followed by Maddie O'Mera in third with a score of 276.45. Both scores were NCAA Zone qualifying scores.
Jones then added a win on the 3-meter board with a score of 266.65.

Individual Swimming

Madison Wimmer earned a second-place finish in the 1000 Free with a time of 10:32.38. She also came in second place in the 500 Free, swimming a time of 5:07.96.
Emma Durham won the 200 Free in her first collegiate individual event, swimming a time of 1:56.30. Riley Nugent followed her with a second-place finish behind a time of 1:56.34.
Emma Dougherty also won her first collegiate individual event, swimming a time of 1:04.33 in the 100 Breast. Riley Bridgman took second behind Dougherty with a time if 1:06.43.
The Dukes earned a third-place finish in the 200 Fly, as Maddy Coombs swam a time of 2:07.99. She later then finished second with a time of 58.38 in the 100 Fly.
For the third time in the tri-meet, the Dukes finished in the first two positions in an event to win the 50 Free. Jamie Cornwell swam a time 24.02 and Alex Volk swam a time of 24.06, beating the third-place finisher by .01 seconds.
Cornwell won her second individual event of the day, taking first place in the 100 Free (52.23). Volk finished third .08 seconds after Cornwell (52.31).
Nugent swam a time of 2:08.03 in the 200 Back to finish second.
In the 200 Breast, Dougherty finished in third place after swimming 2:26.97.
To close out the individual events, Bridgman earned a second-place finish in the 200 IM with a time of 2:09.71.

Relay Swimming

JMU took second and third in the first event of the day, as the team of Sarah Pauley, Bridgman, Ann Chappell Ellington and Cornwell had the second fastest time in the 200 Medley Relay (1:46.34).
The team of Durham, Dougherty, Volk and Emory Hill claimed third place in the 200 Medley Relay (1:46.36).
The Dukes won the 400 Free Relay, as the team of Wimmer, Maddie Lehman, Volk and Cornwell swam a time of 3:29.36, over four seconds faster than the second-place team.

Up Next
The Dukes are next in the pool for the first of two home dual meets this season, hosting Marshall on Saturday, Nov. 1 inside Savage Natatorium. The diving portion of the meet will begin at 10 a.m. with swimming to start afterwards at noon.