Senior Logan McGill (Dallas, Texas) earned four All-America honors at the NCAA Championships. She will graduate with the second-most All-America honors in team history (13) and the third most in Bates athletics history.
The Bates women's 200 medley relay team, comprising sophomore Janika Ho (Los Angeles, Calif.) in the backstroke leg, McGill in the breaststroke, first-year Caroline Apathy (Devon, Pa.) in the butterfly and senior Hope Logan (Boothbay Harbor, Maine) in the freestyle, swam a trial time of 1:44.18, 10th-fastest out of 32 squads and a new program record. The former team record time of 1:44.24 came in the 2016 NESCAC Championships on legs swum by Whitney Paine, Kristy Prelgovisk, Lindsey Prelgovisk and McGill.
In the event consolation finals Wednesday evening, the Bates squad broke the team record a second time with a time of 1:43.86, grabbing 10th place overall, 0.23 seconds behind ninth-place Connecticut College and 0.32 seconds ahead of 11th-place Amherst.
The Bates women's 200 free relay team of McGill, Ho, Apathy and Logan swam the 11th-fastest trial time out of 32 teams on Thursday morning, at 1:34.53, then finished third in the consolation final in a time of 1:34.69 to claim 11th place in the event, good for 12 team points and Honorable Mention All-America honors.
In perhaps the biggest, best surprise of the day for Bates, the women's 400 medley relay team qualified for the consolation finals by dropping 2.5 seconds off of their qualifying time to go 14th-fastest out of 30 squads in an event the Bobcats weren't originally invited in. Finishing sixth in the consolation final, the Bates squad claimed 14th place overall in lowering their time to 3:49.07. Comprising the team were Ho in the backstroke, McGill in the breast, Apathy in the butterfly and Logan in the freestyle.
Bates' women's 400 free relay team, comprising McGill, Apathy, sophomore Monica Sears (San Anselmo, Calif.) and Ho recorded the eighth-fastest trial time Saturday morning, at 3:26.88, to become Bates' first-ever relay team to swim in an NCAA championship final, beating out Wesleyan for the eight-team field by 0.37 seconds. In the championship final, Ho outswam Calvin's Abby VanHarn in the anchor leg to seize sixth place by 0.45 seconds with a time of 3:26.39, after another championship finalist, Johns Hopkins, was disqualified from the race.
