The Colorado College swimming teams opened the 2016 calendar year Sunday by competing at the Orange Bowl Classic in Key Largo, Fla. The men's team battled Division I foes Air Force, Michigan and George Mason, while the women faced off against the same three schools as well as Vermont.
 
On the women's side, CC posted several top 10 finishes, including a team-best seventh-place effort by senior Olivia Dilorati in the 50-meter butterfly with a time of 29.54 seconds. Dilorati also joined fellow senior Megan Gillespie and sophomores Ellen Silk and Justina Zuckerman on the 200-meter medley relay team that placed seventh. CC's No. 2 team of sophomore Hannah Cooper, freshman Kate Guynn and seniors Erin Holmes and Becca Adams finished 10^th in the 200 medley race.
 
Silk finished eighth in the 100-meter fly, while Gillespie was 10^th in the 50 breaststroke. Dilorati and sophomore Emily Harrison placed 11^th in the 100 freestyle and 100 backstroke, respectively.
 
For the men, freshman Ethan Schick posted the team's best individual finish by placing 10^th in the 50-meter butterfly. He also finished 11^th in the 50 backstroke, 13^th in the 100 freestyle and joined fellow freshman Drew Ceglinski, junior Crane Sarris and senior Yueyang Yu for seventh place in the 200 medley relay.
 
Ceglinski had a pair of 12^th-place swims, in the 50 and 100 backstroke, while Sarris (100 free) and sophomores Dennis Zhang (50 fly) and Trey Watmore (100 fly) each finished 11^th in his race.
 
The Tigers closed the meet by finishing sixth (Watmore, Zhang, Ian Carey and Nate Goodman) and seventh (Sarris, Schick, Yu and Johannes Mansson) in the 200 freestyle relay.
 
Both teams return to action at the Colorado College Classic, Jan. 16-17, at Schlessman Natatorium. The meet begins at 10 am on Saturday, Jan. 16.