January 21, 2009

Logan Todhunter appears in this week's (1/26) Sports Illustrated's Faces in the Crowd


First year swimmer Logan Todhunter (Ithaca, NY) was unable to participate in the Ephs first swim meet of the year at Connecticut College due to injury, but she sure stirred up the home crowd with her collegiate debut vs. Division I foes Boston College and Fordham University on December 6th.

Todhunter impressed with two individual wins and two school records as Williams downed both Boston College (176.5–123.5) and Fordham University (152-147) to improve to 3-0 on the year.

Todhunter posted first place finishes and school records in the 200-yard butterfly and the 100-yard butterfly. Todhunter's record time of 2:02.77 in the 200 was almost two full seconds faster than the previous Williams best of 2:04.64 set last winter by Chrissy Haley. In the 100-yard butterfly Todhunter was timed in 56.05, which was 7/10 of a second faster than Zibby Stokes' 56.75 in 2000.

She also swam the butterfly leg on the 200-yard IM relay won by the Ephs in 1:47.41. For her stellar performance Todhunter was selected to appear in this week's Sports Illustrated (pg. 22) and also accorded NESCAC Swimmer of the week honors.

Todhunter is the 24th Eph to appear in Faces in the Crowd since August of 1989.

Against archrival Amherst on January 10th Todhunter lowered both of her school records in winning the 100-yeard butterfly in 55.83 and the 200-yard mark to 2:01.94.

This past weekend she helped the Ephs improve to 7-0 on the year, win the Little Three title and she won three individual events and none in her specialty, the butterfly. Todhunter placed first in the 200-yard freestyle (1:55.77), 200-yard backstroke (2:12.67), 200-yard individual medley, and 200-yard medley relay (1:50.51) alongside senior Courtney Asher, fellow freshman Anna Szymanski, and junior Lisa Cucolo.