A pair of All-American relay swims highlighted the third day of the NCAA Division III Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina, for the Hope College women's swimming and diving team.

Both the 200-yard medley and 800 freestyle relay teams earned Second Team All-America honors on Friday at the Greensboro Aquatic Center to add to Hope's collection for the meet. The Flying Dutch have earned All-American accolades in all four relay events contested so far during the four-day event. 

Hope kicked off the evening session with a second-place finish in the consolation final of the 200-yard medley relay. The 10th-place showing marked the school's best placement in the event since the 2000 meet. It is also the Flying Dutch's ninth All-America 200 medley relay team.  

The team of senior Sara Kraus (Rockford, Michigan / Rockford HS), senior Lauren Ryle (Grand Rapids, Michigan / Catholic Central), senior Greta Gidley (Franklin, Michigan / Mercy) and junior Laurel Wasiniak (Northville, Michigan / Northville) was behind by over a second to Williams College (Massachusetts) after the opening 100, but fought to chase down the Ephs after out-splitting Williams with back-half swims by Gidley in the butterfly leg (24.55) and a 22.57 freestyle anchor leg by Wasiniak. 

Williams touched the wall in 1:41.58, while Hope hit two-hundredths of a second later in 1:41.60 to knock a full second off its preliminary round swim. 

In the 800 freestyle relay, Gidley, Wasiniak, freshman Emme D'Errico (Farmington Hills, Michigan / Farmington) and junior Bella Turner (Chelsea, Michigan / Chelsea) combined for a time of 7:28.33 to place 12th overall. The quartet becomes Hope's 14th All-American 800 freestyle relay team and recorded the school's best finish in the event since 2007.

During the morning preliminaries, Kraus tied for 18th place in the 100 backstroke with a time of 56.12. Ryle also competed individually, posting a time of 1:04.68 in the 100 breaststroke to finish 28th overall.

After three days of competition, Hope is in ninth place with 88 points. The Flying Dutch are 11 points ahead of 10th-place Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania) and trail eighth-place Pomona-Pitzer (California) by 35 points. 

New York University leads the field after 28 events with 368 points, while the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is 20 points behind. 

The 2024-25 season will close on Saturday, March 22, with the final day of the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships. Five events will be contested – the 100 freestyle, 200 backstroke, 200 breaststroke, 400 freestyle relay and 1650 freestyle. 

The preliminaries begin at 10 a.m., followed by the finals at 6 p.m. All races can be viewed by visiting ncaa.com.