Jamestown Community College swimming and diving head coach Todd Conklin reached 100 wins with the program with a win over the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. Photo courtesy of JCC Athletics

BRADFORD, Pa. — The accolades continue to pile up for Jamestown Community College (JCC) head swimming and diving coach Todd Conklin as he earned victory 100 with the Jayhawks. Conklin adds the nice round number to his four national championships with Jamestown, as well as national and regional coach of the year honors.

Conklin earned the 100th victory with a 99-73 win by his ladies at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.

“Overall, 100 wins in my career at JCC is super special,” said coach Conklin. “I’ve had a lot of great athletes and I couldn’t literally do it without my assistant coaches Bill Rollinger, Coach Spaulding, and Coach Claire Johnson. They are as important to this program as I am,” he added.

Sophomore Desiree Putt picked up where she left off last year, winning the 200 medley relay with Violet Spiegel, Roxanne Lothian, and Emily Swan. Putt took the 200 free by over four seconds and the 100 back by almost two seconds. Lothian grabbed an individual win, first in the 200 IM, topping Spiegel. Cassie Lyon captured the 500 free by nearing 20 seconds over the field. JCC’s 200 free relay team finished their side of the event with a nearly 40-second win by the team of Willow Chase, Katrina Degroff, Lyon, and Sophia Gervasio.

On the men’s side, they came up just short in the overall standings, falling 90-82.

Zach Johnson, the reigning national swimmer of the year, was once again on point. The sophomore from South Africa won the 200 IM and 100 breast and started off the 200 free relay won by JCC. In the 50 free, it was a pair of Jayhawks taking the top two spots. Cameron Milewski outtouched Daniel Peterson. Peterson bounced right back, edging Milewski in the 100 free by just over two seconds. Those two joined Johnson and Samuel Hersom for the win in the 200 free relay.

It was a great start for JCC swimming and diving to open up with Division 3 competition.

“Today is truly a measurement of where we are at this point in our season. We’ve never swam a meet this early since I’ve been here. It’s just a testament to see really where we are before we enter our regular season and fight for another regional title and national championship. I’m very proud of where we’re at. We had some great swims. We had some bad swims, but overall, it was a great performance by both our men’s and women’s swim teams,” mentioned Conklin.

The Jayhawks have a couple of weeks off before they head to Genesee Community College for a WNYAC Meet on Wednesday, Nov. 5, at 5 p.m..