WORCESTER, Mass. – Olivia Luhnau (Castle Rock, Colo.) avenged her close second place finish in the same event last year, winning the 100 individual medley to highlight Regis College's participation in the second day of the 2024 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Swimming and Diving Championships Saturday at the WPI Sports and Recreation Center.

Luhnau, who finished second in the 2023 edition of the 100 IM by just 0.33 seconds, posted a qualifying time of 1:06.00 in the morning and then pulled away with the victory in the evening final with a time of 1:04.42, almost one-and-a-half full seconds in front of her nearest competitor. Luhnau also finished in a tie for sixth place in the 50 freestyle with a time of 26.00 seconds, just a quarter of a second behind the second place finisher.

In the final event of the evening, Luhnau anchored the 800 freestyle relay, teaming with Ava Hubster (Crown Point, Ind.), Riley Aptt (Woburn, Mass.), and Megan Miller (Quincy, Mass.) for a fifth place finish in 8:50.54. In the 200 freestyle relay at the start of the finals session, the quartet of Aptt, Jenna Silva (New Bedford, Mass.), Abby Parker (Peru, Mass.), and Davinity Smallwood (Naugatuck, Conn.) finished in sixth place with an overall time of 1:51.60.

Miller posted the fastest preliminary time in the 50 backstroke at 29.54 seconds, a personal-best mark that moved Miller into seventh place on the Regis all-time top times list. She finished third in the finals for All-GNAC honors with a time of 29.61 seconds, followed by Aptt in fourth place in 29.92 seconds. Aptt also finished fifth in the 100 butterfly in 1:05.69, with Hubster placing eighth in 1:09.41.

Hubster later touched the wall in seventh place in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:57.73, while Silva finished eighth in the 200 breaststroke with an evening time of 3:17.60 after qualifying for the A-final with a preliminary time of 3:11.50. Also in the 100 IM, Smallwood qualified for the A-final with a preliminary time of 1:10.81, and then she finished eighth in the finals in 1:11.65

Regis moved up into third place in the team standings with 354.5 points, 4.5 points in front of fourth place Saint Joseph's College and 33.5 points ahead of fifth place Elms College. Norwich continues to lead with 646.5 points, with Simmons sitting in second place with 559 points.

The third and final day of the 2024 GNAC Swimming and Diving Championships will commence Sunday, Feb. 4, with preliminaries at 10 a.m., followed by finals at 5 p.m.