After losing to Minnesota in its first dual meet of the season, the Michigan women’s swimming and diving team captured its first victory on Friday, beating Toledo 182.50 to 112.50.

Senior Natasha Moodie and junior Caitlin Dauw led the way for the Wolverines in Ann Arbor. Moodie took first place in the 50- and 100-yard freestyles and Dauw took first in the 100- and 200-yard butterfly. Both were also members of the two first-place relay teams.

“I was trying to improve my stroke change in my hundred freestyle,” Moodie said. “Usually in my 100-free, by the second half of the race I’m just thrashing and trying to finish. I was really working on trying to keep an efficient stroke all the way through the race.”

There were a few other notable performances for Michigan, including that of Lizzie Koselka, who took second place in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1.50.78.

“I think (Koselka) probably had one of her best in season swims of her life today in the 200 free,” assistant coach Stefanie Kerska said. “She just came up short and got touched out at the end in that 200 free, but her time is really good and she is making some big improvements this year.”

As it is still early in the season, the Wolverines' training schedule is very difficult right now. They are in the process of building an aerobic base, which includes demanding practices every day.

“I think the team did a really good job of stepping up when they were in head-to-head races,” Dauw said. “People put their head down and didn’t breathe into their finish, trying to get their hand on the wall first. And I think we came in with a really good attitude about this meet. Like I said, we had a hard week of training and pretty much everybody stepped up to do what they needed to do to win.”

The diving team had similar success at the meet. Junior Amanda Lohman took first place in the one-meter dive and freshman Brianna Maroukis finished in second place.

With Lohman being the only remaining diver from last season, Maroukis and fellow freshman diver Erin Bridgewater added necessary depth to a depleted diving team.

“I'm pleased with how they are progressing,” diving coach Kz Li said through the athletic department. “They had to learn a completely new technique, but they are coming along nicely. Erin Bridgewater has started to come around. She dove off the three-meter board for the first time in her career today. Briana Maroukis did okay. She is improving and learning every day. Every meet experience she gets, it will help her."

In the three-meter diving event, Lohman, Bridgewater and Maroukis finished first, second, and third, helping the Wolverines to victory. Concluding the meet, the Michigan exhibitioned its final relay as it was leading by so many points.

“The next two weeks are going to be really tough with Indiana and Texas, and then we swim number one and two with Florida and Stanford,” Kerska said. “Next week is going to be really demanding. We’re going to have to put the work in Monday through the time we leave, and then we’re going to have to stand up and swim two of the best teams out there right now."