The Washington University swimming and diving teams took part in their marquee meet of the fall season this past weekend, setting multiple school records and reaching several NCAA qualification marks as both the men’s and women’s teams won the Wheaton Invitational.

Over the two-day meet, the squads combined for five school records and 25 NCAA B-cut qualifying times. While the exact scores of the meet were not posted, head coach Brad Shively confirmed that both teams won, marking the first time in program history that both the men’s and women’s teams were winners at the Wheaton Invitational.

“I think it went really well, and it just started with a lot of enthusiasm,” Shively said. “A lot of energy, just a real commitment to try and make this meet a positive meet from a performance standpoint. That’s really why we had the weekend we did.”

The women’s side was led by freshman Kristalyn McAfee, who was on three relays that took first place and two that set school records. McAfee teamed up on the first day with freshman Katie Anderson and juniors Jennifer Tartavull and Allison Siegel to set a school record in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:36.02. She was then on the winning 800-meter freestyle relay (7:37.66) with sophomore Sara Taege and freshmen Grace Counts and Toireasa Rafferty-Millett before winning the 400-meter medley relay (3:55.31) with Anderson, Tartavull and freshman Amanda Stadermann.

On the second day, the 400-meter freestyle relay with Anderson, Tartavull, Counts and McAfee finished in second place with a time of 3:29.10 (just .65 seconds off of the winning time), setting another school record in the process, and the 200-meter medley relay of junior Chi Pham, Tartavull, Stadermann and Siegel was a winner in 1:48.21.

“We went into the year believing that how relays went, our team would go as well,” Shively said. “It was something we very much knew at the beginning of the year, that we wanted that to be the focus of this team, and this weekend just showed it.”

Individual winners for the women included Stadermann’s 2:07.58 in the 200-meter individual medley and 2:05.07 in the 200-meter butterfly, Taege’s 5:03.98 in the 500-meter freestyle and McAfee’s 1:51.46 in the 200-meter freestyle. In addition, Stadermann set a school record in the 200-meter butterfly preliminaries with a time of 2:05.05.

The men’s relays were highlighted by wins in the 800-meter freestyle, with sophomores Luke Dobben, Matt Nutter and Will Miller and junior Alex Cox clocking in at 6:58.71, and the 200-meter medley, with Nutter, junior Brian Carpenter, freshman Reed Dalton and senior Brendan Morin combining for a time of 1:32.00.

Individual winners were Dobben in the 500-meter freestyle (4:40.21), sophomore Zane Turpin in the 200-meter butterfly (1:53.52) and 1,650-meter freestyle (16:02.17) and Morin, who broke his own school record in the 100-meter butterfly (49.50).

Of note was the impact the Bears’ freshmen had on the meet, and Shively praised the growth of McAfee, Counts, Dalton, Anderson, Stadermann, Hannah Lillioja, Kaisen Yao and more members of the class of 2016.

“We had a lot of young swimmers that had good swims this weekend,” Shively said. “I thought the returning swimmers have done a really good job of making sure they know they have the opportunity to contribute right away.”

Wash. U. will have its next meet on Wednesday, Jan. 9, as the men’s team faces Wabash College at the Athletic Complex.