GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Heading into 2011-12, it would seem as if the swimming teams would be hard-pressed to improve upon their banner season of 2010-11.

After all, the Bullets had swept the Centennial Conference titles for the first time since 2001 while competing in their home waters at the Gettysburg College Bullets Pool, which had opened just one year earlier. The men's team lost just one dual meet while the women put together a 7-3 record.

However, both teams found a way to raise the bar in 2011-12. After putting together matching undefeated dual meet seasons, the Bullets hosted the Centennial Conference Championships again and completed a second consecutive sweep, marking top moment No. 4 at Gettysburg College athletics in 2011-12.

The titles gave Head Coach Mike Rawleigh his 35th and 36th conference championships at Gettysburg. He was later named the Centennial Conference Men's Swimming Coach of the Year.

The men's team seized a 53-point lead after the short Day One of the championships and nearly tripled the gap on the second day. Powered by gold-medal finishes in seven events, the Bullets finished the meet a whopping 222 points in front of runner-up Dickinson College.

The race for the women's title featured a bit more drama, as the Bullets trailed Franklin & Marshall by 18.5 points and led Ursinus College by just a half point following Day One. Gettysburg surged to the lead after Day Two, leading F&M by 15.5 points, and after falling behind briefly on the final day, the Bullets pulled away to top the Diplomats by 38 points.

The Bullet men flexed their muscle in the relays, winning four of the five events while posting NCAA Division III Championship-qualifying “B” cuts in all five. The four winning relay teams (200-freestyle, 400-freestyle, 800-freestyle, 400-medley) all set school, Centennial Conference, and Centennial Conference championship meet records. Matt Libby '12 swam on all five relays, and he carted away additional gold medals in the 100- and 200-freestyle.

The meet propelled a significant portion of the men's team into the NCAA Division III Championships, as a program-record seven swimmers advanced to nationals in 12 events.

On women's side, the Bullets accomplished the uncommon feat of earning a conference title without a single event winner. However, Gettysburg piled up points by claiming second- or third-place finishes in 14 of 18 events and taking fourth place or better in all five relays. The Bullets came the closest to a conference title in the 200-freestyle relay, placing third and just four-hundredths of a second out of first, while the 800-free relay team of Caroline Coolidge '13, Cooper Kearns '15, Ali Roth '14, and Haley Weaver '15 broke the school record. Weaver captured the most individual medals for the women, taking home two silver (200-freestyle, 200-backstroke) and one bronze (200-IM) in her Centennial Conference championship debut.