JACKSONVILLE, IL – The women's swimming and diving team traveled to Illinois College for a quad meet – taking on Illinois College, Millikin University and Knox College. While the women came up short in scoring against all three schools, they came away with 10 Best swims as well as experience in new events.
Junior Captain Dani McKenzie and sophomore
Shelby Barner led the way with three best each. Barner earned season bests swims in the 100 Breast (1:22.16), 50 Free (27.51) and the 50 Free relay split (26.51). Mc Kenzie earn her bests in the 50 Free (25.84) which was a season best, 100 Fly (1:05.58) also a season best which she used to win the event, and her 50 Free relay split (26.08) from the 200 Free relay which was an unshaved lifetime best. Also contributing season bests were sophomore
Annika Erickson in the 50 Free (33.79) while leading off the 200 Free relay, sophomore
Adriana Lopez in the 100 Free (1:18.96), sophomore Caroling Morales in the 50 Free (33.16) and fellow sophomore
Hannah Schlomann in the 200 Free (2:45.81).
Since the meet include the longer stroke and IM events, many swimmers were swimming new events or swimming the longer events for the first time. It was an opportunity to expand their abilities and they proved up to the challenge.
While the team scores were not on the positive side for the team, the progress being made was shown through the number of best swims and the number of new events swum at the meet.
The women will be back in the water on Saturday, Nov 15 when they take on Lindenwood-Belleville at home on 1 pm.
