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Recap | Results

October 30, 2009

PIRATES IMPRESSIVE ON FIRST DAY OF OPENING WEEKEND

CONWAY, Ark. – The Southwestern women’s swim team got off to an incredible start to their season at the 42nd Annual Hendrix Classic, winning one event and posting 12 top ten finishes.

Junior Bailey Thompson took first place and earned 20 points for the Pirates in the 200 yard backstroke. Her time of 2:12.77 was almost two seconds faster than the second place finisher, leaving the rest of her competition in her wake. Thompson also swam the 200 yard free, taking sixth place in that event with a time of 2:03.82 and teamed up with senior Stephanie Morton, first-year Melissa Nelson and sophomore Sarah Ayers in the 400 yard medley relay that took fifth place in a time of 4:21.47.

SU’s 400 free relay of junior Michelle Comerota, first-year Elizabeth Lewis, sophomore Christine Moody and Nelson matched the fifth place finish of the medley relay with a time of 4:00.73.

Comerota took fifth place after shaving nearly a second off of her seed time in the 100 free to finish with a 59.03. Moody finished in 13th in the same event with a time of 1:01.06 and took seventh place with a time of 26.90 in the 50 free. Teammate Morton finished in 16th place in the 50 free in a time of 29.53.

Lewis looked tough in her first collegiate meet, placing fifth in the 500 yard free. Her time of 5:32.33 was a whopping 12 seconds better than her seed time. Fellow first-year Katie Coleman shaved off 17 seconds on her 500 time to come in at 6:28.90 and in 11th place.

Nelson seized seventh as well in the 200 butterfly with a 2:22.72 while senior Anya Lopez-Fuentes came in 12th at 3:09.21.

Ayers had a solid individual finish of her own coming in eighth place in the 200 individual medley, finishing in 2:21.85, almost four seconds better than her seed time and came in 10th in the 200 yard back in a time of 2:22.61.

Other finishes for the Pirates were Comerota’s 15th place finish in the 200 yard freestyle (2:13.51) and Morton’s 10th place finish in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:46.91.

Southwestern will continue their meet at the Hendrix relays on Saturday.