GREELEY, Colo. (Sept. 20, 2018) – Wyoming women's swimming and diving opened up the dual season with a 155-145 victory over the Northern Colorado Bears on Thursday afternoon.
"I think the meet went pretty well. We pulled it off 155-145," head coach
Dave Denniston said. "Our freshmen class really stepped up and swam great.
Lainee Jones was a rock star on the freestyle events and
Andrea Niemann won the 200 backstroke and did a nice job for us today. Overall, the freshmen class raced hard as well as the whole team.
The divers scored points for us as well and Kyle (Bogner) continues to do a good job. I was happy with today. Saw some areas where we can improve and looking to get some speed, because they are obviously in great shape."
The Cowgirls won seven of 16 events highlighted by wins in the freestyle, butterfly, backstroke and sweeps of both boards of diving. In the first win of the day for UW, freshman
Lainee Jones took the 200-yard freestyle with time of 1:54.47. That was followed by a one, two, three finish in the 100-yard backstroke. Senior
Samantha Burke swam a time of 57.46 for the first spot. Fellow senior Conner Tarver took second with a time of 59:30 while freshman Catri Clarke came in third with a time of 1:00.25.
In the 100-yard butterfly, Wyoming took the three of the top four spots. Sophomore
Hannah McLean-Leonard won with a time of 57.13, while freshman
Allana Clarke swam a third place time of 59:08 and freshman
Kira Crane followed in fourth with a 1:00.65 time.
The Cowgirls posted the top three scores on the 3-meter boad led by senior Peyton Grandpre with a 243.00. Freshman
McKenna Houlihan and junior
Abigail Zoromski finished second and third with marks of 190.50 and 186.00, respectively. Grandpre also took the 1-meter event with a 226.50 mark, while Houlihan was third with a score of 202.50
Freshman
Andrea Niemann claimed the 200-yard backstroke with a 2:07.65 time. Senior
Marcela Gramcko was second with her time of 2:09.34 and Tarver came in third with a 2:09.73 time.
In the final event of the day, the 400-yard freestyle relay team of Burke, Jones, McLean-Leonard, freshman
Katelyn Blattner won with a time of 3:32.48.
Wyoming swimming and diving will be back in action on Friday, September 28 with its annual Brown and Gold scrimmage and alumni meet. It is set for 5 p.m. at Corbett Pool.
