Northwestern Crushes Competition at Season-Opening Quad Meet

10/24/2015 9:22:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving

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CHICAGO, Ill. — Northwestern won 13 of 16 events and broke three pool records in their first meet of the season Saturday en route to three resounding victories over Chicago, UIC and Denison.

The 'Cats defeated Chicago, 238-61, UIC, 206.5-90.5, and Denison, 211-89.

Junior Lacey Locke (Carmel, Ind./Carmel) set the pool record at Chicago in the 100 backstroke with a time of 55.45. She crushed her competition as her time was nearly three seconds faster than the next-closest swimmer. Freshman Alex Grimes (Los Gatos, Calif./Los Gatos) and junior Jackie Doyle (Danville, Calif./San Ramon Valley) placed third and 10th in the same event, respectively.

The quartet of Locke, Julianne Kurke (Atlanta, Ga./Parkview), Julia Pratt (Vincennes, Ind./Vincennes Rivet) and Mary Warren (Hartland, Wis./Arrowhead) broke another pool record, this time in the 200 medley relay, with a time of 1:45.05. The four swimmers edged out the second-place finisher by more than a second.

Northwestern had two 1-2-3 finishes on both the 1-meter and 3-meter boards, with freshman Olivia Rosendahl (Los Angeles, Calif./Immaculate Heart) placing first in both. In the 3-meter, she broke the pool record by 3.25 with a score of 318.98. Trailing right behind her were freshman Janicia Ng (Torrance, Calif./Connections Academy) and sophomore Mashal Hashem (Potomac, Md./Winston Churchill) with scores of 256.80 and 235.28, respectively. On the 1-meter board, Rosendahl, Ng and Eryn Scannell (Grand Blanc, Mich./Grand Blanc Community) earned scores of 281.18, 262.43 and 255.75, respectively.

Another group of Wildcats recorded 1-2-3 performances, this time in the 100 fly. Grimes, Locke and sophomore Maddy Sims (Downers Grove, Ill./Downers Grove) finished in 56.77, 56.97 and 57.01, respectively.

Northwestern snatched more points in the 400 free relay with the 'A' team of junior Annika Winsnes (Singapore/United World College), sophomore Anna Keane (Edmonds, Wash./Meadowdale), Warren and Locke turning in a first place time of 3:29.59.

Three Wildcats finished in the top six in the 100 breast with Kurke finishing in first place (1:04.84). Freshman Lindsey Adamski (Hartland, Wis./Arrowhead) and junior Katie Branch (Phoenix, Ariz./Horizon Honors) finished in 1:06.22 and 1:06.82, respectively.

Winsnes placed first in the 200 free with a time of 1:51.41. Right behind her were teammates Aja Malone (Acworth, Ga./Allatoona) and Megan Purdy (Boulder City, Nev./Boulder City) with times of 1:56.56 and 1:58.47, respectively. Winsnes also had a first-place finish in the 50 free, finishing in 24.08.

Warren was back in her winning ways in the 100 free, grabbing more points for the Wildcats thanks to a 52.05 finish. Malone and Pratt were also top-nine finishers in the event, turning in times of 53.86 and 54.36, respectively.

Junior Melissa Postoll (Acworth, Ga./Kennesaw Mountain) trounced her competition in the 200 back, edging the next-closest swimmer by 3.23 seconds and finishing in 2:02.86. Grimes and senior Ellen Anderson (Montgomery Village, Md./Gaithersburg) finished in third and fourth with times of 2:08.00 and 2:08.72, respectively. Postoll followed suit in the 200 IM, cruising to a first-place finish of 2:07.20.

Freshman Peyton Greenberg (Louisville, Ky./duPont Manual) and Kurke finished 1-2 in the 200 breast in 2:21.37 and 2:22.16, respectively. Branch finished in sixth (2:26.62).

The 'Cats narrowly had another first-place finish, but Sims trailed the first-place swimmer in the 200 fly by six-tenths of a second, earning a second-place finish of 2:04.71. Greenberg also aided Northwestern's efforts with a third-place time of 2:06.66.

Northwestern is back at it on Friday, Oct. 30 as they travel to Urbana-Champaign, Ill., to take on Illinois. The meet will begin at 5:00 p.m. CT.