Stanford ladies’s swimming opened their season with a second place end in La Jolla this previous weekend on the Triton Invite. Scored throughout three periods, the two-day meet occurred Oct. 10-11 and featured rivals from UC Berkeley, the University of Hawaii, UC Santa Barbara and host college UC San Diego.
Starting the meet off robust, freshmen Anna Berlin and Annam Olasewere, junior Lucy Thomas and redshirt-senior Torri Huske gained the 200 medley relay (1:36.50) in meet-record time. Thomas and Huske each posted the quickest relay splits of the meet for his or her respective legs through the occasion.
Thomas, swimming breaststroke, was the quickest second-leg by half a second, swimming a 26.42. Huske, swimming butterfly, was one in all two swimmers to interrupt the 24-second barrier, and the one swimmer to go quicker than 23 seconds, doing so in a convincing 22.60.
Huske, Olasewere, Thomas and senior Gigi Johnson all earned top-eight finishes within the 50 freestyle, with Huske resetting the Triton Invite file from 22.16 (set final yr by Berkeley’s Mary-Ambre Moluh) to 22.06. Olasewere, putting third total, was the quickest freshman within the area, touching in at 22.91.
Huske (48.34) and Olasewere (50.06), sticking to their dash experience, completed first and seventh within the 100 freestyle on the second day of competitors. Huske rounded out the dash freestyle sweep with a win within the 200 distance and a time of 1:44.45.
In the space freestyle occasions, sophomore Bailey O’Regan completed highest for the Cardinal in 17:08.78 to put third within the 1650 yard freestyle, NCAA swimming’s longest occasion. Senior Sophie Duncan (17:16.08) positioned fifth. Seniors Kayla Wilson (4:51.74) and Natalie Mannion (4:55.51) positioned highest for Stanford within the 500 distance, ending eighth and ninth.
As the highest-performing backstroker from Stanford, sophomore Levenia Sim opened her season with two top-four finishes. Sim completed third (54.42) and fourth (1:59.44) within the 100 and 200 distances.
The 200 particular person medley (IM) noticed sophomore Emily Thompson (2:01.86) and freshman Ella Jablonski (2:02.35) end fourth and fifth.
In the 200 butterfly, junior Caroline Bricker (1:57.97) and senior Lucy Bell (1:58.30) completed second and third behind UCSB’s Samantha Banos. In the 100 distance, Bell completed as Stanford’s lone consultant within the high eight, putting third with a time of 53.35. Both Bricker and Bell gained NCAA titles final yr within the 400 IM and the 200 breaststroke, respectively.
Bricker continued the second day of competitors with two extra second place finishes within the 400 IM (4:15.26) and the 200 breaststroke (2:13.31). In the latter occasion, freshman Adalene Robillard joined Bricker on the rostrum, putting third in 2:14.05. Thomas (1:01.12) and Robillard (1:02.23) completed second and fifth within the 100 breaststroke.
In the ultimate occasion of the competitors, the quartet of Huske, Olasewere, Johnson and Thomas (1:30.66) fell brief by 0.43 seconds to UC Berkeley to complete second within the 200 freestyle relay.
Stanford completed in second place with 898.5 factors, in need of Cal’s 1,202 factors. Torri Huske was the Cardinal’s highest particular person scorer with 72 factors from her three wins within the dash freestyle occasions.
The Cardinal will return to Avery Aquatic Center on Oct. 24 to face off towards Arizona State University and UC Berkeley.