Women's Swimming 400-Yard Medley Relay Team Finishes First At NCAA Championships!!!!!
Complete Day Two Results
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. (March 7, 2013) – Sophomore
Johanna Pettersson (Kungalv, Sweden), freshman
Joyce Kwok (Middle Village, N.Y.), junior
Tamara Garriock (Duncan, British Columbia, Canada), and freshman
Meghan Brazier (West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) teamed up for the LIU Post women's swimming team at the NCAA Championships and kicked their way to a first place finish in the 400-yard medley relay!
The four swimmers combined to finish the race with a time of 3:42.48. They had a :01.27 cushion as the second place team Simon Fraser slapped the wall after 3:44.15 had passed. The Pioneer team shattered the previous team record that they set Feb. 15 at the Metropolitan Championships when they finished that race with a time of 3:45.90.
Kwok and Garriock also finished Day 2 with individual top-eight finishes. Kwok competed in the 100-yard butterfly, registering a team record and personal best time of 53.69 in the preliminaries before finishing third in the finals with a time of 55.12.
Marthe Soerensen (Stavanger, Norway) also competed in the event, finishing the preliminaries with a time of 56.47 earning her a place in the consolation final where she finished with a time of 57.04, good for eighth place in the consolation. Garriock grabbed her second All-America Honors of the Championship with her sixth place finish in the 200-yard freestyle. She finished with a time of 1:50.50, shaving fifteen-hundredths of a second off the time she finished with at last year's NCAAs in which she placed seventh in the event.
The Pioneer 200-yard freestyle relay team that competed on the day consisted of the freshmen trio of Brazier, Soerensen, and
Seren Jones (Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom) finished the preliminaries with a time of 1:35.34 earning them a spot in the consolation final for the event. During the final race, the squad finished one-hundredth of a second faster with a time of 1:35.33, good for fifth place in the consolation finals.
With the great finishes of Day 2, the Pioneers have accumulated 124 total points and jumped up three spots to fifth place in the team rankings. Drury University still holds the first place spot with 237.5 points.
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