BUFFALO, NY – The University at Buffalo women's swimming and diving team picked up their seventh consecutive win, defeating MAC rival Bowling Green tonight at UB's Alumni Arena Natatorium by a score of 154-114. The Bulls now stand at 8-2 (4-2 MAC). Senior diver Meili Carpenter broke her own school record in the three-meter event, finishing with a score of 346.88. Carpenter broke the school record in the one-meter event yesterday at St. Bonaventure as well.
The Bulls built their lead early, winning six of the first seven
individual events. Other individual winners throughout the meet
included Alie
Schirmers in the 100 breaststroke, finishing in a
season-best 1:06.08, Koltz in the 50 freestyle (24.04), Simmons in
the 100 freestyle (51.33) and Sam
Palma in the 100 butterfly (57.85).The Bulls started the
meet strong, as the 200 medley relay of Jessica
Ballard, Brynn
Marecki, Jessie
Koltz and Caroline
Simmons took away first-place points with a time of
1:46.44. Jordan
Deren won a pair of events for the Bulls, including the
first individual event of the night, taking the 1,650 freestyle in
a time of 17:30.96. Deren swept the distance events, later winning
the 500 freestyle in a time of 5:08.51. Freshman Katelyn
Pratt-Collins took care of the backstroke events for
Buffalo, winning the 100 backstroke in 58.91, as well as the 200
backstroke in a season-best 2:06.09. Ballard also won two events on
the night, swimming to a season-best time of 1:53.33 in the 200
freestyle, and winning the 400 IM in a team-best 4:29.13.
The men's team will finish up their season next Friday, February 5 with a 4:00 pm road meet at Penn State. The women's team will host one last home meet next Saturday, February 6 as they close out the regular season with a meet against Toledo at 1:00 pm at UB's Alumni Arena Natatorium.