MANKATO, Minn. --- The Minnesota State women's swimming and diving team picked up its second dual victory of the season Friday evening as it bested the Southwest Minnesota State Mustangs 192-74.
MSU now owns a 2-0 dual record this season, while SMSU drops to 0-1. The Mavericks took first place in 15 of the 16 events, including both relay events and both diving events.
"We had a fun meet vs. Southwest Minnesota State," head coach
Nate Owens said. "The meet format was shorter than most with the majority of events being sprints. Many of our swimmers were able to enjoy competing in races that they rarely have the chance to do.
"It was also good to see our divers progressing from week to week and continuing to improve especially on the 3-meter board. Overall, our season is off to a strong start, so it's about building off that moving forward."
The team of junior
Meredith Cox, freshmen
Darah Coleman and
Nicole Beckman, and sophomore
Anja Enervold took first in the 200 medley relay event with a time of 1:51.41. The quartet of senior
Megan Schill, sophomores
Emily Goodman and
Nikki Ault and senior
Maggie Knier posted the fastest finish in the 200 freestyle relay with a time of 1:43.86.
Senior
Jaycie Klein took first place in the 1-meter diving event with a score of 211.25 and in the 3-meter diving event with a score of 199.70.
Enervold also won three individual events against the Mustangs including the 50 backstroke (27.58), the 50 freestyle (25.23) and the 500 freestyle (5:19.30.
Junior
Emelia Selky and sophomore
Kayla Rinderknecht also won a pair of events as well. Selky took first place in the 200 freestyle and the 100 freestyle with times of 1:58.03 and 55.24, respectively. Rinderknecht posted times of 26.68 in the 50 butterfly and 1:01.64 in the 100 IM.
Goodman took first place in the 50 breaststroke with a time of 31.22, while sophomore
Katie Streiff won the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:09.32. Beckman finished first in the 100 butterfly (59.09), while junior
Meredith Cox won the 100 backstroke (1:02.64) also.
Minnesota State continues its season on Friday as they travel to Cedar Falls, Iowa, to take on Northern Iowa. The dual is scheduled to begin at 5:00 p.m.
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