Northern Colorado at Colorado State
- Feb. 1, 2019
- Colorado State def. Northern Colorado 158-142
- Results
Courtesy: Colorado State Athletics
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – The Colorado State women’s swimming team finished its regular season with a 158-142 win on Friday night against Northern Colorado at Moby Pool.
Colorado State opened the dual against Northern Colorado with a victory in the 200-yard medley relay, finishing in 1:45.85.
In the 1000-yard free, sophomore Madison Gordley recorded a 10:38.99, to place third on the 2018-19 top performers list for the event.
Redshirt junior, Julia Box took the 100-yard fly by .19 of a second and in the process, bettered her personal-best time by .07 with a 57.48 mark to hold the third fastest time on the season.
Other event winners for Colorado State:
- Senior Tonicia Thomas, 100 backstroke (56.57), 200 backstroke (2:05.43)
- Sophomore Maddie Ward, 100 breaststroke (1:05.17), 200 breaststroke (2:20.52)
- Junior Marie Goodwyn, 200 butterfly (2:06.15), 200 IM (2:07.72)
IN THEIR WORDS
Head Coach Christopher Woodard on the swimmers’ performance in the last regular season meet…
“It’s generally really tough to swim at this point (with the Mountain West Championship) about three weeks out because our girls are really beat up. I was appreciative of what they did. I think they showed a lot of grit and resolve, especially against Northern Colorado. Hats off to UNC; they have become a very, very tough team to compete against. For our team to rise to that level and make sure they pulled out the Ws, I am very hopeful for what we will be able to accomplish in the next three weeks.”
Woodard on working toward the Championship…
“First we need to get healthy. We don’t have some swimmers in their usual positions, so first and foremost is get them healthy, rest them a whole bunch and then we will see what happens.”
UP NEXT
The Rams will have about three weeks off before traveling to Minneapolis for the Mountain West Championships held at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center from Feb. 20-23, 2019.
Courtesy: Northern Colorado Athletics
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Northern Colorado swim and dive fought back after an early deficit against Colorado State, but it wasn’t enough as the Rams edged the Bears 158-142 on Friday night. The two teams split first and second place in all 16 events, while the Rams took third in nine of the 16 events to just beat out UNC in the meet.
CSU jumped out to the early lead against the Bears by taking four of the first five events, making UNC play catch up for most of the meet.
Rose Saya and Maddy Moore each had impressive nights in the pool, both taking two individual events and being on the winning 400 free relay team at the end of the meet.
Saya won the 200 and 500 free, while Moore won the 50 and 100 free. Saya touched the wall in the 200 free at 1:54.30 and took the 500 free with a time of 5:03.84. In the short length freestyle races, Moore won with times of 23.78 and 52.21 in the 50 and 100, respectively. Moore started off the 400 relay team while Saya was third in the order as they won it in 3:29.44.
Joining Moore and Saya on the 400 relay team were Morgan King and Emily Hamel.
One other Bear won multiple events in the meet and it came from the diving board in Celeste Llona. She took the 1 meter with a score of 269.33 and the 3 meter by posting a 276.90.
Anna Austin was the team’s lone other event winner, taking the 1000 free in a time of 10:34.92.
What’s ahead
Northern Colorado will now take the remainder of the month to train and prepare for the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) Championships over February 27-March 2 in Houston, Texas.