Courtesy of IU Women’s Swimming & Diving.
The University of Iowa women’s swimming and diving team opens its home dual slate Friday in Iowa City, Iowa, hosting Michigan State and Northern Iowa. The action will begin at 4 p.m. (CT) at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center Pool.
LIVE RESULTS
Fans can follow the intrasquad meet via live results by following this link (http://www.livestats. hawkeyesports.com).
PROMOTIONS
All kids who attend the meet will receive free pizza, play life-sized board games, and have the opportunity to get autographs from their favorite Hawkeyes after the dual.
BLACK SQUAD CLAIMS INTRASQUAD MEET
The black squad downed the gold team, 122-104, on Oct. 11 at the Black & Gold Intrasquad Meet at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center Pool. Senior Lindsay Seemann led the black squad, posting three event wins. She got the evening started by swimming the lead leg of the 200-medley relay (1:44.36). She was joined on the relay by seniors Karolina Wartalowicz and Abbey Tuchscherer and sophomore Olivia Kabacinski. Freshman Serena Wanasek posted a first and two second place finishes. She posted the top time in the 500 free (5:11.90), while finishing as runner-up in the 1,000 free (10:41.36) and as a member of the 200-free relay (1:37.30) along with Emma Sougstad, Emily Hovren and Hannah Maher.
HAWKEYES SET WORLD RECORD
The University of Iowa swimming and diving team swam to a World Record in the 200 short course meters mixed-medley relay at the Michigan Water Carnival. In the second-to-last event, the Hawkeyes swam to a World Record time when seniors Dustin Rhoads and Andrew Marciniak, junior Haley Gordon and sophomore Olivia Kabacinski finished with a time of 1:47.61. Iowa also bested a previous World Record time in the mixed 200-meter freestyle relay when sophomore Jackson Allen, senior Gianni Sesto, freshman Emma Sougstad and sophomore Allie Orvis posted a time of 1:40.26. Michigan took down the old record, finishing in 1:36.78.
SOUGSTAD EARNS FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK HONORS
Freshman Emma Sougstad was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week on Oct.1. Sougstad, competing in her first collegiate dual at Michigan on Sept. 27, won the 50-yard freestyle, touching out in 23.84. The Forest City, Iowa, native also tallied second place finishes in the 200-yard IM (2:05.87) and the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:32.51). In the freestyle relay, Sougstad swam the anchor leg for the Hawkeyes, finishing in 3:32.51. She rounded out the meet by placing third in the 200-yard medley relay (1:45.92), in which she swam the second leg.
SEASON RECAP
The Hawkeyes enter the 2013-14 season after posting an 8-2 dual meet record, including a 4-2 mark in Big Ten meets. Iowa finished the season with a 10th place finish at the Big Ten Championships.
This release was provided to SwimSwam courtesy of IU Swimming & Diving.