CSU and UMary @ Mines Double Dual Meet
- Saturday, October 16, 2021
- Golden, Colo.
- Results
Courtesy: Colorado State Athletics
GOLDEN, Colo. – Jumping in for one competition about 13 hours after the first didn’t slow them down. Neither did switching up assignments or heading on the road.
In an 11-event double dual with host Colorado School of Mines and the University of Mary, the Rams made 10 a prominent number for the day, posting victories over the Miners (120-49) and the Marauders (122-47) to improve to 10-0 on the season after getting race wins from 10 different members. This is the first 10-0 start to a season for the program since the 2000-01 campaign, when the Rams were 10-0 on the year.
“That’s the biggest thing,” CSU coach Christopher Woodard said. “They definitely showed some fatigue, and they made some lapses in judgement in terms of their race strategy, but overall, I can’t complain. We still swam tough on the second day. They didn’t take it for granted.”
Emily Chorpening (1,000-yard freestyle; 10:53.90), Hannah Sykes (200 butterfly; 2:09.76), Sarah Mundy (100 free; 53.15), Caroline Perry (200 back; 2:11.25), Abbey Owenby (500 free; 5:14.49)) and Emma Breslin (200 breast; 2:24.77) all picked up their first event wins of the season, while Kristina Friedrichs (50 free; 24.02) won her third in two days, and Anika Johnson (200 free; 1:54.70) and Maisy Barbosa (400 individual medley; 4:34.59) each notched their second on the season.
The Rams also won the 400 medley relay (3:59.76) to start the day and posted the best time in the 400 free relay, but competed that final race of the day as an exhibition. Breslin’s victory led a 1-4 finish in the race for CSU, followed by Maya White, Katie McClelland and Olivia LeBlanc. They had a 1-2-3 finish in the 200 free, 400 IM and 200 fly.
In the process, Johnson and Breslin set the pool records in their events.
“That was a key opportunity for them,” Woodard said. “I think Anika, she can kind of be unassuming, but she went in, looked directly at the record, tried to figure out what she had to go and warmed up precisely to that and beat it by a tenth of a second. I’m so encouraged by Emma’s power, which we always knew she had, but also her consistency. We know it’s only been two weekends and four days of racing, but she’s shown amazing resilience across each one of them. She hasn’t really dropped a race.”
On a day with no diving competed, Woodard lightened the load of some of the swimmers, while taking a look at new events for others to explore the possibilities of depth and scoring potential for the team down the road.
“This was an opportunity for some of the second- and third-tier kids to get some exposure to leading a race, or trying to control a race,” Woodard said. “Some of the kids had a chance in their secondary events to focus on that.”
The Rams return to action Friday when they host their final home meet of the season and Senior Day as Idaho visits Moby Pool (4 p.m.).
