2024 RODIONOFF INVITE
- October 4-5, 2024
- Malibu, Calif.
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
- Team Scores
Courtesy: Pepperdine Athletics
MALIBU, Calif. – The fourth annual Rodionoff Invite came to a close with the same result as the previous three years. The Pepperdine swimming & diving program earned the most points out of all the Division I teams competing at Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool this weekend.
The Waves accumulated 340 points over both days of competition.
SWIM RECAP
All swimming results below will be amongst the competition at the Division I level.
In the first event of the day, the 200 medley relay team of Kiana Fan (Irvine, Calif.), Sydney Abild (Holyoke, Mass.), Sophia Ware (Allen, Texas) and Alexandra Browne (Arlington, Va.) earned a third-place finish with a time of 1:49.06.
The squad of Browne, Natalie Do (Mansfield, Texas), Lindsay Hemming (Orinda, Calif.) and Anna Ryan (Alamo, Calif.) took first
On the individual side, Pepperdine swimmers won one event, took second four times and had two third-place finishes.
Continuing her dominance in sprints, Browne won the 50 free with a time of 23.84 this afternoon.
In the 400 IM, junior AJ Adams (Castle Rock, Colo.) continued her strong start to the season as she took second by swimming the event in 4:36.42. Sophomore Ansley Halbach (Watkinsville, Ga.) completed the event right behind her in 4:39.79. Halbach also got second in the 500 free with a time of 5:09.57.
Freshman Mollie Cho (Frisco, Texas) earned a second place finish in the 200 breast as well as a fourth place finish in the 100 fly, which was also the fastest time for the Waves in the event.
Sophomore Layla Busquets (Diablo, Calif.) notched a second-place finish in the 100 back as she finished her swim in 59.68.
Junior Anna Ryan (Alamo, Calif.) clocked a time of 1:57.18 in the 200 free – good for a third-place finish.
DIVING RECAP
In the 1-meter competition, Vivian Vallely (Newport Beach, Calif.) earned another second-place finish on the weekend with a score of 254.05. Amanda Wong (Santa Ana, Calif.) posted a score of 226.35 – good for sixth out of the 22 competitors today. Delainey Pisaruk (Phoenix, Ariz.) notched a score of 218.90 which gave her an 11th-place finish. Lexie Martin (Keller, Texas) finished in 13th with a total of 208.45 points.
QUOTABLES
“Once again, I’m very impressed with the depth of our team and how we finished this invite,” head coach Ellie Monobe said. “We were about four points down going into today and we’re thrilled with the result and coming out on top. B relays played a huge role in helping us come away with the win today. We’re very excited to see all the consistency in our swimming. We are also pleased to see our seniors get the job done and show our underclassmen how to handle racing tired. Overall, I’m very happy with where we are, this meet came a week earlier than past seasons and seeing our results be ahead of where we were last year is huge.”
“Overall, we had a pretty successful invite,” diving coach Monique Demaisip said. “We’re still trying to work on a little more power and the details, but I’m really happy with how this went and really excited to see how we improve in future meets.”
DIVISION I RESULTS: 1. Pepperdine, 340; 2. Utah Tech, 306.50; 3. San Diego, 111, California Baptist, 72.50.
NEXT UP
The Waves will head to Bakersfield, Calif. next weekend as they will compete in the CSUB Sprint Classic on Friday at noon and the Roadrunner Invite on Saturday at 10 a.m. Other schools with women’s swimming & diving programs competing at the meets include Cal State Bakersfield, Denver, UC Santa Barbara, Cal Poly, UC Davis and San Jose.
Courtesy: Cal Baptist Athletics
MALIBU, CA & SEATTLE, WA – The California Baptist University men’s and women’s swim & dive teams took on the West Coast this weekend, battling several teams in Seattle and Malibu to different degrees.
SWIMMING
California Baptist split the squad to open the season, taking the bulk of the team to Seattle U for an early conference battle against the Redhawks and Grand Canyon. Both teams dominated the host Redhawks, with the men winning 205 – 103 and the women posting an even more lopsided score of 228.5 – 83.5. However, the Lopes would take the heads-up battle against CBU, 181-134 on the men’s side and 202-112 in the women’s competition.
The Lancers claimed 15 wins in Seattle out of the 34 contested events. A pair of relay wins boosted 13 individual victories, but the story of this trip might be the half-dozen pool records that the Lancers broke over the two-day meet. Both of the relay wins, men’s 400 freestyle and women’s 200 freestyle, earned a spot in the pool record book, with Remi Fabiani’s lead leg in that relay also setting the 100 free record in a time of 44.44. Mark Kovacsics broke the 500 and 1,000 freestyle records on consecutive days, and Sofia Maksimova is the proud new owner of the Redhawk Center Pool 50 freestyle record.
Six other Lancers accompanied the relay wins, Fabiani, Kovacsics, and Maksimova in the winner’s circle in Seattle. Liam Flaherty took the win in the 400 individual medley, Jonathan Reiter won his 200 breaststroke race, Andrew Teh took the dub in his 200 butterfly heat, Naya Koc took the 200 freestyle, and Lynn Henke won the 200 breast. Andrija Petkovic made a very impressive Lancer debut by joining Maksimova and Kovacsics as the only Lancers to win multiple individual races, as he took the titles in the 100 and 200 free.
DIVING
On the boards, the Lancers picked up where they left off last season, with dominant performances on both days of Pepperdine’s Rodionoff Invite. In total, CBU earned seven berths to NCAA Zone Qualifiers in the season-opening meet which covered both springboard events.
CBU claimed each event’s winner and four NCAA qualifying marks on opening day. CBU posted the top-four places in the men’s event, but Gael Jimenez would take the 1-meter title with a score of 382.40. Mario Del Valle finished runner-up in Malibu on Friday, posting a score of 340.15. The two National Qualifiers from a season ago easily hit the NCAA mark and booked their spots in this season’s Zone E Qualifiers in Federal Way, Washington. Nate Warson (284.45) and John Angelovic (282.60) would round out the top four in the competition but narrowly missed NCAA qualifying on Friday.
On the women’s side, a deeper field yielded similar results as Audrey Thordarson-Wehner took the 3-meter crown with a qualifying score of 311.70. Bella Reynolds also made it to the podium and Zone E Qualification with a third-place score of 280.25. Freshman Jade Fontenelle made her collegiate debut on Friday, posting a score of 247.50 for a sixth-place finish.
Saturday saw Mario Del Valle double his Zone E qualifications, winning the men’s 3-meter competition with a score of 346.50. Sophomore Angelovic also reserved a spot in the Zone E Qualifiers on Saturday as his second-place score of 328.25 put him comfortably beyond the requirement. Warson rounded out the podium spots with a 239.70 score.
Thordarson-Wehner joined Del Valle as the Lancer’s double Zone qualifiers this weekend, winning both women’s events by posting a score of 273.30 during Saturday’s 1-meter event. Fontenelle improved on Friday’s debut effort and placed third out of 22 divers with a score of 238.40. Reynolds posted a score of 223.95, which was enough to finish seventh.
