Pepperdine vs Westmont
- October 26, 2024
- Malibu, Calif.
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Courtesy: Pepperdine Athletics
MALIBU, Calif. – The Waves won 13 of the 14 events en route to a dominant 194-75 win over Westmont at Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool on Saturday afternoon.
RECAP
In the first event of the day, the 400 medley relay team of AJ Adams (Castle Rock, Colo.), Mollie Cho (Frisco, Texas), Natalie Do (Mansfield, Texas) and Alexandra Browne (Arlington, Va.) took first with a time of 3:58.62. The squad of Lindsay Hemming (Orinda, Calif.), Charli Sunahara (Chino, Calif.), Ariana Yeh (San Jose, Calif.) and Elliot Easton (Tampa, Fla.) took second after they finished the event in 3:59.21.
Then in the 200 free relay, the group of Browne, Layla Busquets (Diablo, Calif.), Hemming and Anna Ryan (Alamo, Calif.) finished in first after tabbing a time of 1:38.32.
On the individual side of swimming, the Waves won 11 events while also earning nine second and third place finishes. Adams, Browne, Hemming and Sunahara all won two events, while Cho, Do and Ansley Halbach (Watkinsville, Ga.) each won one event. Sydney Abild (Holyoke, Mass.), Busquets, Cho, Do, Halbach, Eleanor Mashkovich (Calabasas, Calif.), Ryan, Sophia Ware (Allen, Texas) and Ava Wiley (Littleton, Colo.) all notched second place finishes.
Pepperdine took the first three places in the 200 free as Halbach, Layla Busquets (Diablo, Calif.) and Adams all finished with times of 1:57.50, 1:59.20 and 2:00.52.
Adams won the 200 IM after notching a time of 2:11.98 in the event. She also earned the top spot in the 500 free with a time of 5:15.68.
In the 100 fly, Do took first with a time of 59.28.
Sunahara, Abild and Nora Rabe (Wayzata, Minn.) earned the top three places in the 100 breast as they posted times of 1:07.37, 1:09.10 and 1:10.18, respectively.
In the 100 back, the Waves took all three spots on the podium as Hemming, Ware and Lexie Deitemeyer (Golden, Colo.) completed their swims with respective times of 59.74, 59.93 and 1:01.68.
Cho, Do and Emme Spevak (Austin, Texas) collected the first three spots in the 200 fly with respective times of 2:09.88, 2:12.45 and 2:13.04.
In the 50 free sprint, Browne, Mashkovich and Easton took the top three places as they finished with times of 24.24, 24.99 and 25.95, respectively.
Browne, Ryan and Do notched respective times of 53.57, 54.63 and 55.65 in the 100 free as they all made the podium.
In the 200 back, Hemming, Halbach and Ware took the top-3 spots with times of 2:07.90, 2:10.61 and 2:11.35 respectively.
Sunahara, Cho and Kiana Fan (Irvine, Calif.) finished on the podium in the 200 breast with respective times of 2:25.98, 2:26.84 and 2:28.25.
In the 1650 free Wiley clocked a time of 18:08.43, good for second place. Jordyn Larson (Sacramento, Calif.) finished right behind her with a time of 18:31.70.
All results are based on scoring athletes only.
QUOTABLES
“Today the waves took care of business with a dominant performance,” head coach Ellie Monobe said. “This meet really showed us our level of fitness as well as our attention to our plan and race execution. I am starting to see a lot of the things that we’re working on during our training be applied, and I think we are beginning to see a lot of the work in the weight room show up in the pool, which is always a good sign at this point in the season. The staff and I are very excited to see what our next home meet has in store after a few more weeks of training and a bit more rest before our last home meet of the calendar year. We’re being very consistent and it’s showing up in how we are finishing our races, and we’re right where we want to be at this point in the season. Moving forward, we need to be on top of our training both mentally and physically, before we get to our mid-season meet.”
NEXT UP
Pepperdine will have three weeks off before returning to action on Saturday, November 16. The Waves will continue their season at home in a double dual meet against UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego at Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool.
Courtesy: Westmont Athletics
(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) Westmont Swim participated in its first dual meet of the year on Saturday, traveling down the coast to Malibu to compete with the Pepperdine Waves.
“We had a pretty good day today,” said Westmont’s head coach Jill Lin after the event. “Going up against Pepperdine is no easy task, but the team focused on their races and pulled out some great swims.
“Olivia Garrison won the 1650 yard freestyle to start out the meet with a great time,” noted Lin, “and Tiffany Ball dropped almost 45 seconds for a lifetime best time.”
Garrison posted a time of 17:49.65 to beat out Pepperdine’s Ava Wiley by more than 19 seconds. Ball finished in a time of 20:36.13. She also swam a personal best time of 5:57.43 in the 500 yard freestyle.
“Kate Spraul finished second in the 500 yard freestyle coming off a week of being sick, so that was a great swim,” noted Lin.
Spraul finished in a time of 5:28.34 with Garrison taking third in a time of 5:33.79.
“It was great to see some lifetime best times out of Meliana Calica (200 yard breaststroke) and Lilli Nemetz (200 yard butterfly),” added Lin.
Calica touched the wall in the breaststroke in a time of 2:44.60. Nemetz had a time of 2:37.69 in the butterfly.
“Overall it was a good meet for us to see where we are at before mid-season and really narrow down what we need to work on,” assessed Lin.
Next Friday, Westmont will hold its annual Maroon and White Intrasquad meet at the Westmont Pool. The Warriors’ next competition against other schools will be at the La Verne Winter Invitational that will be held November 22-244 at the East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park.
