San Diego vs Pepperdine
- January 17, 2025
- San Diego, Calif.
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Courtesy: San Diego Athletics
SAN DIEGO — Returning to their home pool for the second week in a row, the San Diego women’s swimming and diving team put together a great effort to best Pepperdine by a 932-890 margin on Friday afternoon at the USD Sports Center Pool.
The Toreros had the first place finisher in 11 of the 19 events in the dual swimming and diving meet against their conference opponent on Friday. USD received a tremendous performance from Jane Riehs as she earned scores of 243.75 and 240.75 in both sections of the one meter dive.
Additionally, San Diego came in first place in both the 200 and 400 freestyle relays as Gabrielle Zinis, Mallory Paine, Ava Delaney and Analeis Vos teamed up to win their races in both events.
Also excelling in the endurance portion of the meet, Skylar Bruner turned in a time of 17:24.96 on Friday afternoon while racing against six other competitors.
To view the full results from today’s meet, please click here.
USD swimming and diving will be back in action next week to face their crosstown rival San Diego State on Friday January 24 and Saturday January 25. The Toreros will host Friday afternoon’s meet at the USD Sports Center Pool beginning at 2:00 p.m., while the Aztecs will host Saturday’s section and will begin at 9:00 a.m. from the Aztec Aquaplex. All USD home meets are free and open to the public.
Courtesy: Pepperdine Athletics
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Although Nora Rabe and Mollie Cho entered the Pepperdine all-time top-10 list in the 200 breast, the Pepperdine women’s swim and dive program fell to San Diego 922-895 in a dual meet at USD Sports Center Pool today.
SWIM RECAP
RELAYS
Pepperdine collected two first place finishes and three second place spots in the relays. The squad of Layla Busquets (Diablo, Calif.), Charli Sunahara (Chino, Calif.), Sophia Ware (Allen, Texas) and Alexandra Browne (Arlington, Va.) won the 400 medley (3:53.69), while the group of Busquets, Sunahara, Browne and Elliot Easton (Tampa, Fla.) finished the fastest in the 200 medley (1:46.39).
Second place finishes in the relays came from Browne, Busquets, Lindsay Hemming (Orinda, Calif.) and Easton in the 200 free (1:36.47), Kiana Fan (Irvine, Calif.), Sydney Abild (Holyoke, Mass.) Emme Spevak (Austin, Texas) and Easton in the 400 medley (3:56.23) and Browne, Busquets, Natalie Do (Mansfield, Texas) and Easton in the 400 free (3:34.02).
INDIVIDUALS
Nora Rabe (Wayzata, Minn.) and Mollie Cho (Frisco, Texas) respectively earned the third and seventh spot on the Waves all-time top-10 list in the 200 breast. Rabe notched a time of 2:20.85 and Cho clocked a 2:22.27 in the event.
Six Waves took first in their respective events: Abild (100 breast, 1:05.04), Halbach (400 IM, 4:33.48), Hemming (500 free, 5:06.88), Rabe (200 breast, 2:20.85), Spevak (200 fly, 2:08.96) and Ware (100 fly, 56.31).
Seven Pepperdine swimmers collected second place finishes: Browne (50 free, 24.19), Busquets (100 back, 58.64 and 100 fly,), Cho (200 breast, 2:22.27 and 400 IM, 4:35.76), Do (200 fly, 2:10.95), Fan (200 IM, 2:09.09), Halbach (1650 free, 17:41.99) and Sunahara (100 breast, 1;05.16).
Five Waves earned the final spot in the podium in their events: Adams (200 IM, 2:09.85), Easton (200 free, 1:56.60), Sunahara (200 breast, 2:22.34), Ware (200 back, 2:07.05) and Wheeler (1650 free, 18:10.22).
All results from today’s meet can be found on the Pepperdine swim and dive schedule page on pepperdinewaves.com.
DIVING RECAP
In the 1-meter, Amanda Wong (Santa Ana, Calif.) took second after tallying scores of 236.25 and 227.70. Lexie Martin (Keller, Texas) finished right behind in third after posting scores of 232.95 and 221.70.
NEXT UP
Pepperdine will return home to Malibu, Calif. to host Azusa Pacific in a dual meet on Saturday, January 25 at 10 a.m. The meet will be streamed on Overnght (subscription required) and a link to the stream can be found here.
Saturday will also be senior day where the seven Pepperdine seniors will be honored.
