San Jose State Women Defeat Pacific, UC Santa Cruz In Home Return

San Jose State v. Pacific v. UC Santa Cruz (Women)

• Saturday, November 2, 2019
• San Jose, California
• Results

Courtesy: San Jose State Athletics

SAN JOSE, Calif. – It was a long time coming for San Jose State women’s swimming and diving. After not having a pool to call their own for four years, the Spartans welcomed the opportunity to host Pacific and UC Santa Cruz at the Student Recreation and Aquatic Center. SJSU dominated in their return, taking down Pacific 184.00-81.00 and UC Santa Cruz 210.00-66.00.

“We had a lot of great racing and diving today. This has been a very special day for the team, a very emotional day,” head coach Sage Hopkins said. “It was the first opportunity that most of the team has had to race in front of their peers. We only have one swimmer that has done that, a fifth-year senior, and that was back in her freshman year. So this has just been a great day. Our performances were more than expected. We really challenged the team to step up and make a statement at this meet, and they definitely did.”
The Spartans took care of business from the get go as they won all but three events. The trio of Lea Marrion, Katie McIntee and Rebecca Petoe had two wins apiece while Maddy Grimes (100 Back), Antoinette Loya (50 Free) and Kate Hanf (200 IM) also claimed victories. Additionally, they had four 1-2 finishes and one 1-2-3 finish in the 100 backstroke.

“Rebecca had two great wins, Lea had two great wins and Katie had two great wins. All of members of the program had great performances today,” Hopkins said.

On the diving platform, Natasha Sodeno swept both the one meter and three meter dives with scores of 259.65 and 267.15, respectively.

Courtesy: Pacific Athletics

SAN JOSE, Calif – The Pacific women’s swimming and diving program finished 1-1 on the day, winning its duel meet with UC Santa Cruz (183-91), while falling to meet-host San Jose State (184-81).

Brigid McNally earned the Tigers most individual victories, winning the 1000 Freestyle (10:33.09) and the 500 Freestyle (5:08.02), while claiming a second place finish in the 200 Freestyle (1:54.70).

Gisel Olvera also snagged a first place finish on the day, winning the 200 Butterfly (2:09.85). Olvera was also snagged a fourth place finish in the 100 Butterfly, behind Kathleen Gani (3rd, 58.09) with a time of 59.93.

Senior Erin Oliphant was the Tigers top finisher in the 100 Freestyle with a fifth place finish of 55.88, while also earning a third place finish of 11:05.51 in the 1000 Freestyle.

Angela Gagliardo claimed Pacific’s top times in the 200 IM (2nd, 2:09.13) and the 200 Breaststroke (3rd, 2:21.82)

Other top finishers for Pacific were Elina Rosario with a second place finish (1:04.70) in the 100 Breaststroke, Gani with a third place finish (24.63), and Rilie Krieg with a fourth (1:01.57) in the 100 Backstroke.

In the two relay events, Pacific finished behind the Spartans, claiming second in the 200 Medley Relay with a time of 1:47.80 and third in the 400 Freestyle Relay with a time of 3:40.60.

Pacific will take a two-week break from competition before traveling to Fresno State on Nov. 16. The Tigers will round out 2019 action mid-December when they attend the Annual UNLV Invite.

Courtesy: UC Santa Cruz Athletics

SAN JOSE (11-2) UC Santa Cruz Swimming and Diving continued their tour of top NorCal competition as they competed at San Jose Sate this weekend. The women swam against a pair of Division I teams, falling 183-91 to Pacific and 210-66 against the Spartans.

The men faced Pacific for the second time in a month in a dual, being outpointed 205-82.

Some of the standouts for the women were:

Izzy Blue finishing third in the 100 free in 54.44, 1.69 seconds better than her time at the Bay Area Invite two weeks ago. Aly Roberts was 4th in the 1000 Yard Freestyle in 11:15.26. In the 100 backstroke, Elisabeth Lundgren was 6th in 1:03.02., while Hannah Brazier took 2.2 seconds off her time at the Bay Area invite, finishing 7th in 1:06.29.

For the men, highlights included Matt Holt finishing second in the 1000 free in 10:15.34. Sam Smith continued to swim well in the 200 Free, finishing fourth in 1:47.48. Joe Guzman was fourth in the 100 Breast in 1:01.05, five seconds from the school record set in 2007.

Ethan Johnson, who has nominally already qualified for the NCAA Regionals, won the Men’s 1-meter dive 293.15 to 248.20 over the Tigers’ Mackaby Pennington.

The men’s 200 medley relay of Akira Morita, Guzman, Victor Sowa and Max Manwaring Mueller was third in 1:39.52, .84 seconds better than their time at the Slug Shootout.

The Banana Slugs next compete in Los Angeles Nov. 21-22 at the Pepperdine Invitational.