GRINNELL, Iowa – The Gustavus women’s swimming & diving team took first place out of 11 teams Saturday at the Pioneer Classic, hosted by Grinnell College. The Gusties accumulated 1898.5 points, more than 800 points over second place Grinnell. After racing out to a first place start in Session 1 Friday night, the Gusties won eight of 15 events on Saturday and placed second in the remaining seven events.
“It was performance after performance with the swimmers and divers that stepped up big time today,” Head Coach Jon Carlson said. “I was impressed after each event. There were so many events where we moved up and dropped time. I can’t say enough about how outstanding the women were today.”
Here are Gustavus’s top performers in each of Saturday’s events:
200 medley relay
1st – Kennedy Holwerda (Sr., Willmar, Minn.), Hailey Auran (Fy., St. Paul, Minn.), Kate Reilly (Sr., Hastings, Minn.), Maggie Webster (Jr., Apple Valley, Minn.) – 1:51.90
400 IM
2nd – Sydney Hallmark (Jr., Cedarburg, Wis.) – 4:57.92
100 butterfly
1st – Reilly – 1:00.12
200 freestyle
2nd – Amelia Bjorklund (Fy., Bloomington, Minn.) – 2:02.59
100 breaststroke
1st – Reilly – 1:09.73
100 backstroke
1st – Holwerda – 1:01.87
800 freestyle relay
2nd – Hallmark, Haley Pesik (Jr., Eagan, Minn.), Alyssa Lokensgard (So., St. Peter, Minn.), Webster – 8:19.63
1650 freestyle
2nd – Allie Mayfield (So., Two Harbors, Minn.) – 19:08.33
1-meter diving
2nd – Sophia Steinberg (Fy., Faribault, Minn.) – 389.00
100 IM
1st – Reilly – 1:01.60
200 backstroke
2nd – Ruth Chuah (Fy., Penang, Melaysia) – 2:16.49
100 freestyle
1st – Reilly – 54.44
200 breaststroke
1st – Pesik – 2:32.21
200 butterfly
2nd – 2:18.47
400 freestyle relay
1st – Holwerda, Lokensgard, Webster, Reilly – 3:42.49
Gustavus is off until Dec. 30 when it travels to Puerto Rico for its training trip, which lasts until Jan. 7.