GREENSBORO, N.C. – Four Gustavus women’s swimmers earned All-America honorable mention accolades Thursday at the NCAA Championships.
The 200 free relay team of Ellen Hofstede (Sr., St. Paul), Marit Isaacson (So., St. Paul), Lucy Peterson (Jr., St. Paul), and Abby Yartz (Sr., Bemidji) won the consolation final, finishing in ninth place with a time of 1:33.81. Their prelim time clocked in at 1:3421. The relay team beat its 11th-best seed time of 1:33.83 by two hundredths of a second.
Hofstede also took 38th in the 100 butterfly with a time of 56.95 in the preliminary race.
Day three of the NCAA Championships begins at 10 a.m. Friday with prelim races.