COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Sophomore
Chloe Isleta started the Sun Devils' participation in Texas A&M's Art Adamson Invitational on a high note setting a new ASU school record not once but twice on day one.
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Isleta broke the 200 IM school record in the morning's prelims, touching the wall at 1:57.45. In the evening's finals session, she re-set the record, swimming the event .07 seconds faster (1:57.38) for a fifth place finish.
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In the 500 free prelims,
Kendall Dawson (4:46.43) and Emma Nordin (4:46.47) finished in the top 15, 13th and 14th, respectively, while Caitlyn Wilson (4:48.36) and Cameron Smith (4:49.95) set new PR's in the event, dropping 5.2 and 4.3 seconds, respectively. Dawson moved up one spot (12th), cutting 1.5 seconds off her morning's time.
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With the evening's first event,
Katherine Wagner, Fanny Teijonsalo,
Krista Kolkebeck, and
Claire Fisch took fifth in the 200 free relay. Wagner would go on to earn a top-10 finish in the 50 free finals.
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In the 200 IM finals,
Marlies Ross crushed the C final with a 17th place overall finish (1:57.69).
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Friday's swim events include the 200 medley relay, 400 IM, 100 fly, 200 free, 100 breast, 100 back, and 800 free relay, with prelims once again in the morning at 9:30 am CT/8:30 am MT and finals in the evening at 6 pm CT/5 pm MT.
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Live results can be found here:
http://www.sidearmstats.com/tamu/swim/1718AAI/index.htm while live coverage of each evening's finals will be on the SEC Network starting at 6 pm CT/5 pm MT here:
http://www.espn.com/watch/_/id/3220901/art-adamson-invitational.
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Sun Devil men's and women's diving also kicks off the NAU Lumberjack Invite on Friday, with prelims at 11 am MT and finals at 1:30 pm MT. The women's 1-meter and men's 3-meter will take place Friday.