By Jordan Parry, SDA Media Relations
LAS VEGAS – The Arizona State women’s swim and dive team (1-5) notched its first victory of the season on Saturday, coming in dominate fashion as it took down UNLV from Buchanan Natatorium in Las Vegas, Nev. On the flip side, the ASU men (2-4) suffered defeat at the hands of the No. 16 Rebels.
The women won by a final score of 188-111, while the men fell 185-109.
Women’s swimming kick-started the afternoon with a victory in the 200 medley relay (1:43.34), led by a team of sophomore Ingibjorg Jonsdottir, freshman Jorie Caneta, seniors Alex Popa and Melanie Busch.
It concluded the meet the same way it began, this time winning the 400 freestyle relay (3:25.30). Swimming the final race included senior Juanita Barreto, Jonsdottir, sophomore Alysha Bush, and Busch who combined for the 1st-place finish.
A total of six women’s swimmers combined to win eight individual races on Saturday:
NAME EVENT TIME
Anna Olasz 1000 freestyle 10:13.04
Anna Olasz 500 freestyle 5:02.25
Juanita Barretto 200 freestyle 1:51.71
Ingibjorg Jonsdottir 100 backstroke 55.88
Jorie Caneta 100 breaststroke 1:03.46
Jorie Caneta 200 breaststroke 2:18.18
Lori Layne Kremer 200 butterfly 2:03.14
Alysha Bush 50 freestyle 23.65
It wasn’t just the swimmers who had success, though, but the women's divers as well. Freshman Mara Aiacoboae (278.78) and senior Hailey Casper (303.68) swept the 3-meter dive and 1-meter dive, respectively.
On the men’s side, freshman Christian Lorenz won the 200 breaststroke (2:03.72) after tying ASU junior teammate Thibaut Capitaine for 1st-place in the 100 breaststroke (56.87), beating Boris Kulizhnikov of UNLV by .04 of a second.
Another ASU freshman, Juhan Hong, took 1st in the 1000 freestyle (9:36.09), which resulted in another thrilling finish. Hong touched the pad .04 of a second ahead of UNLV’s Matt Roe en route to Arizona State combining to win three of the four distance events against UNLV.
Saturday marked the final dual meet of 2014 for the Sun Devils. While swimming breaks from competition until January, diving prepares itself for the USA Diving Winter Nationals taking place in Columbus, Ohio from Dec. 16-21.