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Maize & Blue Wins SMU Classic by One Point
10/15/2016 12:00:00 AM | Women's Swimming & Diving
Oct. 15, 2016
» Kristen Hayden won the three-meter diving competition (316.00) and was named High-Point Diver of the Meet.
» Yirong Bi (500-yard freestyle) and Vanessa Krause (200-yard butterfly) were also winners on Saturday, each by two tenths-of-a-second or less.
Site: Lewisville, Texas (Westside Aquatic Center)
Event: SMU Classic (Day 2 of 2)
U-M Team Standing: 1st Place of 6 Teams (325 points)
Next U-M Event: Saturday, Oct. 22 -- host Alumni/Intrasquad Meet (Canham Natatorium), 10:30 a.m.
LEWISVILLE, Texas -- Six student-athletes won races -- three in each heat -- to propel the University of Michigan women's swimming and diving team to a one-point win at the SMU Classic on Saturday (Oct. 15) inside the Westside Aquatic Center. The Wolverines scored 325 points to win the six-team meet, just barely ahead of Louisville (324).
The Wolverines secured the meet win by finishing second in the 200-yard freestyle relay to close the meet (1:30.75). Because Louisville eventually won that race, any finish lower than second would have given the Cardinals the meet win. U-M also took third in the 200-yard medley relay (1:39.93).
Freshman Kristen Hayden was one of the event winners, finishing first on the three-meter springboard (316.00) to earn High-Point Diver of the Meet honors. In the swimming pool, sophomore Yirong Bi and freshman Vanessa Krause each won events by slim margins: Bi in the 500-yard freestyle (4:37.62), two tenths-of-a-second ahead of Louisville's Mallory Comerford; Krause in the 200-yard butterfly (1:56.46), one tenth-of-a-second in front of USC's Maddie Wright
Three other student-athletes won races in 'B' finals: sophomore Becca Postoll in the 500-yard freestyle (4:41.90), sophomore Siobhán Haughey in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:10.05) and junior Gabby DeLoof in the 200-yard backstroke (1:56.27). Postoll's time would have put her third in the 'A' final. She also finished second in the 'B' final of the 200-yard individual medley (2:00.51).
Junior Clara Smiddy swam in two event finals, finishing second in the 200-yard backstroke (1:54.33) and fourth in the 200-yard IM (1:59.58). Other 'A'-final swims came from Haughey in the 100-yard freestyle (third, 49.03) and junior Emily Kopas in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:11.04).
The program welcomes back its alumni for its annual homecoming intrasquad next Saturday (Oct. 22) at Canham Natatorium. The meet will begin at 10:30 a.m. The team's next collegiate meet comes on Nov. 4-5 at Virginia (with Penn State).
Communications Contact: Brad Rudner
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