DENTON, TEXAS- In the first meet of the season, Little Rock placed second in the North Texas Relays on Friday afternoon, finishing behind North Texas and ahead of Oklahoma Baptist University.
The Trojans tallied 130 points while North Texas finished with 206 points. Oklahoma Baptist rounded out the competition with 74 points.
In the women's 300-yard fly relay,
Carolyn Ann Godwin,
Claire Bristow and
Rachel Maradyn finished with a final time of 3:06.79 which was good enough for third
place in the event. Katie White, Alexis Carr and
Lily Kerr also competed in the event and took fifth with a time of 3:16.77.
The 300-yard back relay was tightly contested as the Trojans narrowly took second place.
Laura Ruiz Astorga,
Lea Zengerling and Jesse Baldwin finished with a time of 3:00.18. Reagan Lawrence, Charis Ron and
Amanda Dreyer posted a time of 3:08.91 to place fourth in the event while
Mia Gibson,
Alexis McCauley and Vasiliki Falania finished at 3:38.20 to finish sixth.
White, Baldwin and
Ann Kharlamova competed in the 300-yard breast relay and came in with a time of 3:42.47 and finished fourth.
In the 800-yard free relay, Bristow, Zengerling, Won and Dreyer finished with a time of 8:03.87, only tenths of a second behind second-place North Texas as the Trojans finished third in this event. Kerr, Maradyn, Kharlamova and Falania also posted a time of 8:22.28 for fourth place.
Finishing third in the 500-yard free 50-100-150-200 relay was
Imre van Huyssteen, Gibson, McCauley and Katie Carsrud with a time of 5:33.16.
Competing in the 200-yard medley relay was Ruiz Astorga,
Palmer Ristroph, Carolyn Godwin and Lawrence who came with a time of 1:54.06 for a third-place finish. Baldwin, van Huyssteen, Carr and Kharlamova finished with a time of 1:56.88 again only tenths of a second behind fourth-place North Texas as the Little Rock took fifth in this event.
With a second place finish in the 200-yard free relay, Ruiz Astorga, Bristow, van Huyssteen and Lawrence posted a time of 1:43.68. Carr, Won, Falania and Ristroph finished at 1:47.46 for fifth place.
The Trojans found themselves in second place yet again in the 1500-yard free relay as the trio of Zengerling, Bristow and Kerr posted a time of 16:16.09. Another Trojan trio finished fourth with a time of 16:38.13.
As the Trojans would head into the 400-yard medley 4x100 IM relay, Ruiz Astorga, Baldwin, Dreyer and Ristroph would compete yet again. The quartet finished in third place with a time of 4:15.22. Also notching a fifth-place finish in the event were Godwin, Maradyn, White and Carsrud with a time of 4:30.18.
The final event of the afternoon was the 400-yard free relay. Trojans grabbed a third-place finish as Bristow, Zengerling, Lawrence and van Huyssteen came in with a time of 3:41.63. Finishing fifth in the event was Won, Kerr, Falania and Kharlamova with a time of 3:57.93 Rounding out the competition was Carr, Gibson, Carsrud and McCauley posting a time of 4:17.03 for sixth place.
The Trojans will return to Donaghey Aquatic Center for their first home meet of the season on Oct. 6 at 11 a.m.
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