LITTLE ROCK – The Little Rock swimming and diving team took on the Incarnate Word Cardinals today for their first dual meet of the season as well as their last home event until January. The meet also featured the Ouachita Baptist men, racing the Incarnate Word men's team. The Cardinals came away with the win, defeating the Trojans 194.5-105.5. For full results,
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Relays
The first event of the meet, the 400 medley relay, saw a 2-3 finish by the Little Rock A and B squads. The second-place team of freshman
Khadijah Brown, senior
Charis Won, freshman
Fer Moussier, and freshman
Asmalia Redzuan teamed up to post a 3:59.47. While each leg threw down notable splits, impressively was perhaps Redzuan's, the fastest 100 free in the pool.
The meet concluded with the 400 freestyle relay, where the A team of Redzuan, Won, Moussier, and Brown took second to drop over six seconds from their seed to finish at 3:37.90.
Diving
Junior
Coy Jones represented the Trojans on the boards, taking second on both. She finished the 1-meter competition with a final score of 200.60 and 211.50 on the higher of the two boards, edging a Cardinal competitor both times.
Freestyle
Junior
Regan Lawrence pulled off an exciting victory in the 50 freestyle, stopping the clock at 25.20, just one hundredth of a second ahead of a Cardinal. Redzuan continues to shave off time in the 200 freestyle, dropping to 1:56.59 for a second-place finish. Won earned third place after coming from behind in the last 50 of the race, touching at 2:00.72 for the three-second time cut, three tenths ahead of the next opponent.
Won returned in the 100 free, cutting her time down to 54.78 to take second by one one-hundredth. Sophomore
Carolyn Godwin and Lawrence placed fourth at 55.13 and fifth at 55.14, respectively, also dropping time from their seeds. Freshman Emma Bleadell earned a third-place spot on the day, finishing with a season-best 5:17.29 in the 500 free. She was followed by sophomore
Lea Zengerling in 5:18.66. Meanwhile, the top finisher for Little Rock in the 1000 was also Bleasdell, coming in fourth with a 10:54.66 after a strong front half.
Backstroke
Jessie Baldwin again led the Trojan backstrokers in the 100, stopping the clock at 1:01.31 for fourth place overall and a .05-second drop. The senior also was the top Little Rock swimmer in the 200 back, earning a season-best 2:11.60 for fourth.
Breaststroke
Little Rock took second through fifth place in the 100 breaststroke, with junior
Palmer Ristroph getting to the wall in 1:07.57, a season-best for silver. Godwin and freshmen
Taylor Baldacci and
Anna Grom were not far off each other, with times of 1:09.92, 1:10.42, and 1:10.69, respectively. Ristroph took home another second in the 200 breast with another season-best time, a 2:30.31.
Butterfly
Moussier was out fast in the 200 fly, stopping the clock at 2:05.60 for a two-second drop despite being unable to hold off a Cardinal for first place. Moussier also dropped time in the 100 butterfly down to 57.82, taking third behind teammate Redzuan's second-place 57.65.
200 IM
Godwin tied a Cardinal swimmer for first place in the 200 individual medley for an exciting finish to the event lineup. The sophomore's breaststroke leg propelled her ahead of her competitor and she was able to hold on for the season-best 2:12.62. Freshman
Ashleigh Green placed third, also earning a collegiate best in the process with a time of 2:14.92.
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