BALTIMORE --
Ella Nadeau won a pair of events, and diver
Katya Peresunko won the 3M and tied for third in the 1M as the UMBC Women's Swimming & Diving team cruised past visiting La Salle, 163-76, on Saturday afternoon.
Nadeau won both the 200 free (1:53.55) and the 500 free (5:11.92), and also had an anchor split of 52.95 in the 400 medley relay. Peresunko tied with
Ember Stennett to take gold in the 3M with a score of 265.25, while also taking third in the 1M with a score of 252.85.
Claire Butler placed second in the 1M by scoring 257.75, and
Stella Ranieri took fourth with a score of 235.40. Butler (232.10) and Ranieri (227.30) also went 4-5 in the 3M.
The meet started off well for UMBC as
Bella Lane,
Lea Kaiser,
Eunice Cheung and
Ashley Gutshall won the 400 medley relay in a time of 3:49.41.
Kolby Reese then won 1000 free in 10:40.93, before Nadeau and
Claire Oettinger (1:55.74) took first and third in the 200 free.
Gutshall (23.19),
Erma Duratovic (24.12) and Kaiser (24.54) swept the podium in the 50 free, and
Daphné Melis (4:34.76) and
Breanna Smith (4:38.65) finished second and third in the 400 IM.
The Retrievers once again swept the podium in back-to-back events as Cheung (2:08.22),
Nicol Davanzo (2:08.54) and
Grace Little (2:20.05) took the top three spots in the 200 fly, and then Duratovic (52.33), Oettinger (53.04) and Lane (53.47) swept the 100 free podium.
Claudia Fernandez-Deardurff earned third in the 200 back with a time of 2:08.18, before Nadeau and Reese (5:18.80) went 1-2 in the 500 free.
Ula Parrill (2:21.03), Melis (2:22.85), Smith (2:26.68) and
Hailey Weigand (2:29.39) took spots 2-5 in the 200 breaststroke.
The Retrievers then ended the meet in a similar fashion to how they started it by winning the 200 free relay as Gutshall, Duratovic, Cheung and Oettinger won by nearly three seconds (1:34.92).
The meet was also Professor Appreciation as, Prior to the meet, the team welcomed professors and members of academic leadership who have been supportive of the program. To read about the ceremony
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UMBC concludes the first half of the season at the three day Bucknell Invitational beginning December 4.
