Iowa State Notches Two Season Victories

Friday, January 31

Ames, Iowa

5 PM

Iowa State

240

108

UNI

Iowa State Notches Two Season Victories

02.01.2020 | Swimming and Diving

Results

AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State swimming and diving team (4-4, 0-1 Big 12) secured the victory against both UNI (9-5, 1-0 MVC) 240-108 and North Texas (4-3, 0-1 Sun Belt) 227-121. The Cyclones never let go of the lead against both competitors through two days of competition.

The Cyclones struck first with a 400 medley relay victory. Sophia Goushchina, Lehr Thorson, Lucia Rizzo and Anna Andersen combined for a time of 3:50.34.

Freshman Goushchina kept it rolling with a winning time of 52.77 in the 100 free. Martha Haas (53.12), Andersen (53.26), Emma Ruehle (53.95) and Kennedy Tranel (54.01) followed by taking fourth through seventh place.

Lehr Thorson captured her second breaststroke event win after winning the 100 breast in day one. Thorson touched .09 seconds faster than any opponent in the 200 breast with her time of 2:20.76.

Nolwenn Nunes grabbed her third season victory in the 500 free by out-touching all opponents with a time of 5:02.78. Rizzo took a second-place finish, touching at 5:09.34.

Trinity Gilbert notched the sixth Cyclone event win of the day in the 100 fly. The freshman secured her first collegiate win by clocking in at 58.09.

Jayna Misra secured her second Zone cut in as many days. The Ames native scored a 280.60 on the three-meter to claim her fifth overall Zone cut.

Iowa State closed out the double dual with a close finish in the 200 free relay. The team of Andersen, Haas, Goushchina and Sass beat out North Texas and UNI with a time of 1:36.69. North Texas came in second by touching the wall at 1:36.92.

"We challenged them last night to come back and perform just as well this morning and they all stepped up to the challenge and did an outstanding job," said head coach Duane Sorenson. "We had so many swims where people really finished strong and raced hard into the wall and that is something we haven't been doing a very good job of all year. I thought we did a great job today."

ON DECK- Kansas

Iowa State returns to action for the final dual of the season against Kansas. The dual will be split into two days, beginning on Feb. 7 at 6 p.m. and continuing Feb. 8 at 10 a.m. The senior day presentation will take place on Feb 8.

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