Completed Event: Swimming and Diving versus Nebraska on October 11, 2025 , Loss , 103, to, 197
Final
Swimming and Diving
103
Nebraska
197
Iowa State University Athletics
Saturday, October 14
Ames, Iowa
11:00 AM
Iowa State
132
vs
167
Nebraska
Iowa State falls to Nebraska 167-132
10.14.2023 | Swimming and Diving
AMES, Iowa - Iowa State (0-1, 0-0 Big 12) fell to Nebraska (1-1, 0-1 Big Ten) by a score of 162-137 to start the 2023-24 season.
The Cyclones started the day strong winning the 200 Medley Relay with a score of 1:45.26 from Emma Kuhn, Paige Hanley, Carley Caughron, and Lydia McClugage finishing over a second before the second-place finishing Nebraska team.Â
Corinne Guist placed second in the 1000 Free at a time of 10:30.65 while Sydney finished in third with a time of 10:33.06Â
Fallon DeWitt picked up her first win of the season beating out Nebraska's Giulia Marchi by less than one second with a time of 1:52.19. DeWitt followed that up with a second-place finish in the 200 yard Backstroke.Â
Carley Caughron had a strong open to her junior year winning the 50 free with a 23.78 finish. Caughron followed that up with a first-place finish in the 100 free with a time of 51.86.Â
"She's put in a lot of work to get to the position she is in and she is due for the type of swims we saw today and hopefully a breakout year." head coach Duane Sorenson said.Â
The Cyclones took each of the top-three spots in the 100 Backstroke with the freshman Kuhn (58.02) in first, Ziegert (58.35) in second, and Madi Dohrn (58.46) rounding out the top three.Â
Alaina Breitbach had two top-three finishes against Nebraska coming in the 100 and 200 Breaststroke events.Â
Brinley Horras started her senior campaign with a second-place finish in the 500 free with a 5:02.80 finish. Guist finished in third place with a 5:08.52 finish.Â
In diving, Lauren Kimball competed in her first meet since a season-ending injury kept her from competing in most of 2022, finishing in third in the 3-meter with a 276.45 score. "It's amazing to watch her because she has been out for so long and she has come back so fast." head diving coach Jeff Warwick said. "She might be diving better than I have ever seen before." Kate Mitchell finished her 3-meter performance in fourth with a score of 255.25.Â
"I thought the team looked ready to go this week. We just got to smooth out some things but I think they are on the right track." coach Warwick said.Â
Iowa State finished the day winning the 400 free relay with a team of Guist, McClugage, Dohrn, and Jackson finishing with a time of 3:30.55.Â
"The nice thing about early meets is we get to see what is working and what our glaring problems are that we need to fix." Sorenson said.Â
Iowa State will travel to South Dakota to take on the Coyotes on Oct. 27 at 5 p.m.
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