Relay Team Shines Career-Best Spotlight
Concordia used the second day of the MIAC Championship Meet to pick up valuable team points and jump one spot into eighth place heading into the final day of competition.
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (2/17/12)—Concordia
used the second day of the MIAC Championship Meet to pick up
valuable team points and jump one spot into eighth place heading
into the final day of competition. The Cobbers now have 102 team
points and are solidly locked into their pre-race seed spot.
For the second straight day of the meet a Cobber relay team stole
the show at the night session. The 800-yard freestyle team of
Kirsten Anderson, Greta Titus,
Kelsey Appert and Alexis
Philbrick all swam career best times and finished in
eighth place with a time of 8:35.61. The previous season best for a
Cobber relay team was 9:20.21.
The top individual point getters for Concordia on the second day
were divers Alison Hall and Molly
Hansvick. The duo posted a pair of top 10 finishes in the
3-meter diving event. Hall was ninth with a final total of 321.35
points while Hansvick was right behind, placing 10th
with a final score of 320.30.
Freshman Hannah Winge was the lone Cobber
swimming individual finalist for the night. She entered the meet
seeded 21st in the 100-yard breaststroke and then
proceeded to uncork a 1:11.26 in the prelim heats and qualified for
the finals in the No.13 spot. She then bettered that time by racing
to a 1:10.70 in the consolation final and finished in
12th place. Her finishing time is a career best by over
three seconds.
Overall, every Concordia swimmer that competed on Friday posted a
personal best time. The biggest cut from an individual came in the
400-yard individual medley where freshmen Emily
Erickson took a full nine seconds off her career best time
by swimming a 5:18.83
The Cobbers will finish off the 2012 MIAC Meet when they compete
on Saturday, Feb. 18 at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center.
Preliminary heats begin at 10:30 a.m. and the finals are slated to
start at 6:30 p.m.
Teams Standings After Day 2
1. Gustavus - 433
2. St. Olaf College - 430
3. University of St. Thomas - 334
4. Saint Benedict - 315
5. Carleton College - 307
6. St. Catherine University - 179
7. Macalester College - 168
8. Concordia College - 102
9. Saint Mary's University - 97
10. Augsburg College - 60
11. Hamline University - 58