Miami Leads Going into Final Day of Invite
12/6/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Swimming and Diving
OXFORD, Ohio— Miami University’s women’s swim and dive team leads after day two of the Miami Invitational after a stellar 400-yard IM, in which five swimmers placed in the top nine, including the first and second place finishers. The event earned the RedHawks a total of 140 team points.
The RedHawks are leading the pack with a team score of 1682. Emory is second with 1011 points, Cincinnati is third (1004), Toledo is fourth (972) and Denison (962.5), Wright State (528.5) and Urbana (117) round out the team rankings, respectively.
Junior Aubrey Kluth won the 400-yard IM with a time of 4:21.21, earning the RedHawks 36 points. Freshman Holly Schuster was the second-place finisher in the event, clocking in at 4:22.23. Senior Stephanie Pearce (4:25.53), junior Shannon Ahearn (4:28.32) and freshman Shay Spelman (4:29.24) rounded out the championship heat in fifth, eighth and ninth place, respectively.
Sophomore Stephanie LeMire swam the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:02.41, earning third place. Sophomore Elise Campbell (1:03.30) and freshman Holly Schuster (1:05.34) finished in fourth and eighth place, respectively. The trio earned 81 team points for Miami.
The 200-yard medley relay team of sophomore Brittany Dudzinski, Lemire, junior Gabrielle Veri and senior Annie Marquiss ended up tying Emory for first place, with both teams clocking in at 1:42.78. This earned the RedHawks and the Eagles each 66 points. Freshman Katherine Kuhl, Schuster, junior Stephanie Nemeth and junior Natalie Rohr swam fast enough for sixth place (1:44.28), earning Miami 52 points.
Sophomore Julia Campbell, Pearce, Spelman and LeMire placed fifth in the 800-yard freestyle relay with a time of 7:31.44. A sixth-place finish was earned by Elise Campbell, junior Sara Krueger, senior Caitlin Fujan and senior Whitney Mitchell by clocking in at 7:34.07. The two relay teams earned 106 points for the RedHawks.
The 100-yard backstroke consisted of Kuhl (56.16), Dudzinski (56.46) and junior Emma Szczupakiewicz (57.35) earning fifth, sixth and ninth place, respectively.
Nemeth (56.63), Veri (56.39) and sophomore Kathleen Dodson (57.72) finished the 100-yard butterfly in seventh, eighth and ninth place, respectively.
Sophomore Elise Campbell earned 27 points for the RedHawks by touching the wall in 1:51.62, fast enough for fifth-place in the 200-yard freestyle.
As for diving, sophomore Taylor LeCount placed fourth in the three-meter dive with a score of 244.60.
The Miami Invitational continues Saturday morning, Dec. 6, at 10 a.m. with the preliminaries. The finals will then occur Saturday night starting at 6 p.m.
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