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Bruins Break Three More School Records on Final Day of Pac-12's
March 01, 2015 | Swimming & Diving
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FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - The Bruins closed out the 2015 Pac-12 Swimming and Diving Championships with three more school records on Saturday at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center, as junior Katy Campbell, sophomore Annika Lenz and the 400 Freestyle Relay team each set new program standards.
The Bruins conclude the Championships with six new school records (200 Medley Relay on Wednesday, junior Allison Wine - 100 Breaststroke and 400 Medley Relay on Friday). In addition, six Bruins made the Top Three podium, including senior Noelle Tarazona in the 200 Butterfly on Saturday.
Coverage of Saturday's action will air on Pac-12 Networks on Sunday at 10 a.m. and 10 p.m.
As a team, the Bruins finished in fifth place.
Platform Diving
Lenz was third following the preliminary five dives with a score of 262.85 to advance to the evening final. In their first Platform events of the season, freshmen Maria Polyakova (216.80) and Ciara Monahan (206.25) were 13th and 16th, respectively, while sophomore Danni Repper placed 22nd (185.55).
Lenz shattered the UCLA school record in the final, posting a five-dive total of 323.15 to finish third and supplant the previous mark held by Karina Silva (312.70) and set at the 2010 Pac-10's.
200 Backstroke
Each evening race would be represented by a Bruin following morning qualifications. Sophomore Madison White was seventh in the prelims with a 1:55.16, senior Ally Loper placed 13th (1:57.37) and freshman Marie-Pierre Delisle was 22nd with a season-best 2:00.37. Freshman Hannah Grubbs just missed out on the finals with a 2:00.63, good for 27th.
White maintained her seventh-place position in the A final with a 1:54.91. Loper was 14th overall with a 1:57.61, while Delisle improved on her season best with a 1:59.80 to finish 20th overall and fourth in the C race.
100 Freestyle
Three more Bruins made the evening session. Sophomore Linnea Mack was 10th in the morning with a 49.01, while senior Monica Dornick also qualified for the B race with a career-best 49.44. It was the 14th-best time in the morning for the senior and ranked as the eighth-best in UCLA history. Freshman Katie Grover was 17th in the prelims with a 49.80, while freshman Sarah Kaunitz just missed getting to swim in the evening, posting a 50.52 (28th).
Mack and Dornick were 2-3 in the B race to finish 10th and 11th overall, respectively. Mack swam faster in the evening with a 48.84, while Dornick improved her career best with a 48.96, which also vaulted her into fifth on UCLA's all-time list. Grover was fourth in the C race and 20th overall (49.80).
200 Breaststroke
It was another trio of Bruins to make the night session. Senior Jessica Khojasteh was ninth with a 2:13.67 to make the B race, while Wine (2:16.46, 22nd) and senior Taylor Carlson (season-best 2:17.00, 23rd) both reached the C final. Sophomore Brigitte Winkler placed 28th with a 2:19.66.
In the evening, Khojasteh was 15th overall (2:14.45), Wine 21st (2:15.88) and Carlson 24th (2:17.13).
200 Butterfly
Five Bruins qualified for the evening session, including a pair in the A race. Tarazona was fifth in the morning with a 1:56.61, with Grover just behind her in sixth (1:56.88). Juniors Katie Kinnear (11th, 1:58.83) and Arlyn Upshaw (15th, career-best 1:59.62) made the B race, while freshman Anna Quinn advanced to the C final with a 2:01.11 (18th).
Tarazona set a season best in the A final, going 1:55.15 to place second. Grover was sixth in the A race (1:56.50). Kinnear finished third in the B final (11th overall) with a 1:58.46, while Upshaw set another career best with a 1:59.40 (14th). Quinn was second in the C race with a 1:59.76 (18th).
1650 Freestyle
Campbell broke the school record, previously held by Lauren Baker (16:04.18), with a 16:00.34 to place third in the event and earn a spot on the podium. Sophomore Michaela Merlihan was 10th with a career-best 16:41.17, while sophomore Hayden Walker placed 17th with a season-best 17:00.85.
400 Freestyle Relay
The Bruins ended the Pac-12's as they began them, with a school record. The quartet of White, Mack, Grover and Dornick had a 3:15.94 to qualify for the NCAA Championships and break the old mark by .24 seconds.
Coming up next for the UCLA divers are the NCAA Zone E Diving Championships in Colorado Springs, Colo. (March 9-11). The NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships take place March 19-21 in Greensboro, N.C.
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