LOGGERS IN STRONG SECOND AFTER DAY ONE OF NWC CHAMPIONSHIPS
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - On day one of the Northwest Conference Swimming Championships at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Wash., the Puget Sound Loggers put themselves in a strong position to contend for a pair of NWC crowns, holding down second place on both the men's and women's sides.
In the first final of the evening, the Logger women battled Whitworth for all 200 yards of the Freestyle Relay, finishing just 16 one-hundredths of a second behind the Pirates for second place with a time of 1:38.44.
The Logger men exacted revenge in the second final, setting a new NWC Championship Meet record time of 1:25.29 to collect the conference title in the Men's 200 Yard Freestyle Relay.
In the women's 500 Freestyle, the Loggers used a strong prelim session to stack the deck in the A Final, placing four swimmers in the race. In the final, Sarah Mirick (Chaska, Minn.) led the Loggers, placing fourth with a time of 5:10.14.
Senior Leesa Cotton (Keizer, Ore.) earned the Loggers their first individual championship of the weekend, taking first in the 200 Individual Medley with a B-cut qualifying time of 2:10.82. Teammate Amy Polansky (Menomonie, Wis.) took fourth while Evan Connolly (Zionsville, Ind.) finished eighth.
In the men's 200 Individual Medley, junior Paul Hughes (University Place, Wash.) finished with a B-cut qualifying time of 1:54.23 but was edged out by just 11 one-hundredths of a second by Michael Woodward of Whitworth.
It was another close race in the women's 50 Freestyle as sophomore Katie Barton (Boise, Idaho) placed third for the Loggers with a time of 24.71, just one-hundredth of a second behind second place Ashley Lecoq of Whitworth. Brittany Gresset, also of Whitworth, won the race in a time of 24.08.
In the men's 50 Free, Bret Schluederberg (Chapel Hill, N.C.) posted the fastest preliminary time at 21.60 but place third in the final with a time of 21.69. Linfield's Dominic Rieniets took the title with a time of 21.17.
The Loggers finished the first day strong, sweeping the 400 Medley Relays. On the women's side, Puget Sound was victorious with a time of 4:00.55. On the men's side, the Loggers broke the meet record and met the B-cut qualifying time by winning with a mark of 3:26.99.
Following the first day of competition, Whitworth leads both the men and women team scores with 206 and 226 respectively. The Loggers are second in both, scoring 183 for the men and 208 for the women.
On the men's side, Linfield is third with 132 points, followed by Whitman (130), Pacific Lutheran (113), Lewis & Clark (69), Willamette (57), and Pacific (47). On the women's side, Lewis & Clark is in third with 119 points, followed by Whitman (117), Linfield (88), Willamette (77), Pacific (46), and Pacific Lutheran (34).
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