Grinnell women's swimming and diving team cruises past Luther

Results

GRINNELL, Iowa - Grinnell College's women's swimming and diving team posted 10 event victories on its way to a 176.5-120.5 victory over Luther College Saturday afternoon at Russell K. Osgood Pool.

Lisa Katsuta '30 and Kate Callender '30 were triple champs for the Pioneers and Alex Kruse '29 earned a regional qualifying score in diving. Katsuta not only won the 100-yard butterfly in 59.27 seconds, but swam legs on the first place 400 medley and 400 freestyle relays. Katsuta's time in the butterfly is 12th all-time at GC.

Simone Bennett '29, Cassey Koch '30 and Samantha Cook '27 swam on the 400 medley team that finished in 4:09.46 and Molly Ryan '27, Callender and Cook were on the 400 freestyle team that won in 3:45.52. Callender also won the 1000 freestyle in 11:10.46 and 500 freestyle in 5:26.88. Her time in the 1000 freestyle ranks 16th in GC history.

Other champs for Grinnell were Kate DeBoer '30 in the 100 backstroke (1:03.18), Sarah Schueler '30 in the 100 breaststroke (1:12.14), Kruse '29 in 1- and 3-meter diving (262.60 and 259.20, respectively) and Payton Morris '30 in the 200 breaststroke (2:38.50).

Runners-up for Grinnell were Ryan in the 200 freestyle (2:01.15), Maria Restrepo '29 in the 200 butterfly (2:20.96), Katsuta in the 50 freestyle (25.35), Koch in the 100 freestyle (57.24), DeBoer in the 200 backstroke (2:13.42) and Norah Nicol '30 in 1-meter diving (224.20).

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