Swim & Dive Tops Princeton on Senior Day

Friday, January 11

Piscataway, NJ

4:00 PM

Rutgers University

156

144

Princeton

Jan 11 | Women's Swimming & Diving

Results Senior Day Photo Gallery

Scarlet Knights freestyle relay teams clinch a close victory in final home meet of the season

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (Jan. 11, 2019) – Rutgers swimming and diving celebrated the careers of Marin Bloise, Rachel Byrne, Vera Koprivova, Abbey Saunders and Francesca Stoppa on Senior Day before defeating Princeton, 156-144, in a dual meet on Friday evening in the Rutgers Aquatic Center.

Through 15 of 16 events, Princeton held a one-point lead at 142-141 and the 200-yard freestyle relay would decide the meet. The Scarlet Knights took the top two spots in the finale with Stoppa, and juniors Meghan Moses, Alexandra Fabugais-Inaba and Sarah Davis winning in 1:35.60.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Rutgers 156, Princeton 144
Event Wins: Rutgers 10, Princeton 6

FIRST THINGS FIRST

The Scarlet Knights set the tone with the opening relay, winning the 200-yard medley relay 1:45.28 with freshman Terka Grusova on backstroke, sophomore Delaney Carey on breaststroke, junior Federica Greco on butterfly and junior Clare Lawlor anchoring with freestyle.
Junior Francesca Bertotto continued a dominant season in distance freestyle with a win in the 1,000 to kick off the individual events, and later winning the 500. Bertotto has won every distance freestyle race she has entered this season (500, 1000 and 1650).
Fabugais-Inaba triumphed in the 200-yard freestyle in 1:51.80, her fourth win in the event this season.
Grusova claimed the 100-yard backstroke in convincing fashion, clearing a second over teammate and fellow Czech Koprivova.
Stoppa celebrated her Senior Day with a pair of wins: the 200-yard butterfly in an NCAA B cut time of 1:58.79 and the 100 Fly in 55.12 seconds.
Senior Rachel Byrne also got a victory in her final home meet, posting a season-best 287.25 in 1-meter diving and first place points.

FANTASTIC FINSHES

Finishing spots 1-6 in the 50-yard freestyle were decided by less than a half-second. Princeton took first and second place points as Lawlor finished third just a quarter-second off the winning pace.
Freshman Nora Woods scored important runner-up points in 200-yard breaststroke, touching in three-tenths of a second ahead of a Princeton competitor and keeping points away.

KNIGHT NOTES

Stoppa's two wins gave her 30 event victories for her career.

UP NEXT
Rutgers travels to Princeton on Saturday for a tri-meet with Villanova beginning at 11 a.m.

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