Swimming & Diving Picks Up Three More Victories on Day Two of Rutgers Invite

Thursday, December 5

Piscataway, NJ

10 AM / 6 PM

Rutgers University

Rutgers Invitational

Photo by: (Ben Solomon/Rutgers Athletics)

Swimming & Diving Picks Up Three More Victories on Day Two of Rutgers Invite

Dec 05 | Women's Swimming & Diving

Results (Day Two)

Scarlet Knights Collect Wins 50 & 500 Free and 200 Free Relay

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – The Rutgers women's swimming and diving team captured wins in the 50 and 500 freestyle and in the 200 freestyle relay on day two of the Rutgers Invitational at the Rutgers Aquatics Center on Thursday.

FROM THE POOL DECK

In addition to last night's pool record setting performance from the 800 free relay team, the Scarlet Knights have totaled four event wins through two days of competition.

RELAYS

The 200 free relay team set the pace for the evening taking the top spot in a time of 1:31.95.
Freshmen Elinah Phillip, Sofia Chichaikina and Giulia Ghidini along with senior Clare Lawlor swimming anchor posted a time of 1:31.95, which was .2 seconds off their Rutgers Aquatics Center record swim in their last appearance against Princeton back on Nov. 15.

SPRINTS

A pair of Rutgers freshmen took the first two spots in the 50 free.
Sofia Chichaikina earned her third victory of the meet posting the winning time of 22.81, which was .05 seconds off a NCAA B cut time.
Elinah Phillip picked up her second event win of the night with a runner-up time of 22.91.

DISTANCE

Francesca Bertotto recorded her second event win of the invite winning the 500 free with a season-best time of 4:49.80.

DIVES

Megan Demeo was RU's top performer on the 1-meter placing with a runner-up with a score of 255.00 and was 2.6 points shy of first place.

MEET QUOTES

"Real happy with the final. I thought we dove with a lot more smarts and a little more flair in the final. Megan Demeo, not only did she almost win it, she did it with a brand new dive that we learned a week ago which really ups her degree of difficulty. That's what we are trying to do for when we get to Big Ten's to have a degree of difficulty to compete with." – Head diving coach Frederick Woodruff

UP NEXT

Day three of the Rutgers Invitations begins with prelims in 400 individual medley, 100 fly, 200 free, 100 breast and 3-meter diving. Finals get underway at 6 p.m. along with the 200 medley relay

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