Swimming & Diving Adds 100 Fly & 200 Free Wins on Day Three of Rutgers Invite

Friday, December 6

Piscataway, NJ

10 AM / 6 PM

Rutgers University

Rutgers Invitational

Photo by: (Ben Solomon/Rutgers Athletics)

Swimming & Diving Adds 100 Fly & 200 Free Wins on Day Three of Rutgers Invite

Dec 06 | Women's Swimming & Diving

Results (Day Three)

Scarlet Knights Up Total Victory Mark To Six With Freshman Sofia Chichaichina Collecting Her Fourth Event Win of the Meet

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Day three of the Rutgers Invitational saw the Rutgers women's swimming and diving team collect wins in the 100 butterfly and 200 free along with a trio of third-place performances.

FROM THE POOL DECK

The Scarlet Knights have totaled six event wins through three days of competition, which also included the pool record setting 800 free relay on day one and victories in the 50 and 500 free and 200 free relay on day two
Freshman Sofia Chichaikina brought her Rutgers Invite win total up to four with a victory in the 200 free on Friday night. She also has wins with the 800 free and 200 free relay squads in addition to the top time in the 50 free.

SPRINTS

Kasja Dymek opened the evening racing to a new season best in winning the 100 butterfly in 55.02.
After taking the top four spots in the preliminaries of the 200 free, Rutgers took home first and third in the finals. Sofia Chichaikina took over six seconds off her previous best for a time of 1:49.18 for her fourth event victory of the week. Alexandra Fabugais-Inaba clocked in at 1:50.93 for her best time of the year to take third.
The 100 breast saw a season-best from Aleksandra Ignatova in her third place performance of 1:03.55.

RELAYS

The 200 medley relay wrapped up the night with Alexandra Fabugais-Inaba, Aleksandra Ignatova, Kasja Dymek and Meghan Moses coming in third collecting a time of 1:43.26.

DIVES

Marina Wilkins led RU on the 3-meter putting together a third place performance with a score of 251.75.

MEET QUOTES

"We come to this meet to practice getting for Big Ten's. In the morning, we've been really focusing on going out there and post those times. In the afternoon, it's really about getting your hand on the wall. I think a lot of athletes today, and even in my generation, get all caught up in the times. At finals, you just want to win the race." – Head swimming coach Jon Maccoll

UP NEXT

The Rutgers Invitational concludes on Saturday with competition in the prelims of the 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast, 200 fly, 1650 free and platform diving at 10 a.m. Finals begin at 6 p.m. along with the 400 free relay.

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