Chichaikina Captures B Cut In Dual Meet Finale At Nebraska

Saturday, January 29

Lincoln, Neb.

10:00 AM (ET)

Rutgers University

143

210

Nebraska

Photo by: Rich Graessle

Chichaikina Captures B Cut In Dual Meet Finale At Nebraska

Jan 29 | Women's Swimming & Diving

LINCOLN, Neb. – The Rutgers women's swimming & diving team wrapped up the dual meet season falling 210-143, however, captured several season bests and saw another Scarlet Knight capture an NCAA B cut and move up in the RU record books.

FROM THE POOL DECK

Altogether the Scarlet Knights won six events highlighted by four victories by Sofia Chichaikina and another sweep in diving by Abigail Knapton.
Chichiakina registered the fourth-best time in the Rutgers record book with an NCAA B cut in the 200 fly. The junior also added wins in 50 free and with the 200 medley and 400 free relays teams.
A career-best and zone qualifying mark was had by senior Megan Demeo on 1M, while season-bests went to the 200 medley relay, 400 medley relay, graduate student Alice Scarabelli in the 200 IM and senior Cat Salladin in 500 free and 400 IM.

DIVES

It was another sweep for Abigail Knapton winning both the 1M and 3M titles at her former school. The graduate student scored 287.63 on 1M and 340.13 on 3M having upped her total to 14 titles this season.
Junior Savana Trueb claimed third on both boards scoring 280.13 on 1M and 304.94 on 3M.
Additionally, senior Megan Demeo wrapped up her final dual meet with a new PR and zone qualifying mark of 280.05 on 1M.

RELAYS

Three of the four relays hit the wall in first place against the Cornhuskers.
On Friday night, it was the 200 medley relay out in front with Alice Scarabelli, Tina Celik, Beatriz Zoppeidossantos and Sofia Chichaikina edging out the hosts by .32 seconds for a season-best 1:42.00.
Saturday saw two relay wins for the Scarlet Knights. First, the 400 medley relay squad of Scarabelli, Celik, Sofia Lobova and Giulia Ghidini opened the day racking up a season top time of 3:42.22. The meet concluded with Lobova, Ghidini, Chichaikina and Eleonora Trentin outpacing the competition in the 400 free relay by 4.37 seconds to clock in at 3:21.03.

SPRINTS

Sofia Chichaikina moved up the Rutgers all-time 200 butterfly list and captured an NCAA B cut. The junior Scarlet Knight logged the event's top time of 1:59.03 giving her the fourth-best time in the RU record book.
Chichiakina also went on to claim a victory in the 50 free with a time of 23.19 and placed second in the 200 free in 1:48.55.
Sofia Lobova added another victory for RU in the 100 fly clocking in at 54.23 while also coming in as the runner-up in 100 free in 50.70.
Alice Scarabelli was the runner-up in two events. She logged a season-best 2:03.04 in the 200 IM and came in second in 55.87 in the 100 back.
Tina Celik claimed third in the 200 breast finishing in 2:18.90.
Eleonora Trentin also had a third-place finish in the 50 free coming in .01 second off her season-best in 23.71.

DISTANCE

Cat Salladin picked up two season bests in the 500 free (4:57.13) and 400 IM (4:28.97).

UP NEXT

The Rutgers women's swimming and diving team travels to Madison, Wisconsin site of the 2022 Big Ten Women's Swimming & Diving Championships being held Feb. 16-19.

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