No. 20 Notre Dame Women Down Pittsburgh, 188-112

NOTRE DAME, Indiana, November 11. THE No. 20 Notre Dame women's swimming and diving team (3-0) continued the strong start to the 2006-07 dual meet season, with a 76-point win (188-112) over Pittsburgh on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 11 in the Rolfs Aquatic Center. The women scored 188 points and won nine of the 16 events while setting a school record.

The 200-yard medley relay team of Caroline Johnson (Springfield, Mo./.Glendale), Julia Quinn (Evanston, Ill./Evanston Township), Keri Masterson (West Hempstead, N.Y./Sacred Heart Academy) and Rebecca Grove (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./White Plains) won the first event of the afternoon in a time of 1:44.91.

Senior Katie Carroll (Toledo, Ohio/Notre Dame Academy) followed with a 1,000-yard freestyle victory in a school record time of 9:49.80. The Irish victory streak was momentarily halted in the 200-yard freestyle, before Caroline Johnson got Notre Dame back on track with her win in the 100-yard backstroke. Freshman Vivian Healey (New York, N.Y./Stuyvesant) followed with a 100-yard breaststroke win (1:05.21). Claire Hutchinson (Baltimore, Md./McDonogh) picked up a 200-yard butterfly win (2:03.92). Carroll picked up her second individual win of the meet in the 50-yard freestyle (23.78). She would win a third title with her time of 4:18.32 in the 400-yard individual medley, although it was an exhibition victory.

The Notre Dame divers got in act next as freshman Natalie Stitt (Holland, Mich./West Ottawa) won the first three-meter diving title of her collegiate career (228.23). After a momentarily slow down in the 100-yard freestyle and the 200-yard backstroke, the Irish train kept rolling with a Quinn win in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:19.66). Stitt concluded her meet with the second individual diving victory of her the meet in the one-meter dive (256.87).

The 200-yard free relay squad of Christa Riggins (Phoenix, Ariz./Sunnyslope) Grove, Caroline Johnson and Carroll finished the Irish winning ways off in a time (1:34.74), just missing an NCAA `B' qualifying mark.

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