USC Women Top San Diego In Season Opener

Photo Courtesy: Andy Ringgold/Aringo Photography

Junior Riley Scott won three races while sophomores Louise Hansson and Becca Mann and freshman Marta Ciesla won twice each as the USC women’s swimming and diving team won its season-opener, 136-106, at host San Diego on Friday (Sept. 29).

Scott swept the breaststroke events with a 1:02.44 in the 100 and a 2:03.02 in the 200, both NCAA ‘B’ cuts, two of four the Trojans would post in the meet. Scott also won the 200y IM in 2:03.02.

Hansson, USC’s most decorated swimmer last year, claimed the 100y back with an NCAA B cut of 54.97 and came back to win the 200y back in 1:54.39, just 0.30 off of the NCAA B standard.

Junior Maddie Wright dominated her specialty, the 200y fly, taking it in an NCAA B time of 1:58.61.

Sprinting specialist Ciesla swept the 50y (23.86) and the 100y free (51.92) in her Trojan debut.

USC kicked off the meet with a win in the 200y medley relay as sophomore Abby Miller, Scott, Hansson and sophomore Tatum Wade won in 1:44.28.

Mann led a 1-2-3 finish in the 1000y free with a 10:02.92 as junior Elizabeth Stinson was second (10:12.90) and freshman Isabella Rongione was third (10:16.62). Mann came back to touch first in the 500y free in 4:57.50 with Stinson and Rongione second and third again.

Wade won her first event of the year in the 200y free in 1:51.81 with junior Allie Wooden second (1:53.24). Sophomore Catherine Sanchez hit the wall first in the 100y fly (55.84) with freshman Caitlin Tycz second (56.06).

Freshman Maggie Aroesty was second in both the 100y (1:03.66) and 200y breast (2:18.13).

USC closed the meet with a first in the 400y free relay as Hansson, Sanchez, Wooden and junior Victoria Toris won in 3:28.26.

Press release courtesy of USC Athletics.

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