BOISE, Idaho, October 20. SAN Jose State University won eight events in topping Boise State University, 95-92, in a Western Athletic Conference women's swimming and diving dual meet at the West YMCA.<\/p>\n
Saturday's meet featured a non-traditional, 11-event format with two regular diving events from the one-meter and three-meter springboards, and nine relay events.<\/p>\n
San Jose State entered the last event, the 100 freestyle relay (4 x 25), in a must-win situation in order to overtake Boise State, down by two points. The Spartans came through, as their foursomes finished first and third to earn 11 points to nip Boise State in the end. The Broncos placed second and fourth for six points, accounting for the final three-point margin.<\/p>\n
The winning relay consisted of three true freshmen, Meghan McCurley, Daphne Yeung and Ashley Ladd as a relay anchor for the first time in her college career, in order, around a second leg by senior co-captain Brie Marhenke. The third-place foursome was made up of junior Tarolyn Robertson, senior Sara Riley, and freshmen Ashley Krisman and Julia Koch, in order.<\/p>\n
According to third-year San Jose State head coach Sage Hopkins, however, the keys to Saturday's victory occurred just prior to that 100 free relay. In the ninth event, the Spartans went one-two in the 850 freestyle relay (50-100-200-500). McCurley, Marhenke, sophomore transfer and San Jose native Erin Garcia, and senior Amanda Carr with the 500 anchor, got SJSU the win, but the real story was on the \u2018B' relay, with junior Katey Nelson entering the water as the anchor leg a full body-length behind the Bronco anchor, running her down over the last 75 yards and out-touching her at the wall by just a tenth of a second for second place.<\/p>\n
Similarly in the next event, the 800 individual medley relay (200-400-200), Caitlin Macky hit the water as the 200-yard anchor a body-length and a half behind after fellow true freshman Kirsten Trammell had opened with a 200 and junior Beste Erener had swam a 400 middle leg, tracked her opponent down and out-touched her by one one-hundredth of a second to win in 9:08.74.<\/p>\n
Freshman Jo Thibodaux picked up her first collegiate dual meet victory on the three-meter diving board to go with her two one-meter triumphs so far in the early going.<\/p>\n
Special thanks to San Jose State for contributing this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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