"I am very happy with our performance," Purdue women's swim coach Cathy Wright-Eger said. "We went in to use this meet to better ourselves and that's exactly what we did. We had our best swim yet, and we had 46 season-best times, a handful of lifetime-best times, and we were able to win 50% of the events. The event did come down to having the depth and it showed in the very last race."
In the first event of the evening, the Boilermakers started off strong and recorded a new Purdue Varsity record in the 200 medley relay. With a time of 1:43.04, team members sophomores Lisa Dolansky and Lindsay Lange and seniors Missy Bromley and Gyongyver Lakos tallied their best swim of the season.
The next event was the 1000 freestyle with Boilermaker sophomore Shannon Funk improving her season-best time by over six seconds. Her time of 10:11.07 was good enough for a second place finish. Finishing in fourth place was junior Kelly Mackus with a season best time of 10:21.19.
Big Ten Female Swimmer of the Week Lakos remained undefeated in the 200 freestyle with a first place finish and a season-best time of 1:50.05. Sophomore Kim Paradiese finished third with another season-best time of 1:51.76.
Recording both new Purdue Varsity and McCoy Natatorium records for the 100 backstroke, Dolansky finished first with a time of 55.98. The Boilermakers were also able to record a fifth place finish with freshman Jennifer Bean's season-best time of 59.59.
In the 100 breaststroke, sophomore Lindsey Lange finished second with a time of 1:03.28. Lange improved her time by more than three seconds for a personal season-best. Also in the 100 breast, freshman Lindsey Kirchoff recorded another personal season-best time of 1:05.87.
Junior Karin Stender swam a Boilermaker season-best in the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:04.31. Sophomore Patricia Finnerty was not far behind with a personal season-best time of 2:05.15 for a fourth place finish.
Purdue was able to finish 1-2 in the 50 freestyle with Bromley swimming a season-best 23.65 and Paradeise swimming a season-best 23.86.
-more- In the one meter diving, the Boilermakers were able to produce the best results yet this season, with second, third and fourth place finishes. Redshirt-junior Kara Hajek placed second with 259.95 points. Junior Molly MacFarlane finished third with 251.85 and sophomore Heather Bachman tallied 226.35 points for the fourth place finish.
Lakos also remained undefeated after her first place finish and a season-best time of 51.08 in the 100 freestyle. Sophomore Kim Paradiese finished second with a personal season-best improvement of almost a second for a time of 51.78. Bromley also took the third place for Purdue with a time of 51.84. This was the first time this season that the Boilermakers were able to finish 1-2-3 in the 100 free.
For her third first place finish of the day, Dolansky recorded a time of 2:01.87 for a season-best of more than three seconds. Senior Sarah Dougall finished fifth with a personal season-best time of 2:09.69 for the Boilermakers.
In the 200 breaststroke, senior Brianna Reina recorded a Purdue season-best time of 2:21.83 for a second place finish, while Kirchoff finished fifth with a time of 2:22.71.
Funk was able to swim a time of 5:01.16 in the 500 freestyle. That was good enough for a third place Boilermaker finish, while teammate Mackus finished fourth with a time of 5:03.00.
The 100 butterfly produced a third place finish for Purdue with Finnerty's time of 57.21. Stender was not far behind with a time of 57.86 for a fifth place finish.
In the three meter diving events, Hajek was able to place second with 179.00 points, for her highest finish of the year. Bachman finished third with 178.95 points and MacFarlane was fourth with 167.40 points.
Bean took home a first place finish in the 200 individual medley for the Boilermakers with a time of 2:05.03. Her time improved by more than five seconds for a new Purdue season-best. Mullarkey finished with a time of 2:10.30 for a fifth place finish, as well.
The final event of the evening was the 400 freestyle relay and Purdue came out on top with the first place finish and both the pool record and a Purdue Varsity record. The relay team of Dolansky, Bromley, Paradeise and Lakos finished with a time of 3:24.41.
The Boilermakers will look to continue their outstanding season when they return to the pool on Nov. 30-Dec. 2 for the U.S. Open in Auburn, Ala.
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