RENO, Nev. - Now 4-0 in dual meets, the Nevada swim and dive program continues to dominate in the pool. The Pack took the meet, 190-106 over the Aggies of UC Davis on Saturday afternoon.
Of the 16 traditional events, Nevada won 13 including both relays and both diving events. The A relay squad, put together by
Imogen Watson,
Wiktoria Samula,
Josien Wijkhuijs and anchored by
Ileah Doctor won the first event of the day, the 200 medley relay, with a time 1:43.26.
Next was the distance swimmers in the 1000 free. The race turned out to be quite interesting as it came down to the final 50 between
Alexa Markl and
Caitlyn McHugh, but Markl just out touched McHugh to take first with a time of 10:46.14.
Nevada continued it its winning ways with the next three events taking first and second and going one, two, three in the 100 breaststroke with Samula leading the way with a time of 1:02.96. Doctor took her first individual event, the 50 free with teammate
Andressa Cholodovskis and Watson in second and third. Samula recorded a win in her second event of the day, the 200 breaststroke before Cholodovskis won the 500 freestyle.
Donna dePolo won both the 200 free and the 200 IM along with helping the B relay in the medley relay to take second. Rounding out the day was the divers who won both events;
Jessie Nowotny won the 1-meter while
Laura Isabel Vazquez Lopez won the 3-meter.
Linnea Sorensen finished third in both events.
Now on the schedule for Nevada is another home dual meet, this time against Boise State on Saturday, Nov. 2 starting at 11 am in Lombardi Pool. It will be a match up against the lone team that beat Nevada in a dual setting last year.