GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The University of Washington women's swim team placed seventh out of eight teams at the 2024 Centennial Conference Swimming Championships hosted by Gettysburg and held Thursday night through Sunday night at Bullets Pool.junior kylie smith (Avon, Colorado/Vail Ski & Snowboard Academy) He finished 7th twice in the 100-yard butterfly and 200-yard butterfly, which was the top result on the team.
2024 Centennial Conference Championship
Shorewoman Individual Top Performer
– Smith placed seventh in the 100 butterfly (57.89 seconds), now the second-fastest swimmer in the WC in that event, and seventh in the 200 butterfly (2:14.10).
– Lauren Pauls After placing 10th in the 1650 freestyle with a time of 18:25.70 and a time of 5:16.35 in the qualifying round, she placed 14th in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:19.35 and 15th in the 200 freestyle. :58.73).
– Courtney Poetsch 15th place in 200 butterfly (2:22.70)
shorewoman top relay
– The quartet of Bonds, Pauls, Smith and Schultz placed seventh in the 200-meter medley relay with a time of 1:51.97.
– The quartet of Smith, Pauls, Schultz and Poetsch placed sixth in the 800 freestyle relay with a time of 8:02:59. Smith, who swam the leadoff leg, is 10th all-time in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:57.67.
– In the 400-meter medley relay, Bonds, Hewitt, Poetsch and Jones finished 12th (4:13.31).
– Smith, Schultz, Jones and Pauls led the Shorewomen to a fifth-place finish in the 200 freestyle relay (1:38.92). Smith's lead time of 24.71 seconds placed her in eighth place in the top 10 in the program.
– Smith, Jones, Schultz and Pauls earned a fifth-place result in the 400-meter freestyle relay (3:37.57).
Note
– #16 Swarthmore won the event with 991 points, followed by host #20 Gettysburg with 868.5 points. In third place was Ursinus with 440.5 points, and in fourth place was Franklin & Marshall with 417 points. Fifth through eighth place were Dickinson (328 points), Bryn Mawr (205 points), Washington (180 points), and McDaniel (121 points), respectively.
– This championship was the last for Hewitt, Jones and Schultz.
