Meet Results
The Loyola Marymount University Lions women's swimming team was back in the pool on Friday evening when they traveled to Malibu for a dual meet with West Coast Conference rival Pepperdine.
Senior
Lanna Kozlowski and freshman
Kelli Andrade continued their winning ways by each winning an event. Kozlowski dominated the 1000 freestyle by over a pool length touching the wall in a 10:47.04 a full 20 seconds ahead of Pepperdine's Olivia Kayye. LMU's
Christine Chan placed third at 11:10.51. Later in the competition, Kozlowski added a couple of second place finishes in the 500 freestyle and 200 individual medley with Chan taking third in the IM.
Andrade's win came in the 100 breaststroke where she again dropped her season best time by a full second touching the wall in 1:06.50, a full second ahead of Pepperdine's Emily Morton. In the 200 breaststroke, Andrade and Morton switched positions with Morton getting her hand on the wall first and Andrade in the runner up position. Sophmore
Lydia Zicker picked up the fifth place points for the Lions in both the 100 and 200.
Junior
Audrey Hixon was LMU's top scorer in the backstroke events, taking second place in the 200 and third in the 100. Freshman
Sarah Lu added team points in the 200 taking fourth.
In the sprint freestyle events, junior
Serena Myatt placed second for the Lions in the 50 freestyle with a season best time of 25.16. Freshman
Jillian Powell added a point with a fifth place finish in 25.94. In the 100 freestyle,
Mikayla Tseng was the top Lion taking third while Myatt touched the wall in fifth place.
Tseng also picked up a second place finish in the 100 butterfly touching in 59.93. In the 200 butterfly, a trio of lions scored led by junior
Taylor Pajunen in second place, followed by senior
Olivia Nielsen in third and sophomore
Sabine Caplin in fourth.
Pepperdine was able to dominate the Lions in the two relay events with a first and third place finish in the 400 medley relay and a one-two finish in the 200 freestyle relay. The Waves won the competition with 180 points to 82 for the Lions.
The Lions have two weeks off from competition while they prepare for a three-day Pepperdine Invitational on Nov. 22-24 at East Los Angeles College against seven other division one programs including UCSB, UCSD, USD, Cal Poly, Cal Baptist, Pepperdine and CSUB.
