TOLEDO, Ohio – The Toledo women's swimming and diving team won eight events in its first home meet of the season on Saturday against Ball State but dropped a 172-128 decision to the Cardinals.
"We are competing strong while in the middle of our hardest training of the season," head coach
Brie Globig said. "I'm happy with the progress we are making as a team."
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Toledo opened the meet with a spectacular 400 medley relay race by
Lucie Morris,
Lauren Kilgore,
Sydney Conrad and
Kennedy Lovell, who won the event with a 3:49.85 touch time. The Rockets then closed out the meet with a win in the 200 freestyle relay by Lovell, Morris,
Ashley Lefever and Conrad (1:36.40).
The Rockets' individual event winners were Conrad in both the 100 butterfly (56.17) and 200 butterfly (2:06.18), Lovell in the 100 freestyle (51.33), Kilgore in the 200 IM (2:08.37), and
Madison Giglio on the one-meter (248.40) and three-meter (261.08) dives.
Toledo returns to action when it travels to Huntington, W. Va. to face Marshall on Saturday, Nov. 13. Race time is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. at the Frederick A. Fitch Natatorium.
Toledo Top-3 finishes
- Junior Jovana Duric placed third in the 1,000 freestyle with a 10:26.36 touch time.
- In the 200 freestyle, freshman Molly Pressler came in second with a 1:55.86 time, followed by sophomore Nejla Karic who finished third at 1:57.42.
- Junior Lauren Kilgore took second in both the 100 breaststroke (1:04.39) and 200 breaststroke (2:22.21).
- In the 50 freestyle event, junior Kennedy Lovell finished second (23.93), followed by Morris in third (24.33).
- Senior Joelle Gallias finished third in both the one-meter (238.05) and three-meter (249.23) dives.
