TENWOLDE SWEEPS DIVING EVENTS AT PCSC TIME TRIALS
January 30, 2009
Click on the above video for head coach Nick Rodionoff's post-meet thoughts on the PCSC Time Trials.
- Final Results
- Pledge Drive Information
MALIBU, Calif. - Freshman diver Jenna Tenwolde won both springboard events and her teammates collected six additional victories in the pool during the PCSC Time Trials held Saturday at Pepperdine's Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool.
The time trials served as the Waves' final warm-up meet prior to the PCSC Championships, which will commence in Long Beach, Calif., starting Wednesday, February 10.
Tenwolde (Laguna Niguel, Calif./Dana Hills HS) won the 1-meter competition with 228.55 points and edged out her junior-year teammate Tiffany Martz (Folsom, Calif./Folsom HS) by a fraction of a point. Sophomore Leslie Wade (Atlanta, Ga./The Lovett School) placed third with 215.95 points.
The order of finish was the same on 3-meter as Tenwolde collected 227.35 points, Martz scored 214.80 points and Wade totaled 206.00 points.
Five Waves won six events in the competition pool with freshman Shannon Adkins (Granite Bay, Calif./Granite Bay HS) winning both the 400 individual medley and the 200 backstroke. Adkins completed the 400 IM in 4:45.42 and finished the 200 back in 2:15.49.
Other winners included freshman Andrea Kacynski (Superior, Colo./Monarch HS) in the 1650 freestyle (18:43.56), senior Dani Kimmel (Chula Vista, Calif./Eastlake HS) in the 50 free (24.89) and freshman Sarah Burris (Virginia Beach, Va./Cox HS) in the 100 backstroke (1:07.00).
Pepperdine had its best showing in the 100 breaststroke, where junior Kayleen Hicks (Chico, Calif./Chico HS), Kimmel and sophomore Madison Krall (Pueblo, Colo./Pueblo Centennial) finished first through third. Hicks coasted to the wall and beat the rest of the field by more than three seconds with a winning mark of 1:05.94.
Pepperdine is in the midst of a pledge drive that's supporting the women's swimming and diving program's mission to continue as a NCAA Division I sport. The financial goal of $400,000 of annual funding for each of the next four years must be committed by this Sunday, January 31, 2010.
Additional information on the swimming and diving pledge drive can be found by clicking on the link provided near the top of the release.
