Waves Win Five Events in Loss to Toreros

Saturday, October 19

San Diego, Calif.

1:00 p.m. PT

Pepperdine University

113

185

San Diego

Paulina Holmberg

Photo by: Jeff Golden

10/19/2019 7:13:00 PM | Women's Swim/Dive

Results

By: by Athletic Communications

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Pepperdine women's swim and dive team competed in their second of two meets in San Diego today. The Waves lost to the University of San Diego Toreros 185-113 but they had five event wins throughout the day.

MEET RECAP
The Waves had several first place finishes in their dual meet against the USD Toreros. The first came from Paulina Holmberg who won the 1-meter diving with a score of 227.55. Olivia Stotz was close behind her scoring a 214.35, which was good for second. Holmberg and Stotz also went first and second in second round of diving with scores of 166.50 and 159.30, respectively.

In the swimming events, Sammie Slater won the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:56.18. Emily Morton followed directly behind her in second with a time of 1:56.89. Morton then earned the first win of her own in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:06.62, a full three seconds ahead of the second-place finisher. The final win was also posted by Morton in the 400 individual medley, who won with a time of 4:33.50 which was nearly 10 seconds ahead of any other competitor.

QUOTABLE
"We had a very successful first road trip and a really good day at USD." said Head Coach Joe Spahn. "We just ended up on the wrong side of some very close races, but we are racing hard which is what I want to see at this point of the season. Our divers are building up their dives as well and improving each meet. Going 1, 2 on both boards was huge for us. Overall, I'm excited to see how well we competed while being tired."

"This week coming up will be an important one for us to continue training as well as getting healthy. We then have another great stretch of racing by heading up to UC Davis to swim against them and Cal State East Bay in a two day meet. We will then back that up with an exciting evening home meet against LMU (Nov. 8). It's always exciting to race out rivals, especially under the lights."

"We will really get to see what we are made of when we host our Pepperdine Winter Invite (Nov.22-24). We have a lot of talented teams coming so we will be ready for some great racing!

NEXT UP
The Waves will be traveling up to Davis, California for a two-day meet against UC Davis and Cal State East Bay on November 1st and 2nd.

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