Eckel Leads Waves in TriMeet

Wednesday, January 8

Malibu, Calif.

1:00 p.m. PT

Pepperdine University

205

Colorado State

Caroline Eckel

Photo by: Jeff Golden

1/8/2020 6:36:00 PM | Women's Swim/Dive

Results

By: by Athletic Communications

MALIBU, Calif. – The Pepperdine women's swimming team completed the first meet of 2020 today in Malibu. Although the Waves fell to both Colorado State and New Mexico, Caroline Eckel led the Waves with a win in the 100 backstroke, posting a time of 57.93.

MEET RECAP

The meet started out with the women's 400 medley relay in which the team of Eckel, Emily Morton, Haley Bergrthold and Amy Griffin finished in fourth place with a time of 1:49.79. The top swimmer for the Waves in the 1,000 freestyle was Morton who posted a best time of 10:49.60, good for fifth place.

Junior Sammie Slater was the leader for the Waves in the third event, the 200 freestyle, taking fourth place and swimming a time of 1:57.13. Eckel then owned the 100 backstroke, out touching all competitors with a time of 57.93. Senior Anna Riekhof was the top performer in the 100 and 200 breaststroke events, taking tenth and eighth respectively.

In the 200 butterfly event, Caroline Anderson placed sixth posting a time of 2:13.74. Also taking sixth place, was Nohea Lileikis in the 50 freestyle event with a time of 25.31. Lileikis also led the 100 butterfly for Pepperdine with a time of 1:00.5. Griffin had an excellent performance in the 100 freestyle for the Waves, taking fifth in a time of 54.15.

Morton posted a top-three performance in the 200 backstroke, finishing in a time of 2:07.47. The Waves leader in the 500 freestyle was Khloe McCarthy, who swam a time of 5:28.51. The final event was the 400 freestyle relay, wherein the squad of Trinity Ishikawa, Jenna Sanchez, Jasmine Williams and Griffin raced to the finish in a time of 3:39.11

NEXT UP
The Waves will be traveling to Loyola Marymount on January 17th and 18th for the WCC Cup.

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