MALIBU, Calif. – The Pepperdine swimming and diving program dropped two contests on the day. The Waves fell 215.5-78.5 to UC Santa Barbara and dropped the contest against UC San Diego, 201-93 at
Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool.
MEET RECAP
There was no diving on the day.
Although Pepperdine dropped two contests against two of the top teams in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, the Waves had some solid highlights on the day.
Sophomore
Lexi Haymart (El Dorado Hills, Calif./Ponderosa HS) had a strong showing in the 1650 free as she clocked a time of 17:27.48. In the 50 free, junior
Alexandra Browne (Arlington, Va./Washington-Liberty HS) finished third as she swam the event in 23.55. Sophomore
AJ Adams (Castle Rock, Colo./Valor Christian HS) earned a career-best time in the 400 IM as she notched a time of 4:31.55.
Two freshmen earned top-10 times in the 100 fly.
Layla Busquets (Diablo, Calif./Monte Vista HS) clocked a time of 56.45 in the event, good for third all-time.
Emily Garrison (Bryon, Minn./Century HS) completed the event with a time of 57.45, which is good for sixth all-time.
QUOTABLES
"I'm very impressed and excited about our program and the direction that things are going with our new conference," head coach
Ellie Monobe said. "We came into this knowing we were going to be the underdogs. We knew that we were going to have to step it up. I'm happy that we made UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego work hard for their wins. I'm very impressed with
Lexi Haymart who has been our distance stud as she pulled out one of the fastest in season mile swims that we've had at home.
AJ Adams continues to be on a roll and is gaining more and more momentum during this rough training cycle. I'm also impressed with freshman
Jordyn Larson and
Layla Busquets who are starting to figure out how to put the races together. I'm happy with
Ellie Hendren stepping up in the mile swim. Seeing her be able to flip the script and sprint for our relay team as well was awesome to see. Overall, we are very excited and looking forward to some rest and seeing some fast times here in the next couple of weeks."
NEXT UP
The Waves will have almost two weeks off before their next competition. Pepperdine will compete at the La Verne Invite and the Trojan Diving Invitational with both events being held from November 17-19.
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