Spring Break
SWIMMING: Teams place fourth and fifth
by Julie Ganz
Sports editor
Sports | 12/9/08
Posted online at 1:01 AM EST on 12/9/08
After finishing the first day of last weekend's Massachusetts Institute of Technology Invitational in seventh place out of as many teams, the women's swimming and diving team bounced back on the second day and jumped up to fifth place overall with a two-day total of 366 points.
The men's team also climbed in the standings on the second day of the Invitational, improving one spot to finish in fourth place out of seven teams with 344 points overall.
The women's team finished ahead of Bowdoin College and Colby College, which finished sixth and seventh respectively, but behind New York University, Tufts University, MIT and Wheaton College. The men's squad defeated Bowdoin, Wheaton and Colby but finished behind MIT, NYU and Tufts.
"We kind of … started off slow," James Liu '10 said. "But … especially [on the second day], we definitely swam pretty well."
New York University won the meet on the women's side with 970.5 points, while MIT placed first in the men's competition with 1,038 points.
"We seemed to have, by the end of the first [day] and going into [the second day], done a much better job [in] moving forward, and then statistically everything started to fall into place," coach Jim Zotz said.
Angela Chui '12 led the women's team with three first-place finishes in the 200-yard and 400-yard individual medley races, as well as the 200-yard backstroke. Chui swam the 200-yard IM in a time of two minutes, 10.16 seconds, meeting the NCAA Division III B Cut qualifying standard and setting a school record. Chui also won the 400-yard IM with a time of 4:37.07, once again meeting the B qualifying standard for the NCAA Championship and setting another Brandeis record.
"I was happy with the times and qualifying, but I was also happy… getting the points and trying to move up on the team ranking-wise," Chui said.
Chui also finished first in the 200-yard backstroke event with a time of 2:09.36 and second out of 46 swimmers in the 100-yard backstroke event with a time of 59.92 seconds. The latter time was another school-record finish.
The men's team also climbed in the standings on the second day of the Invitational, improving one spot to finish in fourth place out of seven teams with 344 points overall.
The women's team finished ahead of Bowdoin College and Colby College, which finished sixth and seventh respectively, but behind New York University, Tufts University, MIT and Wheaton College. The men's squad defeated Bowdoin, Wheaton and Colby but finished behind MIT, NYU and Tufts.
"We kind of … started off slow," James Liu '10 said. "But … especially [on the second day], we definitely swam pretty well."
New York University won the meet on the women's side with 970.5 points, while MIT placed first in the men's competition with 1,038 points.
"We seemed to have, by the end of the first [day] and going into [the second day], done a much better job [in] moving forward, and then statistically everything started to fall into place," coach Jim Zotz said.
Angela Chui '12 led the women's team with three first-place finishes in the 200-yard and 400-yard individual medley races, as well as the 200-yard backstroke. Chui swam the 200-yard IM in a time of two minutes, 10.16 seconds, meeting the NCAA Division III B Cut qualifying standard and setting a school record. Chui also won the 400-yard IM with a time of 4:37.07, once again meeting the B qualifying standard for the NCAA Championship and setting another Brandeis record.
"I was happy with the times and qualifying, but I was also happy… getting the points and trying to move up on the team ranking-wise," Chui said.
Chui also finished first in the 200-yard backstroke event with a time of 2:09.36 and second out of 46 swimmers in the 100-yard backstroke event with a time of 59.92 seconds. The latter time was another school-record finish.
Be the first to comment on this story