Women’s Swimming & Diving Clipped by Columbia, 159-141

Friday, January 18

New York, NY

5:00 PM

Brown University

Columbia

Women’s Swimming & Diving Clipped by Columbia, 159-141

1/18/2019 9:47:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving

Results

NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Brown women's swimming & diving team was edged by Columbia, 159-141, in an Ivy League meet on Friday night at Percy Uris Natatorium. Junior Sarah Welch (Beverly, Mass.) and freshman Andrea Wei (Hopkinton, Mass.) each recorded two individual victories for the Bears.

"I'm proud of how our women conducted themselves today - they navigated challenges as they came without hesitation and threw down some tough racing," said head coach Kate Kovenock. "It will be good to get back to training tomorrow in preparation for our senior meet and Ivies."

Columbia took the first two spots in the 200 medley relay to open competition as a team of freshman Allyson Ty (North Andover, Mass.), freshman Audrey Lukawski (San Francisco, Calif.), Wei and senior Maddie Salesky (San Rafael, Calif.) finished third with a time of 1:45.51.

Junior Julia Armitage (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) recorded the first individual victory of the night and did so in the 1000 freestyle (10:24.06). Freshman Michelle Guo (Falmouth, Mass.) also came in second (10:25.09) while freshman Emma Whall (Dover, N.H.) placed fourth (10:25.48). Guo was later Brown's top finisher in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:05.93 while Whall again took fourth (5:08.14).

Senior Jackie Karpowicz (Wakefield, R.I.) came in second in the 200 freestyle, touching the wall in 1:52.55 while freshman Miku Takabayashi (Glastonbury, Conn.) came in fourth (1:52.38).

Welch next won the 100 backstroke (57.21) with Ty (57.98) and freshman Maija Ninness (Santa Barbara, Calif.) (58.97) taking fifth and sixth, respectively. Welch later won the 200 of the event in 2:01.07 with freshman Victoria Gong (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) also claiming third (2:04.35).

Lukawski was Brown's top finisher in the 100 breaststroke in fifth place (1:06.00). She improved her performance in the 200 of the breaststroke and won the race in 2:19.94. Senior Kendall Crawford (Greenwood Village, Colo.) also came in fifth in the 200 (2:27.76).

The Bears went 1-2-3 in the 200 butterfly with Wei winning the event in 2:03.02. Freshman Caylene Rippon (Hershey, Pa.) took second in 2:04.25 and senior Emma Wittmer (Edina, Minn.) came in third in 2:04.49. Wei also took the victory in the 100 butterfly in 55.17 with Wittmer behind her in second (56.34) and Rippon in fourth (57.24).

Junior Marley Cross (Seattle, Wash.) and Salesky went 2-3 in the 50 freestyle with times of 23.72 and 23.89, respectively. Cross also finished second in the 100 freestyle (51.68) and was followed by Seaman (51.73, third) and Salesky (52.07, fourth).

The Bears went 2-3-4 in the 200 IM with Takabayashi coming in second in 2:05.23. Sophomore Han Nguyen (Los Gatos, Calif.) was third (2:05.41) and Lukawski was fourth (2:06.67).

In diving, Brown finished 4-5-6-7 in the 3M with freshman Liv Mitchell (Laguna Beach, Calif.) leading the group with a score of 243.09. Junior Julia Benz (Superior, Colo.) was the Bears' top finisher in the 1M, coming in third with a mark of 248.85 while Mitchell was behind her in fifth (248.17).

Brown closed the meet by winning the 400 freestyle relay. Seaman, Salesky, Wittmer and Cross swam to a time of 3:23.91.

The Bears next return home to Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center to host Cornell on Saturday, Jan. 26 at noon for Senior Day.