Women’s Swimming & Diving Falls to Columbia, 175-125

Saturday, January 18

Providence, RI

12:00 PM

Brown University

125

175

Columbia

Women’s Swimming & Diving Falls to Columbia, 175-125

1/18/2020 5:35:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving

Results

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Brown women's swimming & diving team was defeated by Columbia, 175-125, on Saturday at the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center. Senior Sarah Welch (Beverly, Mass.) led the Bears with victories in both the 100 and 200 backstroke while sophomore Audrey Lukawski (San Francisco, Calif.) recorded a win in the 200 breaststroke. Junior Julia Feord (Royal Oak, Mich.) led the divers with a first-place finish in the 1M.

"Kudos are due to our competitors who came in sharp and ready to go," said head coach Kate Kovenock. "I am proud of how this team made their way through this afternoon's senior meet. Racing when you are tired and with the added emotion that we have for our graduating senior class takes a lot. They are a special group and have been instrumental in the improvement of our program in the last four years. We're ready to take on this next portion of training as we move into championship season in the coming weeks."

Columbia took first and second to begin the meet in the 200 medley relay before a team of junior Taylor Seaman (Brighton, Mich.), Lukawski, freshman Sage Matsushima (Huntington Beach, Calif.) and senior Marley Cross (Seattle, Wash.) took third in 1:45.21.

Freshman Audrey Orange (New York City, N.Y.) turned in a second-place finish in the 1000 freestyle with a time of 10:13.60 while sophomore Emma Whall (Dover, N.H.) (10:27.14) and senior Julia Armitage (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) (10:28.61) went 4-5.

Sophomore Miku Takabayashi (Glastonbury, Conn.) and senior Amelia Gilchrist (Greensboro, N.C.) went 2-3 in the 200 freestyle with times of 1:52.41 and 1:52.58, respectively.

Welch recorded the first victory for the Bears on the afternoon, swimming to a time of 56.55 in the 100 backstroke while Matsushima claimed third (56.85). Welch later won the 200 backstroke, doing so in 2:01.42 while sophomore Victoria Gong (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) claimed fourth (2:04.39).

Lukawski posted a win the 200 breaststroke in 2:18.43 and came in second in the 100 of the event with a time of 1:04.67.

Freshman Nell Chidley (Mystic, Conn.) paced Brown in the 200 butterfly in second with a time of 2:01.95 while sophomore Caylene Rippon (Hershey, Pa.) followed in fifth (2:05.52).

In the 50 freestyle, Seaman (23.72) just out-touched junior Tory Center (Madison, Wis.) (23.74) for second. The 100 free saw Seaman again take second (51.56) while Cross (51.84) and Center (52.47) went 3-4.

On the boards, Feord took the top spot in the 1M with a mark of 283.65 while sophomore Liv Mitchell (Laguna Beach, Calif.) led the divers in the 3M (258.38) in second place. Senior Emily Zitkovsky (Lexington, Mass.) (242.78) and Mitchell (236.03) followed Feord in the 1M in fourth and fifth, respectively, while junior Marisa Agarwal (Palo Alto, Calif.) added a fifth-place finish in the 3M (233.93).

Orange recorded her second second-place finish of the day in the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:59.58 while Gilchrist took fourth in 5:02.14.

In the 100 butterfly, junior Han Nguyen (Los Gatos, Calif.) (55.99) and Matsushima (56.12) went 2-3.

Takabayashi led the three Bears in the 200 IM, coming in second (2:05.08), while Nguyen (2:06.31, third) and Lukawski (2:07.10) also scored.

Seaman, Center, Gilchrist and Cross capped off the meet by winning the 400 freestyle relay in 3:26.34.

The Bears next travel to Cornell on Friday, Jan. 24 and Saturday, Jan. 25. Diving will take place on Friday at 5:30 p.m. while swimming will follow on Saturday at 11:00 a.m.