Women’s Swim and Dive Stay Undefeated Through Opening Weekend
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — The Cornell women’s swim and dive team moved to 2-0 after soundly defeating St. Bonaventure, 144-90. Cornell tallied nine first place finishers, including three 1-2-3 finishes on the day.
Elise Jendritz is continuing to rewrite the Cornell record books in her senior season. She scored 271.05 in the 1m dive and 300.45 in the 3m dive. Each score was good for the second best in Cornell history. Jendritz also now owns the title for first and second highest dive score in Cornell history since the dive rule change from 11 to 6 in 2001 following her score of over 274 against Binghamton yesterday.
The 1-2-3 finishes came in the 1000 yard Freestyle from swimmers Allie Danko (10:45.72), Jungmin Yoon (11:00.27), and Lexie Vanderloo (11:09.33); the 500 yard Freestyle by swimmers Melissa Parker (5:14.76), Danko (5:18.10), and Yoon (5:18.87); and the 200 yard Breaststroke by swimmers Amy Wu (2:23.96), Audrey Holden (2:24.96), and Quinn Rinkus (2:29.96).
The 200 yard Medley Relay team on Aviva Munoz, Emilie Boisrenoult, Kate Li, and Tori Zhang finished atop the podium in the first swimming event of the day with a time of 1:47.94. Li was also the first place finisher in the 200 yard Freestyle (1:54.70) while Boisrenoult went on to win the 100 yard Freestyle with a time of 51.53.
The final Big Red finish atop the podium was from Priscilla Wongso, who swam the 50 yard Freestyle in 23.90 seconds.
On the Horizon
The Big Red are back to the waters next weekend when it opens Ivy play at Dartmouth against the Big Green and Harvard in the first multi-team meet of the season for Cornell.
