Oct. 29, 2005

Results

COLLEGE PARK, MD - The men's and women's swimming teams earned their first wins of the season when they defeated Howard at the University of Maryland meet on Friday afternoon. The men won 155-45, while the women won 142-56. Maryland defeated Hopkins in both the men's (130-99) and women's (154-68) competitions and also swept Howard (men: 183-39, women: 172-49)

Johns Hopkins won the first men's event of the day as sophomore Ryan Kim, senior Tyler Harris, senior Brian Sneed, and sophomore Bradley Test finished the 400 medley relay in 3:29.77, nearly three seconds faster then Maryland's team. The Blue Jays finished first in the next men's event, the 1000 free, where freshman Colin Kleinguetl (9:45.58) edged the Terps' Martin Ott (9:45.98).

Other first-place finishes by the Hopkins men came by Test in the 50 free (21.42), senior Sean Kim in the 100 butterfly (51.57), and Ryan Kim in the 100 backstroke (52.65).

In the women's events, the Blue Jays opened the day with a second-place finish in the 400 medley relay by sophomore Erica Pakkala, junior Allie Foster, freshman Kristin Cunningham, and freshman Jacqueline Rooney (4:02.47). Foster earned Hopkins' only win when she edged Maryland's Emily Smoak 1:08.41 to 1:08.42 in the 100 breaststroke.

The Blue Jay women had runner-up finishes by senior Katie Herbst in the 1000 freestyle, Cunningham in the 200 freestyle, sophomore Stephanie Laperle in the 200 IM, Pakkala in the 100 backstroke, and freshman Kate Hansen in the 500 freestyle.

Both men's and women's teams travel to Carnegie Mellon next weekend, November 5-6, for meets against Carnegie Mellon and Emory.