Complete Results

The Basics
• Location: Durham, NC • Taishoff Aquatic Pavilion
• The Short Story: The Johns Hopkins men's and women's swim team posted a handful of career best times, and a pair of NCAA B cuts, on the second day of the Janis Hape Dowd Nike Invitational Saturday at Duke.
 
Quoting Coach Armstrong
• "It was an exciting night with several lifetime best swims. Tomorrow morning will be a big test as we head back to UNC for the final morning of the meet. We are looking forward to keeping the momentum going to the end!"
 
Top Finishers • Women
• Senior Natalia Rincon was the top Blue Jay in the 100 Fly as she placed third in 56.90.
• Freshman Sophia Girgenti then led a trio of Jays to place in the top eight in the 200 Free. She swam a 1:54.22 to take fifth place. Sophomore Carmela Irato followed in sixth place with a career-best 1:54.62 and classmate Amy Pearson took eighth with a 1:56.42.
• In the 100 Breast, junior Therese Larson led JHU with a seventh-place finish and a time of 1:10.25. Senior Phi Nguyen followed in 1:11.03 for eighth place.
 
Top Finishers • Men
• Sophomore Dillon De Priest grabbed a fourth-place finish in the 100 Fly as he finished in 51.40. His prelim swim of 51.25 was a career best.
• Sophomore Christopher Arena then won the 400 IM as he beat the field to the wall in 3:58.54. Senior Erik Bostrom followed in third place with a time of 3:59.43. Both Arena and Bostrom's times were NCAA B cuts. Sophomore Riley Mears swam a 4:04.39 to finish in fourth place.
• Freshman Mitchell Simmons took eighth place in the 200 Free with a career-best time of 1:41.33.
• Sophomore Marcelo Lauzurique wrapped up the night with a seventh-place finish and a 56.75 in the 100 Breast.
 
Up Next
• The Janis Hape Dowd Nike Invitational wraps up on Sunday, February 10 at North Carolina's Koury Natatorium. The preliminaries are scheduled to begin at 10:00 am with finals slated for a 5:00 pm start.