The Basics
• Scores:
Towson-211, Johns Hopkins-83
Navy-196, Johns Hopkins-87
• Location: Annapolis, MD • Lejeune Hall
• The Short Story: The Johns Hopkins women's swim team posted three career-best times, and seven top-three finishes, in a double dual meet versus Towson and host Navy Friday night.
 
Quoting Coach Armstrong
• "So proud of this team to travel down to Navy for a double dual with Towson on a late Friday night. We had some really fast swims that bode well for what this team can do. But there is still a lot of hard work to do and we need to get much better at our details. A special thank you to Towson and the Naval Academy. This is always a special meet!"
 
Top Finishers
• Hopkins opened the night with a seventh-place finish in the 200  Medley Relay. The team of junior Cecilia Cortez, freshman Taylor Rohovit, sophomore Anni Fan and senior Kristen Alicea-Jorgensen finished in 1:48.50.
• Freshman Hannah Fu then finished in fifth place in the 1650 Free with a time of 17:43.41. Her time of 10:43.38 in the 1000 Free is a career-best.
• Sophomore Makenzie Higgins placed fourth in the 200 Free as she clocked in at 1:55.93. Senior Elaine Lipkin followed in seventh place with a time of 1:57.35.
• Sophomore Cameron Roche finished in eighth place in the 100 Back in 59.86.
• Rohovit then took fourth place in the 100 Breast in 1:06.15.
• Junior Emerson Davis placed fifth in the 200 Fly as she touched in 2:07.08.
• Freshman Michelle Liu then picked up the first of her two top-three finishes as she placed third in the 50 Free with a time of 24.29. She finished just seven-hundredths of a second out of second place. Cortez followed in eighth place with a time of 25.06.
• Alicea-Jorgensen led a trio of Blue Jays to sixth, seventh and eighth-place finishes in the 100 Free with a time of 54.15. Freshman Meg Susil finished in 54.43 and sophomore Caroline Storen finished in 55.35.
• Roche then took third place in the 200 Back as she clocked in at 2:07.32 while Higgins placed fifth in 2:08.30.
• Liu earned her second third-place finish as she swam a career-best 2:25.57 in the 200 Breast. Davis followed in eighth place as she finished in 2:38.71.
• Susil then swam a career-best time of 5:07.78 to finish in third place in the 500 Free. Graduate student Emma McElrath took eight place in a time of 5:22.37.
• The Blue Jays then took fourth through eighth in the 100 Fly, led by Fan with a time of 59.52. Senior Sydney Okubo finished just three-hundredths of a second behind Fan for fifth place. Senior Sophia Girgenti took seventh  in 1:01.42 and classmate Rebecca Ssengonzi took eighth in 1:04.04.
• In the final individual event of the night, Rohovit and Lipkin finished two-three in the 400 IM. Rohovit swam a 4:35.34 and Lipkin clocked in at 4:35.92.
• Hopkins ended the meet with second and fourth-place finishes in the 200 Free Relay. Liu, Alicea-Jorgensen, Fan and Girgenti combined for a time of 1:36.98. Higgins, Storen, junior Chase Lahr and McElrath swam a 1:41.48.
 
Up Next
• Hopkins is right back at it as the Blue Jays host the William & Mary Tribe on Saturday, October 16. The Blue Jays first home meet in more than 600 days is slated to begin at 2:00 pm.