The Basics
• Scores:
Johns Hopkins-151.5, NYU-110.5
• Location: Baltimore, MD • Newton White Athletic Center
• The Short Story: The Johns Hopkins women's swim team won both relays contested and picked up eight individual first-place finishes to fueled a 151.5-110.5 victory over visiting NYU on Saturday afternoon.
 
Quoting Coach Armstrong
"NYU is a very strong team that always pushes us to race hard, so after the hardest training block of the entire season, I couldn't be happier with how well the team swam. It's time to rest and we need to double down on sharpening up … turns, breakouts, streamlines … it's the little details that will come together with some rest and focused practice that will help carry the team to some great swimming in a couple weeks."
 
Top Winners
• The Blue Jays opened and closed the meet with wins in the 400 medley relay and the 200 free relay.  The 400 MR team of Sydney Okubo, Taylor Rohovit, Anni Fan and Michelle Liu clocked in at 3:57.02 to win by more than two seconds, while the 200 FR team of Cecilia Cortez, Kristen Alicia-Jorgensen, Fan and Lui touched home in 1:37.87 to win by 2.5 seconds.
 
• Jorgensen added individual first-place finishes in the 50 Free (23.93) and the 100 Fly (59.73) to go along with swimming a leg on the winning 200 FR.
 
• Mackenzie Higgins claimed first in the 200 Free (1:5579) as she touched nearly 1.5 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher from NYU.
 
• In one of the most exciting races of the meet, Okubo narrowly edged NYU's Emily Ma in the 100 Back as her winning time of 57.95 was just one-tenth of a second ahead of Ma's 58.05.
 
• Rohovit and Liu went one-two in the 100 Breast with Rohovit's winning time of 1:07.97 narrowly edging Liu's runner-up time of 1:08.26.
 
• The only race closer than the 100 Back was the 200 Fly, which saw Hopkins' Emerson Davis and NYU's Caitlin Marshall tie for first place as both touched at 2:06.07.
 
• Liu got off to a quick start and led at each turn in the 200 Breast as she won with a time of 2:27.21; her winning time was nearly four seconds ahead of the runner-up from NYU.
 
• The Blue Jays went one-two in the 500 Free as well as Med Susil and Higgins were nearly even throughout with Susil grabbing first place (5:08.93) and Higgins not far behind (5:09.49).
 
Up Next
• Johns Hopkins will return to action in two weeks when the Blue Jays travel to Brown to participate in the Bruno Invitational from December 3-5.