BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins women's swim team turned in three top-three finishes on the second day of the Thomas Murphy Invitational Saturday at nearby Loyola.
 
Hopkins placed seventh and eighth in the 400 Medley Relay in the evening's first event. Freshman Kimberly Lan, junior Taylor Rohovit, freshman Elizabeth Cohen and sophomore Claire Han swam a 3:53.44 for seventh place. The team of senior Makenzie Higgins, sophomore Katherine Chelus, freshman Kate Petitt and sophomore Alex Watson followed in eighth place with a time of 3:55.09.
 
Cohen grabbed third place in the A Final of the 100 Fly as she touched the wall in 56.82. Petitt won the B Final with a finals time of 57.73. In the 400 IM, sophomore Rachel Davis placed eighth in the A Final with a time of 4:34.93. Rohovit finished in ninth place in 4:48.61.
 
The Blue Jays were all over the A Final of the 200 Free, with five swimmers in the heat. Freshman Julia Tuinman led the contingent with a fourth-place finish and a time of 1:52.65. Watson finished in 1:53.70 for fifth, with Higgins taking sixth in 1:54.08. Junior Kristin Cornish finished in seventh with a time of 1:54.18 and Han placed ninth in 1:55.84. In the C Final, senior Caroline Storen swam to a second-place finish in 1:58.34.
 
Senior Michelle Liu then took third place in the A Final of the 100 Breast with a career-best time of 1:04.48. Chelus placed second in the B Final as she clocked in at 1:06.61. Lan was the lone Blue Jay in the finals of the 100 Back. She finished in sixth place in the A Final with a time of 57.90.
 
Hopkins finished up the second night of the invitational with a second-place finish in the 200 Free Relay. Liu, Lan, Han and Cohen turned in a time of 1:35.38, just one-hundredth of a second shy of an NCAA B time.
 
The third and final day of the Thomas Murphy Invitational begins at 10:00 am on Sunday with the prelims of the 200 Back.