PITTSBURGH, PA – Junior Kristin Cornish broke a pool of records and the Johns Hopkins women's swim team picked up a pair of wins at the Carnegie Mellon quad meet Saturday. Hopkins beat host Carnegie, 173-115, and Calvin, 155-132. JHU dropped a 227-67 decision to defending national champion Denison.
 
Hopkins opened the meet with fourth and sixth-place finishes in the 200 Medley Relay. The team of freshman Kimberly Lan, junior Michelle Liu, freshman Kate Petitt and senior Makenzie Higgins swam a 1:46.27 for fourth place. Senior Cameron Roche, junior Taylor Rohovit, freshman Elizabeth Cohen and sophomore Alex Watson finished in 1:48.48 for sixth.
 
Cornish then turned in the first of her two record-breaking swims as she won the 1000 Free with a time of 10:06.36. Her time is also the sixth fastest in program history. Junior Meghan Susil finished in fifth place as she finished in 10:29.65.
 
The Blue Jays then went three through five in the 200 Free. Freshman Julia Tuinman led the way with a swim of 1:52.65 as she edged out Watson by 0.14 seconds. Sophomore Claire Han took fifth place with a time of 1:55.11. Senior Cameron Roche led the Blue Jays in the 100 Back as she finished in 59.35 for fifth place.
 
Junior Taylor Rohovit then posted the first of her two top-three finishes in the breaststroke as she swam a 1:05.65 for third place in the 100. Petitt turned in a career-best swim in the 200 Fly as she finished in seventh place with a time of 2:09.06. Senior Makenzie Higgins then took fifth place in the 50 Free with a time of 24.21. She beat freshman Elizabeth Cohen to the wall by just three-hundredths of a second.
 
Watson led Hopkins in the 100 Free with a sixth-place finish and a time of 52.86. Roche followed with a fourth-place finish in the 200 Back as she finished in 2:06.08. Rohovit then swam to a second-place finish in the 200 Breast as she clocked in at 2:23.53, beating Denison's Riley Tofflemire by only one-hundredth of a second. Sophomore Rachel Davis finished in 2:25.37 for fourth place and Liu touched in 2:26.06 for fifth place.
 
Cornish added another record to her resume as she clocked in at 4:55.68 to win the 500 Free by 0.18 seconds. Her time is also an NCAA B qualifying time. Tuinman followed in fifth place with her time of 5:03.72. Petitt finished in fifth place in the 100 Fly as she touched in 57.46. Cohen followed in sixth place with a time of 57.88.
 
Rohovit had another photo finish, this time in the 200 IM, as she placed sixth in 2:09.99. This time she beat Davis to the wall by one-hundredth of a second. Hopkins closed out the day with third and sixth-place finishes in the 200 Free Relay. Cohen, Lan, Liu and Higgins combined for a time of 1:35.43 for third place. Senior Caroline Storen, sophomore Alia Basler, Han and Watson finished in 1:38.68.
 
Hopkins is right back in the pool on Tuesday, January 16 as the Blue Jays host NYU and TCNJ.