BALTIMORE, MD – Johns Hopkins junior Kristin Cornish posted an NCAA automatic qualifying time and broke the pool record in the 1650 Free at the Blue Jay Invitational Saturday.
 
Junior Meg Susil and freshman Ayden Min went one-two in the 500 Free. Susil touched first to win the event with a time of 5:06.55. Min followed in second place with a swim of 5:10.32. Freshman Julia Tuinman then led a quartet of Blue Jays that took first through fourth in the 200 IM. She took the top spot with a career-best swim of 2:05.77. Junior Michelle Liu placed second in 2:07.86, followed by senior Makenzie Higgins (2:10.70) and freshman Carly White (2:11.16).
 
Senior Caroline Storen placed second in the 50 Free as she finished in 24.43. Freshman Kimberly Lan took third (24.65), followed by sophomore Alex Watson (24.80). Junior Hannah Fu turned in a career-best swim of 24.97, while sophomore Alia Basler placed sixth in 25.07. Freshman Elizabeth Cohen then won the 100 Fly as she clocked in at 57.27, winning by nearly two and a half seconds.
 
Tuinman picked up her second win as she won the 200 Free in 1:53.38. Sophomore Claire Han finished in second place in 1:54.03 and Susil took third in 1:57.64. Sophomore Katherine Chelus then won the 100 Breast as she touched in 1:05.87. Liu finished in second in 1:06.98, with Basler taking third (1:10.21) and Lan placing fourth (1:11.87).
 
Hopkins placed second in the 200 Medley Relay as the team of White, freshman Kate Petitt, Chelus and Watson combined for a time of 1:50.32. Cornish then turned in her record-breaking swim in the 1650 Free. She broke the record by nearly 35 seconds and finished in 16:30.88. Her time is the fourth fastest in school history and her 1000 Free split (9:58.92) is the third fastest.
 
Junior Cameron Roche won the 200 Back as she turned in an NCAA B time of 2:01.91. Higgins finished in second with a swim of 2:07.50. Storen led a contingent of seven Blue Jays in the 50 Free with a time of 53.08. Min finished in second place with a swim of 53.25, while Chelus placed third in 53.52. Watson finished five-hundredths of a second later for fourth place.
 
Junior Taylor Rohovit then won the 200 Breast with an NCAA qualifying time of 2:18.80. Sophomore Rachel Davis finished in second place with a time of 2:22.98. Petitt then cruised to a win in the 200 Fly as she clocked in with a career-best swim of 2:08.14 and won by seven and a half seconds.
 
Hopkins ended the day with a second-place finish in the 400 Free Relay. The team of Higgins, Cohen, Fu and Rohovit finished in 3:33.87.
 
Hopkins will now prepare for the 2024 NCAA Championships, which are scheduled for March 20-23 in Greensboro, NC.