BALTIMORE, MD – Johns Hopkins broke a pair of pool records and won three events in a tough 168-94 loss to Georgetown Saturday at the Barbara & Jerry Procton Pool.
Ken Lee broke the two pool records while the 200 Free Relay team also took down the pool record.
Hopkins opened the day with second and fourth-place finishes in the 400 Medley Relay. The team of
Jaya Veerapaneni,
Renee Bak, Lee and
Alex Watson finished in 3:47.88, an NCAA B qualifying time. Their swim would have also broken the pool record, save for the Hoyas team that won the race in 3:46.83.
Stella Zhang,
Amy Hu,
Kate Petitt and
Elizabeth Cohen took fourth in the race in 3:55.51.
Julia Tuinman led the Blue Jays in the 1000 Free with a fourth-place finish in 10:43.61. Watson then placed second in the 200 Free as she touched in 1:52.54.
Melissa Er finished in fourth place with a time of 1:56.24. Lee then claimed the first of their two records on the day, winning the 100 Back in 55.81. Their time is also an NCAA B time. Veerapaneni clocked in at 56.65 for third place.
Reese Rosenthal won the 100 Breast by nearly two seconds as she finished in 1:06.15. Hu followed in second place with a swim of 1:08.04.
Maddie Horner grabbed second place in the 200 Fly as she touched in 2:08.74.
Lily Rossmann placed fourth with a time of 2:10.57.
Kimberly Lan led JHU with a third-place finish in the 50 Free (24.00). Cohen placed third in 24.37, beating Bak to the wall by just two-hundredths of a second. Watson then finished in third place in the 100 Free in 52.23, while Cohen took fourth in 53.19.
Lee took down the pool record in the 200 Back with a swim of 2:00.24, winning by more than 2.6 seconds. Their swim is also an NCAA B qualifying time.
Rachel Davis took third in the 200 Breast (2:24.92) and Tuinman took third in the 500 Free (5:08.87). Petitt then placed third in the 100 Fly with a time of 58.26 and Horner grabbed third in the 400 IM (4:37.64).
Hopkins ended the day with second and third-place finishes in the 200 Free Relay. Veerapaneni, Bak, Cohen and Lan combined for a swim of 1:35.41 to take second place. Their time would have broken the pool record, which was downed by the Hoyas in 1:34.60. The team of
Anna Miler, Zhang,
Claire Han and Lee placed third in 1:37.30.
The Blue Jays return to the pool in two weeks for Loyola's H2ounds Invitational November 21-23.
