The Caltech women’s swimming & diving team scored meaningful points in both swimming and diving competitions at the 2018 SCIAC Championships to move up one spot following Friday’s events. The bulk of the women’s points came courtesy of freshman diver Krystin Brown (Lake Forest, Calif. / Trabuco Hills). In her first SCIAC Championship diving competition, […]
The Caltech women’s swimming & diving team scored meaningful points in both swimming and diving competitions at the 2018 SCIAC Championships to move up one spot following Friday’s events.
The bulk of the women’s points came courtesy of freshman diver Krystin Brown (Lake Forest, Calif. / Trabuco Hills). In her first SCIAC Championship diving competition, Brown impressed with a seventh-place finish in the 1-meter final (393.55). Brown’s placing, which ended up being third among freshmen earned Caltech a key 14 points that allowed them to pass the University of La Verne.
Fresh off of qualifying for the NCAA ‘B’ cut on the opening day of the SCIAC meet, junior Brittany Percin (Lake Tahoe, Calif. / Stanford Online) swam her usual pace in the 500 Free and touched the wall less than one-fifth of a second than her freshman program record, besting swimmers from Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges and Chapman University. The other women’s swimming event of the day saw freshman Stella Wang (Greensboro, N.C. / North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics) anchor a team consisting of junior Teresa Tran (Irvine, Calif. / Northwood) and freshmen Nora Koe (New Hyde Park, N.Y. / Herricks) and Olivia Durrett (Charlotte, NC / Phillips Academy Andover) in the 200 Free Relay. Wang swam the Beavers’ fastest split in 26.98.
The SCIAC Championships resume on Friday, Feb. 23 with the preliminaries slated for 9 a.m. for the 400 IM, the 100 Butterfly, the 200 Freestyle, the 100 Breaststroke, the 100 Back and the 400 Medley Relay.
