Sophomore Brittany Percin (Lake Tahoe, Calif. / Stanford Online) won every event she participated in against visiting Whittier College in Saturday’s SCIAC dual meet. A Caltech record holder in eight different events, Percin kicked off her day by winning the women’s 200-yard freestyle, clocking in at two minutes, one-and-a-half seconds. She then won the 100-yard […]
Sophomore Brittany Percin (Lake Tahoe, Calif. / Stanford Online) won every event she participated in against visiting Whittier College in Saturday’s SCIAC dual meet.
A Caltech record holder in eight different events, Percin kicked off her day by winning the women’s 200-yard freestyle, clocking in at two minutes, one-and-a-half seconds. She then won the 100-yard butterfly (1:00.82) before anchoring the winning 400-yard freestyle relay team, which also consisted of freshman Tzarina Shippee (San Diego, Calif. / La Jolla), freshman Angelina Pan (Toronto, Canada / Havergal College) and sophomore Gemma Takahashi (San Jose, Calif. / Leland). The same combination of women broke the school record in the 200-yard freestyle relay on week prior and managed to edge Whittier’s top team in the 400-yard relay by just over two-tenths of a second.
Takahashi also had herself a day, winning the 100-yard freestyle (56.51) and finishing just over one-third of a second off of first place in the 50-yard freestyle (26.18). Pan, meanwhile finished just behind Percin in the 200-yard freestyle (2:04.25). Senior Zofii Kaczmarek (New York, N.Y. / Stuyvesant) took second place finishes in both the one and three-meter diving events. In spite of the Beavers’ best efforts Whittier won the meet 155-64.
Head Coach Paul Hughes and the Beavers will be back at it again when they travel to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges to take on CMS and California Lutheran College next Saturday at 10:30 a.m.
