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Rams Post Eight Pool Records in Dual Sweep
10/15/2022 4:59:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving
Program has won 16 consecutive duals, the second-longest streak in school history
GOLDEN, Colo. – A dominant performance from start to finish, leading to a step up in the record books.
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Colorado State's women's swimming and diving team officially won 10 of 12 events (posting a top time as an exhibition in another), setting eight natatorium records along the way in sweeping host Colorado School of Mines and New Mexico State on Saturday. The Rams beat the Miners 164-57, the Aggies 150-72. It marks 16 consecutive dual victories for the program, the second-longest run in school history.
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Coming off a first meet at sea level and coming back and ramping up the yardage in workouts in the lead-up, head coach Christopher Woodard was excited to see his team string together strong races with times which remained close to the opening weekend.
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"I was definitely pleasantly surprised. We knew they could swim well but coming off a reload week where we're going up in intensity, volume and back up in the weight room, to be in many cases close to what we were doing at sea level was pretty impressive," Woodard said. "We just know that we've heard a lot of them during the week, they're sore, their stiff, they're putting the weight back on and not able to hit some of the same sendoffs that they did in practice the week prior. Knowing they were battling that, to come in and still throw down was the impressive part.
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"As tough as the back-end of a race can be at sea level, it's a heck of a lot tougher when you're a mile high. To have them swim tough in the back half of their races was really encouraging."
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Colorado State had 1-2-3 finishes in a trio of races (400-yard individual medley, 200 butterfly, 100 freestyle), and 1-2 in four others (400 medley relay, 1,000 freestyle, 200 backstroke and 200 breast).
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Erin Dawson and Alexis Trietley won two events each as Trietley won both the 50- and 100-yard freestyles, while Dawson topped the field in both the 200 and 400 individual medleys. Both of them are off to strong starts, Trietley as a true freshman, Dawson as a sophomore bouncing back from an injury-plagued season.
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"I think Erin has always enjoyed swimming, but obviously her health issues were a struggle last year and a tangible struggle," Woodard said. "That's going to make it a pretty miserable experience. Having her in there racing, every race she's coming out with a smile on her face. I think she's happy for the opportunity, but even happier she's beyond her personal best."
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The Rams won the 400 medley relay and would have won the 400 free had the big lead built up before the final event not led Woodard to marking his teams as exhibition. Maya White and Emily Chorpening took the top two spots in the 1,000 free; Anika Johnson won the 200 free, with Megan Hager and Hannah Sykes also in the top five; and Amanda Hoffman took the 200 fly in front of teammates Sykes and Kendra Preski. Woodard was very impressed with the final two wins of the day, Lucy Matheson won the 200 back with Liza Lunina right behind her, followed by a win from Katie McClelland in the 200 breast, with Emma Breslin second.
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More points where piled up with top-five finishes produced by Ashlyn Hembree, Delaney Engel, Azalea Shepherd, Leigha O'Connor and Olivia LeBlanc. There was no diving at the meet.
The pool records came in the 400 medley and 400 free relays, both individual medleys, the 50 and 100 freestyle, 200 butterfly and the 100 backstroke from Lucy Matheson's lead leg of the 400 medley relay.
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The Rams return back to action Oct. 28 with a road trip to Denver.
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Colorado State's women's swimming and diving team officially won 10 of 12 events (posting a top time as an exhibition in another), setting eight natatorium records along the way in sweeping host Colorado School of Mines and New Mexico State on Saturday. The Rams beat the Miners 164-57, the Aggies 150-72. It marks 16 consecutive dual victories for the program, the second-longest run in school history.
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Coming off a first meet at sea level and coming back and ramping up the yardage in workouts in the lead-up, head coach Christopher Woodard was excited to see his team string together strong races with times which remained close to the opening weekend.
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"I was definitely pleasantly surprised. We knew they could swim well but coming off a reload week where we're going up in intensity, volume and back up in the weight room, to be in many cases close to what we were doing at sea level was pretty impressive," Woodard said. "We just know that we've heard a lot of them during the week, they're sore, their stiff, they're putting the weight back on and not able to hit some of the same sendoffs that they did in practice the week prior. Knowing they were battling that, to come in and still throw down was the impressive part.
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"As tough as the back-end of a race can be at sea level, it's a heck of a lot tougher when you're a mile high. To have them swim tough in the back half of their races was really encouraging."
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Colorado State had 1-2-3 finishes in a trio of races (400-yard individual medley, 200 butterfly, 100 freestyle), and 1-2 in four others (400 medley relay, 1,000 freestyle, 200 backstroke and 200 breast).
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Erin Dawson and Alexis Trietley won two events each as Trietley won both the 50- and 100-yard freestyles, while Dawson topped the field in both the 200 and 400 individual medleys. Both of them are off to strong starts, Trietley as a true freshman, Dawson as a sophomore bouncing back from an injury-plagued season.
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"I think Erin has always enjoyed swimming, but obviously her health issues were a struggle last year and a tangible struggle," Woodard said. "That's going to make it a pretty miserable experience. Having her in there racing, every race she's coming out with a smile on her face. I think she's happy for the opportunity, but even happier she's beyond her personal best."
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The Rams won the 400 medley relay and would have won the 400 free had the big lead built up before the final event not led Woodard to marking his teams as exhibition. Maya White and Emily Chorpening took the top two spots in the 1,000 free; Anika Johnson won the 200 free, with Megan Hager and Hannah Sykes also in the top five; and Amanda Hoffman took the 200 fly in front of teammates Sykes and Kendra Preski. Woodard was very impressed with the final two wins of the day, Lucy Matheson won the 200 back with Liza Lunina right behind her, followed by a win from Katie McClelland in the 200 breast, with Emma Breslin second.
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More points where piled up with top-five finishes produced by Ashlyn Hembree, Delaney Engel, Azalea Shepherd, Leigha O'Connor and Olivia LeBlanc. There was no diving at the meet.
The pool records came in the 400 medley and 400 free relays, both individual medleys, the 50 and 100 freestyle, 200 butterfly and the 100 backstroke from Lucy Matheson's lead leg of the 400 medley relay.
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The Rams return back to action Oct. 28 with a road trip to Denver.
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