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Iowa Invitational
Rams Nail Down Pair of NCAA B Cuts
11/22/2024 7:49:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving
Whineray second in 100 back; Barbosa fourth in 400 IM
IOWA CITY, Iowa  – For Maisy Barbosa, there was no slowing down, only speeding up. The best part for coach Christopher Woodard, others followed along.
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A day after nailing down the fourth-best time in Colorado State women's swimming and diving history in the 200-yard individual medley at the Hawkeye Invitational at the CRCW Aquatics Center on the campus of the University of Iowa, Barbosa came back Friday with the program's third-best time in the 400 IM, nailing down the team's first NCAA B cut of the season with her 4:15.75 showing during the preliminaries for the No. 2 seed, a mark which would sit No. 31 in the country entering the weekend.
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A few hours later she had company as sophomore Tess Whineray placed second in the 100 backstroke, her 53.31 sliding below the standard, a finish which improves her already third-place standing on the program's record board. Her time, heading into the weekend, would place her 41st nationally.
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Woodard wanted a handful of his swimmers going after "aggressive B cuts" in the meet and both of those performances qualify.
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"That is a great, great start. We were talking about it tonight," Woodard said. "There's a lot more heart and emotion on the deck and a lot more spit in the water. They were firing. We're doing a lot where there's no breathers to the wall, and that's become a thing- They are all burying their heads and hard-charging to the finishes. I love that aggression."
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Barbosa would place fourth in the 400 IM final, just a shade slower than the morning, but the team wasn't done attacking the record book as Katie Flynn climbed up the program's board in the 100 breaststroke, her 1:03.41 vaulting her from ninth to seventh.
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For Barbosa, the swim was a personal-best in the event by nearly 5 seconds, a time she posted at midseason of her freshman campaign. A touch of the pandemic slowed her progress at the end of her debut campaign, and a hip injury derailed most of her next two seasons though she scored at the Mountain West Championships last year in both the 400 IM and the 200 free. For a filler Friday, she swam the 100 backstroke as an exhibition event, her 55.15 a personal best which would have qualified her for the event's A final.
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This season has marked a resurgence to form, picking up the pace even more at this invitational with a bit of rest and a trip down to sea level for the first time. Flynn is doing much the same, just a year removed from a hip injury herself. She placed 18th overall in the 100 breast, dropping time in both sessions.
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"It's tricky in our sport. You have so many athletes who have been swimming since they're 6-years old and their bodies are beat up and they're dealing with injuries," Woodard said. "It can be rare for seniors to really go out on top and really enjoy what they're doing, and those two have come back from these hurdles and their enjoying it I think more than they have in their careers. It's invigoration for the rest of us."
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Whineray remained third in the 100 back for the Rams, shaving a bit of time off her previous mark from last year's conference championships. The result was a second-place finish in the race behind conference foe Abby Storm of San Diego State. Whineray posted NCAA B cuts in both the 100 and 200 backstrokes last year, waiting until the conference meet to do so.
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This has been a season where she came out of the gate attacking, be it records as the Moby Pool, wins in duals and even tried her hand at the 200 free in the meet. She'll close the invitational with the 200 back on Saturday, her best event.
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"Tess really committed in the offseason to working the underwaters and working on tempos and turns, and that's all coming together," Woodard said. "While the 200 may technically be the better race, I think she's open to either one of them. She can crush either one of them."
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The Rams had six individual scoring swims in the night session overall, with the 400 IM delivering four. In the B final, Erin Dawson shaved time to finish 10th in 4:17.75. Maya White closed in 13th with a 4:20.50, with the biggest drop of the day coming from Lindsay Blake to reach the position, placing 15th overall at 4:22.90 after her 4:22.08 in the prelims represented a 17.24 second drop from her previous best.
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In the 100 butterfly, Mavi Nehir Isman placed 15th in 56.37, following a personal best of 55.04 in the morning. In total, the Rams qualified for 17 finals swims, with the majority of time drops happening in the preliminaries.
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Colorado State's relays both dropped time with the 200 medley team (Whineray, Flynn, Isman and Lexie Trietley) placing fifth in 1:40.31, while the Rams swam the 800 free relay for the first time this year, the quad of Dawson, Mia Axelman, Whineray and Barbosa touching in 7:25.87
.
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A day after nailing down the fourth-best time in Colorado State women's swimming and diving history in the 200-yard individual medley at the Hawkeye Invitational at the CRCW Aquatics Center on the campus of the University of Iowa, Barbosa came back Friday with the program's third-best time in the 400 IM, nailing down the team's first NCAA B cut of the season with her 4:15.75 showing during the preliminaries for the No. 2 seed, a mark which would sit No. 31 in the country entering the weekend.
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A few hours later she had company as sophomore Tess Whineray placed second in the 100 backstroke, her 53.31 sliding below the standard, a finish which improves her already third-place standing on the program's record board. Her time, heading into the weekend, would place her 41st nationally.
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Woodard wanted a handful of his swimmers going after "aggressive B cuts" in the meet and both of those performances qualify.
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"That is a great, great start. We were talking about it tonight," Woodard said. "There's a lot more heart and emotion on the deck and a lot more spit in the water. They were firing. We're doing a lot where there's no breathers to the wall, and that's become a thing- They are all burying their heads and hard-charging to the finishes. I love that aggression."
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Barbosa would place fourth in the 400 IM final, just a shade slower than the morning, but the team wasn't done attacking the record book as Katie Flynn climbed up the program's board in the 100 breaststroke, her 1:03.41 vaulting her from ninth to seventh.
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For Barbosa, the swim was a personal-best in the event by nearly 5 seconds, a time she posted at midseason of her freshman campaign. A touch of the pandemic slowed her progress at the end of her debut campaign, and a hip injury derailed most of her next two seasons though she scored at the Mountain West Championships last year in both the 400 IM and the 200 free. For a filler Friday, she swam the 100 backstroke as an exhibition event, her 55.15 a personal best which would have qualified her for the event's A final.
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This season has marked a resurgence to form, picking up the pace even more at this invitational with a bit of rest and a trip down to sea level for the first time. Flynn is doing much the same, just a year removed from a hip injury herself. She placed 18th overall in the 100 breast, dropping time in both sessions.
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"It's tricky in our sport. You have so many athletes who have been swimming since they're 6-years old and their bodies are beat up and they're dealing with injuries," Woodard said. "It can be rare for seniors to really go out on top and really enjoy what they're doing, and those two have come back from these hurdles and their enjoying it I think more than they have in their careers. It's invigoration for the rest of us."
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Whineray remained third in the 100 back for the Rams, shaving a bit of time off her previous mark from last year's conference championships. The result was a second-place finish in the race behind conference foe Abby Storm of San Diego State. Whineray posted NCAA B cuts in both the 100 and 200 backstrokes last year, waiting until the conference meet to do so.
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This has been a season where she came out of the gate attacking, be it records as the Moby Pool, wins in duals and even tried her hand at the 200 free in the meet. She'll close the invitational with the 200 back on Saturday, her best event.
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"Tess really committed in the offseason to working the underwaters and working on tempos and turns, and that's all coming together," Woodard said. "While the 200 may technically be the better race, I think she's open to either one of them. She can crush either one of them."
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The Rams had six individual scoring swims in the night session overall, with the 400 IM delivering four. In the B final, Erin Dawson shaved time to finish 10th in 4:17.75. Maya White closed in 13th with a 4:20.50, with the biggest drop of the day coming from Lindsay Blake to reach the position, placing 15th overall at 4:22.90 after her 4:22.08 in the prelims represented a 17.24 second drop from her previous best.
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In the 100 butterfly, Mavi Nehir Isman placed 15th in 56.37, following a personal best of 55.04 in the morning. In total, the Rams qualified for 17 finals swims, with the majority of time drops happening in the preliminaries.
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Colorado State's relays both dropped time with the 200 medley team (Whineray, Flynn, Isman and Lexie Trietley) placing fifth in 1:40.31, while the Rams swam the 800 free relay for the first time this year, the quad of Dawson, Mia Axelman, Whineray and Barbosa touching in 7:25.87
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