The Colorado College women's swimming and diving team completed the weekend sweep against Southwestern University after defeating the Pirates 180-61 on Saturday inside Schlessman Natatorium.
The Tigers won 12 of 13 events and had seven swimmers collect victories in multiple events. Alyssa Tunggal led the team with three first-place finishes including both IM events and 100-yard butterfly.
Tunggal got her first in the 100-yard IM as the Tigers claimed four of the top five spots in the heat. The freshman touched first with a time of 1:00.71 while Gina Lynch (1:04.75) and Malia Hewitt (1:06.06) came in third and fourth.
In the 400-yard IM, Tunggal claimed the top spot after finishing in 4:57.77. Alexis Lee came in second with a time of 4:59.40. Alyssa's final victory was a 1:00.71 finish in the 100-yard butterfly.
Lee, racked up to wins in the in the 100-yard backstroke after outpacing the field with a 1:00.04 finish. She then teamed up with Isabella Cole, Megan Simonson and Adeline Turner to win the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:52.23.
Simonson won the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 25.17. She out touched the rest of the field by more than two tenths of a second as Annie Bowens came in second with 25.39 finish.
In the longest event of the day, the 500-yard freestyle, Emma Phillips, who won the 1,000 free on Friday, won by nearly eight seconds with a 5:40.60 time. She got third in the same event on Oct. 14 against Trinity.
In the 100-yard breaststroke, the Tigers went 1-2-3 as Isabella Cole claimed the top spot with a time of 1:10.08.
On the boards, Emma Krasemann swept the one and three-meter diving events. In the morning three-meter session, the Suffield native racked up 269.25 points and then scored 265.00 in the one-meter. Keller Pooley and Suzanne Applegate took second and third in both events.
I was very impressed with our team's intensity throughout the weekend," head coach Anne Goodman James said. "We are training hard right through all these early meets, and are still able to perform with some crispness. I think these performances give us more confidence heading into our mid-season invitational meet."
The Tigers will take a couple of weeks off before heading on the road to Crawfordsville, Indiana for the Wabash Peborth Invite at Wabash College on Nov. 17.
