LYNCHBURG, Va. – First year
Priya Frank (Colorado Springs, Colo.) continued her strong start to the season with improved times in two distance freestyle events as the Gallaudet University women's swimming team competed in a non-conference tri-meet Saturday afternoon against Randolph College and Southern Virginia University.
The Bison (1-2) dropped both ends of the tri-meet, falling 127-32 to the host WildCats (1-1) and 140-32 to the Knights (2-0). Southern Virginia edged Randolph, 94-89, in the closest meet of the afternoon.
Frank led the buff and blue with a fourth-place finish in the 500-yard freestyle (6:25.12), nearly eight seconds faster than her winning time against Hood College last Saturday. She also placed fifth in the 1,000 freestyle (13:37.25), improving her time by more than six seconds from the season opener.
First year
Mariska Dize (Port Richey, Fla.) and first year
Jenna Callahan (Pocatello, Idaho) finished just five-hundredths of a second apart in the 200 freestyle. Dize placed fifth (2:35.88), followed by Callahan in sixth (2:35.93). Sophomore
Adelle Patton (Puyallup, Wash.) added a fourth-place finish in the 100 backstroke (1:19.84) and took fifth in the 200 individual medley (3:04.12).
Gallaudet's 200 medley relay team of first year
Valerie Salgado (Lawrence, Mass.), junior
Melany Salcedo Benavides (Woodbridge, Va.), junior
Alecia Miller (Litchfield, Ill.) and sophomore
Melissa Eicher (Indianapolis, Ind.) finished fourth (2:31.28).
The Bison closed the meet with a third-place finish in the 200 freestyle relay as Frank, Patton, Callahan and Dize posted a time of 2:03.70.
Randolph College was led by Kendall Underdown, who swept the distance freestyle events with victories in the 500-yard freestyle (5:47.93) and 1,000 freestyle (11:56.29). Southern Virginia University's Haili Kim captured the 200 individual medley (2:20.98) and 100 backstroke (1:04.60) while swimming on the Knights' winning 200 medley relay team (2:00.94).
UP NEXT
Gallaudet is off for 20 days before diving back into competition on Friday, Oct. 30, at a tri-meet at SUNY Delhi in New York to take on the host Broncos and King's (Pa.) College. The meet begins at 5 p.m.
