UNM TOP TIMES/SCORES FOR 2016-17
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The University of New Mexico women’s swimming and diving team will honor its five seniors while wrapping up its home schedule when the Lobos host Air Force and Colorado State 11 a.m. Saturday in a tri-meet at Seidler Natatorium.
Seniors Lindsey Englestead, Anna Lengyel, Emily McGill, Kaela McKee and Abigail Wheeler will be competing for the final time at their home pool and will be recognized at the event.
Combine that with the Lobos coming off a strong fifth-place finish at the 11-team Phill Hansel Invitational in Houston from Nov. 18-20, and first-year New Mexico coach Dorsey Tierney-Walker is excited about Saturday’s event.
“We had a nice midseason at the University of Houston,” Tierney-Walker said. “We had some lifetime-best times and a lot of season-best times. I think we are headed in the right direction. This week coming off Thanksgiving week and coming off heavy training it will be interesting to see where we are. We have a great senior class that we are going to honor and I think everyone will be excited to perform on their behalf. It should be fun.”
The Lobos set season bests in every swimming event they competed in during the Phill Hansel Invite, highlighted by a trio of school records set by Adriana Palomino in the 200 (1:47.63), 500 (4:46.74) and the 1,650 freestyle (16:22.46).
Konoha Shinada also had an impressive meet, setting season-bests for the Lobos in the 50 (23.50) and 100 freestyle (51.08) as well as the 100 backstroke (56.11) and 100 butterfly (54.75). Emily McGill set a trio of Lobo season bests in the 200 (2:03.95) and 400 (4:23.64) individual medley and the 100 breaststroke (1:03.83). Also setting season bests for the Lobos was Emily Huffer in the 200 backstroke (2:00.93) and Lindsey Englestead in the 200 breaststroke (2:16.62).
The Lobos also set season bests in all five relays while diver Ally Concepcion set the mark for the Lobos in platform diving (193.95).
Colorado State finished a spot ahead of the Lobos at the Phill Hansel Invite in fourth place. Colorado State’s Haley Rowley set school records in the 500 and 1,650 freestyle and the 400 individual medley at the event.
Air Force enters Saturday’s meet coming off a fourth-place finish at the seven-team Northwestern Invitational in Evanston, Illinois, and are led by Genevieve Miller in the long-distance freestyle events.
This means the top three 1,650 freestyle swimmers thus far in the Mountain West this season in Miller (16:13.14), Palomino (16:22.46) and Rowley (16:28.18) will be competing. The trio is also in the top five in the 1,000 free and the top six in the 500 free.