ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— The University of New Mexico women’s swimming and diving team competed on Friday, Oct. 26 against the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks, with the Lobos triumphing in their first home meet of the season after outscoring NAU by 72 points, 186-114.
The Lobos had 12 first place finishes and 28 top-three finishes during the meet.
UNM had two swimmers that won three events apiece in Adriana Palomino and Hedda Øritsland, and Carol De Groote Tavares took the win in two events.
Palomino won the 1000-yard freestyle, the 200-yard freestyle and the 500-yard freestyle and Øritsland produced individual wins in the 50-yard free, the 100-yard freestyle, and the 100-yard butterfly. De Groote Tavares won the 100- and 200-yard backstroke, Raine Gavino won the 200-yard breaststroke and Matea Sumajstorcic won the 200-yard IM.
The Lobos actually produced the top-three finishers in the 200-yard freestyle with Palomino, Klara Farkas, and Bryndis Bolladottir, respectively, and had another third-place finisher in the 1000-yard freestyle in Sumajstoric.
The relays resulted in two Lobo wins as UNM started out strong in the swimming portion of Friday’s meet with a win in the 200-yard medley relay and closed with a win in the 400-yard freestyle relay. Konoha Shinada, Farkas, Asami Terada, and Øritsland won the first relay, while another Lobo relay team made up of De Groote Tavares, Katie Pollack, Emily Huffer, and Breanna Wiercinski placed third. Shinada, Palomino, Wiercinski, and Farkas won in the 400-yard freestyle relay to cap off the meet. The second relay team to compete was Bolladottir, Pollack, Huffer, and Sumajstoric, finishing third.
UNM also went 1-3 in several events as Aoki placed third in the 200-yard backstroke to accompany De Groote Tavares’ victory and Brooke Zukowski placed third in the 200-yard breaststroke.
Emily Huffer finished in the top three, placing second in the 200-yard butterfly with Sumajstoric placing behind her in third. Shinada placed third in the 50-yard freestyle and second in the 100-yard butterfly, and De Groote Tavares took second in the 200-yard IM. Farkas came in second in the 500-yard freestyle for her second runner-up finish of the afternoon. In the 100-yard breaststroke, Katie Pollack placed second and Gavino placed third.
In the two diving events, Jocelyn Gallais and Natasha Dark had consistent results for the Lobos. Gallais placed third in the 3- meter dive, scoring a 278.98, and Dark placed fourth, scoring a 276.75. The Lobos took two places in the 1-meter dive as well as Gallais placed fourth (265.50) and Dark placed fifth (259.43).
The Lobos are off until the middle of November, when they travel to Houston, Texas for the Houston Invitational on November 16- 18.