Pitt
St. Bonaventure
Women's Swimming and Diving Sweeps Past St. Bonaventure
10/26/2001 12:00:00 AM | Women's Swimming
Oct. 26, 2001
Meet Results
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PITTSBURGH-The Panthers' women's swimming and diving team opened its home dual meet season with a lopsided 187-56 victory over St. Bonaventure at Trees Pool on Friday afternoon.
Pittsburgh took all 13 events from the Bonnies and evened its dual meet record at 1-1 after a season-opening loss to Notre Dame.
The Panthers took both relay events, winning the 200 Medley Relay in a time of 1:48.83. Carolyne Savini (Egg Harbour Township, N.J./Holy Spirit), Ryan Redman (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Hills), Katie Nicholson (Lisle, Ill/Benet Academy) and Jenny Livingstone (Endwell, N.Y./Union-Endicott) won by almost four seconds in the race.
In the 200 Freestyle Relay, Livingstone and Redman teamed up with Lisa Sappey (Martinsburg, W.Va./Hedgesville) and Lindsay Weaverling (Lansing, Kan./Leavenworth) to breeze past the competition in a time of 1:38.81.
Sophomore diver Jen O'Brien (Verona, Pa./Penn Hills) took both diving events with scores of 199.3 and 175.9 in the 1-meter and 3-meter competition, respectively.
Savini led the Panthers with two individual victories in the 400 IM (4:34.47) and 100 Free (53.02), and seven other Pittsburgh swimmers picked up individual wins.
Emily Kaszycki (Greensburg, Pa./Greater Latrobe) started the Panthers off with a win in the 1,000 Freestyle in a time of 10:30.79. Junior Emily Colley (Pace, Fla./Pace) scored a victory in another freestyle event, winning the 200 Free in 1:54.87.
In two very close races, Livingstone beat out Weaverling in the 50 Free race by 19 hundredths of a second while Kelli Tielking (Damascus, Md./Damascus) edged past Redman to win the 100 Butterfly in 59.71 seconds, just two-hundredths of a second quicker.
Senior Karen Thibodeau (Waterloo, Ontario/Bluevale Collegiate), Rubi Cisneros (Monterrey, Mexico/Monterrey) and Kristina DeWitt (Houston, Texas/Stratford) were also individual winners for the Panthers in the 100 Back, 500 Free and 100 Breast, respectively.
The Panthers will try and earn their first Big East victory when they host Syracuse at Trees Pool tomorrow morning at 10 a.m.
