The Seattle University women’s swim team continued to post fast times, as the Redhawks split Friday’s double dual meet at the Southwest Valley Family YMCA, defeating Loyola Marymount, 109-96, but losing to host Grand Canyon, 120-84.
Blaise Wittenauer-Lee (Portland, Ore.) picked up two individual victories for the Redhawks, starting with a convincing win in the 400 individual medley, posting a time of 4:26.90, over 13 seconds ahead of the second place finisher. The Redhawks finished 1-3-4 in the event, with Kate Sabourin (Santa Rosa, Calif.) finishing third in 4:41.89, followed by Sidney Pinger (Tualatin, Ore.) in fourth place in 4:42.29.
Wittenauer-Lee also touched the wall first in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:04.49, a half-second quicker than the mark she posted in last Thursday’s meet and over one-and-a-half seconds faster than her nearest competitor. In addition, she posted the fastest 100 breaststroke split of 1:04.33 in the 400 medley relay, joining with Katie Rottman (Phoenix, Ariz.), Jane Liggett (Portland, Ore.), and Paige Treff (Orland, Calif.) to finish second in 3:56.09, lowering the eighth-fastest time in the event in program history.
Madi Lydig (Spokane, Wash.) picked up Seattle U’s other individual win in the meet, cruising to a victory in the 1000 freestyle with a time of 10:47.03, 5.7 seconds in front of the runner-up.
Kristin Hoffman (Mercer Island, Wash.) enjoyed a solid meet, first finishing in second place in the 200 freestyle with a season-best time of 1:55.80, and then she finished third in the 100 freestyle, also posting a season-best mark of 53.89 seconds. She anchored the 400 freestyle relay, joining with Treff, Emily Gough (San Clemente, Calif.), and Maddie Dickman (Sacramento, Calif.) to help the Redhawks finish third in 3:36.64, 10th-best on Seattle U’s all-time top times list in the event.
Treff finished third in the 50 freestyle in 24.08 seconds, 1/10th of a second quicker than the mark she posted last week. Dickman also shaved some time off last week’s effort in the 100 backstroke, finishing fourth with a mark of 1:01.02, just ahead of Rottman in fifth place with a time of 1:01.33.
Seattle University (3-1) will face Grand Canyon and Loyola Marymount once again in another double-dual meet Saturday, Oct. 24, at 11 a.m.