Kaitlyn Overstreet (Cottonwood Heights, Utah) set a school record in the 200 butterfly, highlighting the Seattle University women’s swim team’s dual meet against Washington State Saturday at the Connolly Center Pool, won by the Cougars 181-80.
Overstreet posted a time of 2:04.19, almost a full second quicker than the previous record set by Jane Liggett (Portland, Ore.) at the 2014 Western Athletic Conference Championships and over four seconds than Overstreet’s previous best set earlier this season at Grand Canyon. The 200 butterfly was a fast event Saturday, as Washington State’s Jasmine Margetts set a new pool record with her winning time of 2:01.03, and Kate Sabourin (Santa Rose, Calif.) moved up to ninth place on Seattle U’s all-time top times list in the event with her mark of 2:09.60.
Overstreet also set a personal-best mark in the 100 butterfly, finishing second with a time of 57.55 seconds, moving into sixth place on the Seattle U all-time top times list in the event. Sabourin came close to her collegiate best in the 400 individual medley, finishing second in that event with a time of 4:31.66.
Annika Perry (Reno, Nev.) picked up Seattle U’s lone event victory of the meet, winning the 100 breaststroke in 1:05.58, just 7/100ths of a second off her collegiate best time. Perry was also the second leg of the 400 medley relay, earning a 100 breaststroke split of 1:05.95 as she joined with Katie Rottman (Phoenix, Ariz.), Liggett, and Paige Treff (Orland, Calif.) for the ninth-fastest time in program history at 3:57.00. In addition, Perry was just 2/10ths of a second off her collegiate best time in the 200 breaststroke, finishing third in the event in 2:24.93.
Freshman Emily Gough (San Clemente, Calif.) moved into eighth place on the Redhawk top times list in the 200 freestyle, finishing second with a time of 1:55.17, followed by Celeste Salopek (Farmington, Conn.) in third place with a personal season-best mark of 1:57.90. Gough also finished third in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:16.95.
Madi Lydig (Spokane, Wash.) finished second in the 200 backstroke in 2:03.32, just 36/100ths of a second behind Loree Olson of Washington State, and third in the 100 backstroke with a time of 59.62 seconds. Treff finished second in both the 50 freestyle in 24.25 seconds and the 100 freestyle in 53.89 seconds. Kelly Hartman (East Wenatchee, Wash.) finished third in the 50 freestyle (24.55) and fourth in the 100 freestyle (54.07), while Rachael Rodriguez (Round Rock, Texas) finished third in the 100 freestyle (54.01) and fourth in the 50 freestyle (24.64).
In the 200 freestyle relay, the quartet of Maddie Dickman (Sacramento, Calif.), Sidney Pinger (Tualatin, Ore.), Hartman, and Treff finished in second place with a time of 1:37.45, seventh on Seattle U’s all-time top times list.
Meanwhile, junior Blaise Wittenauer-Lee (Portland, Ore.) was competing at the AT&T United States Winter National Championships in Federal Way, Wash. Friday morning, she finished in 45th place in the 100 meter breaststroke preliminaries with a time of 1:12.29. She followed that Saturday morning with a 38th place finish in the preliminaries of the 200 meter breaststroke with a time of 2:37.58.
Seattle University (5-3) will head to Coronado Island, Calif., Dec. 13-18 for winter training before resuming competition in January. The Redhawks have one final home meet at the Connolly Center Pool on Saturday, Jan. 30, against Simon Fraser starting at 12 noon.