Results
SEATTLE (Dec. 3) – The Seattle University women’s swimming team competed at the 68th Annual Husky Invitational Saturday. Blaise Wittenauer-Lee won the 100 breaststroke, setting a school record.
"The teams (men and women) are swimming very well and keep on improving," said Coach Craig Nisgor. "Blaise and Tanner are doing swims that put them as top competitors in our conference and will rank them very highly in the national rankings."
Wittenauer-Lee won the 100 breaststroke, winning for the second time this weekend. She posted a 1:01.19 on her way to victory. The time is an NCAA 'B' cut as well as a program record, topping her time of 1:01.89 from last February.
In the preliminaries of the event, Annika Perry put up a 1:04.74, good for fourth-best in SU history. Darian Himes tallied the eighth-fastest time in Redhawk history with a 1:06.86 showing.
Kaitlyn Overstreet tallied a time of 56.37, setting a school record, in the 100 butterfly preliminaries. The previous mark was held by Jane Liggett with a 56.38 time in February 2014. Overstreet followed with a 56.47 showing in the finals of the contest, placing seventh. That time is the sixth-best in school history.
Overstreet also performed well in the 100 backstroke. She swam a 57.89, third-fastest in Seattle U annals and good for 10th in Saturday's event.
The 800 freestyle relay team of Wittenauer-Lee, Kristin Hoffman, Jayna Van Stone, and Celeste Salopek swam a 7:35.62 on its way to a fourth-place finish. The group logged the third-best time in school history.
In the 200 medley relay, Salopek, Wittenauer-Lee, Overstreet, and Van Stone combined for a 1:45.76, finishing fifth. The time is the fourth-fastest in school history.
In the 400 IM prelims, Kate Sabourin swam a 4:29.65, good for third-fastest in program annals. She did not compete in the finals of the race.
Madi Lydig posted a 1:54.46 in the 200 freestyle prelims. Her time is the seventh-fastest in school history. Lydig did not race in the finals.
Sunday marks the third and final day of the event.