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Emory & Henry Women’s Swimming Has Stellar Day At Union Invitational Friday

Emory & Henry Women’s Swimming Has Stellar Day At Union Invitational Friday
Posted: Dec 06, 2013

BARBOURVILLE, Ky. – The Emory & Henry College Women's Swimming Team is first out of five teams after day one of the 2013 Union College Winter Invitational. The Wasps won eight of the nine events on the day, breaking 12 school records in the process.

Emory & Henry picked up a pair of relay wins in the morning session, as the invitational is using a timed final format for all relay events. The 200-yard freestyle relay team of freshman Jessica Richardson (Vero Beach, Fla.), sophomore Payton Shirey (Seaford, Del.), freshman Allison Fowler (Morristown, Tenn.) and freshman Michaela Nolte (Hillsborough, N.C.) clocked a time of 1:36.96, breaking the E&H and ODAC record in the process.

E&H also won the 400-yard medley relay in a record-performance 4:00.85 with freshman Liz Kleveno (Fredericksburg, Va.) setting a new top mark with a backstroke swim of 1:00.2 to lead off the race. Nolte, Fowler and Shirey were also on the relay.

The evening session was more of the same for the Wasps. Fowler won the 200-yard individual medley with a record 2:11.69. Sophomore Taylor Guardalabene (Charlotte, N.C.) won the 500-yard freestyle (5:20.70) while Nolte claimed first in the 100-yard breaststroke, twice breaking the school record (1:07.32 and 1:06.24).

Kleveno had two record-setting swims in the 200-yard backstroke, going 2:10.64 in the prelims and 2:09.21 in the finals to finish second. Shirey won the 100-yard freestyle with a swim of :53.26 and Fowler notched record times of 2:13.45 and 2:13.09, respectively in the 200-yard butterfly to finish first. Guardalabene and sophomore Nicole Powell (Apex, N.C.) made it a 1-2-3 finish for the Wasps in the race.

The 800-yard freestyle relay saw a pair of records set for E&H. The team of Fowler, Guardalabene, Kleveno and Richardson swam a 7:55.82 to defeat Union by eight tenths of a second. Fowler's leadoff of 1:57.97 set a new 200-yard freestyle record. Richardson swam a 1:57.49 on the anchor leg to hold off Union's hard-closing swimmer to preserve the win.

The Wasps will conclude the invitational, and the fall portion of their schedule, on Saturday evening.

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