JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Oct. 19, 2013) – The FIU women's swimming and diving team improved its dual meet record to a perfect 2-0 as it earned a 140-98 victory at North Florida on Saturday afternoon. The Panthers won 11 of the 13 events that took place.
"Today was the team's first road test of the season," said Head Coach
Randy Horner. "We competed very well and had lots of girls step up and compete well."
Senior Sonia Perez won three events total on the day for the Panthers, two coming individually and one coming in a relay. Perez's two individual wins came in the 400 IM, where she blew away the field with a time of 4:20.93 and the 100 backstroke, earning a mark of 58.70. FIU won both relay events and freshman
Lily Kaufman won her first career diving event, taking home the title in the three-meter diving, earning a score of 270.90. Junior
Johanna Gustafsdottir also earned two event victories in the 500 freestyle (5:06.49) and the 100 breast stroke (1:07.39).
In the relay events, FIU's group of Perez, junior
Danielle Meara, freshman
Jennifer Alfani and junior
Klara Andersson posted a time of 1:49.93 to earn the title in the 200 medley relay to earn 11 points. The Panthers then closed the meet with a victory in the 200 freestyle relay, as Andersson, Alfani, freshman
Jennifer Deist and senior
Valeriia Popova posted a mark of 1:38.85.
The Panthers were dominant in the freestyle events. Junior
Nadia Farrugia earned nine points for FIU as she posted a mark of 10:30.46 in the 1000 freestyle to earn the win. Junior Courtyney Vanderschaaf timed in at 1:57.28 to take home the title in the 200 freestyle. Alfani earned an event victory for the second week in a row, earning a time of
24.60 in the 50 freestyle.
Popova finished the 100 butterfly in under a minute (59.94) to earn another individual title for FIU.
The Panthers have two weeks off before travelling to Indian River State College on Nov. 1.
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