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Swimming Finishes Seventh at Championships

Washington State swimming finished the Pac-12 Championships, where they finished seventh place, their best finish since the 2010-11 season.

Junior Kendra Griffin started the meet with an eighth place finish in the 1650 freestyle. Griffin touched the wall at 16:30.76, a personal record and the second-fastest time in WSU history.

In the 200 backstroke, senior Loree Olson finished 19th place with a time of 1:57.88 after finishing at 1:57.87 in the preliminaries. Olson holds the WSU record in the 200 back at 1:56.35. Freshman Jasmine Margetts finished two places behind Olson at 1:58.59. In the preliminaries, Margetts 1:57.91, the third-fastest time in WSU history.

Sophomore Hannah Bruggman made her mark in WSU history with the third-fastest time at 49.87. She finished first in the 'C' final.

In the 200 breaststroke, senior Presley Wetterstrom finished eighth in the 'A' final at 2:12.20 after clocking a time of 2:11.52.

Senior Frederikke Hall finished with the fourth-fastest time in WSU history in the 200 breast at 2:14.47. Hall finished third in the 'C' final. Junior Addisynn Bursch finished the 200 breaststroke at 2:17.98, after clocking a time of 2:16.73, the seventh-best time in school history.

Junior Elise Locke finished 12th in the 200 butterfly, touching the wall at 1:58.31. This time placed her second the WSU Top-Ten List. Teammate Jasmine Margetts finished after Locke at 1:59.02. Margetts clocked a time of 1:58.64 in the preliminaries, the third-fastest time in school history.

Griffin also competed in the 200 butterfly where she clocked the time of 2:00.45. In the preliminaries, Griffin finished at 2:00.12, the fourth-fastest time in WSU history.

The Cougars closed the championships with a seventh place finish in the 400 medley relay. The team of Bursch, Bruggman, Hailey Johnson, and Haley Rose Love clocked a season best time of 3:21.05.

Washington State finished seventh overall with 477 points, ahead of Arizona State University and Oregon State University. The University of Southern California won the championship followed by Stanford University and the University of California.

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