FEDERAL WAY, Wash. (February 24, 2023) – Washington State women's swimming tallied five WSU top-10 times on day three of the Pac-12 Conference Championships at Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center.
WSU competed in the 400 IM, 100 Fly, 200 Free, 100 Breast, and 100 Back on the third day of the championships ending the evening with 263 points. Jewel springer made a splash in the 400 IM preliminaries and qualified 16th for the finals at 4:19.26, WSU's ninth-fastest all-time.
Dori Hathazi swam ahead of ASU, USC, and Arizona in the "C" final of the 100 fly to touch the wall at 54.69.
Kaya Takashige joined Hathazi in the race and moved to WSU's eighth-fastest all-time at 54.66.
Lauren Wille started morning prelims and brought her energy from day two to set another WSU top-10-time clocking in the 200 free and qualified 23
rd for the finals during which she improved her time to 1:48.24.
Emily Lundgren showed up this morning to rock it in the 100-breast event making her way into the "A" finals where she clocked in at 1:00.95 to earn 22 points for WSU.
Cougars represented in the 100 back recording two top-10 times.
Noelle Harvey led the "C" final swimming faster than ASU, California, and UCLA and improved her top-10 time to 54.03. Harvey was joined by
Anna Rauchholz and
Selena Duran who moved up to fourth-best all-time with a time of 54.37.
The Cougs closed day three out with the 400-medley relay team of Rauchholz, Lundgren, Hathazi, and Harvey recording a time of 3:39.05 to earn 48 points for the Cougs.
The Cougs will begin their final day of the championships with the 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast, 200 fly, 1650 free, and 400 free relays.