FEDERAL WAY, Wash. (March 2, 2024) – Washington State sophomores Dori Hathazi and Emily Lundgren each broke their own school records and Lundgren earned her second medal of the meet on the final day of the 2024 Pac-12 Conference Championships at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center Saturday.
 
Hathazi broke her own 200 fly record in the morning session with a 1:55.55, besting her previous record she set back in November. The Hungary native followed up with an even better swim in the evening final, posting a 1:54.87 to finish eighth in the Pac-12 final.
 
For the third consecutive day, Lundgren notched a school record, breaking her own 200 breast record with a 2:07.44, nearly a second faster than her previous mark of 2:08.33 she set last year at the Pac-12 Championships and good for third place in the Pac-12 final, matching her finish last season as a freshman. Friday, the Chula Vista, Calif. native broke her own record in the 100 breast and Thursday she broke the school's 200 IM record.
 
"This week was a great meet for the Cougs! We started out with school records and finished with school records," head coach Matt Leach said. "Tonight was an amazing night of racing! Our distance group crushed it with Mira getting sixth, Lauren getting seventh, Hannah was 20th and Josie was 21st! Kiana Swain and the backstroke group swam really well! Kiana made the A finals and we had three in the C race with Poloni, Ariel and Anna who all swam tough! Emma Wright was great today and tonight in the 100 Free, getting two lifetime best times and putting her name on Top-10. Alex did an amazing job and moved up the Top-10 and posted a best time in the 200 breast.
 
"Mehlika was able to rack up some points for the Cougs in the 200 fly and we finished with some great swimming which will put our Cougs on the national stage. Emily finished third in the 200 breast and broke her school record putting her in the Top-14 nationally and Dori did the same thing in the 200 fly crushing her school record and punching her ticket to the NCAAs! Great showing at the Pac-12's, Go Cougs!"
 
In the morning session, senior Kiana Swain posted a 1:56.52 in the 200 back, the third-fastest time in WSU history, a time she would match in the evening final as well. Also in the 200 back, sophomore Anna Rauchholz notched the ninth-fastest time in program history with a 1:58.91 while freshman Ariel Wang broke into the WSU Top-10 in the same event with a 1:58.99, good for tenth.
 
Later in the morning session, junior Emma Wright swam a 49.58 in the 100 free for the fifth-fastest time in program history. In the following event, senior Alexandra Vartiainen moved up in the WSU Top-10 for 200 breast, posting a 2:14.44, good for sixth-fastest in program history and later posted a 2:12.35 in the evening final, the fifth-fastest time in school history.
 
In the afternoon 1650 free, both freshman Mira Szimcsak and sophomore Lauren Wille produced Top-10 swims in multiple events. Szimcsak finished sixth overall with a 16:25.68, the second-fastest time in WSU history including her 9.57.65 time in the first 1000 was the third-fastest time in program history. Wille finished just behind Szimcsak in seventh place with a 16:67.80, the third-fastest 1650 time in program history while her 9:59.86 in the first 1000 was the fourth-fastest time in program history. Also during the 1650, freshman Hannah Huarte posted the ninth-fastest 1000 time in program history with a 10:12.06.
 
The Cougars finished the Pac-12 Championships in eighth place with 498.5 points, the most since 2021.