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ThunderWolves Rack Up 3 First-Place Finishes at Day 2 of Colorado College Classic

1/22/2022 9:16:00 PM

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Jan. 22, 2022) – The Colorado State University Pueblo women's swimming and diving team took to the pool Saturday for the second day of competition at the Colorado College Classic. Earning first-place finishes were Katy Zimmerman in the 100-yard backstroke, Kristen Wolf in the 100-yard breaststroke and the 4x400-yard medley relay team consisting of Zimmerman, Wolf, Alyssa Grunloh and McKenna Hauber. 
 
In the morning session, the 4x400 medley relay team of Zimmerman, Wolf, Grunloh and Hauber led off the successful second day with a 4:15.19 time on its way to a first place finish.The second relay team for the Pack placed fifth in the race off the backs of Julia Whitfield, Annabelle Zanotti, Markina Evdokimoff and Makayla Seal. The fifth-place finish logged a 4:44.79 combined finish.
 
Grunloh kicked off the individual races with a third-place in the 200-yard butterfly thanks to a 2:24.27 effort.
 
Wolf then followed up and claimed her second gold finish of the day with a 1:12.12 finals time in the 100 breaststroke. 
 
In her first individual race for the ThunderWolves, Seal raced her way to third place off a 57.61 time. Whitfield followed her teammate in sixth off an effort of 58.20 seconds. Evdokimoff rounded out the CSU Pueblo performance in the event with a 1:01.91 finish.
 
In the 100-yard backstroke, Zimmerman claimed her second first-place finish of the day off a strong 1:02.67 finish. Gia Genova turned in a fourth-place finish in the event off a 1:07.64 wall-touch. The 100-back was rounded out by Crowswhite's ninth-place 1:08.96 finish.
 
Evdokimoff and Kristina Copeland finished ninth and tenth, respectively as the sole swimmers for the Pack in the 200 free. Evdokimoff touched the wall in 2:12.85 followed by Copeland's 2:14.37 final time.
 
The 400-yard freestyle relay finished out day two for the Pack, as CSU Pueblo competed two squads in the discipline. Wolf, Genova, Melissa Braddock and Kate Miller combined for a second-place finish in 3:55.62. The squad of Seal, Evdokimoff, Shion Ienaga and Annabelle Zanotti combined for a fifth-place finish in 4:06.50.
 
The Pack racked up three first-place finishes on day two and now have a total of four after Zimmerman claimed first in the 1650-yard freestyle on day one. Zimmerman's day one win was with a time of 18:25.65. Her closest foe finished in 19:24.14.
 
Genova and Braddock raced to third and fourth off 19:29.37 and 19:43.12 final times, respectively. 
 
The Colorado College Classic concludes Sunday. The preliminaries for the 200 medley relay begins at 9 a.m.

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