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 wereÂ
Katy Zimmerman in the 100-yard backstroke,Â
Kristen Wolf in the 100-yard breaststroke and the 4x400-yard medley relay team consisting of Zimmerman
, Wolf
, Alyssa Grunloh andÂ
McKenna Hauber.Â
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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 ofÂ
Julia Whitfield, Annabelle Zanotti, Markina Evdokimoff andÂ
Makayla Seal. The fifth-place finish logged a 4:44.79 combined finish.
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Grunloh kicked off the individual races with a third-place in the 200-yard butterfly thanks to a 2:24.27 effort.
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Wolf then followed up and claimed her second gold finish of the day with a 1:12.12 finals time in the 100 breaststroke.Â
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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.
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In the 100-yard backstroke, Zimmerman claimed her second first-place finish of the day off a strong 1:02.67 finish.Â
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.
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Evdokimoff andÂ
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.
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The 400-yard freestyle relay finished out day two for the Pack, as CSU Pueblo competed two squads in the discipline. Wolf, Genova,Â
Melissa Braddock andÂ
Kate Miller combined for a second-place finish in 3:55.62. The squad of Seal, Evdokimoff,Â
Shion Ienaga andÂ
Annabelle Zanotti combined for a fifth-place finish in 4:06.50.
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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.
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Genova and Braddock raced to third and fourth off 19:29.37 and 19:43.12 final times, respectively.Â
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The Colorado College Classic concludes Sunday. The preliminaries for the 200 medley relay begins at 9 a.m.
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