Full Results
LEWISVILLE, Texas (SMU) – The SMU women's swimming and diving team picked up five event wins in an altered format relay meet hosted by North Texas at the LISD Westside Aquatic Center on Friday evening. The Mustangs picked up victories in two of the four traditional relays, including the 800-yard and 200-yard freestyle relays.
SMU opened the event with maximum points in the 300-yard butterfly relay as 2016 all-conference selections
Marne Erasmus and
Anna Cheesbrough were joined by Mustang newcomer
Erin Trahan for the win.
The Mustangs also won the ladder relay featuring
Hannah Rogers (50 yards),
Vicky Cunningham (100 yards),
Ursa Bezan (150 yards) and
Maddie Hoch (200 yards), while Bezan, Trahan,
Kirsty McLauchlan and
Tara-Lynn Nicholas outpaced the field in the 4x100 individual medley relay.
In traditional relay action, the 800-yard freestyle relay team of Hoch,
Pauli Kerr, Bezan and Cunningham out-touched American Athletic Conference opponent Houston for the win. Hoch, Bezan and Cunningham represented the Mustangs on the winning 800 free team at the conference championships a season ago, while Kerr comes in as a freestyle specialist this season.
The 200-yard freestyle relay was also part of the 10-event schedule with the winning relay including Rogers and Erasmus, who helped lead the Mustangs to a conference championship in the event last season. Freshman Trahan also joined the duo along with classmate
Eva Gliozeryte.
Houston finished atop the team standings with 386 points, while the Mustangs accumulated 334 total. Host North Texas was third at 322, Little Rock finished fourth with 220 and Oklahoma Baptist used the meet as an exhibition tune-up.
The Ponies are back in action Oct. 14 & 15 when they host the 23rd annual SMU Classic. The Classic features top NCAA Division I teams in USC, Louisville, Michigan, Miami and UCLA. Each team will send eight swimmers and one diver to the two-night event. SMU returns to the Westside Aquatic Center for the event, with action beginning both evenings at 6:30 p.m. CT. Live results can be found at SMUMustangs.com, while in-event updates on the Mustangs' Twitter account, @SMUSwimmingW.
