Women's Swimmers Lead Iowa After Day One
October 26, 2002 | Women's Swimming & Diving
The Wisconsin women's swimming and diving team leads Iowa, 137-49, after winning Friday's nine events to start a two-day meet in Iowa City, Iowa. The Badgers (2-0) are opening up Big Ten action this weekend, while Iowa is competing for the first time this year.
Sophomore Carly Piper and junior Emily Pisula were multi-event winners on the evening. Piper touched first in the 200-yard and 1000-yard freestyle events. Piper broke Ellen Stonebraker's 1000 free school record (9:49.90) with a 9:49.40.
Pisula took the top spot in the 200 fly and 200 IM. Pisula's time in the 200 IM (2:03.99) is a NCAA qualifying B standard.
Senior Sarah McCauley, who won two events against Toledo Thursday night, won the 100 backstroke and was a member of both winning relay teams. McCauley swam a NCAA B standard in the 100 back (56.33).
The Badgers and Hawkeyes conclude the meet tomorrow at 11 a.m.
