West Chester Women Split Tri-Meet with Lehigh And Bloomsburg

Meet Results

WEST CHESTER, Pa. – West Chester University's women's swimming team split a tri-meet with Lehigh University and Bloomsburg University Friday evening inside Graham Natatorium.
 
West Chester avenged a loss to Bloomsburg a year ago in this meet with a 121-84 victory over the Huskies while Division I Lehigh got the better of the Golden Rams by the measure of 141-64.
 
Transfer Emelie Johansson (Taby, Sweden) picked up win, a runner-up and a third-place ribbon in the meet. She also placed third in another to lead the charge for the hosts. Johansson's time of 2 minutes, 25.74 seconds was good for first place in the 200-yard breaststroke. She swam the 200 individual medley in 2:12.90 while placing third in the 200 butterfly.
 
Tess Hayward (Elizabethtown, Pa./Elizabethtown) was third in the 200 free (1:56.36).
 
The Golden Rams also went third, fourth and fifth in the 1000 free while Lehigh took both first and second place. Dani Barron (Perkasie, Pa./Pennridge) was third in 10:46.98, Lovisa Malin Nyman (Umea, Sweden) was fourth and Abigail Buckley (Aberdeen, N.J./Matawan-Aberdeen) was fifth.
 
West Chester's diving team heads to Rowan University the first weekend in November for an invitational.
 
The swimming team will begin preparations for the Pitt Invitational around Thanksgiving.