Thrilling Finish Helps Swimming Sweep Quad Meet
The Brenau swim team's 200 meter freestyle relay team edged out Emmanuel (Ga.) College by less than one second in the last event of the afternoon to clinch the last of three victories for the Golden Tigers on Saturday in Gainesville.
The team of Alisha Hodgetts, Madison Kosater, Chloe Ireland and Ella Kleinschmidt raced to a 1:41.38 in a winner-take-all moment to win the event by 0.45 seconds and capture the meet title 108-96 over Emmanuel.
In total, the Golden Tigers won six events and also outscored South Georgia State 143-52 and Point (Ga.) University 163-28.
Other outstanding performances include:
Lindsay Dowling, Yanne Touissant, Alisha Hodgetts and Madison Kosater: first place, 200 medley relay, 1:53.55;
Sarah Frey: fourth place, 100 breaststroke, 1:15.82;
Courtney Hayward: first place, 400 IM, 4:43.67; first place, 500 freestyle, 5:18.26;
Alisha Hodgetts: second place, 100 butterfly, 1:00.32;
Chloe Ireland: third place, 100 freestyle, 55:84;
Ella Kleinschmidt: first place 1650 freestyle 18:36.86; second place, 500 freestyle, 5:24.48;
Madison Kosater: third place, 50 freestyle, 26:15;
Maggie Norton: fourth place, 1650 freestyle 20:25.29;
Anna Rose: first place, 50 freestyle, 25:97;
Yanne Toussaint: second place, 100 freestyle, 55:78; third place, 100 breaststroke, 1:11.57;
Brenau next competes at the Appalachian Athletic Conference Championships from February 8-11th in Blacksburg, Virginia.