Lee sets CU record in 200 Fly, places in three events
CLAREMONT, Calif. – The Chapman University men's and women's swimming and diving teams opened SCIAC competition at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on Saturday with mixed results. The Panther women split the meet, defeating Occidental College 156-136, while falling to reigning conference champions CMS 211-86. Meanwhile, the men lost to both Oxy 183-99 and Claremont 233-55 on Saturday.
It was men's freshman Jonathan Lee who paced the Panthers in the waters, breaking a Chapman record with a second-place finish in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:58.90. Lee's record swim broke a three-year old benchmark set by Nick Tossey (2:02.84) by nearly four seconds. He also placed second in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:03.05, just 0.57 seconds off the leader Tim Storer from CMS and also finished third in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:02.48.
On the women's side, senior Kirsten Spicer had a fast day, earning Chapman's only first place of the meet in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 25.07, just 0.33 off her own school-record pace. She then placed third in the 100-yard freestyle with a mark of 56.64, just one second behind the leader.
On the diving board, Chapman earned four second-place finishes as freshman Kayla Dimicco narrowly missed first in both the women's 1-meter and 3-meter events, earning scores of 182.75 and 196.75, respectively. Freshman Joey Luba also earned runner-up scores of 227.50 and 219.25 in the men's 1-meter and 3-meter springboards.
Chapman's men's and women's teams will now take a month-long holiday hiatus before returning to SCIAC competition with their home opener on Jan. 10 at the Allred Pool, where the Panthers will host Whittier College beginning at 11 a.m.
by Doug Aiken
Sports Information Director
Results: https://chapman.prestosports.com/sports/swimdive/2014-15/files/CMS-OXY.pdf
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