University of Alaska Fairbanks Athletics

Meet Results

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – The Alaska women's swimming team won nine of 11 events Friday to kick off their regular season in style, defeating visiting Biola University in the first of back-to-back dual meets this weekend, 143-62, at the Patty Center Pool.
 
The Nanooks (1-0) finished 1-2 in five events, including a 1-2-3 sweep in the 100 yard butterfly. Friday was the first time in seven years the two Pacific Collegiate Swimming and Diving Conference opponents faced each other in a dual meet format. They will do it again Saturday, with action in the Patty Center Pool kicking off at noon.
 
Senior Bente Heller (Hamburg, Germany/Psychology) and freshman Kathryn Pound (Pahiatua, New Zealand/Business Administration) each won two individual events to lead the Nanooks (1-0). Heller also swam a leg on the Nanooks' winning 400 medley relay team that finished in 4 minutes, 3.33 seconds.
 
Biola (0-1) had two victories in the meet: In the 1,000 freestyle from Abby Blake in 11:03.34, and from Christine Tixier in the 100 breaststroke in 1:09.02.
 
Heller won the 50 freestyle by over 1 1/2 seconds and nearly broke the Patty Center Pool record with a time of 24.25. Junior Kelly Meierotto (North Pole, Alaska/Anthropology) finished second in 25.77. Heller's other victory came in the 200 backstroke by more than four seconds over Biola's Sarah Shepard, in a time of 2:13.59.
 
Junior Danielle Lyons (Prince Albert, Saskatchewan/Biological Sciences) won the 400 individual medley in 4:40.47 and swam the anchor leg on the winning 400 medley relay team. Freshman Victoria Adams (Anchorage, Alaska/Accounting) and sophomore Eileen Audette (Seward, Alaska/Fisheries) were also a part of that team.
 
Adams won the 100 butterfly in 58.17 as part of a 1-2-3 sweep for Alaska in the event. Junior Genevieve Johnson (Fresno, Calif./Fisheries) finished second (1:01.27) and Audette was third (1:02.02) to complete the sweep.
 
Junior Gabi Summers (Cheyenne, Wyo./Foreign Language) also grabbed a victory for the Nanooks, winning the 500 freestyle by seven seconds in 5:17.05. Summers was a winner in the 200 freestyle relay as well, along with Adams, Johnson and Meierotto. The quartet won the event in 1:41.69.