Day Two Results (PDF)
 
FAIRBANKS – The Alaska Nanooks swim team battled Incarnate Word one final time on Saturday, Jan. 15. The Nanooks posted some strong times but ultimately fell to the Cardinals 123-78. 
 
Day two was another 11-event day for Alaska and UIW. In the first event, they raced in the 200-yard medley relay. The Nanooks top-team of Nella Pashak, Whitney McArthur, Adeline Berry and Emma Corby swam to a 1:56.84 finals time and third-place finish. Taryn Aho and Kylee Carter followed up with a first and second place finish in the 1000-yard free. Aho raced to a time of 11:50.58 and Carter posted a time of 12:32.55. 
 
Lainey Lioi grabbed a second-place finish in the third event, the 200-yard free. She posted a finals time of 2:06.26. In the fourth event, Pashak returned to the top-three, taking third in the 50-yard free with a time of 26.46, falling behind the winner by just under a second and a half. Emma Corby was the high-finisher for Alaska in the 400-yard IM, racing to a second-place finish. She posted a time of 4:47.11. 
 
At the midway point of day two, Sophia Ruppert got the Nanooks back in the win column with a 2:13.86 in the 200-yard butterfly. She won by just under four seconds. Gabrielle Davy took third as well. In the 100-yard free, Lioi took third, posting a time of 57.60. Shannon McCallum took fourth in the eighth-event, the 200-yard backstroke, racing to a time of 2:24.84. In the final three events, Corby and McCormick took the top-finishing spots in the individual races. Corby raced to a second-place finish in the 500-yard free, racing to a time of 5:26.98 while McCormick took third in the 200-yard breaststroke using a time of 2:40.62.
 
The final event of the morning was the 200-yard freestyle relay. The Nanooks took second as a team of Corby, Pashak, W. McArthur and Lioi posted a time of 1:41.86, one and a half seconds behind the winner from UIW. 
 
Quote from Coach Leeson
The swimmers pushed themselves and we had some great performances. UIW is a great competitor and they definitely challenged us this weekend, but the Nanooks stepped up, swam well, and I am so incredibly pleased with how they did. We still have some work to do before our last dual meet of the season and before Conference Championships next month, but I know they are prepared to work hard and finish the season strong. I am a very proud coach this weekend! Roll Nooks!
 
The Nanooks will have a bye-weekend before hosting Loyola Marymount on Jan. 28-29 in the Patty Center Pool.
 
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