FAIRBANKS - The Alaska Nanooks swim team welcomes Loyola Marymount University to the Patty Center Pool for Senior Weekend on Friday, Jan. 28 at 5:00 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 29 at 10:00 a.m.

Friday, Jan. 28 vs. Loyola Marymount
Live Video >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcax8riRfEw
Patty Center Pool, Patty Center, 5:00 p.m. AKT

Saturday, Jan. 29 vs. Loyola Marymount
Live Video >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQDHXJvH2Bc
Patty Center Pool, Patty Center, 10:00 a.m. AKT

All viewing must be done from the overhang patio. Masks required for all in attendance. 

Last Time Out (1/15/22 vs. Incarnate Word)
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. 

Quick Hitters

• The Nanooks will welcome Loyla Marymount to town for the first time since the 2018-19 season.
• The Nanooks took the first of the two, winning on Jan. 25, 2019 108-97 before falling to 110-94 in the second night on Jan. 26, 2019.
• That win on Jan. 25 is the lone head-to-head win against LMU. 

Looking Ahead
Following this weekend, the Nanooks regular-season will come to an end and they'll head to PCSC Championships on Feb. 16-19 in St. George, Utah. 

For more information on the Alaska Nanooks swim team, follow @NanooksSwim on Twitter, @NanookSwim on Instagram, or like the Alaska Nanooks Swim team page on Facebook.