DAVIS, Calif. – In a nail-biting meet between the UC schools, Davis fell to Santa Barbara; just shy of the win by two points. Despite this, the Aggies had an incredible day of performances and multiple personal bests recorded across the board.
Following yesterday's powerful win against Cal Poly and an emotional senior sendoff, the Ags were charged up to take on another conference opponent.
"We knew this was going to be a very close meet with UCSB," reflects head coach
Matt Macedo. "While we wish we could have come away with a win, the staff was very pleased with how the team performed today, especially after the 1st diving break.'
'We had a strong weekend and look forward to Fresno on Friday and finishing our dual meet season Saturday in Stockton."
The energy was electric in the stands and on deck, which carried into some incredibly notable performances on the day.
Sophomore
Elsie Luisetti raced two personal bests to secure second place in the 200 yard freestyle and doubled her placing in the 500 free with a speedy 5:01.04, close to breaking the five-minute threshold.
Senior
Katie McLain's 50 freestyle performance set her name in stone in the Schaal Aquatics Center recordbooks as well, her first place finish of 23.12 seconds just behind
Naomi Boegholm's 23.10 performance.
Sophomore
Brynn Graham made an incredible improvement to her time in the 200 yard backstroke in today's meet as well. Just two months since her original personal best, Graham has improved her time in the event by three seconds; going 2:00.96 today.
Senior
Sam Rhodes had an amazing comeback in the 200 yard breaststroke as well, pulling off the Aggie win in the event with her strong showing in the backend of the race.
Closing out the day on an incredibly positive note, the 400 freestyle relay squad made up of
Katie McLain, Sophi Mackay, 'Ala Wong, and
Christy Douglas swam a 3:23.23 to secure first and to make the meet an incredibly close call. This performance also secured the first spot in the Schaal pool recordbooks, wiping the first place set in 2016 by two seconds.
UP NEXT: The Aggies will host one last time for the 2025 season, where they will face off against the Fresno State Bulldogs on Friday, January 24th at 2:00 PM.
TOP THREE TIMES:
- YD MEDLEY RELAY
2- Makenna Valenta,
Sam Rhodes,
Sarah Hardin,
Christy Douglas, 1:42.79
- FREE
- Elsie Luisetti, 1:50.95
- Sophi Mackay, 1:51.08
100 YD BACKSTROKE
3- Makenna Valenta, 57.88
100 YD BREASTSTROKE
3-
Sam Rhodes, 1:02.84
50 YD FREE
1-
Katie McLain, 23.12
3 METER DIVING
1-
Mackenzie Young, 277.56
2-
Lauren Kudo, 270
3-
Leila Busch, 264.06
100 YD FREE
2- Sophi Mackay, 50.96
3-
Katie McLain, 51.12
- BACKSTROKE
2-
Brynn Graham, 2:00.83
3- Olivia Anderson, 2:02.14
200 YD BREASTSTROKE
1-
Sam Rhodes, 2:15.79
500 YD FREE
2-
Elsie Luisetti, 5:01.04
100 YD BUTTERFLY
2-
Sarah Hardin, 54.97
3-
Brynn Graham, 55.39
1 METER DIVING
1-
Lauren Kudo, 259.20
2-
Katherine Lim, 255.40
3-
Taylor Schwarz, 239.22
200 YD IM
1-
Brynn Graham, 2:02.53
400 YD FREE RELAY
1- Wong, MacKay, McLain, Douglas, 2:23.23
