LA MIRADA, Calif. --- The season opening swim meet at SPLASH! Aquatic Center came to its conclusion on Saturday as Head Coach Emily Mosbacher's team competed in the pentathlon portion of the Pacific Collegiate Swim & Dive Conference invitational.
 
The headline of the day was that junior Lisa Tixier placed first overall in the long medley pentathlon. She swam the 100-yard race in each stroke and then competed in the 200-IM. She finished second overall in each event besides the 100-yard backstroke, where she placed seventh. Tixier also dropped time from her seed time in each event, except the 200-IM.
 
Outside of Tixier's exceptional swims the rest of the team had moments of brilliance throughout the day. The men's team would tie for third in the overall team scores, while the women's team placed sixth of eight teams.
 
On the men's side Raymond Kam had a strong first meet for the Eagles. The freshman was the runner-up in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:00.91) and third in his 200-IM (2:02.74). He also had top-10 finishes in the butterfly and backstroke. Kam was the highest men's finisher in the medley pentathlon. He finished third behind two swimmers from the Eagles' future PacWest foe California Baptist.
 
Michael Severi was another strong individual performer. He had three top-10 finishes and placed inside of the top-10 in the men's freestyle pentathlon. His best effort came in the 25-yard freestyle, where he placed sixth (10.28).
 
Newcomer Tom Franicevich also competed in the freestyle pentathlon and put forth a strong showing. He finished inside of the top-16 in all five events, including top-10 numbers in the 200-, 25- and 100-yard freestyle. Severi and Franicevich finished eighth and 11th, respectively, in their pentathlon final standings.
 
On the women's side Rachel Stinchcomb made a big impression in her first meet as an Eagle. She competed in the long medley pentathlon with Tixier and managed to finish inside of the top-13 in four of the five events. She showed her versatility with eighth-place marks in the 100-backstroke (1:03.11) and 100-butterfly (1:01.28). Stinchcomb's performances helped her finish seventh in the overall pentathlon standings.
 
The pentathlon meet is an interesting one that forces the student-athletes to stretch a bit outside of their comfort zone by swimming in stroke events outside of their specialty. That didn't mean that there were not some individuals that were able to really stand out it their primary events.
 
The 100-yard breaststroke was especially good for Biola's women as Jenny London (1:10.57) and Emily Silzel (1:11.75) finished fifth and eighth, respectively. Kaylyn Schull, another newcomer, finished just over a second back from Tixier and Stinchcomb in the 100-backstroke while placing 12^th with a 1:04.30.