IRVINE, Calif. --- Biola Women's Swim & Dive began the 2021 Pacific Collegiate Swim & Dive Conference championship meet with a brilliant showing on Wednesday morning in Irvine.

The Eagles had two conference champions, one new school record and dominated the leaderboard with 437 points to sit firmly in first-place following the first five swimming events of the championship.

Biola saw a six-year-old school record fall during the very first event of the morning as Kolya Vos, Meghan Tolman, Meredyth Rubie and Liza Parahnevich swam a 1:35.48 in the 200-freestyle relay. The quartet placed second to the 'A' team from Pepperdine to score BU 56 points right away.

Immediately after that, BU worked its first conference champion of the 2021 meet. Vos became Biola's first champion of the year as she took the top spot in the 500-freestyle with a career-best 5:01.63. The Eagles had five individuals score in the 500, equating to 106 points in the event. Kellynn Hayes (5:10.88) finished sixth and Audrey Vermeulen (5:11.73) placed seventh to give BU three in the top-10. 

Biola narrowly missed another individual champion in the 200-IM, but that did not diminish at all from the Eagles' dominance in the event. Kauth's squad managed to take spots 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 to claim half the available spots in the top-10.

Liza Parahnevich (2:06.91), Katelyn Harper (2:07.85), Grace Kling (2:08.57) and Jackie Mudd (2:10.14) took up spots 2-5 to help Biola score over 150 points in this one event alone.

Just after the 200-IM came to its completion the swimmers hopped back in the water for the 50-freestyle. Meghan Tolman became Biola's second event champion as she swam a career-best :23.80 to finish ahead of four-consecutive swimmers from Pepperdine and take the top spot in the field of around 50 swimmers.

Meredyth Rubie (:24.70) and Kalyn Chang (:24.93) also scored for Biola in the 50-freestyle. Katie Ottman also swam and was fantastic with a time good enough for third-place (:23.97), but she did not count towards Biola's team tally. 

The women's day one swims concluded with a competitive 400-medley relay. Just as it managed in the opening relay, Biola's 'A' group finished second to the Pepperdine 'A' group to bring in just over 50 points. It was Chang, Kling, Harper and Vos who combined for a 3:52.50 to shave about two seconds off the seed time and finish runner-up.

The men's team will compete in the afternoon each day of this week. Catch the events live at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUBh41ICkXVRO9SC7YWhq5g/videos (swimming) and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT-pzxwvXiF0oIdP4AYQOPg (diving) . Also, get the recaps/results on this site each evening.