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.01 Gets It Done!

Biola keeps hold of first-place at PCSC Championships with incredible relay win.

April 15, 2021


IRVINE, Calif.
--- Biola Women's Swim & Dive continued its push towards history on Thursday, using a :00.01 relay win to put an exclamation point on another day atop the leaderboard at the Pacific Collegiate Swimming & Diving Conference Championships.

There was a whole lot to highlight on a thrilling second day of swims, but Kolya Vos narrowly out-touching Pepperdine's Sammie Slater to lock in Biola's 7:34.54 and beat the Waves' 7:34.55 takes the cake. Vos split an incredible 1:51.33 to anchor the relay and earn Biola an additional eight points of buffer to sit ahead of the whole field with 979 total points following two-thirds of the swims.

The 7:34.54 put up by Meghan Tolman, Liza Parahnevich, Kellynn Hayes and Vos is a new school record.

Forty-eight of the Eagles' current points were added in following the diving portion of Wednesday's action. Eliana Cote and Ashley Vitale both represented the Eagles in the women's 3-meter board. Vitale scored 192.60 to finish fourth behind three Azusa Pacific divers. Cote saw massive improvement with a 177.60 to finish eighth.

In addition to the relay victory on Thursday morning, Biola saw Vos win the 200-freestyle (1:51.33) and Meghan Tolman take first in the 100-breaststroke (1:02.72). The 100-breaststroke saw three Eagles inside of the top-4 as Tolman was followed by Grace Kling (2nd - 1:03.75) and Anna Haaksma (4th - 1:05.19). Elena McAdams (1:09.73) also scored for BU in the event giving the Eagles over 100 new points on the board.

While Vos won the 200-free, Hayes (6th - 1:56.06) and Kasidee Pascoe (9th - 1:56.36) joined her in the top-10. 

Biola took runner-up honors in the other relay of the day as Kalyn Chang, Tolman, Katelyn Harper and Meredyth Rubie scored a 1:46.08 to come in just behind Pepperdine's top side. 

Biola had one entry finish second-place or better in six of the seven events swam on Thursday as Harper added a runner-up mark in the 400-IM (4:33.20) and Parahnevich was runner-up in the 100-butterfly (:56.99). The swim in the 100-fly was a new college-best for Parahnevich. Rubie (:59.11) joined her inside the top-10 with a 10th-place finish and team leader Faith McAllister also scored for BU (:59.79). 

The 400-IM led by Harper saw three Eagles reach the top-5 and was the second-highest scoring individual event of the day for BU (101 points). Audrey Vermeulen (4:37.06) and Anna Cohee (4:39.30) finished fourth and fifth, while Jackie Mudd (4:45.38) placed eighth to pile on for Biola. Cohee and Mudd both set new college-bests in the event.

Chang held the line for BU in the final individual event of the day, the 100-backstroke. She brought in 22 points with a :59.97 to finish eighth overall. 
 
The 2021 PCSC Championships come to a close Friday with another 9 a.m. women's session. Catch the swimming live at https://www.youtube.com/c/IrvineNOVAquatics/videos and the diving live at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT-pzxwvXiF0oIdP4AYQOPg.
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