Jan. 15, 2005
Results
BALTIMORE, MD -
For the second straight year, the Johns Hopkins men's swimming team swept The College of New Jersey (238-94) and Division II powerhouse West Chester (178-154) while the women's team split, defeating TCNJ (202-129) and falling to West Chester (240-92) at the Newton H. White Athletic Center. It was the Blue Jays' first competition after a month-long break that included training in Florida, where the preparation paid off.
The men opened the two-day home meet with a first-place finish in the 200 medley relay. Ryan Kim, Tyler Harris, Dan Kim and Brad Test finished in 1:36.02, edging the West Chester team that finished in 1:36.23. Richard Guerard, J.P. Balfour and Dan Kim kept Hopkins atop the leaderboard by placing first in the next three men's events, the 200 freestyle, 400 IM and 100 butterfly, respectively. Jon Kleinman finished more than a full second ahead of West Chester's Chris Salomone to win the 500 freestyle in 4:48.10.
Hopkins then got first-place finishes from the 400 medley team of Ryan Kim, Harris, Sean Kim and Test as well as Balfour in the 200 IM, Sean Kim in the 200 butterfly, and Matt Fedderly in the 200 breaststroke. Ryan Kim, Balfour and Guerard took first through third in the 200 backstroke to clinch the win.
The Blue Jay women placed first in two individual events; the 100 breaststroke where
Jessica Chang (1:07.15) defeated West Chester's Melissa Young (1:07.87) and Ashley Haney (1:07.90), and the 200 breaststroke as
Allie Foster's time of 2:28.01 was more than three seconds ahead of the second-place finisher.
Hopkins finished second in the 200 medley relay (Erika Pakkala, Jessica Chang, Kelly Robinson, Abiona Redwood), 100 backstroke (Pakkala), 200 freestyle relay (Redwood, Robinson, Pakkala, Foster), 800 freestyle relay (Foster, Diana Smirnova, Kalei Walker, Katie Herbst), 1650 freestyle (Herbst) and 200 backstroke (Pakkala).
The West Chester men's team finished fourth and the women placed sixth at the NCAA Division II Championships last season while TCNJ was 14th on the men's side and 26th on the women's end in the Division III tournament.
