TUCSON, Ariz. – Arizona women's swimming and diving opened up the New Year with a sweep of its first home meet of the season. The Cats dominated Northern Arizona (178-118), Oregon State (213-77) and New Mexico State (193-104) to improve to 6-2.  

Arizona commanded the relay events at the quad-meet, winning both the 200 medley relay and 200 free relay. The A team of sophomore Katrina Konopka, freshman Kennedy Lohman, sophomore Taylor Garcia and junior Laura Kurki took first in the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:42.27. They were followed by sophomore Annie Ochitwa, freshman Mallory Korenwinder, sophomore Mackenzie Rumrill and sophomore Ashley Sutherland to go 1-2 in the event (1:43.43).

The Cats then swept the podium in the 200 free relay to close out the meet. Korenwinder, Sutherland, freshman Kirsten Jacobsen and Konopka won with a time of 1:34.99. The team of junior Samantha Getzen, Garcia, junior Jenna Bauer and Ochitwa was runner-up, touching in 1:36.32. In third was junior Paige Kremer, Kurki, sophomore Emma McCarthy and junior Tjasa Oder (1:36.69).

Sophomore Sarah Shimomura had a stand-out performance in the quad-meet, being only swimmer to have more than one victory. She cruised through the 500 free to win with a time of 4:59.95, four and a half seconds ahead of the next swimmer. The sophomore also won the 200 free by more than two seconds earlier in the meet, finishing in 1:50.21. Shimomura then had an impressive performance in the 50 free to take third with 23.91.

Arizona's three head-to-head victories were all team wins as eight different swimmers contributed first-place finishes.

Oder (1,000 free) // Shimomura (200 free, 500 free) // Kurki (50 free) // Kremer (100 free) // Ochitwa (200 back) // Garcia (100 fly) // Konopka (200 IM) // Cameron McHugh (100 back)

The Cats won 11 of the 16 events in the meet, winning each of the freestyle events. They had at least two swimmers in the top three in 13 events, sweeping the podium in six of those. Arizona also went 1-2-3-4 in two events, the 100 free and 500 free.

Up Next: Arizona swimming and diving hosts California at Hillenbrand Aquatic Center on Fri. Jan. 20 at 2 p.m. MST. The men and women then compete against Stanford on Sat. Jan. 21 at 12 p.m. MST in Tucson.  

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