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Dec. 5, 2014
ATHENS, Ga. - Setting season-best top times in five events, the No. 15 Penn State women's swimming and diving team ranks fifth of nine teams with a score of 105 through the first day of the Georgia Fall Invitational Friday. Including the 3-meter diving, there were six women's events, which consisted of prelims in the morning and finals in the evening.
The day was highlighted by a record-setting performance from senior Megan Siverling (Chester Springs, Pa.). In the prelims of the 500-yard freestyle on Friday morning, Siverling set the school record by touching the wall in 4:41.86. She passed junior teammate Alyson Ackman (Montreal, Quebec), who held the previous best mark of 4:42.11 in 2013. Siverling placed sixth in the finals of the event, clocking in at 4:41.88.
The 200-yard freestyle relay group had the best finish of the day for the Nittany Lions, as Ackman, sophomore Katie Saloky (Bloomsburg, Pa.), senior Carolyn Fittin (Sea Girt, N.J.) and senior Katelyn Miller (Hershey, Pa.) took fifth with a mark of 1:29.80, shattering the team's previous season-best time of 1:32.02.
Later, Ackman, junior Melissa Rodriguez (Chihuahua, Mexico), junior Katie Rowe (Glenville, N.Y.) and Fittin also notched a sixth-place finish in the 400-yard medley relay with a 3:37.48, their best time of the season.
Fittin had a career-best time of 22.42 in the prelims of the 50-yard freestyle event, taking seventh with a mark of 22.50 in the finals. Rowe was the team's top finisher (13th) in the 200-yard IM with a time of 1:59.31 in the evening session. She had a season-best 1:58.75 in the prelims.
Georgia leads the women's field through day one, posting a score of 277. The Nittany Lions are just three points back of fourth-place Auburn, who sits at 108.
The second day of the three-day competition begins tomorrow, Dec. 6, with the prelims beginning at 9:30 a.m. and the finals taking place at 5 p.m. There will be eight women's events on Saturday, including a diving event.