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Danielle Neu of Rochester Wins 3-Meter Board in Season Opening Meet

Danielle Neu of Rochester Wins 3-Meter Board in Season Opening Meet
Posted: Oct 24, 2014

From University of Rochester Athletics

University of Rochester diver Danielle Neu picked up right where she left off last spring. She turned in an impressive performance on the three-meter diving board in Rochester's season-opening four-team meet on Friday night.
 
Neu finished first with a point total of 247.85 for six dives. Joanna Wallace finished fourth for the women with a point total of 212.2. Carrie DeMoulin was seventh, scoring 197.55 points.
 
The competing teams in addition to Rochester are Brandeis University, New York University, and Canisius College. The meet is being scored as a quadruple dual – Rochester vs. each of the three and those three versus each other (UR vs NYU, Brandeis vs. Canisius, NYU vs. Brandeis, etc.). The events themselves are simply scored in the total order of finish, but that does not reflect the placement in the head-to-head matchups.
 
With five events completed on Friday night plus the three-meter board, here are the head-to-head team scores for the women: NYU 82, Canisius 25; NYU 91, Brandeis 14; NYU 78, Rochester 30; Canisius 77, Brandeis 20; Rochester 56, Canisius 51; Rochester 86, Brandeis 19.
 
Rochester's freshman class had a chance to show off its skill set in the opening event. Brenna Allen swam the first leg and Annie Thayer swam the third leg of the 'C' Relay in the 400 yard medley event.  The 'C's finished second to NYU in a time of 4:16.86. In the B Relay, Anna Kopp swam the second leg and Kelly Moran the third leg.  Rochester's 'B' quartet was fifth overall in 4:15.20. The 'A' Relay had freshman Julia Herman at the front, followed by All-Americans Vicky Luan and Lauren Bailey, and closed with freshman Hongjue Wang. This group was fourth among all finishers, timed in 4:07.36.
 
In the 1,650 yard freestyle, Jen Enos was fifth overall, clocked in 18:26.85. Zoe McCauley was sixth in 18:56.51.
 
The 200 freestyle relay 'A' team was second (1:38.74), less than half a second behind NYU (1:38.35). The members were Luan, Ellen Swanson, Emily Simon, and Khamai Simpson. The 'B' Relay (Jillian Johannes, Anna Mucci, Alex Veech, and Moran was seventh.
 
Thayer finished sixth in the 200 yard IM (2:19.30) with Julia Herman ninth (2:22.68). Rochester secured second place in the 800 freestyle relay (8:07.90) behind the efforts of Simpson, Enos, Wang, and Bailey.