From Brandeis University Athletics

The Brandeis swimming and diving teams cruised to a pair of dual meet wins on Friday evening at Bridgewater State University, with the Judges combining to win 21 of the 24 events contested. The Brandeis women won their third-straight meet, 159-52, to improve to 4-8 on the season, while the men earned a 130-82 victory, their first of the season, to move to 1-8-1.

FOR THE WOMEN

• Brandeis had four different competitors win two events each.
• Rookie Kylie Herman (Weston, Fla./Cypress Hill) continued her terrific campaign with wins in the 500 free (5:24.64) and the 100 butterfly (1:04.52).
• Junior Joanna Murphy (Sarasota, Fla./Riverview) switched from her standard distance freestyle events to sprints, taking the 100 (58.86 seconds) and 200 (2:04.41).
• Senior Fallon Bushee (Malden, Mass./ Mystic Valley Regional Charter School)  set a personal season best in the 200 individual medley (2:26.08) and won the 100 breaststroke (1:18.06).
• Rookie Julia Tartaglia (Newton, Mass. / Newton South) added two diving wins, scoring 160.55 in the one-meter and 175.10 in the 3-meters.
• Single event winners for the Judges were sophomore Ariana Traub (Tiburon, Calif. / Redwood), who earned her first win of the season in the 50 free (27.01 seconds) and sophomore Amy Sheinhait (Framingham, Mass. / Framingham) in the 100 backstroke (1:08.95).
• The Judges also won the 200 medley relay in 2:02.78 behind the team of Sheinhait, Bushee, sophomores Sherry Tu (Guangdong, China / Our Lady of Mercy School for Young Women (N.Y.) and Abby Damsky (New York, N.Y. / The Brearley School).
• The 200 free relay team of Tu, sophomore Maya Saar (Columbus, Ohio / Columbus School for Girls) , Murphy and Herman won with a time of 1:47.95.