From Brandeis University Athletics
Four Brandeis University women's swimming and diving records fell today on the second day of action at the 2018 Gompei Invitational at WPI.
The Judges scored 1460.5 points and remained in eighth place – fifth among Division III schools – at the event which features combined men's and women's scoring.
The team of rookie Lauren Howard (Abington, Mass. / Cardinal Spellman), sophomore Uajda Musaku (Winthrop, Mass. / Winthrop), sophomore Annie Huang (Chapel Hill, N.C. / East Chapel Hill) and senior Kylie Herman (Weston, Fla./Cypress Bay) erased the 200 freestyle relay record set in 2017 with their time of 1:39.98, which was good for ninth place.
The women also closed the day with a school mark in the 400 medley relay, coming in ninth with a time of 4:02.06, 0.19 seconds faster than the mark established in 2009. The squad consisted of by rookie Claire Xu (E. Hanover, N.J./Newark Academy), rookie Olivia Stebbins (Willington, Conn./E.O. Smith), sophomore Audrey Kim (Livingston, N.J. / Livingston) and senior Kylie Herman (Weston, Fla./Cypress Bay).
Both women's individual school records were broken by rookie Claire Xu (E. Hanover, N.J./Newark Academy) in the backstroke events. In the 100, she smashed a record that had stood since 2008 by 1.35 seconds with a time of 58.35 seconds, good for seventh place. In the 50, she placed third overall with a time of 27.18 seconds, taking 0.58 seconds off the previous mark set just last season.
The Judges had one other top-10 finish, as rookie Olivia Stebbins (Willington, Conn./E.O. Smith) continued her fine performance in the breaststroke, coming in eighth with a time of 1:08.21, the fourth-fastest in program history.
Sophomore Audrey Kim (Livingston, N.J. / Livingston) was 19th in the 100 backstroke with a time of 1:00.76.