Results

OAKLAND, Calif. - Impressive individual performances highlighted a third place performance by the Pioneer women's swimming team at the Bay Area Invitational on Saturday.

The Pioneers finished third in the five-team field ahead of Vanguard University and host Mills College. Concordia University and UC Santa Cruz finished ahead of the Pioneers.

Jenel Lopez was a double winner in the 100-yd. and 200-yd. Freestyles. Lopez swam a nice 100-yd. Breaststroke, nabbing 2nd overall. 

Alyssa Tenney was also a double winner, in both backstroke events.  Tenney finished 2nd in the 400-yd. I.M.  with a time of 4:46, two seconds off the school record.                                                                                        

Sara Bonino had a tremendous time in winning the mile event, quite near her conference mark from last year. Bonino also captured the 500-yd. Freestyle with her season best time.

Bethany Hoopman took the 200 Yard Backstroke while Rachel Knowles was a consistent performer in both breastrokes.

Pioneer coach Ben Loorz was impressed with the Pioneers performance at the Bay Area Invitational.

“We swam quite well this afternoon.  I am impressed with how this team adapts to increased training workloads, and then turns around and continues to improve themselves in racing scenarios.  That is a difficult thing to do, but they are doing it.  We were beaten today by a much larger (3-4 times larger!) Santa Cruz squad today, but the invitational-style scoring of this event really favors depth.  I am very excited to meet Santa Cruz for our first home dual meet in a few weeks (Nov.19th), as the dual meet structure favors quality over quantity.  We out-touched Santa Cruz in 9 out of 12 events today, and if we can do that again in a few weeks, it should be a very competitive meet.”