Katherine Dyer and Megan Sutanto combined for seven individual event wins and helped TMU win both short relays as The Master's University swimming teams competed at the two-day Slug Shootout on Friday and Saturday. Host UC Santa Cruz swept the team titles in a field that included Stanford, Rhodes, Cal State East Bay, College of Idaho, Soka, Simpson and Southwestern Oregon CC.
Dyer won all four of her individual events, with the closest margin more than a second:
- 200 free: 1:52.21, more than four seconds ahead of the runner-up
- 400 IM: 4:27.66, nearly nine seconds ahead of the field
- 200 IM: 2:06.60, a winning margin of more than four seconds
- 200 breast: 2:24.13, 1.29 seconds ahead of second place
She added a fourth-place finish in the 200 fly (2:08.88).
Sutanto swept the sprint freestyle and backstroke events:
- 50 free: 24.06
- 50 back: 27.23
- 100 free: 52.11
She also took second in the 50 fly (26.52) and fourth in the 100 fly (59.12).
The pair led the Lady Mustangs to wins in both 200-yard relays:
- 200 free relay (1:37.16):Â Sutanto, Dyer, Clara Patterson and Isabella Hiner. Dyer split a team-best 23.55 on the second leg.
- 200 medley relay (1:48.12):Â Patterson, Dyer, Riley Weikel and Sutanto beat the host Banana Slugs by more than a second.
Weikel, a freshman, put together a strong weekend in the butterfly events:
- 100 fly: third, 58.53
- 50 fly: third, 26.69
- 200 fly: eighth, 2:11.56
Patterson took third in the 100 back (1:00.77) and sixth in the 50 back (28.07). Hiner, 17, placed eighth in the 200 free (1:58.91). Siobhan Mik was eighth in the 1000 free in 11:17.71, nearly eight seconds under her seed time.
The Lady Mustangs' 400 free relay of Patterson, Hiner, Weikel and Haddie Anderson finished fourth in 3:44.53.
On the men's side, freshman Blake Van Vooren posted the top finishes of the weekend. He placed fourth in the 1000 free in 10:03.92, more than 27 seconds under his seed time, and was also fourth in the 500 free (4:48.82).
Dylan Crane was fourth in the 50 back (24.85) and fifth in both the 200 free (1:41.48) and the 500 free (4:49.37).
Other top-eight men's finishes:
The men's 400 medley relay and 400 free relay each placed sixth.
The Mustangs travel to the Pomona-Pitzer four-team dual meet on Saturday, Oct. 24.
