Barton Women's Swimming with big weekend at the Kansas Collegiate Showdown; Sims re-writes program record #GoBarton
Barton Women's Swimming with big weekend at the Kansas Collegiate Showdown; Sims re-writes program record
The Barton Community College women's swimming and diving team pieced together its' most successful weekend of the early season at the Kansas Collegiate Showdown hosted at the Haysville Natatorium.
Battling as the lone two-year program, the Cougars pieced together 11 titles in the 29 events competing against Sterling College and the University of Saint Mary.
Freshman Rachel Sims highlighted the weekend claiming one of the six individual golds for Barton while rewriting her earlier season's program record in the 1-meter dive with a score of 208.00.
Vali Bequette notched the shortest race of the weekend capturing the always-exciting 50-yard freestyle (27.26) while Linda Franco also added a gold in the thrilling 100-yard freestyle (57.23).
The Cougars swept the 200-yard events with Olivia Kerr touching the wall the fastest in the medley (2:22.04) and Silvana Jacquez Viveros in the backstroke (2:14.95).
Dominique Cos rounded out the individual awards with a gold in the 400-yard medley (5:05.51).
Barton was perfect in all five-relay events claiming the 400-yard medley (4:16.66), 400-yard freestyle (3:53.06), 200-yard medley (1:56.93), 200-yard freestyle (1:43.73) and 800-yard freestyle (8:50.70).
Barton concludes its' four weekend stretch Friday and Saturday at the UNK Invitational held in Kearney, Nebraska.
Complete Kansas Collegiate Showdown Results