Swimming & Diving | 11/3/2015 12:47:00 PM

2015-16 Top Five MSUM Times
MOORHEAD, Minn. – The Minnesota State University Moorhead women's swimming and diving team will look for its third straight dual meet win on Friday when it faces crosstown rival Concordia College. The dual begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Concordia pool.

MSUM is 4-4 in duals on the season while Concordia is 0-1 in duals so far, having lost to Northern State, 122-82 on Oct. 22.

The Dragons beat the Cobbers, 134-60 in the last dual meet between the two teams on Nov. 14, 2014.

"We look forward to our meet against Concordia because it is sort of a home meet that is actually away," MSUM head coach Todd Peters said. "We don't have to travel and we don't have to set up and prepare our pool for a meet.  We just show up to swim and dive and after the meet we are home in minutes.  We've set some good team and individual goals and we are going to put our freshmen in the forefront to see how they are adapting to the pressures of college competition."

MSUM Season Notes
—Sophomore Erin Sullivan leads with five wins and four-runner up finishes on the season. She has scored a team-high 163 points
—Senior Jackie Woods, senior Annika Bordak and freshman Tayloy Beynon have four wins each.
—A total of 14 different Dragons have won an event this season.
—Ten different Dragons have won at least two events.
—Senior Emily Pascavis leads the diving corps with 69 points (MSUM did not compete in diving at Northern because the board is not regulation size)

Scoring note: In a typical dual meet the scoring is 9-4-3-2-1 for individual events and 11-4-2 for relays.  No more than three individuals or two relays from one team may score in each event.

Last Time Out: Higgins Leads Dragons Past St. Catherine's, 198-95
The Minnesota State University Moorhead women's swimming and diving team won 15 of 16 events on its way to a 198-95 win over the College of St. Catherine in dual meet action on Oct. 30 in St. Paul, Minn. Junior Ashley Higgins won two events and was part of two winning relays to lead the Dragons.

Higgins won the 50 free with a lifetime-best time of 25.36 and won the 50 fly in 27.64, which was also a lifetime-best.  She was also part of the winning 200 medley relay that won in 1:50.41, just missing the pool record of 1:49.98. That consisted of sophomore Erin Sullivan, freshman Erin Fons, senior Jackie Woods, and Higgins. MSUM's 200 free relay, consisting of Higgins, freshman Natalie Kampa, freshman Natalie Kampa, freshman Linnea Johnson and junior Amber Helgoe, won in 1:41.83.
Sullivan won the 100 free in 55.42.

Senior Jana Hedstrom won the 1-meter diving with a score of 226.85 with senior Emily Pascavis second at 218.95. Pascavis won the 3-meter diving at 259.80 – narrowly missing her lifetime best of 262 -- with Hedstrom second at 214.35.

Senior Jackie Woods won the 50 breaststroke in 31.50. Junior Madison Kuznia won the 100 back in 1:00.75 while senior Annika Bordak won the 100 IM in 1:03.35. Freshman Taylor Beynon won the 1,000 free in 11:09.57. Freshman Linnea Johnson won the 200 free in 2:05.02 while sophomore Laura Mitlyng won the 50 back in 29.79.  Junior Kelly Engbring won the 500 free in 5:31.12 while Fons won the 100 breaststroke in 1:09.65 and took second in the 50 breaststroke in 32.16.