Oct. 31, 2014 Results
VILLANOVA, Pa. - The Villanova women's swimming team (2-2) lost a Friday meet to Penn State in the first road event of the season, 156-101.
The No. 14 Nittany Lions gained a lead earlier on and held onto it for the win.
Overall, the Wildcats finished with four first-place, four second-place and 10 third-place finishes.
Junior Fiona Hardie (Hampshire, England/Bournemouth School) led the `Cats in the pool with wins in the 100 and 200 butterfly. Hardie swam a 56.52 in the 100 fly and a 2:05.22 in the 200. In three 100 fly races this year, her time tonight was the about a half second faster than what she swam against UConn last Friday (56.95).
Freshman Gabby Daigneault (Montreal, Quebec/William H. Hall), who was recently named the BIG EAST Swimming and Diving Athlete of the Week, also won an event, swimming a 2:08.74 in the 200 IM. It comes as her seventh individual victory of the season and second in an individual medley event following her 4:31.44 first-place win in the 400 IM against West Virginia last Saturday.
The women closed the event with a first-place 200 freestyle relay finish as Hardie, junior Kaisla Kollanus (Hyvinkaa, Finland/Makelanrinteen Iukio), senior Katrin Heider (Bergisch Gladbach, Germany/Herkenrath) and senior Sara Jurek (Gilbert, Ariz./Chandler) earned the final 11 points for the Wildcats.
Sophomore Emily Mayo (Centennial, Colo./Arapahoe) earned a second place finish in the 1000 freestyle at 10:11.60. It comes as her second second-place mark in the event this season.
Freshman Olivia Caccitore (Rockford, Ill./Belvidere North) finished second in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:26.62.
The Wildcats are back in the pool on Fri., Nov. 7 and Sat., Nov. 8 in Piscataway, N.J. when `Nova swims against two BIG EAST opponents, Georgetown and Seton Hall, and the host school, Rutgers.
