Rice vs. Arizona State
- January 3, 2024
- Mona Plummer Aquatic Middle — Tempe, AZ
- 25 Yards (SCY)
- Rating: #20 ASU, 230 def. NR Rice, 70
- Full Outcomes
Miriam Sheehan, Iza Adame, Julia Ullmann, and Caroline Bentz rang in 2025 with a college document within the 200 medley relay because the #20 Arizona State girl kicked off the second semester of racing with a dominant win over the mid-major Rice College.
The quartet swam 1:35.69, enhancing the document they swam on the NC State Invitational by nine-hundredths. That is the third time this quartet—made up of three newcomers to Tempe—has damaged the 200 medley program document this season. The onslaught started within the first race of the season in October’s season-opener towards UNLV. There, they swam 1:37.05, breaking the varsity document of 1:37.26 set in 2017.
They reset the document later in October, clocking 1:36.17 earlier than hitting 1:35.78 at midseason. Collectively, they’ve chopped 1.57 seconds from this system document in about three months.
ASU Girls’s 200 Medley Relay Program File Development This Season
| vs. Rice (Jan. 2025) | @ NC State Invite (Nov. 2024) | @ NC State (Oct. 2024) | vs. UNLV (Oct. 2024) | |
| Miriam Sheehan | 24.25 | 24.42 | 24.22 | 24.34 |
| Iza Adame | 26.94 | 27.08 | 27.1 | 27.64 |
| Julia Ullmann | 23.03 | 23.01 | 23.19 | 23.43 |
| Caroline Bentz | 21.47 | 21.27 | 21.66 | 21.64 |
| 1:35.69 | 1:35.78 | 1:36.17 | 1:37.05 |
The Solar Devils swept the highest three spots within the 200 medley towards the Owls—a pattern all through the meet. They claimed the highest three spots in seven occasions: the 200 medley relay, 100 backstroke, 100 breaststroke, 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle, 200 breaststroke, and 400 freestyle relay. Additional, they added 1-2 finishes within the 200 butterfly, 200 backstroke, 500 freestyle, and 400 IM.
Bentz, Alexa Reyna, and Charli Brown every gained two particular person occasions for the Solar Devils. After setting a college document within the occasion at mid-season, Bentz led the 50 freestyle podium sweep in 22.31, then flexed her backstroke talent by successful the 200 backstroke by 4.48 seconds (1:53.23). As she’s been doing for many of the twin meets this season, Reyna managed the space occasions, swimming 9:52.64 to win the 1000 freestyle and 4:47.03 to take the five hundred free. Brown, a senior, started her meet with a win within the 200 freestyle (1:47.28), then swam 4:13.31 to the touch first within the 400 IM, the final particular person occasion of the meet.
As Bentz did, Sheehan, Adame, and Ullmann adopted up their record-breaking relay efficiency with occasion wins of their very own. Every gained their respective 100 of stroke, with Sheehan swimming 53.58 to put first within the 100 backstroke, Adame successful the 100 breaststroke in 1:00.36, and Ullmann posting 52.86 for first within the 100 fly.
Sonia Vaishnani (200 fly, 1:58.15), Erin Milligan (100 free, 50.39), Emma Gehlert (200 breast, 2:12.51), and Kayden Hayes (3-meter, 258.15) picked up the Solar Devils’ different occasion wins. Bentz (48.34), Milligan (49.63), Ullmann (49.57), and Elli Straume (50.15) closed the meet by successful the 400 freestyle relay in 3:17.69.
Megan Phillip was the only real occasion winner for Rice on the meet, edging out Hayes on the 1-meter board by scoring 254.78 to win. The Owls went 1-3 on the 1-meter board, with Rylee Coyne inserting third with 231.45 factors.
Within the pool, the crew’s high performer was junior Ella Dyson, who recorded a top-three end in every of her particular person occasions. She took second within the 1000 freestyle in 9:53.42 and was the one swimmer to hitch Reyna sub-10 minutes within the occasion. She then took third within the 500 freestyle (4:59.56) and 400 IM (4:19.98).
NCAA qualifier Arielle Hayon completed second within the 100 butterfly (53.81) and third within the 200 fly (2:01.19). Lastly, freshman Ava Portello rounded out Rice’s top-three finishes by chasing Milligan down on the ultimate 50 yards for second within the 200 freestyle. Portello cut up a field-best 26.87 on the ultimate 50 to edge out Milligan by four-hundredths, 1:47.93 to 1:47.97. Later, Portello added a fourth-place end within the 500 freestyle (4:52.18).
