Chicago, Ill. – The Trinity University women's swimming and diving team finished the opening day of the D3 Shootout on Friday, November 6, in seventh place with 245 points at the University of Chicago.
 
Freshman Macy Williams (Humble, Texas / Summer Creek) led the Tigers with a first-place finish in the 200-yard butterfly, touching the wall in 2:02.77. Her time met the NCAA Division III B-cut standard of 2:04.53 and finished just over a second ahead of Pomona-Pitzer's Bennett Jones (2:03.68). That time also sets a new Southern Athletic Association open record, breaking the previous mark by nearly two full seconds.
 
Senior Amy Benson (Newmarket, N.H. / Phillips Exeter Academy) added a fourth-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 23.68 seconds, while sophomore Ava Easley (Allen, Texas / Lovejoy) placed fifth in the 100-yard backstroke (57.61) and 17th in the 50-yard freestyle (24.77).
 
Sophomore Kaya Alvegaard-Struble (Kansas City, Mo. / Pembroke Hill) finished sixth in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:55.44, followed by junior Emme Penry (Greenwood Village, Colo. / Regis Jesuit) in 19th (2:01.42). Sophomore Kaitlyn Phan (Austin, Texas / Westlake) also recorded two individual finishes, placing seventh in the 400-yard individual medley (4:43.19) and eighth in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:07.50).
 
Sophomore Sophia Mandanis (Wichita, Kan. / Andover) finished 16th in the 200-yard butterfly (2:12.30) and 17th in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:08.34). Freshman Marlene Goddard (West Linn, Ore. / West Linn) added a 16th-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 59.15 seconds.
 
On the diving boards, sophomore Juliet Hood (Wexford, Pa. / North Allegheny) placed sixth in the 1-meter competition with a score of 321.30 points.
 
Williams also competed in the 400-yard individual medley, finishing 17th with a time of 4:40.87.
 
In relay competition, Trinity's 200-yard medley relay team of Easley, Mandanis, Williams and Benson finished seventh with a time of 1:47.45. The 800-yard freestyle relay team of Benson, Alvegaard-Struble, Goddard and Penry placed sixth in 7:49.31.
Trinity also competed in the mixed 400-yard individual medley relay, with Theodore Ho (Sugar Land, Texas / Clements), Ethan Lim (Frisco, Texas / Frisco),  Alvegaard-Struble and Phan finishing seventh in 3:49.22.
 
Pomona-Pitzer leads the women's standings with 322 points, followed by host Chicago with 319 and Washington University in St. Louis with 293.
 
Looking Forward:
The Tigers will return to the pool on Saturday, November 7, for the second and final day of the D3 Shootout in Chicago. Trinity will look to build on Friday's performances and move up in the team standings before returning to San Antonio to prepare for the Tiger Invite.