On The N
Rise
By Jacey Zembal
C State's women's swimming
team returns a solid nucleus of
swimmers from a squad that finished fifth in the ACC and sent
seven swimmers and two divers to the
NCAA Championships last year.
The Wolfpack
Is Striving
For Success
■PREVIEW
women's swimming
Senior Zina Grogg, juniors Hannah
Freyman, Lauren Poli and Rachel Mumma,
and sophomores Riki Bonnema and Kristin
Connors all competed at the NCAA Championships for the first time.
Grogg and Bonnema qualified individually in the 100 backstroke and 50 freestyle,
respectively. Grogg finished 41st in the
prelims with a time of 53.91 seconds, and
Bonnema was 49th in the prelims in the 50
freestyle (22.95).
The five returning swimmers joined departing seniors Allison Hendren and Marifrances Henley on five different relays —
200 freestyle, 400 freestyle, 800 freestyle,
200 medley and 400 medley. The five relays didn't make it out of preliminaries.
CollegeSwimming.com ranked NC State
No. 16 in the country as of mid-October.
"I think the women are ready to take that
step," NC State head coach Braden Hollo-
Senior Zina Grogg earned All-ACC honors by placing third in the 100 backstroke with a school-record time of 53.42 at the ACC Championships last
season.
photo courtesy nc state media relations
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