WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The Salem swimming team, competing for its third time this month and second time in as many weeks, heads to Greensboro this weekend for a dual meet with The Pride on Saturday, Oct. 26, at 1 p.m.
Salem, which is taking part in its third meet of the season, also raced against swimmers from Greensboro College at the Guilford College Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 5.
The Spirits will have individuals competing in the 200 freestyle, 100 backstroke, 100 breaststroke, 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle, 500 freestyle and 200 individual medley. Salem will also take part in the 200 freestyle relay on Saturday afternoon.
LAST TIME OUT FOR THE SPIRITS (William Peace Double Dual): Junior Olivia Kleven tapped the wall first in the 100-yard breaststroke for the Salem swim team, highlighting a solid performance by the Spirits in their second race of the season, which was hosted by William Peace at the Triangle Aquatic Center on Saturday, Oct. 19.
Kleven, with three Top-3 outings at the event, led the way for a Salem unit that finished with a series of setbacks to Sweet Briar (133-45) and host William Peace (82-66).
Kleven became the first Salem individual to capture a race win, since the program's return to the pool. She took first place in the 100-yard breaststroke in a time of 1:19.35, just over five seconds better than Ally Swain (William Peace), who closed in a time of 1:24.79.
Kleven also came through with a pair of second-place performances in the 200-yard freestyle and the 200-yard individual medley. In the 200-yard freestyle event, Kleven posted a time of 2:19.77, finishing just shy of the Pacers' Peyton Leischner, who closed in a time of 2:18.90. Kleven's time of 2:41.95 in the 200-yard individual medley was second to Sweet Briar's Peyton Murphy, who came through with a mark of 2:32.52.
Salem's Emily Inman also had three Top-5 finishes on the afternoon, including the 200-yard freestyle, where she enjoyed a time of 2:55.89, en route to a fifth-place finish. Inman, one of seven Salem competitors in the 100-yard freestyle, closed the event fifth in a time of 1:19.75. In her final race of the event, the 500-yard freestyle, Inman tapped the wall in 8:11.11, finishing fifth.
Sophomore Allison Wakefield put together a solid outing in three events. Her best finish, fourth, came in the 100-yard freestyle, where she posted a time of 1:18.76. She followed that with a sixth-place outing in the 500-yard freestyle, finishing behind Inman in a time of 8:27.23. In Wakefield's first event of the day, the 200-yard freestyle, she posted a time of 2:58.85, closing sixth.
Electric junior JaLisa Lumpkin streaked down the pool in the 50-meter freestyle in 46.95, posting her best finish of the early season, fifth. Lumpkin also competed in the 100-yard freestyle, finishing 10th in a time of 1:54.02.
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