Nov. 21, 2009

Results

MILWAUKEE - Senior Kerry Rossow, juniors Danielle Wenger and Kelsey George and sophomore Danielle Chapman each won a pair of events to lead the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee women's swimming & diving team to a lopsided 201-72 victory over Valparaiso University Saturday morning at the Klotsche Natatorium.

The Panthers, who were swimming in their home opener, have now beaten the Crusaders 15 consecutive times and improved to 15-1 all-time in the series (falling only in 1991). The team won 14 of 15 events on the day, falling only in the 100 butterfly.

"It was just a great team effort for us today," UWM head coach Erica Janssen said. "It was nice to finally get a home meet under our belts and swim in front of the home crowd and our depth really came through today. To get all but one race today was a real solid effort on our part. We're looking forward now to getting some rest and preparing for some big meets that we have coming up."

Milwaukee also received winning performances from senior Jenny Westfall, junior Ellie Gross, sophomores Jennifer Schober and Sarah Wardecke and freshman Ashley Yanzsa.

Rossow continued her solid senior campaign, adding her seventh and eight victories of the season in sweeping her specialty, the breaststroke events. She topped the field in the 100 in 1:06.01 and in the 200 in 2:24.34.

Wenger continued her winning ways as well, coming on first in the 200 butterfly in 2:17.64 and also first in the 1000 freestyle in 10:44.43.

Chapman led the way in the sprints, winning the 50 and 100 freestyle for her first freestyle victories of the campaign. She touched the wall in 24.90 in the 50, a race where UWM swimmers swept the top five spots. In the 100, she won in 53.97.

George won both diving events, recording totals of 260.25 on the one-meter and 269.10 on the three.

Westfall won a close battle in the 200 freestyle, touching the wall in 1:59.90. That clocking just touched-out freshman Taylor Andrew's effort of 2:00.03.

Gross earned the first-place position in the 100 backstroke (1:00.41), while Schober gave UWM the sweep in the back events, claiming the 200 in 2:14.94.

Wardecke swam the first 500 freestyle of her UWM career and won handily, coming in over 27 seconds ahead of second-place in a time of 5:13.27.

Lastly, Yanzsa won the 400 IM in 4:46.80 and the 800 freestyle relay team won in 7:51.09.

The team is off for the rest of the month and has just one meet left on the 2009 portion of its schedule. The Panthers make a return trip to the Falcon Invitational, where they will look to defend their team title from a year ago Dec. 4-5.