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Wolfpack Women Lower Pair of School Records with Second-Place Relays on Opening Day of ACCs
2/17/2021 7:14:00 PM | Swimming
GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Wolfpack opened action at the 2021 ACC Championships on Wednesday evening by bettering the program records in both the 200-yard medley relay and the 800-yard freestyle relay. NC State's women finished second in both of those races.
Katharine Berkoff (23.37), Sophie Hansson (26.31), Sirena Rowe (23.02) and Kylee Alons (20.82) teamed up for a 1:33.52 200-yard medley relay time that was under the previous meet and ACC record. Their mark was the third-fastest swim in NCAA history, and they finished just behind Virginia's relay crew, which set a new NCAA and American record with the winning time of 1:32.93.
The Pack followed up with another No. 2 finish in the 800-yard freestyle relay with a final time of 6:58.48. The mark was just the third sub-seven minute time in the event in program history and lowered the previous school record of 6:59.73.
In that event, senior Julia Poole (1:44.82) opened with the fastest 200-yard freestyle time of her career, with Alons (1:44.25), Berkoff (1:43.72) and Kate Moore (1:45.69) following her to round out the race.
Both relay times were good for NCAA A cuts.
NC State's divers also opened competition at the meet, with both the women and men in action. Sophomore Helene Synnott reached the first ACC Championships final of her career on the three-meter springboard. She took seventh place with a score of 294.70 to score points for the Wolfpack women.
Senior Rachel Burston (262.25) also finished in the top 24 to tally points, as did Bayne Bennett (309.85) and Patrick O'Brien (271.95) on one-meter on the men's side of things.
NC State will continue action at the ACC Championships on Thursday, with prelims scheduled to begin at 11 a.m., diving finals at 2:30 p.m. and swimming finals at 7 p.m. The entire day of action can be streamed live on ACCNX.
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