Catawba Women's Swimming Tops Lenoir-Rhyne, 161-78
January 23, 2010
Carlie Pendleton sets L-R team record in 500-yard freestyle
 Sophomore Lindsay Atkin won the lone event for Lenoir-Rhyne as she posted a time of 32.81 in the 50-yard breaststroke in a dual meet Saturday afternoon with Catawba. |
Hickory, N.C. – The Catawba College Women’s Swimming Team (5-3) knocked off Lenoir-Rhyne University (4-10), 161-78, in a dual meet Saturday afternoon at the Shuford Physical Education Center in L-R's lone home contest of the year.
Freshman Carlie Pendleton (Jamestown, N.C.) set a team record for L-R in the 500-yard freestyle as she posted a time of 5:27.60. Pendleton finished second in the event behind Catawba’s Ashley Owens (Stockbridge, Ga.), who put up a 5:23.88.
Sophomore Lindsay Atkin (Hickory, N.C.) won the 50-yard breaststroke for L-R with a time of 32.81, the lone event an L-R women's swimmer prevailed in.
Lenoir-Rhyne will now prepare for the Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships on February 17-20 in Charlotte, N.C.
