COLUMBIA, Ky. – The Lindsey Wilson women's swim team finished third at the sixth-annual LWC Fall Frenzy with a total of 712 points.
Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) took home the gold with 1001.5 points and Indiana Wesleyan scored 944 points, securing second place. Bethel (Tenn.) finished in fourth-place (406.5) and Campbellsville finished in fifth (251).
Annissa Koekemeor, Carlene Taylor, Narjiss Bourbouh and Jessica Macdonald kicked off day two of competition in the 200-yard medley relay where they earned an A cut time of 1:55.22. The time was good enough for first place. The quartet of Sarah Hahn, Jaye Farthing, Natalie Lohman and Nissrine Bourbouh also recorded an A standard time of 2:04.32 in eighth place.
Nissrine Bourbouh, Koekemeor, Taylor and Macdonald teamed up for the 800-yard freestyle relay for another A cut time of 8:28.46 and a second-place finish. Hailey Russo, Narjiss Bourbouh, Emma Phillips and Hahn would also garner the A standard during the event with a sixth-place finish in 8:54.91.
Narjiss Bourbouh collected a national A standard in the 100-yard butterfly, touching the wall in second place with a time of 1:01.19. In the 200-yard butterfly the Rabat, Morocco native finished first with another A cut standard time of 2:18.02.
The Blue Raider duo of Macdonald and Taylor earned A standard times in the 100-yard freestyle while finishing in first (54.94) and second (55.56). Macdonald broke the two-minute mark during the 200-yard freestyle as she managed an A cut after her first-place finishing time of 1:59.00.
Koekemeor swam her way to a first-place with a B standard time of 1:03.34 during the 100-yard backstroke. Narjiss Bourbouh and Hahn finished in third and fourth in the event, respectively. Koekemeor and Hahn earned B cuts and finished the 200-yard backstroke in third and fourth place with times of 2:17.50 and 2:19.68.
Macdonald finished the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:38.75, garnering second-place and a B cut standard. Taylor finished in third place during the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:13.22.
To conclude the sixth-annual LWC Fall Frenzy, the quartet of Nissrine Bourbouh, Koekemeor, Taylor, and Macdonald placed second in the 400-yard freestyle relay with an A-cut time of 3:47.48. The group of Lohman, Hahn, Farthing and Narjiss Bourbouh finished in 4:02.77 also receiving a national A standard.
The Lindsey Wilson men's and women's teams combined for 1,537 total team points, finishing in second place. Olivet Nazarene combined for 1,976.5 to finish in first.
The Blue Raiders are back in action Oct. 5 at noon CT against No. 3-ranked Cumberlands (Ky.) in the Holloway Center Natatorium.
