Kozan breaks a team record as the Tritons win the Malibu tri-meet
Asia Kozan set a UC San Diego record of 1:44.93 in the 200 freestyle on Friday in Malibu, where the Triton women beat Pepperdine and UC Santa Barbara and the Triton men beat the Gauchos.
MALIBU: UC San Diego left Malibu with every team result available to it on Friday morning. The Triton women beat Pepperdine 205.5 to 88.5 and UC Santa Barbara 168 to 94, remaining unbeaten in team results this season, and the Triton men beat UC Santa Barbara 141 to 121 at Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool. In the third pairing of the day, host Pepperdine beat UC Santa Barbara 150 to 144, the first win over the Gauchos in Pepperdine program history.
Two UC San Diego team records were matched or broken. Asia Kozan won the 200 freestyle in 1:44.93, a new team record and a time below the 1:45.39 needed for Division I NCAA qualification in the event. Hunter Cehelnik matched his own team record in the 100 butterfly, swimming 46.14, the same mark he set last year.
Eleven event wins for the women
The Triton women won 11 events across the meet, three of them as sweeps of the top places. Kozan also placed second in the 200 individual medley in 2:04.25 and swam with Dani Carter, Keira De Jong and Sydney Niles on the winning 400 freestyle entry timed at 3:19.47. Eva Boehlke won the 200 individual medley in 2:02.47 and swam on the winning 200 medley relay, timed at 1:40.15, with Megan Wang, Hayley Gregory and Madison O'Connell. Gregory added two individual wins of her own, the 100 breaststroke in 1:02.17 and the 200 breaststroke in 2:18.44.
The men took the top place in eight of their events and swept the 500 freestyle, where Landon Egeland won in 4:26.64, Charlie Franz was second in 4:30.58 and Zachary Tower third in 4:30.66. Cehelnik placed first in three events, two of them individual: the 50 freestyle in 20.19 and the record matching 100 butterfly, plus the 200 medley relay, where he swam with William Seymour, Winston Liang and William Miller in 1:27.37. He also led off the 400 freestyle relay that placed second in 2:57.39, with Miller, Seymour and Henry Baumhover.
The full Triton squad now travels to Moscow, Idaho for its midseason meet, the University of Idaho College Invite, running four days from November 19 to November 22.
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