Tania Quaglieri Wins Three as TCU Edges out Iowa State
Tania Quaglieri won three events, and TCU pulled out some tight races early in the meet to guide the Horned Frogs to a 162-138 win over Iowa State.
Quaglieri, a grad student, swept the backstroke events and added a win in the 100 butterfly. The latter was the last win of the meet for TCU, allowing it to withstand three straight event wins for the Cyclones and leave Ames with a victory.
Quaglieri went 55.06 to win the 100 back. She won by nearly three seconds in the 200 back with her time of 2:02.37. She added the 100 fly win in 55.91 seconds.
TCU did some big work in the front half of the meet. The 200 medley relay of Rylee Moore, Nina Vadovicova, Jeanne Dahmen and Olivia Rhodes went 1:44.81 to edge Iowa State by .14 seconds. Rhodes dropped the hammer on the anchor leg, splitting 22.83 seconds to recoup a deficit of .68 seconds after 150 yards.
Mikayla Popham had a similar rally in the final 50, erasing a .46-second deficit on the final lap of the 200 freestyle to win in 1:53.00, a .10 seconds edge over Iowa State’s Corinne Guist.
The Horned Frogs did damage in breaststroke. Claire Chahbandour won the 100 in 1:04.28, a podium sweep with Vadovicova second. Chahbandour was second to teammate Giorgia Vavalle in the 200 breast, the latter winning in 2:21.99.
Rhodes won the 50 free in 23.59 and finished second in the 100 free. Jordan Edwards won the 1,000 free and finished third in the IM. Anna Kwong scored 350.59 points on 3-meter diving for TCU.
Iowa closed strong. Lauren Kimball scored 300.20 points to win 1-meter diving. Emma Kuhn followed by pulling away from Vadovicova to win the 200 individual medley in 3:07.83, and Iowa State rolled in the 400 free relay thanks to Carley Caughron, Brinley Horras, Andie Quirke and Ashley Bengston. But the surge was too little, too late.
The Cyclones didn’t get their first win until the sixth event, when Winter Craig won the 200 fly. Quirke pulled out a close race in the 100 free, her time of 52.77 besting Rhodes by .05 seconds. Horras and Corinne Guist went 1-2 in the 500 free, the former winning in 5:04.96. Caughron finished second in the 50 free and 100 fly. Kuhn was second in both backstroke events before her IM triumph.
