This weekend the UNI Swimming and Diving team held their annual Intrasquad Meet of Purple vs. Gold. This is one way for them to get a chance to hit the water before their upcoming home meet this Friday. 

The meet started off with the 200-yard medley that consisted of Sydney Aird, Abby Lear, Hannah Nedder and Morgan Meyer that finished first for the Gold team with the Purple team of Elyse Brayton, Ema Lavigne, Faith Larsen and Waren Graeve following behind. Natalie Harris and Molly Johnson went 1-2 for the Gold team, while Abby Barkhurst finished third for Purple in the 1,000-yard freestyle. 

Meyer came out on top in the 200-yard freestyle for the Gold and Hallory Domnick came in second for the Purple and Peyton Pasqualicchio in third for the Gold. The 200-yard individual medley would see Purple come out on top and in second with Lavigne and Brayton going 1-2. Gold would come in third with Aird finishing. 

Larsen took first in the 50-yard freestyle for the Purple with as Lear came in second for the Gold. Nedder placed third in the event. Next was the 100-yard butterfly which saw Nedder come out on top for the Gold as Nikki Walters followed behind, as well as Larsen. The 100-yard freestyle saw Meyer come out on top, Lear follow behind for the Gold team in second and Graeve in third. In the 100-yard backstroke Brayton took first with Abby Steward finishing second for Purple and Rachel Rolow in third for Gold.

In the 500-yard freestyle it saw Domnick come out on top with Sam Oeltjen coming in second for the Purple, and Harris coming in third for Gold. In the 100-yard backstroke, Aird won for the Gold team and Lavigne and Jenna Breitbach finished second and third. The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Meyer, Nedder, Harris and Lear beat out the Gold team of Larsen, Graeve, Josie Parton and Domnick. 

Over in the diving well Erica Peters held wins in both the one and three-meter boards, as Trista Thompson and Hannah Taylor finished second and third on the one-meter board. Thompson then took second in the three-meter while Abby Hutchins secured third place. In a fun twist the Panther diving team partook in a 50-yard freestyle with Peters securing a first place finish followed by Hutchins and Taylor. The swimmers also had the opportunity to compete in the diving realm with Meyer taking first in the one-meter for the Gold and Lavigne and Graeve taking second and third for the Purple team.