COLUMBUS, OH - The University of Iowa women's swimming and diving team was in Columbus, OH, for day two of the 2008 Big Ten Swimming Championships. After the evening finals, the Hawkeyes are in ninth place with 104.5 points.

Iowa swimmers set season bests as well as top ten all-time times in every event of the evening including second all-time marks for freshman Katarina Tour in the 100 breaststroke (1:02.51) and junior Alison Gschwend in the 100 backstroke (55.39). Tour's race was good enough for a sixth place finish while Gschwend finished in 14th; both times meet NCAA provisional qualifying standards.

"We are swimming very well and the times are showing it," Said Head Coach Marc Long. "It's been a great meet so far, and having almost matched our point total from last year already really makes me excited for another day of championship racing tomorrow."

TEAM STANDINGS
1. Minnesota 420.5
2. Michigan 407
3. Indiana 335
4. Penn State 325
5. Northwestern 290
6. Wisconsin 262
7. Purdue 175
8. Ohio State 171
9. IOWA 104.5
10. Michigan State 88
11. Illinois 69

FINALS RESULTS (Winner plus IOWA)
200 Medley Relay
1. Indiana 1:38.89*A
(Zubkova, Stockwell, Smailis, Bard)
8. IOWA 1:43.81
(Gschwend, Tour, Mozdzen, deBruin)

400 Individual Medley
1. Jenny Shaughnessy (Minn) 4:09.41*A

100 Butterfly
1. Margaret Kelly (Mich) 52.60*A
22. Laura Mozdzen (IOWA) 56.83

200 Freestyle
1. Andrea Hupman (NU) 1:44.89*A

100 Breaststroke
1. Jillian Tyler (Minn) 59.80*A
6. Katarina Tour (IOWA) 1:02.51*B
16. Julie Feingold (IOWA) 1:04.85

100 Backstroke
1. Kate Zubkova (Ind) 51.68*A
14. Alison Gschwend (IOWA) 55.77*B

Three Meter Diving
1. Brittney Feldman (Ind) 349.55

800 Freestyle Relay
1. Minnesota 7:08.91*A
(Shaughnessy, McCarthy, Kobayashi, Jennings)
10. IOWA 7:29.57
(Kuczek, Carlyle, Hicks, Dell)

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