Lake Forest College Sports Information
December 7, 2002
Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID

Foresters End Semester With 6th and 7th Place Finishes at Wheaton
Lowdermilk and Poynter post 7 season-best times combined
  

Brady Lowdermilk 
and Erin Poynter competed in 19 events for the Foresters.
WHEATON, IL - It was a fast meet and the proof is in the numbers. The Lake Forest College swim teams faced two Division I teams and two top Division III teams in the Wheaton College Invitational Friday and Saturday (December 6-7). The men's team registered 20 individual season-best times and the women 15 as they finished sixth and seventh, respectively. UW-Milwaukee and Wheaton finished one-two in the men's meet, while that order was reversed in the women's competition. Four meet or pool records were broken over the weekend.

200 was a good number for junior Brady Lowdermilk (Parker, CO/Regis). He was an iron man for the men's team, competing in five individual races and four relays. He recorded personal season-bests in the 200-yard backstroke (2:04.69) and the 200-yard freestyle (1:51.93) and clocked the Foresters' best time this year with a 2:06.24 in the 200 butterfly. He swam on two of the three relay teams that posted Lake Forest top times for the season. 

Seniors Anthony Laurino (Wichita, KS/Wichita East) and Brandon Johnson (Phoenix, AZ/Brophy) combined to score 53.5 points for the men. Laurino's season-best times of 17:50.95 in the 1650 freestyle and 5:09.23 in the 500 free were good for 8th and 16th place, respectively. Johnson was 9th in the 1650 freestyle (17:55.06) and 14th in the 500 free (5:04.63).

The workhorse for the Lake Forest women's team was Erin Poynter (Fort Collins, CO/Ft. Collins). She swam season-best times in four of her five individual races and competed in all five relays. She even swam an extra race because a swim-off was necessary to determine the last qualifier for the finals of the 200-yard individual medley. Her time in the swim-off, 2:20.12, was the team's fastest this year.

Leading the way in scoring for the women were Erin Motzer (Libertyville, IL/Libertyville) with 27.5 points and Genia Lindsey (Albuquerque, NM/Sandia) with 22.5. Motzer recorded the highest Forester finish of the meet, a 5th in the 200-yard butterfly (2:14.76), and placed 15th in the 1650 free (19:07.49). Lindsey finished 11th in the 1650 free with a time of 18:54.49, another Lake Forest best this season. She was 13th in the 400-yard IM (5:00.55) and 15th in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:39.96). 

The Foresters' next venture is their training trip to Nassau, Bahamas. They will return to Wheaton for their next competition, a January 18 quad meet. 

Meet Results: Women / Men