Lake Forest College Sports Information
February 2, 2002 
Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID

Improvement Continues as Foresters Fall to Calvin College
Four swimmers win seven races for Lake Forest women 
  

Emily Woods and Randi Estes were the leading point scorers for the Forester swim team.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - The final scores may not reflect it, but the Lake Forest College swimming and diving teams did experience success in their dual meet at Calvin College Saturday, February 2. The women's team won seven of eleven races and recorded season-best times in 14 of 20 individual performances, but depth was an issue in their 94-149 loss. The absence of two of their top swimmers, due to illness and an internship commitment, significantly affected the men's team in their 45-157 loss to Calvin. Despite having only nine swimmers, they established seven new season-best times. 

Saturday was a very good day for four Forester women. Emily Woods (Signal Mountain, TN/Girls Prep), Randi Estes (LaBelle, FL/Riverdale), Erin Motzer (Libertyville, IL/Libertyville) and Erin Poynter (Fort Collins, CO/Ft. Collins) combined to win seven of the first nine races of the day. They started off by winning the 200-yard medley relay in a season-best time of 1:58.49. In their six individual wins and two other top-four finishes, they added seven more season-best times. 

Woods had one of the best days of her young collegiate career, recording the Foresters' fastest times of the season in her wins in the 100 butterfly (1:01.09) and the 100 backstroke (1:03.84). Estes also won two races in addition to the relay, the 200- (2:00.29) and 500-yard (5:22.91) freestyles. Motzer won the 1000 freestyle (11:29.83) and was second in the 100 butterfly (1:02.61), while Poynter was victorious in the 200 individual medley (2:20.78) and fourth in the 100 breaststroke (1:16.57). Those times place Poynter atop the Lake Forest lists of 2001-02 top times. Finally, Ellen Lillegard earned a third-place finish in the 1000 freestyle by swimming her best race of the season (12:13.11).

Junior Eric Boarini (Wadsworth, IL/Carmel) was the lone winner for the Lake Forest men.  He won the 100-yard freestyle in 49.66, his first sub-50 second performance of the year, and placed third in the 200 freestyle (1:51.57) and as part of the 200 freestyle relay team (1:34.47). Sophomore Brady Lowdermilk (Parker, CO/Regis) was also on that relay squad and added a runner-up finish in the 200 backstroke (2:05.38). Junior co-captain Anthony Laurino (Wichita, KS/Wichita East) had an excellent day as well, cutting 11 seconds and 6 seconds off his previous season bests to finish third in the 1000- (10:57.19) and 500-yard (5:16.66) freestyle events, respectively. 

The Foresters will spend the next two weeks preparing for the Midwest Conference Championship Meet, which takes place February 15-17 at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.  The men's team will defend their 2000-01 conference championship and the women will strive to improve on their runner-up finish of a year ago. 
 
 
 
 
 

Meet Results: Women/ Men