Results

Decorah, Iowa - The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse women's swimming & diving team is in second-place after the first day of the Luther College (Iowa) Invitational Friday night.
 
The Eagles have 436 team points. Luther (Iowa) leads with 486 points. UW-Whitewater is third with 361 points and Coe College (Iowa) fourth with 170.
 
UWL had three relays in the top-three on Friday, including taking the 400 medley relay (4:06.11) with Kayla Knaffla, Zoey Rank, Shefali Ramakrishnan and Libby Cleveland.
 
Autumn Seebach, Ava Pulvermacher, Rank and Reilly Eiycnk were second (8:18.68) in the 800 freestyle relay while Knaffla, Brooke Laube, Callie Klepp and Cleveland were third (1:40.70).
 
The Eagles won three individual event titles on Friday, including Joanne Banaszak in the three-meter diving (445.40 points). Seebach captured the 100 backstroke (59.38) and Rank the 100 I.M. (1:01.53).
 
UWL had five of the top-seven finishers in the three-meter diving. Along with Banaszak winning, Hannah Martini was second (439.45), Maddie Weber fourth (428.55), Madison DeBernardo sixth (341.75) and Abbey Thornton seventh (341.60).
 
Seebach was third (2:15.03) and Jordy Hahlen eighth (2:23.10) in the 200 I.M. while Ramakrishnan finished sixth (1:03.72) and Laube seventh (1:03.92) in the 100 I.M.
 
In the 100 freestyle, Cleveland was fourth (54.58) and Pulvermacher eighth (58.75). Pulvermacher also finished eighth (5:43.24) in the 500 freestyle.
 
Ella Eck placed second (2:36.19) in the 200 breaststroke with Klepp fifth (2:37.55).
 
Hahlen was fourth (1:01.38), Cleveland fifth (1:01.99), Rank seventh (1:02.61) and Ramakrishnan eighth (1:03.27) in the 100 backstroke. Grace Radke finished sixth (2:26.52), Amelia Hayward seventh (2:35.50) and Riley Siegle eighth (2:37.74) in the 200 butterfly.
 
UWL returns to action Saturday, November 23 in the second day of the Luther (Iowa) Invitational starting at 10 a.m.