SAN ANTONIO – The University of the Incarnate Word women's swim & dive team narrowly lost the University of North Texas in their first meet in the Ann Barshop Natatorium.
 
"It always stings to lose such a close battle, but our ladies raced with gusto today," head coach Reed Robelot said, "We fought hard on the boards too, but sometimes you run out of scorers in the wrong events. Hats off to the UNT coaches and swimmers though. They made it happen in the key moments that earned them the win."
 
The Cardinals had several swimmers have great swims.
 
Ximena Conde Merlos had another great meet. Ximena won the 1,000 freestyle by more than 15 seconds with a time of 10:39.15 minutes. She followed this up by dominating the 400 IM with a time of 4:34.89 minutes.
 
Hattie Kugler won an exciting 100 breaststroke, which was settled by less than one second, beating out her teammates Gabriella Luna and Imanee yates.
 
Freshman, Jada Ashford, showed out in her first home meet winning three events. She won the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:57.67 and the 100 freestyle with a time of 52.84 seconds. Ashford closed out the day by leading off the first-place finishing 200 freestyle relay. Her time of 23.9 seconds in the first leg was the second fastest split of all swimmers at the meet.
 
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