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NCAA Championships
Carrillo Wraps First Day at NCAAs
March 22, 2013 | Women's Swimming & Diving
Indianapolis - Bowling Green State University swim team member Daniela Carrillo completed her first race at the NCAA Championships on Friday, swimming in the prelims of the 100-yard breaststroke.
Swimming in the second of six heats, Carrillo finished in a time of 1:01.31 - just shy of her personal-best 1:00.84. Her time placed her 36th out of 48 swimmers after preliminaries. The top 16 advance to finals.
FRIDAY RESULTS (PRELIMS)
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"I felt good - of course I would have loved to go a little faster," Carrillo said. "The first race is always the the hardest one. I'm just going to focus on the 200 [breaststroke] and I'm very excited about tomorrow."
Head coach Petra Martin was pleased that Carrillo managed to improve her placing from where she was originally seeded to finish, seeing positive signs for tomorrow's prelim.
"I thought it was a great swim," said head coach Petra Martin. "At MACs in the morning she was 1:02.6, so this morning going 1:01.3 and looking very strong - the stroke, the tempo were both good. So I'm excited and I think the 200 tomorrow is going to be really good."
Carrillo will compete in the 200-yard breaststroke prelims on Saturday - an event in which she set a pool record at the Mid-American Conference Championships with a time of 2:11.20.
