AKRON, Ohio – The University of Pennsylvania women's swimming and diving team finished the third day of competition at the Zippy Invitational in third place Saturday evening.
 
The Quakers had seven individuals swim in A-Finals Saturday with just one podium finish as Anna Kalandadze took third in the 200-yard freestyle with her time of 1:49.05.
 
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*Kalandadze was one of three Quakers to participate in the A-Final of the 200 free as she took third, followed by Margot Kaczorowski in sixth (1:51.58) and Abby Wickersham in eighth 1:52.00. Bridget O'Leary finished second in the B-Final (10th overall) at 1:50.66.
 
*Izzy Pytel had a tremendously strong swim in the 100-yard breaststroke, swimming a 1:01.99 to place fourth. She just nearly missed out on the Penn program record set by Rachel Maizes in 2019 (1:01.76). Jill Anderson was eighth in the B-Final (1:05.18). Hannah Liu took home fourth in the C-Final (1:05.75) with Rachel Blackwell taking sixth (1:05.97).
 
*Anna Moehn and Vanessa Chong went back-to-back in the 400 IM A-Final with fourth and fifth place finishes, respectively. Moehn swam a 4:23.22 with Chong clocking in at 4:23.48. The Quakers had the top two finishers in the B-Final with Joy Jiang taking first (4:22.43) and Hadley DeBruyn placing second (4:26.70). Ellen Holmquist rounded out the field to take sixth place with at time of 4:27.04. Anna Boeckman won the C-Final with a time of 4:27.04 and Sydney Bergstrom finished just behind in second at 4:27.54.
 
*Amber Smith got an eighth place finish in the A-Final of the 100-yard butterfly. Chong got second in the B-Final at 54.51 with Sophie Henriksen getting first in the C-Final at 55.47.
 
*Three Quakers (Henriksen, Smith and Pytel) placed sixth, seventh and eighth, respectively in the B-Final of the 100-yard backstroke.
 
*The team of Wickersham, Kaczorowski, Smith and Moehn got sixth in the 200 free relay with a time of 1:32.76.
 
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Penn closes out the Zippy Invitational on Sunday in the final day of competition. The 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast, 200 fly and 1650 free will be contested.