The University of Minnesota women's swimmers tied for second place today at the US Open Swimming Championships at the Aquatic Center. Keri Hehn was a leader for the Gophers bringing in a fourth place finish in heat A of the 200M breaststroke with an Olympic trial qualifying time of 2:32.47.

Minnesota's 400M freestyle relay team of Dana Baum, Kate Hardt, Megan Moore and Katy Coombe finished fifth with a National Cut qualifying time of 3:58.27.

In other action, Baum placed eighth in heat B of the 100M freestyle (58.52) and Hardy was second in heat C (58.13). Juleen Rodawski was disqualified from the 200M butterfly but was still able to swim an impressive time of 2:20.00 in heat B.

The University of Florida captured the championship (401) while the Gophers finished the competition with a team score of 139 to tie them with Indiana University for second place.