Pawel Glowiak finished second in the 200 individual medley and Jen Price reached the A finals in two events to highlight the IUP swim team's performance over the first two days of the PSAC Meet at Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg.

Glowiak posted a time of 1:54.10 in the men's 200 IM, falling just 0.30 shy of former teammate Bartosz Ostrowski, who now swims for West Chester.

Price and Heidi Mitskavich scored in two events for the women.  Price was fourth in the 500 freestyle (5:08.45) and seventh in the 1000 freestyle (10:45.67).  Mitskavich was fourth in the 1000 freestyle (10:39.68) and 10th in the 500 freestyle (5:14.78).

Also qualifying for the A finals on the women's side were Abbey Doran, who was fifth in the 50 freestyle (24.63) and Kate Rowe, who placed sixth in the 200 individual medley (2:14.12).

Carlee Myers was 11th in the 200 individual medley (2:13.60), followed by Brittany Watkins, who was 15th (2:17.65).  Brenden Hiscock was 16th in the men's 1000 freestyle (10:41.15) and James Reed was 11th in the 200 individual medley (2:01.31).

Two relays were also ran on Friday.  The women's 400 medley relay team of Rowe, Casey Beck, Carlee Myers and Galit Regev was fourth (4:01.77) while the 200 freestyle relay unit of Doran, Regev, Watkins and Myers was sixth (1:39.23).

The men's 400 medley relay grouping of Glowiak, Hiscock, Reed and Baron Leonard finished fourth (3:32.89) and the 200 freestyle relay squad of Glowiak, Hiscock, Reed and Troy Greathouse was seventh (1:30.24).

In the team standings, the IUP women are in third place with 140 points, trailing West Chester (279) and Clarion (148).  The men have 78 points for fifth place behind West Chester (269), Clarion (237), Shippensburg (207) and Edinboro (96).

The meet continues with events on Saturday and Sunday.

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