The Vandals started their first day of competition on a positive note especially after a long day of travel.

Coach Mark Sowa was happy with the team's first day performance.

"After arriving at the hotel at midnight the morning of competition and swimming as well as we did today was really encouraging" Sowa said. "Our 500 freestyles were really solid."

 Leah Fisk and Aileen Pannecoucke swam the 500 freestyle and advanced into the finals.

Fisk clocked a 5:03.57 in prelims and dropped her time down to a 4:58.04 during her final swim. Pannecoucke dropped a few tenths of a second and posted a time of 5:03.05 during her final swim.

Clothilde Peseux made finals in the 200 individual medley dropping time from her prelims swim of 2:05.51 to 2:04.9 in finals.

1 meter diving concluded the first day of competition and the Vandals had an excellent showing.

"Putting three divers in finals was awesome," Sowa said.

Nikki Imanaka got 5^th, Hailey Kessler got 6^th, and Janelle Lucas grabbed 7^th in the 1 meter event.

"Our team got better today and we will look forward to being even better on Saturday," Sowa said.

Saturday's event lineup starts with the 400 individual medley, followed  by the 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle, 100 breastroke, 100 backstroke, and 3 meter diving.