GRINNELL – The Coe College women’s swimming team held third place with 162½ points after the first day of competition in the Pioneer Classic on Friday at  Grinnell College. The Coe men held 11th place with 59 points.

Grinnell led the men’s and women’s divisions with 344 and 385½ points, respectively.

Freshman Jasmine Deng was third in the 3-meter diving for the Kohawks with a score of 330.55. Junior teammate Kendallyn Recker was sixth with a score of 242.60. Freshman Sam Fitzgerald was sixth in the 200-yard individual medley in 2 minutes, 18.47 seconds and sixth in the 50 freestyle in 25.77 for the Coe women.

Kendall Bundy, Kenni Sterns, Lindsay Meade and Fitzgerald also took sixth in the 200 freestyle relay in 1:43.98.

The Coe men took 13th in the 400 medley relay (3:58.01) and 15th in the 200 freestyle relay (1:35.98).