Results

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The College of Saint Benedict swim and dive team got its 2021-22 season off to a fast start Saturday afternoon at the St. Kate's Pentathlon.
 
In the first meet of her senior season, Ana Birklid set the school 100 IM record at the St. Kate's Pentathlon in St. Paul. Birklid, who finished in the top 10 in four of the five events at the meet and finished sixth overall in the pentathlon. Her 100 IM time of 1:02.98 was just under a half-second faster than the previous school record of 1:03.40, set in 2018 by Mikayla Von Wahlde. She finished fourth in the event.
 
As a team, the Bennies finished second out of four teams with 3,377 points. Host St. Kate's won the pentathlon with 4,744 points.
 
Birklid wasn't the only one to jump into the top 10 in the 100 IM. Teammate Jes Milstroh took ninth in the event in 1:05.42, and Madison Slavik took 13^th in 1:06.24 – the eighth-best time in program history.
 
Birklid also finished fifth in the 100 backstroke in 1:02.46, sixth in the 100 breaststroke in 1:13.12 and 10^th in the 100 free in 56.78 seconds. Slavik finished sixth in the 100 back (1:02.62), 12^th in the 100 free (57.56) and 15^th in the 100 fly (1:05.27).
 
Milstroh took 11^th overall in the pentathlon after taking ninth in the 100 breaststroke in 1:13.99 and 13^th in the 100 fly in 1:04.52. Smutka took 15^th in the pentathlon as she was the Bennies' top finisher in the 100 fly. She took 11^th in 1:03.58, and also finished 11^th in the 100 back in 1:03.66 and 14^th in the 100 free in 58.01 seconds.
 
Other top-15 finishers for Saint Benedict included Fiona Rosko, who took 12^th in the 100 fly in 1:04.51 and 10^th in the 100 breaststroke in 1:14.05. Molly Johanson also took 13^th in the 100 breaststroke in 1:15.66.
 
CSB is back in St. Paul Saturday, Oct. 23, when it heads to the Hamline Invite.