MOSCOW, Idaho – The New Mexico State swimming and diving team diving team dropped a 172-126 decision at Western Athletic Conference foe Idaho on Friday night in its final regular-season meet.
 
"Traveling up to Idaho is always a challenging meet and despite the ending score we swam many in-season best times," said head Coach Rick Pratt. "Unfortunately we couldn't win enough events versus a team who swam very, very well today.  We had key individuals who were sick, but still battled until the end with our best dual meet 400free relay.  Airam was very good and adjusted a couple things from her 50 to come up with some great 100s. Neza also swam very tough today and Jordan Andrusak looked strong. We've got to rest more and continue practicing perfect details moving towards WAC, I'm confident we're doing to right thing to peak at the right time."
 
Neza Kocijan picked up the first Aggie win of the day in the 200 Free with a time of 1:54.85. Freshman Skylar Welle came close to another NM State victory but lost by one-tenth of a second in the 100 Breast at 1:05.48.
 
Senior Grace Laporte had a season-best 10:35.18 in the 1000 Free and picked up a third place finish. Lilly Araujo also recorded a season-best time in the 100 Free with a 10:37.56.
 
The Aggies also got a win from Jordan Andrusak who finished first in the 200 IM with a time of 2:10.64.
 
NM State now prepares for WAC Championships set to take place in Houston, Texas, from Feb. 26-29. The Aggies finished second at WAC Championships with Alix Knagg winning an individual championship in the 200 Back.