Just hours before the Penn women's swimming team faced Cornell and Princeton in a tri-meet at Sheer Pool, Rachel Zappalorti
was hit by a car while riding her bike.
Yet the sophomore butterflyer tested her ability to swim through the pain during warmup, ultimately choosing to push her
limits during the meet.
"I decided to give it a shot," Zappalorti said. "I didn't want to back out, I just wanted to stay in there and do it for the
team. I didn't know how I'd swim for myself, so I just got in there and did whatever I could."
The Quakers split the tri-meet, grabbing a 178-118 victory over Cornell and losing, 163-126, to Princeton. Zappalorti grabbed
second place in the 200 fly, touching out Princeton's Melissa Garton by .04 seconds with a time of 2:08.41. For full coverage, check tomorrow's Daily Pennsylvanian or log onto dailypennsylvanian.com.
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