Thursday at the 2011 NCAA Division III Women's Swimming & Diving Championships at the University of Tennessee.
That highlighted Kono's participation in three evets at the NCAA meet which ran Wednesday through Saturday. Swimming in the 200 free preliminaries, Kono's time placed 29th in the nation. It was 0.42 faster than the previous Tufts record of 1:54.42 owned by Maureen Monahan from 1989.
In a straight final (no preliminary) for the 1,650 freestyle on Saturday, Kono was barely outside of All-American honors (top 16) with her 17:26.29 time for 18th place. That was 3.18 seconds out of 16th, which would have earned Kono a berth in the final and All-American honors.
On Wednesday, Kono swam 22nd in the 500 freestyle event that kicked off the NCAA Championships. Similar to the 1,650, her time of 5:02.42 in the preliminaries was approximately three seconds behind the 4:59.35 time that earned 16th place.
Kono was a three-time NCAA qualifier for Coach Nancy Bigelow's Jumbos.
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