Friday evening, the Lady Hawks hosted the Robert Morris Eagles, in what will hopefully be the first of many breast cancer awareness meets for the two teams. The teams worked together to fundraise for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and have so far raised a few hundred dollars. A final count will be made this week, after fundraising is complete.

Fundraising activities included a 50/50 raffle, in which the biology departments Dr. Benjamin Stark won 50% of the ticket sales (the other 50% goes to the Foundation). The team also accepted challenges from faculty, staff and alumni, which resulted in a full roster of events (including boys swimming in skirts and one of the girl's team swimmers competing in a full baseball uniform). The teams would like to thank the alumni, staff, and especially physics professor, Dr. Larry Scott, for coming down and swimming against the men's team swimmers, and making the meet more interesting. Also, everyone who donated by buying raffle tickets, bake sale items, or simply donating, your support is greatly appreciated.

In addition to all the fun going on, the women's team had a lot of good swims. The 200 medley relay of sophomores Morgan Curran and Julia Duarte, and freshman Victoria Masney and Nicole Valio took 1^st. In the 200 freestyle, sophomores Melanie Koto and Andrea Zuniga took 1^st and 2^nd, and Masney and Valio also went 1-2 in the 50 freestyle. Curran also took 1^st in the 200 individual medley, and in the 100 yard butterfly, Masney took 2st, and sophomore Lauren Fast took 3^rd. In the 100 freestyle, Koto took 1^st, and Duarte and Valio took 3^rd and 4^th, Zuniga placed 1^st in the 500 freestyle, Duarte came back to take 2^nd in the 100 breaststroke, and then in the last event of the meet, the 200 freestyle relay team Koto, Zuniga, Fast and Curran took 1^st. The final score of the meet was 92-53 in favor of the Hawks.