Senior Stephanie Li joined her rural New York town’s YMCA club swim team when she was seven years old, and after over a decade of swimming holds the Wash. U. record for the 200 meter breaststroke.

Only two men’s swimmers won events in Washington University’s first meet of the season, a duel against local Division I rival Saint Louis University. One was expected: junior Luke Dobben, an All-American last winter and the owner of two school records.