Girls’s Swimming & Diving Closes Empire 8 Twin-Meet Schedule with Loss at Hartwick

ONEONTA, NY – The Alfred University ladies’s swimming & diving staff dropped a street Empire 8 dual-meet on Saturday afternoon at Hartwick College, 212-80.
 
Elizabeth Share (Macedon, NY/Palmyra-Macedon) rounded out an ideal week in particular person occasions, going 6-0 in whole with one other three wins on Saturday. She began her Saturday’s wins with a time of 1:01.93 within the 100-yard backstroke after which received the 200-yard backstroke to shut out a 4-0 week in backstroke occasions. On Saturday, Share swam a 2:15.41 to win the longer backstroke occasion. Earlier within the week, she swept the backstroke occasions at SUNY Geneseo with instances of 1:00.73 and a pair of:12.22, respectively on Wednesday. Just just like the mid-week matchup on the Knights’ pool, Share added her third particular person win of the day within the 200-yard particular person medley, swimming a 2:19.33 on Wednesday and a 2:19.44 on Saturday. Share additionally had the quickest leadoff, backstroke legs of Wednesday’s and Saturday’s 200-yard medley relay races, swimming a 28.42 at Geneseo and a 28.89 at Hartwick.
 
Isobel Anderegg (Wellsboro, PA/Wellsboro Area), Liv Richeda (Endwell, NY/Maine-Endwell), Kyra Harry (Gaborone, Botswana/Enko Botho) and Courtney Cherricks (Chincoteague, VA/Big Spring) all had second place finishes in between the lane strains on the day. Anderegg claimed silver within the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:13.54, ending the race in comparable style to Wednesday’s journey to SUNY Geneseo as each races got here all the way down to the ultimate stretch. Immediately following the opening 200-yard medley relay races and the lads’s 1,000-yard freestyle, Richeda claimed her second place end within the grueling 1K race. She reached the wall with a time of 12:36.39. Harry clocked a second place end within the 50-free with a time of 26.91 earlier than Cherricks earned second within the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 1:02.08.
 
Ruby Kavanagh (Queens, NY/LaGuardia High School of Music & Art) added a second place outdoors of the pool, scoring 198.00 factors on the 3-meter diving board to take dwelling a silver. She was third on the 1-meter board. “Ruby had a really good day on the boards putting up two personal best scores,” Head Coach Brian Striker ’00 mentioned. “The swimmers looked pretty good, albeit the times reflected a bit of fatigue. It has been a pretty rough couple weeks of training along with three away meets the past eight days.”
 
The Saxons will subsequent host the ultimate dual-meet of the 2025-26 season on Saturday, January 24 at midday in non-conference motion. They will welcome the Panthers of University of Pittsburgh at Bradford whereas in addition they have a good time the profession of their lone senior, Alexandra Simmons (Danbury, CT/Danbury) in pre-meet ceremonies.
 

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