Girls’s Swimming & Diving Posts Largest Win in 19 Years

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – The Union College girls’s swimming & diving workforce gained the primary 12 occasions of the meet in opposition to SUNY New Paltz in Alumni Gym Pool Friday night time, defeating the Hawks 175-76.

Union’s 99-point win marked its largest margin of victory since a 101-point beat down over Hartwick on Jan. 6, 2007. The Garnet Chargers would have additionally gained the ultimate two occasions of the meet Friday, however head males’s and ladies’s swimming & diving coach Molly Chamberlin entered her student-athletes within the 200 particular person medley and 200 freestyle relay as exhibitions with the meet already determined. Junior Jess Konsky posted the quickest 200 IM of the meet with a 2:18.25, and first-years Maggie Reale, Mya Schattin, Julia Garber, and senior Alison Silver teamed up for a 1:32.96 within the night’s last relay.

Garber gained two extra occasions, championing the 1,000 freestyle (12:03.73) and the 100 butterfly (1:02.07). 

First-year Ali Sweeney additionally secured a pair of individual-event victories, profitable the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:13.80 and touching the wall first within the 200 breaststroke (2:41.50). 

First-year Cate Kavanaugh and Silver each posted a pair of lifetime-best swims. Kavanaugh reached her milestones within the 200 freestyle (2:11.52) and the 200 butterfly (2:34.68), putting fourth and second, respectively. Junior Samantha Picciotti gained the 200 fly (2:23.30), and junior Amelia Dino gained the 200 free (2:07.35). Silver’s lifetime-bests have been throughout a second-place end within the 100 backstroke (1:09.88), gained by junior Sarah Ramirez (1:08.03), and a third-place efficiency within the 500 freestyle (5:57.45). She was simply overwhelmed out by Dino (5:52.07) and Kavanaugh (5:52.45) in that race. 

First-year Mya Schattin secured the fifth lifetime-best of the meet for Union, ending third within the 100 fly (1:06.90). 

The Garnet Chargers completed the common season 6-6 and can compete within the Liberty League championships, starting Wednesday, Feb. 18. The four-day meet is held in Ithaca, N.Y.