Palmer wins first convention title, takes first place in 200-yard breaststroke at NESCACs

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — Bates ladies’s swimming and diving junior Sarah Palmer closed robust and took house the convention title Sunday within the 200-yard breaststroke, breaking her personal faculty report on the ultimate day of the NESCAC Championships.

Palmer (Brunswick, Maine) raced to the end within the championship remaining in an NCAA ‘B’ Cut time of 2:15.96, capturing the primary NESCAC championship of her profession and the primary for the Bobcats within the 200 breast since 2012.

It caps off an excellent convention championships for Palmer, who took third within the 50 breast on Friday, second within the 100 breast on Saturday, and broke by way of on Sunday to win the 200 breast.

Palmer was additionally a part of an enormous swim in a time trial for the 200-yard medley relay crew on Sunday. Sophomore Erin Barisonek (New Vernon, N.J.), Palmer, first-year Lily Dunn (New Canaan, Conn.), and senior captain Lianna Rosman (Bethesda, Md.) teamed as much as report an NCAA ‘B’ Cut time of 1:43.85, leaving them on the bubble for an invitation to the nationwide meet.

Elsewhere on Sunday, senior Emma Burke (New Hartford, N.Y.) positioned fifth within the comfort remaining of the 200-yard butterfly in 2:07.46 after recording a prelims time of 2:07.39. 

Meanwhile, the 400-yard freestyle relay crew of Dunn, first-year Katherine Reed (Wenham, Mass.), sophomore Taylor Rolefson (Piedmont, Calif.), and Rosman took eighth place in 3:30.88, beating their seed time by practically 4 seconds. The ‘B’ crew of junior Cora Zuwallack (East Falmouth, Mass.), junior Soph Clausman (Edina, Minn.), senior McKayla Kendall (Bangor, Maine), and sophomore Kendall Keshen (Santa Barbara, Calif.) recorded the fifth-fastest time amongst all NESCAC ‘B” groups within the 400 free relay, touching the wall in 3:33.49, about two seconds quicker than their seed time and good for sixteenth place total.

Sunday’s motion marked the conclusion of the 2026 NESCAC ladies’s swimming and diving championships. The Bobcats scored 543 factors, good for tenth place.