Jake Lichter Named MAAC Males’s & Girls’s Swimming Coach Of The Year

FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Fairfield University Head Swimming and Diving Coach Jake Lichter was named  the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Swimming Coach of the Year for each males’s and girls’s swimming.

The awards are the primary for Lichter who’s in his second season overseeing the Stags swimming and diving packages. Lichter comes off probably the most profitable season in Fairfield swimming and diving historical past, main the Stags to each the lads’s and girls’s convention championships.

The championship was the primary ever for the lads’s program, whereas the ladies’s group captured its fifth MAAC crown. Both the lads’s and girls’s groups edged Marist University for the championship, with the lads posting 1341.83 factors and the ladies tallying 1325.5 factors.

The ladies’s group broke three MAAC Championship information throughout this yr’s version, particularly Natasha De Pree within the 200 freestyle (1:48.17), Tone Sandsjo within the 100 breaststroke (1:00.32), and the 400 medley relay group (3:40.35). De Pree earned the Swimming Rookie of the Meet award whereas Colton Driggers garnered the Diving Rookie of the Meet honor following the championship.

The Stags loved one other success within the common season as properly, going through a formidable schedule that noticed Fairfield compete in each twin meets and invitationals. The ladies’s group secured 5 twin meet wins together with selections over MAAC foes Marist University, Iona University, and Sacred Heart University. The squad additionally took dwelling the Fairfield Invitational title whereas it held the fifth slot on the Terrier Invitational.

The males’s group recorded seven twin meet victories which complemented a first-place end on the Fairfield Invitational and a third-place placement on the Terrier Invitational. The Stags additionally outscored their two convention opponents in Iona and Marist earlier within the season.

The Fairfield University swimming and diving packages will now flip their concentrate on the ECAC Championships from February 27 to March 1.