Mountain Hawks Conclude Season at ECAC Championships

LEWISBURG, Pa. – Lehigh swimming and diving participated of their final meet of the season this weekend. The Mountain Hawks competed on the ECAC Championships, hosted by Bucknell. Junior Darrah Shuff was the lone feminine for Lehigh, she scored 34 factors and positioned Lehigh in eleventh. The males positioned eleventh as effectively, scoring 77.5 factors.

Shuff opened competitors on day one within the 500 yard freestyle. She positioned eighth within the A Final, scoring 11 factors. First-year Jake Greenleaf was Lehigh’s high finisher on the lads’s aspect of that occasion. He swam a private finest time of 4:30.80 to position fourth general, scoring 15 factors. Christian McAuley additionally swam a private finest to attain six factors within the B Final. The first-year touched in 4:35.08, putting eleventh.

First-year Jack MacMillan tied for eleventh place within the 50 yard freestyle. He lowered his private document to twenty.82 to attain 5.5 factors.

On day two, Shuff positioned third within the B Final of the 200 yard freestyle to attain six factors. She positioned eleventh general and swam a private document time of 1:53.00. There have been two Mountain Hawks within the B Final of that occasion on the lads’s aspect. Judson McIntosh positioned twelfth, swimming 1:39.96 which is a brand new private finest for the first-year. Greenleaf touched in a season’s finest 1:41.03 to position sixteenth. 

Matt McLellan broke the 50 meter mark for the primary time within the 100 yard backstroke, clocking in at  49.61. The junior positioned fifth within the A Final, scoring 14 factors.

Shuff opened the day three finals by changing into the runner up within the 1650 yard ultimate. She swam 17:24.20, tallying 17 factors for Lehigh’s rating. McAuley swam 15:58.05 within the males’s ultimate, putting sixth. 

McLellan earned his second backstroke occasion factors on the 200 yard distance. He swam 1:52.40, putting 1oth and scoring seven.

McIntosh swam his manner into the B Final of the 100 yard freestyle ultimate with a private document (45.47). He added one level to Lehigh’s whole with a sixteenth place end, touching at 45.89.

McAuley and sophomore Matt Baumberger concluded the meet with subsequent finishes within the B Final of the 200 yard freestyle. McAuley used a brand new private finest (1:52.28) to take thirteenth and edge out Baumberger, who completed 14th (1:53.56).

Navy received each the lads’s girls’s championship in dominant trend. The males’s crew scored 995 factors, and the ladies totalled 818.