Girls’s Swimming & Diving Units Two Extra Program Data and Finishes in Program-Finest Fourth Place at NEWMAC Championships

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.— The Babson College ladies’s swimming & diving workforce established two program information, produced an All-Conference outcome within the 400 free relay, and registered the most effective workforce end within the 30-year historical past of the meet on the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championships on Sunday inside MIT’s Zesiger Center Pool.

The Beavers totaled 177 factors on Sunday and completed in a program-best fourth place out of 10 groups with 530 factors, simply 15 factors forward of fifth-place Wheaton. MIT claimed its fifteenth straight NEWMAC title with 1632.5 factors, Coast Guard was second with 1013, and WPI was third with 731.

Babson’s 530 factors is its highest rating on the NEWMAC Championships, surpassing the 416 factors scored finally 12 months’s meet. The fourth-place end is Babson’s finest because the meet started in 1997, surpassing the fifth place in 2005 and the sixth place finishes in 1999 and 2007.

Due to an incoming storm within the space, all particular person occasions have been timed finals on Sunday morning rather than the normal morning preliminaries and night finals.

The Beavers’ 400-yard freestyle relay workforce of senior Sophia Sznewajs (Edina, Minn.), sophomore Samantha Gilbert (Arlington, Va.), junior Sylvie Racicot (Arlington, Mass.), and sophomore Julia Netishen (Exeter, N.H.) recorded Babson’s second program file of the day and sixth of the weekend. They earned All-Conference honors with a second-place end in a program-record time of three:32.96, breaking final 12 months’s file time (3:34.97) by greater than two seconds.

The Beavers’ B workforce of sophomore Hailey Cronan (New Market, Md.), first-year AJ Hallbert (Enterprise, Ala.), and fellow sophomores Tuana Turhan (Lake Forest, Ill.) and Marta Gershanok (Closter, N.J.) positioned twelfth in a time of three:37.89.

The Beavers had three swimmers rating factors within the 100-yard freestyle, led by two who eclipsed this system file of 53.28 set by Abigail Voce ’22 within the 2020 NEWMAC Championships. Racicot completed fifth in a program-record time of 53.13 seconds whereas Netishen was proper behind in sixth place in 53.19. Sznewajs touched the wall in eighth place in a career-best time of 53.46, and Hallbert was one spot shy of scoring with a twenty first place in a season-best time of 55.27.

Turhan had a powerful end within the 200 butterfly, inserting eighth in a time of two:07.25. First-year Finn Bergquist (Marblehead, Mass.) was one other Beaver who was one spot shy of scoring with a twenty first place in a time of two:23.80.

The Beavers had a pair of prime 10 finishers within the 200 backstroke. Gershanok got here in ninth place with a season-best time of two:10.44 and first-year Becky Hwang (Needham, Mass.) was proper behind in tenth place with a time of two:11.92. First-year Lakshmi Prasanth (Apex, N.C.) introduced residence twenty third place within the occasion with a time of two:20.49.

All 4 Babson athletes completed within the prime 20 of the 1650 freestyle to attain factors for the workforce. First-year Middy Hinckley (Trent Woods, N.C.) was the highest Beaver finisher, taking eleventh place in a season-best time of 18:48.28, adopted by first-year Leila Evans (Sandwich, Mass.) in sixteenth place in a season-best 19:17.62, senior Vangella Randell (Holden, Mass.) in seventeenth in a season-best 19:30.97, and fellow senior Jenny Chung (Cumming, Ga.) in nineteenth in 19:35.98.

Cronan was the highest Babson finisher within the 200 breaststroke, scoring factors with an 18th place in a season-best time of two:37.61. Junior Nicolette Newsome (Bridgewater, N.J.) got here in thirty second place in a time of two:48.88.

MEET NOTES

• Babson’s two All-Conference relay performances over the weekend, that are honors given to the highest two finishers in every occasion, got here within the 200 free relay (Gilbert, Hallbert, Racicot, Netishen) and 400 free relay (Sznewajs, Gilbert, Racicot, Netishen), and are the primary All-Conference relay groups in program historical past.

• Netishen’s All-Conference displaying within the 50 free is Babson’s first particular person honor since 2008, and he or she is simply the third Babson lady to earn All-Conference honors following Meg Lynch ’08 (11 occasions from 2005-08) and Rachael Bishop ’07 (twice in 2005).

• Babson’s two program information on Sunday (400 free relay, 100 free) got here after information on Friday (Gilbert, Hallbert, Racicot, Netishen within the 200 free relay, 1:35.98, and Netishen within the 50 free, 23.86) and Saturday (Turhan within the 100 fly, 57.35, and Netishen, Gilbert, Turhan, Racicot within the 200 medley relay, 1:47.58).