More Records Fall at Day Two of CC Championships
LANCASTER, Pa. -- The Swarthmore men's swim team continued to re-write the record books as they held second place following Day Two of the 2007 Centennial Conference Swimming Championships hosted at the Kunkel Aquatic Center on the campus of Franklin & Marshall College. The women also continued to post new top-times, led by freshman Anne Miller's record time in the 100 butterfly and a blistering 200 medley relay victory.
F&M leads the overall men's competition with 574 points while Swarthmore has 502 points, followed by Gettysburg with 328 points. On the women's side, Gettysburg is tops with 524, followed by F&M with 454 points and Swarthmore with 424.5 points.
On Saturday, the Garnet men continued on their quest for the first-ever Centennial Championship, starting the finals portion with a resounding victory in the 200 medley relay with another school-record time. Douglas Gilchrist-Scott '09 led off with the backstroke in school-record time of 24.82, Andrew Koczo '07 followed with a time of 26.55 in the breaststroke, Brian Roth '09 swam the 50 butterfly in 23.46, and Jon Augat '07 clipped a time of 21.05 on the freestyle anchor leg. The Swarthmore group topped silver medalist F&M with a time of 1:35.88, smashing the previous school record of 1:37.34 set in 1996. The time is also Centennial Conference record, besting the previous benchmark of 1:36.43 set by F&M in 2005.
Stephen Shymon '09 picked up his second medal of the Championships, taking the bronze medal in the 400 IM with a time of 4:18.63. Senior Rob McKeon picked up valuable points by swimming fourth in the same event with a time of 4:24.28.
Roth won a bronze medal in the 100 butterfly after posting a time of 52.47, good for top-five all-time at Swarthmore.
Swarthmore did not pick up a medal in the 200 freestyle, but grabbed a boatload of points as freshman Michael Ahn swam fourth (1:46.35), Horwitz came in seventh (1:47.53), and junior Andrew Frampton hit eighth (1:49.09).
Koczo tallied his first individual gold of the Championships in the next event, the 100 breaststroke, winning with a time of 58.71—the time is just .27 shy of the school record and good for the top-five all-time at Swarthmore. His time was good enough to qualify as an NCAA B-cut provisional time.
The 100 backstroke saw more success for the Garnet men as Gilchrist-Scott took in the silver medal with a time of 54.12, the second-fastest time in school history.
The men finished the night with a silver-medal performance in the 800 freestyle relay, as Shymon, Ahn, Frampton, and Jason Horwitz '07 posted a Swarthmore top-five time of 7:10.43.
The women picked up a gold medal in the 200 medley relay to start the evening session, out-touching F&M in a time of 1:51.51, just half a second off the school record. Sophomore Allie Jordan set her second school record of the meet on the opening backstroke leg—her time of 28.69 bested the previous mark of 28.84 set in 2004 by Martyna Pospieszalska '06. Senior Janice Yeo swam the breaststroke leg in 31.37, first-year Casey Osborn completed the butterfly in 27.18 and senior Sarah Cotcamp completed the 50 freestyle in 24.27.
Miller collected the first individual gold medal of her career by winning the 100 butterfly in a school-record time of 58.21. The freshman bested the previous mark set by Cathy Polinsky '99 (59.06) in 1996. Her mark is also an NCAA B-Cut provisional time. The Garnet picked up valuable points as Casey Osborn '10 (59.25) finished fifth in the event, followed by Jennie Lewis '08 (sixth-59.60) and Allie Jordan '09 (eighth-1:00.66).
Yeo pulled in a bronze medal in the 100 breaststroke, swimming a time 1:10.38 with classmate Michele Hom finishing fifth with a time of 1:10.62.
The championship conclude on Sunday with preliminaries starting in the morning at 10:30 a.m., the annual Senior Recognition takes place at 6:00 p.m. and the final races begin at 6:30--the finals can be seen live on the Centennial Conference Broadcast Network starting at 6:25 p.m. Click here for more information.