Conference Record Doug Up, Swat Swim Completes Championship
LANCASTER, Pa. -- The Swarthmore men's swimming team placed second overall while the women overcame Washington to earn third place at the 2009 Centennial Conference Swimming Championships this past weekend at the Kunkel Acquatics Center on the campus of Franklin & Marshall College.
Senior Stephen Shymon (Encinitas, Calif. / Univ. of San Diego) won his second gold medal of meet, taking the title in the men’s 1,650-yard freestyle. He led all racers touching the wall at 16:31.72 to earn the Garnet 20 points.
Senior Doug Gilchrist-Scott (Canton, Ohio / Hoover) broke a Conference , Championship meet and school record in the men’s 100-yard freestyle during the morning preliminary sessions. His race-time of 46.48 ousted the old Centennial standard set by Washington’s Angel Prado (46.56) in 1997. Later in the finals, Gilchrist-Scott earned a bronze medal clocking in at 47.20.
Also making waves in the morning session junior Anne Miller (Buffalo, N.Y. / Buffalo Seminary) posted a national “B cut” time of 2:08.47 in the women’s 200-yard butterfly. Miller took off two seconds of her time in the finals earning a silver medal reaching the wall at 2:06.26. Classmate Casey Osborn (Albany, Calif. / Albany) picked-up a bronze medal with a time of 2:11.55. Following the event, Swarthmore pasted Washington College to enter third place overall in the meet with only the 400 relay left to gain vital points.
In the men’s 200-yard breaststroke prelims sophomore Sterling Satterfield (Durham, N.C. - Charles E. Jordan) marked a 2:07.46 national “B cut” time. In the finals Satterfield shaved his time down to 2:06.98 which was good for a silver medal.
Sophomore Stephanie Su (Parsippany, N.J. / Parsippany Hills) led all swimmers in the women’s 200-yard breaststroke with a gold medal-time of 2:30.29. This marks Su’s first medal of the meet.
Wrapping up the three day meet, the men's 400-yard freestyle relay team set a school record with a silver medal time of 3:09.78, the time replaced the 2007 record set by Gilchrist-Scott, Ahn, Augat and Horwitz (3:12.47). Gilchrist-Scott gave his teammates a head start with a slit time of 46.93 before junior Michael Ahn (Cupertino, Calif. / Monta Vista) gave a 48.28 effort in the second leg. Freshman Neil Palmer (Tecumseh, Mich. / Tecumseh) touched the wall with a split time of 47.69 and achoring the team was freshman Tim Brevart (Swarthmore, Pa. / Strath Haven) who capped the race with a 46.88 leg.
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Final Team Standings
MEN
1. Franklin & Marshall – 910.5 (Champion)
2. Swarthmore – 686.5
3. Gettysburg - 566
4. Dickinson - 408
5. Washington - 339
6. Ursinus - 296
7. McDaniel - 207
WOMEN
1. Gettysburg – 750.5 (Champion)
2. Franklin & Marshall - 726
3. Swarthmore – 508
4. Washington - 468
5. Dickinson – 389.5
6. Ursinus - 339
7. McDaniel - 232
8. Bryn Mawr – 92