Swat Breaks Records, Big Medal Haul at CC Championships
LANCASTER, Pa. -- Swarthmore senior Doug Gilchrist-Scott broke five school records and a Centennial Conference record on the way to winning seven medals at the Centennial Conference Swimming Championships held at the Kunkel Aquatic Center on the campus of Franklin & Marshall College February 20-22.
Gilchrist-Scott (Canton, Ohio / Hoover) and his Swarthmore teams finished second as a team for the third consecutive year. The team captain collected seven medals on the weekend, breaking a 12-year old Conference and championship meet record (along with his own school mark) with a 46.48 time during the preliminaries of the 100-yard freestyle. He went on to earn a bronze medal in the event, clocking in at 47.20 during the finals. Gilchrist-Scott also set a school record in the 50-yard backstroke (24.66) as the lead leg in the silver-medal 200-yard medley, and another new mark in the 50-yard freestyle (21.39); the senior earned the bronze in both the 50-yard free and the 100-yard backstroke.
Gilchrist-Scott was a big part of the Swarthmore relay squads, leading to three silver medals and one bronze. His anchor leg in the 400-yard medley relay capped a school-record performance (3:32.02) that included teammates Santiago Lombo ‘11 (Houston, Texas / Strake Jesuit), Sterling Satterfield ‘11 (Durham, N.C. / Charles E. Jordan), and Sam Bullard-Sisken ‘12 (Silver Spring, Md. / Montgomery Blair). Gilchrist-Scott led off the aforementioned 200-medley relay squad of Satterfield, Bullard-Sisken and freshman Tim Brevart (Swarthmore, Pa. / Strath Haven). Gilchrist-Scott also was part of a school record 400-yard freestyle relay that earned a silver medal; the team that consisted of Michael Ahn ’10 (Cupertino, Calif / Monta Vista), Neil Palmer ’12 (Tecumseh, Mich. / Tecumseh), and Brevart. The 200-yard free relay also medaled, collecting a bronze with the quartet of Ahn, Brevart, and Lance Liu ’12 (Paoli, Pa. / Conestoga).
The dynamite breaststroke duo of Liu and Satterfield posted new College records while both achieving NCAA B-cuts. Liu collected a silver medal in the 100-yard event, posting 58.30 (a school record) while Satterfield swam a NCAA B-cut time of 2:07.46 in the 200-yard breaststroke preliminaries and then lowered the time (2:06.98) in the finals, earning a silver medal. Satterfield also medaled in the 100-yard breaststroke, earning a bronze with a 59.04 time.
Long distance freestyle specialist Stephen Shymon ‘09 (Encinitas, Calif. / Univ. of San Diego HS) dominated, brining home a pair of gold medals. The senior won the 500-yard freestyle in a school-record time (lowering his own record to 4:41.03) and then snatched the gold on Sunday afternoon in the 1650-yard freestyle (16:31.72).
Miller (Buffalo, N.Y. / Buffalo Seminary) led the women’s team to a third-place finish, earning NCAA provisional qualifying times in the 100-yard butterfly (57.95) and the 200-yard butterfly (2:06.26). Those two performances earned her silver medals.
Sophomore Stephanie Su (Parsippany, N.J. / Parsippany Hills) picked up the lone gold medal for the women in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:30.29.
Chelsea Brett ’11 (Mechanicsburg, Pa. / Trinity) picked up a silver medal in the 200-yard freestyle (1:56.34) while junior Casey Osborn (Albany, Calif. / Albany) took home a bronze in the 200 yard butterfly swimming a time of 2:11.55 (her fastest of the season).
The Swarthmore swimmers will wait to see if their B-cut times are low enough to gain entry to the Division III NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in the end of March. Several Garnet swimmers will compete in the Last Chance Meet at Ware Pool this Saturday, hoping to post lower times. The Last Chance Meet will start at 10:30 a.m.
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