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LANCASTER, Pa. -- Swarthmore College forward Karen Berk (Havertown, PA / Haverford) has been named to the 2007 All-Centennial Conference Women's Basketball Team, as voted on by the league's head coaches.  Berk is a second-team selection, making the All-CC team for the second straight year.

Berk, a junior, led the Centennial Conference in points per game (18.5), rebounds per game (12.5), free throws made (125), while ranking in the top ten in blocks per game (1.83), steals per game (2.08), free-throw percentage (71.8%) and field-goal percentage (42.5%).  Her rebounding average places her third in all of Division III and she is the first woman to top the Conference in scoring and rebounding since Swarthmore All-America forward Heather Kile '02 did it in 1998-99 and again in 1999-2000.

Berk led the Centennial Conference in scoring and rebounding in 2006-07.

Berk was named CC Co-Player of the Week after averaging 26.5 points and 14.6 rebounds per game in two games for the Garnet during the week of Feb. 19-25.  She dropped in a season-high 30 points on 12 of 18 shooting from the floor, to go along with 11 rebounds vs. Washington on Feb. 15 and then tallied her Centennial-leading 18th double-double with a 23-point, 18-rebound effort at Haverford on Feb. 17.

On January 27, Berk became the sixth Swarthmore woman to score 1,000 career points, joining Heather Kile '02 (Centennial-record 1,965 points), Michele Fowler '86 (1,738), Katie Robinson '04 (1,682), Liz Clarke '90 (1,300) and Jen Truscott '88 (1,095).  In three seasons at Swarthmore, Berk has accumulated 1,137 points and 732 rebounds (fourth-most in school history).  She also set records for blocked shots in a season (50) and career blocks (96).

It is the second All-Centennial selection for Berk; she was named to the first team in 2005-06.

Swarthmore finished the 2006-07 season with an overall record of 4-20 and 1-17 in the Centennial.

BRYN MAWR RESULTS

ALBRIGHT RESULTS

SWARTHMORE, Pa. - Swarthmore freshman Kim Kramer rolled to the women's singles championship at the 2007 Northeast Collegiate Badminton Tournament as host Swarthmore placed third as a team on Saturday afternoon.  Kramer then picked up two singles wins as the Garnet defeated Albright 3-2 and then fell to home-standing Bryn Mawr 3-2 on Monday night.

Maryland won the team championship with 73.5 points followed by Cornell (46), Swarthmore (35.5), George Washington (24.5), Drexel (22), Towson (21.5), Bryn Mawr (10.5), Albright (4.75) and Penn (4.5).

Kramer faced little resistance on her way to the singles' championship, defeating An Nguyen from Drexel, Yike Jiang from Maryland, Tiffany Nguyen of George Washington before dispatching Hui- Ling Chan from Towson in the finals.

Kramer teamed up with senior Candice Cherk to make the finals of the women's doubles at the Northeast Collegiate.  The duo defeated Erika Lippoldt and Bo Yeon Kim from Bryn Mawr 21-4, 21-4 and then dropped another Owls' pair, Sharon Grim and Markie Hill, 21-12 and 21-5 in the quarterfinals.  Kramer and Cherk outlasted Tiffany Nguyen and Lindsay Edwards 21-18, 21-18 in the semifinals before falling to top-seeded pair of Hui-Ling Chan (Towson) and Christina Bohr (Maryland) in a grueling final by a score of 21-19, 19-21, 21-11.

 Kramer, Cherk, and Patricia Kelly swept the singles' matches vs. Albright as the Garnet won 3-2.  The Garnet dropped the second match against Bryn Mawr despite Krammer and Cherk

The Garnet will play two matches this week, hosting Haverford on Thursday, Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. before heading to Drexel for a 7:30 p.m. match on Friday, Feb. 24.

COMPLETE 2007 ALL-CENTENNIAL TEAM (pdf)

LANCASTER, Pa -- Swarthmore College forward Ian McCormick (Seattle, WA / University Prep) and guard Matt Kurman (Rockville, Mary. / Walter Johnson) have been named to the 2007 All-Centennial Conference Men's Basketball Team, as voted on by the league's head coaches.  McCormick is a second-team selection and Kurman earned honorable mention.

McCormick, a junior, led Swarthmore in scoring (14.9 points per game) and rebounding (8.6 rebounds per game), finishing seventh and third in the CC, respectively.   He finished second in the Conference for blocks per game (2.08) and ninth in field goal percentage (48.1%).  His nine double-doubles were the third-most in the Centennial and he has an active streak of 15 consecutive games scoring in double figures.

McCormick, an economics major, completes a strong junior season tied for the school record for blocks in a season (50- Rob Ruffin, 1998-99), collecting the fifth-most rebounds in a season (206).  He is now eighth all-time at Swarthmore with 543 career rebounds and 13th with 1,021 points.  McCormick is just the seventh Garnet man to collect 1,000 points and 500 rebounds in a career.

Kurman, also a junior, made 22 starts this season, finishing third on the team with 11.1 points per game.  He led the team with 41 three-pointers, shooting 41% (41 of 100) from beyond the arc, fifth-best in the Centennial.  Kurman ranked eight in the Conference in assists per game (2.72) while setting a career-high with 68 helpers. 

Guard Matt Kurman '08 is sixth all-time at Swarthmore with 112 made three-pointers.

Kurman, a political science major, ranks sixth in school history in made three-pointers with 112 and is 11th with 187 assists.

McCormick and Kurman are the seventh and eighth Swarthmore players to make All-Centennial, and the first since Matt Gustafson '05 was a second-team selection at the end of 2004-05.

Swarthmore finished 2006-07 with an overall record of 11-14 and 8-10 in the Centennial.

DAY THREE RESULTS

LANCASTER, Pa.-- Swarthmore freshman Anne Miller set a meet record in the 200 butterfly and the Garnet men set a school record in the 400 freestyle relay as the Swarthmore swim teams completed participation in the 14th annual Centennial Conference Swimming Championships at the Kunkel Aquatic Center on the campus of Franklin & Marshall College Sunday evening.

The Swarthmore men had their best finish since 1999, taking second place with 740 points.  Franklin & Marshall won its fifth CC Championship with 847 points--Gettysburg was third with 472.5 points, followed by Dickinson (449.5), Washington (412), McDaniel (253) and Ursinus (212).

The Garnet women finished in third place with 604.5 points, behind champion Gettysburg (759) and Franklin & Marshall (659).  Dickinson was fourth (510), followed by Washington (490.5), Ursinus (201), McDaniel (191) and Bryn Mawr (146).

In the first men's event, Stephen Shymon '09 and Andrew Frampton '08 won silver and bronze, respectively, in the 1650 freestyle.  It was the fourth medal of the championships for Shymon, who touched in with a time of 16:45.83.  Frampton was right behind him with a time of 16:51.94, taking in his second medal of the meet.

Swarthmore sophomore Douglas Gilchrist-Scott swam to a bronze medal in the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:59.50.  Senior Jonathan Augat collected his fourth medal, this time silver, with a 47.77 time in the 100 freestyle, just .10 off the school record--senior Jason Horwitz was close behind in fourth position, posting a time of 48.34.

Senior Andrew Koczo swam to a bronze in the 200 breaststroke, his fifth medal of the meet, by posting a time of 2:12.32.  Freshman Kyle Skolfield was close behind in sixth place with at time of 2:16.21.

The Swarthmore men picked up their final medals of the competition with a bronze in the 400 freestyle relay, setting a school record with a time of 3:12.47.  Gilchrist-Scott, Augat, freshman Michael Ahn, and Horwitz bested the previous mark of 3:14.23 set in 1997.

Allie Jordan '09 picked up the first medal of the night for the women, swimming another strong race, picking up the bronze medal in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:11.40.

Miller won her third gold medal of the meet and set a second school record with a time of 2:06.79 in the 200 butterfly.  The old mark was 2:08.33, set in 1996 by Jill Belding '99. The time is also Centennial Conf. Championship record (set by Allison Simons from Washington in 2004) and only .01 shy of the NCAA A cut standard.  Classmate Casey Osborn picked up the bronze medal with a time of 2:11.15 while Jennie Lewis '08 was sixth in a time of 2:15.89.

The Swarthmore women picked up points in the 100 free as Franny Zhang '08 swam fourth in a time of 54.57 and Sarah Cotcamp '07 was fifth in 54.85.

Senior Michele Hom earned her first medal of the 2007 Championships, a bronze in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:32.37.

COMPLETE DAY TWO RESULTS

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.

MATCH RESULTS

SWARTHMORE, Pa.-- The Garnet men's tennis team faced its first Division III opponent of the season, rolling to an 8-1 win over visiting New York University Saturday afternoon in the Michael Mullan Tennis Center.

The Swarthmore men (1-2) made a clean sweep of the doubles' competition.  Senior Jon Reiss and junior Jon Lo dispatched of NYU's Mikail Gurevich and Brett Levin 8-5 at No. 1 doubles, Kevin Shaughnessy '09 and Brian Nailitt '10 rolled past Craig Berger and Zubair Ghouse 8-2 at No. 2 doubles and Sam Sidhu '07 and Mark Greenburg '09 made quick work of the Violets' P.J. Marranca and Greg Werbowsky at No. 3 by a score of 8-2 as well.

Reiss picked up his second straight win by cruising past Gurevich 6-1, 6-3 in the No. 1 singles' match.  Swarthmore senior Adam Wallwork picked his first win of the spring at No. 3, defeating Berger 6-2, 6-2 while Nailitt notched his second win of the spring by taking down Ghouse 6-1, 6-1 at No. 4. 

Shaughnessy overcame Marranca is marathon super-set, picking up the victory at No. 5 by a score of 6-0, 1-6, 12-10.  England rounded out the afternoon with first win of the spring, topping Werbowsky 6-0, 6-2 at No. 6.

The Garnet, by virtue of their performance in the 2006 NCAA Division III Championships, will see their next action at the 2007 National Indoor Championships at Gustavus Adolphus (Minn.) on Feb. 23-25.

GAME BOX SCORE

HAVERFORD, Pa. -- Swarthmore forward Pamela Costello '10 scored a career-high 23 points and Karen Berk '08 registered her 18th double-doubles as the Garnet fell to hometown Haverford 74-66 Saturday afternoon in Centennial Conference women's basketball action.

Costello hit for her second career double-double, topping her previous high of 16 points vs. St. Joseph's (Ct.).  The freshman forward shot 8 of 14 from the field and 3 of 6 from three-point land while grabbing 11 rebounds in 38 minutes.

Swarthmore ran out to a 7-1 lead to start the game, getting a triple from senior Jess Fuhr and lay-ups from sophomore Melissa Grigsby and Berk at 18:11.  The Fords pulled ahead 10-9 with a Natalie Richman bucket at 13:27 and ran out to its largest lead, 18-11, after a jumper from Sara Cram at 8:53.

The Fords (6-18, 4-14 CC) out-rebounded Swarthmore 26-21 in the first half while holding a slim 34-33 lead into the intermission.  Berk shot 5 of 9 from the floor in the first 20 minutes to top all scorers with 15 points and nine rebounds--Kathleen Abels led Haverford with eight points.

Berk scored the first four points of the second half to put Swarthmore up 37-34 with 19:21 on the clock and the two teams stayed within four points over the next 12 minutes.  The Fords put the game away with a 16-7 run over a span of six minutes, capped by a lay-up from senior Abby Scattergood at 4:43. 

Costello and junior Laura Popovics nailed a couple of late threes to make it a seven-point affair, but the Fords efficient free throw shooting kept the Garnet at bay.

Berk finished with 23 points and 18 rebounds, extending her double-digit scoring streak to 27 consecutive games.  Berk finishes the season with 443 points (12th all-time in a single season) and 299 rebounds (fourth highest single-season total).  Her 44 blocks on the season are a new school record; the old mark was 43 set by Sarah Tufano '03 in 2000-01.

Fords' forward Brittany Lattisaw picked up her sixth double-double of the year with 11 points and 16 rebounds.

The Garnet concluded 2006-07 with a record of 4-20 overall and 1-17 in the Centennial.

GAME BOX SCORE

HAVERFORD, Pa. -- Swarthmore senior guard Chris Casey banked in a running one-hander with 8.8 seconds left to put the visiting Garnet ahead after a 14-point deficit.  However, Haverford's Mike Fratangelo sent the game to overtime with a buzzer beater and then dropped in seven points in the extra period to lead the Fords to a 84-78 Centennial win in the regular season finale for both teams.

Swarthmore junior Steve Wolf scored a game-high 23 points while classmates Ian McCormick (20 points) and Matt Kurman (17 points) hit double digits as well.

Frantangelo led the Fords (13-11 overall, 12-6 CC) with his first career double-double, consisting of 22 points, including 12 of 14 from the line, and 10 rebounds.  Senior Ray Brown added 17 points, guard Greg Rosnick dropped in 16 points and guard Chaz Thomas chipped in 15 points.

The loss eliminates the Garnet from Centennial playoff contention and concludes the 2006-07 season with a record of 11-14 overall and 8-10 in the Centennial.

The Fords looked to be in trouble when leading-scorer Brown picked up his fourth foul with 9:23 left in the game.  The Fords continued to press the action though, extending their lead to six points, 57-51, following a Thomas bank shot at 8:21.  A 12-4 Fords' run continued through a Ben McDowell lay-in at 7:45—McCormick brought the Garnet within five at 7:15 with an old-fashion three-point play. 

McDowell brought some necessary energy off the bench, scoring two more times near the rim to keep the Fords up five with five minutes to go.  McCormick hit one of two at the line on the next Swarthmore possession; the junior center then got Brown on his hip and scored a jump hook to make it a two-point game at 3:26.  The Garnet shot 70% (14 of 20) from the floor in the second half to get back into the game.

Rosnick drove the lane with the shot clock winding down, putting in a lay-up to put the Fords ahead 67-63 before Kurman sank a left-handed floater to cut the deficit to two at 2:12. 

On the ensuing possession, Swarthmore re-bounded a Haverford miss and called a time-out.  Wolf drove to his left and tied the game with a lay-up at 1:35.  Freshman forward Matt Turner forced a Fords turnover and then got fouled, shooting a one-and-one.  Turner hit both to give Swarthmore a 69-67 lead.  The Garnet hit 88.2% (15 of 17) from the line in the second half, totaling 20 of 26 (76.9%) on the afternoon.

Brown drew a foul on the other end of the floor, and went to the line for a one-and-one.  The senior calmly sank both shots to knot the game and Swarthmore took a time-out of its own with 19.1 seconds left.

Swarthmore spread the floor with the ball in Casey's hands at the top of the circle as the clock ticked down.  The senior drove left and banked in a running one-hander to give the Garnet the lead with 8.8 seconds left. 

The Fords called an immediate time-out, looking for a final play.  Rosnick found Fratangelo on the left wing and the Fords guard drove into the lane, initiating contact and flipped up a floater that fell in as the buzzer sounded, sending the contest to overtime.

The Fords got the jump in the extra session, using two free throws and a reverse lay-up from Fratangelo to assume a 75-71 lead with three and change to play.  Rosnick extended the lead to 77-71 with 2:50 left but the Fords lost Brown to his fifth foul on the next Swarthmore possession.

With Haverford ahead 79-73, Kurman dropped in a deep three-pointer to bring Swarthmore within three with 1:06 remaining.  Turner drew a charge on Fratangelo on the next possession and Wolf went to the line for three free throws after getting fouled in the act.  Wolf made two of three to make it a one-point game with 25.9 left.  The Garnet trapped Anderson in the corner, forcing the final Fords' time-out.

Swarthmore fouled Fratangelo, a 75 % shooter from the line, who hit one of two.  The Fords picked up the offensive rebound on the miss with Frantangelo securing the board.  The Haverford guard sank both free throws and then forced a Garnet turnover—the Fords converted the mis-cue into a fast-break lay-up by Thomas to seal the win.

Garnet junior guard Noam Fleigelman got the Garnet on the board to start the afternoonwith a driving lay-up at 18:45.  Kurman's triple in transition at 16:15 gave the visitors their first lead of the afternoon 5-4.  Brown answered on the other end with a lay-up in traffic to put the Fords back in front.

Thomas nailed a triple at 14:15 to make it Fords 11-7 and Allen came right back with a three-pointer of his own to cut the Haverford lead to one.  Brown scored ten straight points for the Fords to fuel a 10-2 run as Haverford went up 21-12 with 11:35 to play—the senior forward dropped in 15 first-half points.

With their top two scorers on the bench, Haverford extended its first half lead out to 25-12 at the nine-minute mark as Frantangelo banked in a jumper and the Fords defense limited the Garnet to just a Kurman jumper over a six-minute span.

Swarthmore sophomore forward Raul Ordonez hit a three at 8:15 but Brown nailed a jumper and Thomas cruised in with a fast-break lay-up to put the Fords up 29-15 at 6:30. 

Wolf got his offense going late in the second half, scoring seven points on a 9-6 Swarthmore run to cut the deficit to nine, 35-26, at 1:35.  That score would hold up into halftime as the Fords entered the locker room shooting 58% from the floor and held a 17-13 advantage on the glass.

Brown led all scorers with 15 first-half points on 6 of 8 shooting from the field; Thomas and Frantangelo contributed seven points for the Fords.  Wolf paced the Garnet with nine points while Kurman chipped in seven first-half markers.

Wolf hit a leaner to start half and McCormick followed with a put-back of his own, forcing the Fords to burn an early time-out with the score 35-30 Haverford at 18:46.  The Garnet continued to crash the offensive boards as Fliegleman put back a Swarthmore miss at 17:40 to bring the visitors within three. 

Rosnick put a stop to the run with a triple from the right wing at 16:25.  After a Brent Anderson jumper, McCormick hit a three-pointer in front of the Ford fans to make it 40-37 Haverford. 

A pair of Chris Casey '07 free throws got Swarthmore within two at 13:01 and McCormick tied the game with a pair from the line at 12:23.  Fratangelo sank a pair and McCormick answered with a bucket in the paint to make it 44-all at 11:23.  Thomas drove into lane and finished a lay-up over a pair of Garnet defenders to put the Fords back on top 46-44 at 11:05. 

Kurman gave the visitors their first lead since the 16:55 point in the first half with a three-pointer from in front of the Garnet bench at 10:55.  Fratangelo immediately put the Fords back on top with a pair of free throws and Rosnick sank a deep jumper as the Fords went up 50-47 with 10:07 to play.  After a McCormick lane, Rosnick sank a triple to put the Fords ahead 53-49 at 9:30.

The Fords held a commanding 35-23 advantage on the glass, including 12 offensive boards. 

Casey concludes his Swarthmore career third all-time at Swarthmore with 257 assists and tied for fourth with 107 steals.

McCormick completes a strong junior season where he tied the school record for blocks in a season (50- Rob Ruffin, 1998-99) and collected the fifth-most rebounds in a season (206).  He is now eighth all-time at Swarthmore with 543 career rebounds and 13th with 1,021 points.

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COMPLETE RESULTS

HAVERFORD, Pa.  -  Connor Darby '09, Jon Shoop '08, Nyika Corbett '10, Mariel Feigen '10, Caitlin O'Neill '10 and Kathy Feeney '09 all finished in the top-5 of their respective events as the Swarthmore indoor track & field team competed at the 2007 Keogh Invite hosted by Haverford College Friday night.

Shoop set his personal-best time in the 3,000 meter race, finishing fourth (first Division III runner) out of 26 runners with a Swarthmore top-ten time of 8:56.93.  Teammate Nat Erb-Satullo '07 continued his strong winter season with a personal-best time as well in the 3,000, finishing 13th in 9:22.97. 

Darby posted his season-best in the 800 meters, finishing fifth out of 37 competitors with a time of 2:02.15.  Teammate Nick Farrar '07 qualified for the Centennial Conference Championships by running 55.20 in the 400 meters while Matt Singleton '07 will also compete at the CC Championships after pole vaulting a height of 12'.

For the women, Corbett ran third out of 19 runners in the 3,000 meters with a time of 10:56.09 while sophomore Bess Ritter finished sixth in the same event with a season-best time of 11:08.42.  Feeney rolled to fifth place in the mile run, posting at time of 5:30.98 while O'Neill (1:07.68) and Feigen (1:08.21) ran fourth and fifth, respectively, at 400 meters.

The Garnet return to Haverford College on Feb. 24-25 for the 2007 Centennial Conference Championships, set to start at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 24.

DAY ONE RESULTS

LANCASTER, Pa. -- The Swarthmore swim teams broke six school records as the teams competed at the 14th annual Centennial Conference Swimming Championships held at the Kunkel Aquatic Center on the campus of Franklin & Marshall College. 

The Garnet men are in second place after the first day of competition with 226 points, just behind leader Franklin & Marshall (238 points).  The Swarthmore women sit in third place with 179 team points, trailing overall leader F&M (205) and Gettysburg (204).

The Garnet put up some impressive times in the morning preliminaries -- Cotcamp missed a school record in the 50 freestyle with time of 24.81 (.02 shy) while classmate Augat was a hair shy (.01) of the men's 50 freestyle record.  Both won their heats and entered the finals with the top seed. 

As the finals started on Friday night, the Swarthmore women's quartet of Julia Wrobel '10, Franny Zhang '08, Jennie Lewis '08 and Sarah Cotcamp '07 picked up their first medal of the championships in the 200 freestyle relay, taking silver with a time of 1:39.88. 

Miller picked up her the first Centennial medal, swimming third in the 500 freestyle, picking up the bronze with a school-record time of 5:11.48.  The old record was set by Claire Arbour '00 (5:13.08) in 1997.

Cotcamp picked up a gold medal in the 50 freestyle, swimming to a dead-heat with Washington's Kathy Gerhart with a school-record time of 24.71.  Cotcamp broke the record set by Lewis (24.79) in 2005.

Swarthmore picked up another gold medal in the next event, the 400 medley relay, as Allie Jordan '09, Janice Yeo '07, Miller and Cotcamp swam a time of 4:01.97 for another school record.  The old record was set in 2000 (4:02.58).  Jordan swam a school-record time of 1:01.33 in the lead backstroke leg, breaking the previous mark of 1:01.33 shared by two swimmers, most recently set in 1997.

The Garnet men, the 2007 Centennial dual meet champions, took gold in their first event of the night with a school-record time of 1:25.81 in the 200 freestyle relay.  The quartet of Douglas Gilchrist-Scott '09, Andrew Koczo '07, Jonathan Augat '07, and Jason Horwitz '07, just beat out the F&M team (1:25.96), taking down the old Swarthmore record set in 2003 (1:27.58).

Stephen Shymon '09 picked up the first individual medal for the Garnet men, grabbing the silver in the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:44.07.  Teammate Andrew Frampton '08 also swam in the championship heat, finishing sixth with a time of 4:52.33.

Swarthmore picked up valuable points in the 50 freestyle as Augat picked up the gold in a school-record time (21.57), Gilchrist-Scott took the bronze (21.87), and Horwitz just missed the medal stand in fourth (21.98).

The Garnet men swam a time of 3:32.69 in the 400 medley relay, as Gilchrist-Scott, Koczo, Brian Roth '09, and Horwitz grabbed the silver medal just missing a school record time (3:32.24 set in 1996).

The championship continues on Saturday with preliminaries starting in the morning at 10:30 a.m. and the finals at 6:30 p.m.--the finals can be seen live on the Centennial Conference Broadcast Network starting at 6:25 p.m.  Click here for more information