DeBoissiere, Webb Swim Well for Seahawks at F&M Invitational
Lancaster, Pa. - Freshman Billy DeBoissiere (Columbia, Md./Atholton) notched three top 10 individual finishes and four top 10 relay finishes in leading St. Mary's College of Maryland men's swimming to a seventh-place finish at the two-day 2009 Franklin & Marshall College Invitational which concluded Sunday evening with the crowning of The College of New Jersey as the team champion.
The Seahawks finished in the seventh place for the second year in a row as SMCM tallied 191 points to best Marymount (Va.) University, McDaniel College and Elizabethtown College.
DeBoissiere tallied a fourth-place finish in the 100 breaststroke in 59.75 while picking up a sixth-place finish in the 200 breast in 2:15.78. He also came in seventh in the 500 freestyle in 4:53.03.
Junior captain Jackson Webb (Leonardtown, Md./Leonardtown) put forth a strong weekend as well as Webb posted two top 16 individual finishes along with four top 10 relay finishes. He finished sixth in the 200 butterfly in 2:02.10 while coming in 13th in the 100 fly in 54.70. Webb was the Seahawks' top finisher in the 200 individual medley with his 19th-place finish in 2:05.51.
The foursome of freshman Jesse Stottlemyer (Hagerstown, Md./Smithsburg), DeBoissiere, sophomore Joe Kelly (Ellicott City, Md./Mt. Hebron), and Webb took sixth in the 400 medley relay in 3:43.56. The same quartet finished seventh in the 200 medley relay in 1:41.75.
Stottlemyer had a solid individual effort as he was St. Mary's top finisher both backstroke events. Stottlemyer came in 13th in the 100 back in 57.94 and 15th in the 200 back in 2:05.43 while junior captain Nico Pinto (Lima, Peru) was 15th in the 100 back in 58.82.
Webb, DeBoissiere, Kelly and Stottlemyer finished sixth in the 800 free relay as the foursome swam a 7:34.92. The quartet of Webb, Kelly, Pinto and DeBoissiere placed eighth in the 200 free relay in 1:33.75 while the 400 free relay also finished eighth in 3:31.82 behind the efforts of junior Kalvin Day (Hagerstown, Md./N. Hagerstown), Stottlemyer, Pinto and sophomore Ron Michael (Sykesville, Md./McDonogh).
Kelly picked up a 12th-place finish in the 200 fly in 2:08.92 while freshman Logan Riley (Annapolis, Md./Broadneck) came in 16th in 2:26.70. Freshman Chris Coghill (Brunswick, Md./Brunswick) was the team's top finisher in the 400 individual medley (5:13.91) while Michael was 32nd in the 200 freestyle in 1:58.83. Day was top finisher for the Seahawks in both the 100 and 50 freestyle with a 35th (53.05) and 37th (24.14) finish.
The Seahawks will head to Florida for their annual training trip from January 4-13 before hosting University of Mary Washington in Capital Athletic Conference action on Saturday, January 16 at 1:00 pm.
TEAM STANDINGS: 1. TCNJ 826.5, 2. Franklin & Marshall 554, 3. Gettysburg 446, 4. Rowan 382, 5. Widener 342.5, 6. Susquehanna 271, 7. St. Mary's 191, 8. Marymount 120, 9. McDaniel 116, 10. Elizabethtown 60
