Seahawks Finished Fourth at the F&M Invitational

Meet Results

Lancaster, Pa. - The St. Mary's College of Maryland women's swim team finished fourth at the two-day, nine-team Franklin & Marshall College Invitational as senior captain Brie McDowell (Doylestown, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) and junior Rachel Hotchko (Yakima, Wash./A.C. Davis) captured a combined total of five events and recorded three NCAA ‘B' cuts between the three of them.

Session 1
The foursome of senior Brie McDowell (Doylestown, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham), junior Rachel Hotchko (Yakima, Wash./A.C. Davis), sophomore Arielle Webster (Jarrettsville, Md./North Harford), and senior Eleanor Koerner (North Potomac, Md./T.S. Wootton) swam a 1:40.02 to capture the 200 free relay and pick up 40 points.

McDowell finished second in the 200 IM with her time of 2:12.28, while sophomore Sofia Sokolove (Bethesda, Md./Bethesda-Chevy Chase) placed 12th in 2:21.80 as the pair added 17 points to the Seahawk total.

Koerner and Hotchko tied for fourth in the 50 free as both registered a time of 25.26, notching 29 points for St. Mary's.

McDowell , Sokolove , Hotchko , and Koerner came in second in the 400 medley relay in 4:03.12 for another 34 points.

The Seahawks were in fourth with 125 points after the first five events.

Session 2
McDowell, Sokolove, Hotchko, and Koerner picked up a second-place finish in the 200 medley relay with their time of 1:50.83 to add 34 points to their score.

Freshman Katie Serfling (Frederick, Md./Urbana) placed 15th in the 400 IM in 5:07.98.

Hotchko captured the 100 fly in 58.00, just .04 seconds off the school record set by Beth Dobson in 2006 (57.96). Hotchko's time was also an NCAA provisional cut. Junior Anna Chiplis (Silver Spring, Md./Montgomery Blair) came in seventh in the same event in 1:03.43, while freshman Christine DiMenna (Baltimore, Md./Notre Dame Prep) was 14th in 1:05.19. The Seahawks racked up 35 points in this event.

Sokolove took ninth in the 100 breast in 1:12.49, while freshman Amanda Pazouki (Silver Spring, Md./JFK) was 13th in 1:14.19 as the duo helped the Seahawks notch 13 more points.

McDowell won the 100 back with her NCAA ‘B' cut of 58.54, while Koerner took 14th in 1:06.82 and the duo added 23 points.

In the last event of Session 2, the Seahawks tallied 28 points as senior Nat Schaefer (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North), junior Monika Disque (Annapolis, Md./Annapolis), junior Laura VanBlargan (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin), and freshman Katelyn Grue (Ellicott City, Md./Mount de Sales Academy) swam an 8:33.21 to finish fifth in the 800 free relay.

Through 12 events, the Seahawks remained in fourth place with 260 points.

Session 3
McDowell kicked off the third and final session with a first-place finish in the 200 back with an NCAA provisional cut of 2:08.91, while Disque came in 11th with her time of 2:20.62. McDowell and Disque combined for 26 points in the event.

Koerner placed second in the 100 free in 55.10 to add 17 points to the Seahawk total.

Sokolove was ninth in the 200 breast with a time of 2:38.44, while Pazouki finished 10th in 2:39.27 to pick up 16 points for SMCM.

Hotchko captured the 200 fly with her time of 2:12.61, while Chiplis placed seventh in 2:21.70 and Serfling took 13th in 2:29.97 for a combined total of 36 points.

The foursome of McDowell, Hotchko, Disque, and Koerner swam a 3:40.43 to place second in the 400 free relay and rack up 34 points.

Schaefer wrapped up Seahawk competition with her eighth-place finish in the 1650 free as she swam a 19:07.44 for 11 points.

The Seahawks will be back in action in the New Year when St. Mary's heads down south for its winter training trip in Florida from January 6 to January 15.