McDowell’s Dominance Continues at CAC Championships

Complete Day 2 Results

St. Mary's City, Md. - Senior captain Brie McDowell (Doylestown, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) helped the St. Mary's College of Maryland women's swim team stay on the heels of the University of Mary Washington as the second day of action at the 2009 Capital Athletic Conference Men's & Women's Swimming Championships hosted by St. Mary's wrapped up Saturday night. The swimming championships will conclude tomorrow night with the crowning of the team champions.

McDowell was part of one school record, while setting the CAC meet mark in the 100 back as the Seahawks stayed in second in the team standings with 433 points. St. Mary's is behind Mary Washington, who is way ahead of the pack with 606 points.

St. Mary's foursome of McDowell, sophomore Sofia Sokolove (Bethesda, Md./Bethesda-Chevy Chase), junior Rachel Hotchko (Yakima, Wash./A.C. Davis), and senior Eleanor Koerner (North Potomac, Md./T.S. Wootton) established a new conference meet and school record in the 200 medley relay with their NCAA provisional time of 1:47.17, knocking off nearly three seconds from their school mark a year ago (1:50.04).

Hotchko struck gold in the 100 fly as she set the school record with an NCAA ‘B' cut of 57.30, erasing Beth Dobson's mark of 57.96 registered in 2006.

University of Mary Washington's sophomore Sarah Crockett (Toano, Va./Lafayette) earned the top time in the preliminaries of the 200 free as Crockett notched a CAC meet with an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 1:52.51. She then captured the event title in the evening with an NCAA ‘B' cut of 1:52.88.

Freshman Megan DeSmit (Bridgewater, Va./Turner Ashby) of Mary Washington set the conference meet record in the 100 breast twice as DeSmit listed the top time in the preliminaries with an NCAA ‘B' cut of 1:06.48. She then captured the CAC title for the 100 breast with another NCAA ‘B' cut of 1:06.30. DeSmit's efforts displaced former UMW swimmer Lisa-Marie Carlson's mark of 1:06.82 from 2003.

Sokolove garnered a school record in the 100 breast as she finished third in 1:09.63, picking third team all-conference honors and displacing her own mark from years ago as well as McDowell's record from 2006 (1:10.73).

McDowell picked up another NCAA automatic qualifying time with her conference meet record of 56.75 in the 100 back. Last night, she had set the school record for the 100 back with her lead-off swim of 56.62 in the record-setting 400 medley relay.

TEAM STANDINGS: 1. Mary Washington 606, 2. St. Mary's (Md.) 433, 3. Marymount (Va.) 331, 4. Salisbury 250, 5. York (Pa.) 211, 6. Gallaudet 115, 7. Hood 89.

EVENT

FIRST TEAM ALL-CAC

SECOND TEAM ALL-CAC

THIRD TEAM ALL-CAC

200 Medley Relay

SMC - Brie McDowell, Sofia Sokolove, Rachel Hotchko, Eleanor Koerner

UMW - Melanie Stone, Megan DeSmit, Nina Sawyer, Sarah Crockett

MMU - Angie Tinsman, Ashley Smith, Alexandra Bekampis, Amanda Sperling

400 IM

UMW - Allie Beckenstein

UMW - Missy Kobiela

MMU - Nicole Hallberg

100 Fly

SMC - Rachel Hotchko

UMW - Nina Sawyer

UMW - Adriana Lesiuk

200 Free

UMW - Sarah Crockett

MMU - Emily Campbell

UMW - Virginia Page

100 Breast

UMW - Megan DeSmit

MMU - Ashley Smith

SMC - Sofia Sokolove

100 Back

SMC - Brie McDowell

MMU - Anna Macedonia

UMW - Melanie Stone

800 Free Relay

UMW - Megan DeSmit, Leslie Holt, Virginia Page, Caroline Deluca

MMU - Emily Campbell, Anna Macedonia, Angie Tinsman, Amanda Sperling

SU - Jenna Petrella, Laura Kordzikowski, Katie Fitzenreiter, Raienne South

SEAHAWK HIGHLIGHTS
Freshman Katie Serfling (Frederick, Md./Urbana) came in fifth in the 400 IM in 4:59.08, while senior captain Nat Schaefer (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North) was sixth in 5:04.32. Freshman Katelyn Grue (Ellicott City, Md./Mount de Sales) captured the consolation finals in 5:03.85 to finish ninth overall.

Junior Anna Chiplis (Silver Spring, Md./Montgomery Blair) took fourth in the 100 fly in 1:00.10, while freshman Christine DiMenna (Baltimore, Md./Notre Dame Prep) was seventh in 1:01.96.

Koerner won the consolation finals of the 200 free in 2:00.61 to finish ninth overall in the event.

Sophomore Rosa Trembour (Takoma Park, Md./Albert Einstein) came in fourth in the 100 breast in 1:10.36, while freshman Amanda Pazouki (Silver Spring, Md./JFK) took seventh in 1:12.09. Junior Laura VanBlargan (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin) placed third in the consolation finals for 11th overall in 1:14.87.

Junior Monika Disque (Annapolis, Md./Annapolis) was second in the consolation finals of the 100 back in 1:04.06 to place 10th overall.

The foursome of Schaefer, Grue, VanBlargan, and Disque came in fifth in the 800 free relay in 8:28.24.