Heyde Has Dominant Performance at F&M Invitational
Kelly Heyde
Lancaster, Pa. - Freshman Kelly Heyde (Wilton, Conn./Wilton) racked up two Capital Athletic Conference records and two school records as well as four NCAA cuts as the St. Mary's College of Maryland women's swim team finished sixth at the two-day 2009 Franklin & Marshall College Invitational which wrapped up Sunday evening with the crowning of The College of New Jersey as the team champion.
The Seahawks notched 288 points to beat out Rowan University, Susquehanna University, Marymount (Va.) University, Widener University, McDaniel College, Elizabethtown College, and Juniata College for sixth place.
Heyde picked up an NCAA automatic qualifying time in capturing the 400 individual medley in 4:28.39, establishing a CAC, school and F&M Invitational record in the process. She knocked off the conference's oldest standing record, shattering University of Mary Washington Shannon Hutcherson's 1993 mark of 4:33.22. Heyde displaced her own record of 4:33.71 from two weekends ago.
Heyde then set another school and league mark in the 200 butterfly with an NCAA ‘B' cut of 2:05.57 to take second place in the event. She replaced Mary Washington Lorena de la Garza's 2007 mark of 2:06.55 while breaking her own mark of 2:07.71 from October 31. For her final individual event, Heyde finished second in the 200 individual medley with an NCAA ‘B' cut of 2:10.39.
Senior Rachel Hotchko (Yakima, Wash./A.C. Davis) finished second in the 100 butterfly with an NCAA ‘B' cut and school record time of 57.09. Hotchko replaced her own mark of 57.30 from February 14, 2009. She also took fourth in the 100 freestyle in 54.15 and sixth in the 50 free in 25.08.
The foursome of Heyde, Hotchko, freshman Maddie Casey (Rockville, Md./T.S. Wootton), and freshman Melanie Bloch (Bethesda, Md./French International) staked a third-place finish in the 800 free relay in 8:05.79.
Junior captain Sofia Sokolove (Bethesda, Md./Bethesda-Chevy Chase) finished sixth in the 400 individual medley in 4:49.04 while notching a ninth-place finish in the 200 breaststroke in 2:34.62 to be the team's top finisher in that event. Sokolove was the Seahawks' top finisher in the 100 breast in 1:11.51 for a 15th-place finish.
The Seahawks finished fourth in the 400 medley relay in 4:06.97 behind the efforts of senior captain Monika Disque (Annapolis, Md./Annapolis), Sokolove, Heyde and Hotchko while the quartet of Disque, junior Rosa Trembour (Takoma Park, Md./Albert Einstein), Hotchko and Bloch claimed fifth in the 200 medley relay in 1:54.13.
Senior captain Anna Chiplis (Silver Spring, Md./Montgomery Blair) took seventh in the 100 butterfly in 1:01.97 while Disque finished 11th in the 100 backstroke in 1:03.87. Disque was top finisher for SMCM in the 200 breaststroke in 2:19.89.
The 200 free relay team of Bloch, Heyde, freshman Chelsea Gulliver (Frederick, Md./Urbana) and Hotchko finished sixth in 1:42.64 while Heyde, Disque, Gulliver and Bloch claimed a ninth-place finish in the 400 free relay in 3:49.86.
Sophomore Katie Serfling (Frederick, Md./Urbana) was 13th in the 400 IM in 4:59.88 while Bloch finished 14th in the 100 freestyle in 56.41. Casey posted a top 16 finish in the 1650 freestyle as she finished 16th in 19:14.80 while tallying a 17th-place finish in the 200 freestyle in 2:02.90. Casey was the top finisher for the Seahawks in the 500 free with a 25th-place finish in 5:33.87.
The Seahawks will take their annual training trip to Florida from January 4 to 13 before welcoming University of Mary Washington to the ARC Aquatics Center for Capital Athletic Conference action on January 16 at 1:00 pm.
TEAM STANDINGS: 1. TCNJ 653.5, 2. Kutztown 606.5, 3. Washington (Md.) 354, 4. Gettysburg 325, 5. Franklin & Marshall 315, 6. St. Mary's (Md.) 288, 7. Rowan 262.5, 8. Susquehanna 245.5, 9. Marymount (Va.) 138, 10. Widener 121, 11. McDaniel 90, 12. Elizabethtown 56, 13. Juniata 34
