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February 12, 2010
Recap | Results

St. Mary’s Third after First Day of CAC Championships

Kelly Heyde
Kelly Heyde

Mary Washington Sets Two CAC Meet Records

Timed Finals Results for Day One

St. Mary's City, Md. - The 2010 Capital Athletic Conference Men's and Women's Swimming Championships kicked off Friday evening with timed finals at St. Mary's College of Maryland.  The traditional morning preliminary trials were canceled in response to transportation safety concerns for the six visiting teams as a result of the record snowfall in the Mid-Atlantic region.

University of Mary Washington, who is in search of its 20th consecutive conference title, got off to a fast start and lead the seven-team field with 288 points, claiming four of the evening's five events.  The Eagles set CAC championship meet records in the 50 freestyle and the 400 medley relay while notching six NCAA provisional times.

The Seahawks are currently third in the team standings with 151 points and posted an NCAA ‘B' cut in the 200 individual medley with freshman Kelly Heyde's (Wilton, Conn./Wilton) gold-medal performance in the event, edging UMW's senior Nina Michelle Sawyer (Warrenton, Va./Liberty) by 14-hundredths of a second.

Marymount University's sophomore Anna Macedonia (Annandale, Va./Bishop O'Connell) nabbed the other NCAA provisional of the evening with her second-place finish in the 50 freestyle.

TEAM STANDINGS: 1. Mary Washington 288, 2. Marymount (Va.) 158, 3. St. Mary's (Md.) 151, 4. York (Pa.) 98, 5. Salisbury 94, 6. Gallaudet 56, 7. Hood 48.

EVENT

FIRST TEAM ALL-CAC

SECOND TEAM ALL-CAC

THIRD TEAM ALL-CAC

200 Free Relay

UMW - Sarah Crockett, Lindsay Ancellotti, Nina Sawyer, Adriana Lesiuk

1:37.12 - NCAA ‘B'

MMU - Amanda Sperling, Meghan Morch, Alexandra Bekampis, Anna Macedonia

1:39.50

SMC - Rachel Hotchko, Kelly Heyde, Arielle Webster, Melanie Bloch

1:40.40

 

500 Free

UMW - Sarah Crockett

5:02.11 - NCAA ‘B'

UMW - Virginia Page

5:15.97

UMW - Ashley Green

5:19.93

 

200 IM

SMC - Kelly Heyde

2:08.14 - NCAA ‘B'

UMW - Nina Sawyer

2:08.28 - NCAA ‘B'

UMW - Megan DeSmit

2:08.63 - NCAA ‘B'

 

50 Free

UMW - Adriana Lesiuk

23.93 - CAC meet record

MMU - Anna Macedonia

24.08 - NCAA ‘B'

SMC - Rachel Hotchko

24.75

 

400 Medley Relay

UMW - S. Crockett,
M. DeSmit, N. Sawyer,
A. Lesiuk

3:52.59 - CAC meet record

SMC - M. Disque,
S. Sokolove, K. Heyde,
R. Hotchko

4:03.19

MMU - A. Macedonia,
E. Wagner, A. Bekampis,
A. Sperling

4:08.75

 

SEAHAWK HIGHLIGHTS
Team captains Monika Disque (Annapolis, Md./Annapolis) and Sofia Sokolove (Bethesda, Md./Bethesda-Chevy Chase), Heyde, and senior Rachel Hotchko (Yakima, Wash./A.C. Davis) joined together for a second-place finish in the 400 medley relay (4:03.19).

The foursome of Hotchko, Heyde, junior Arielle Webster (Jarrettsville, Md./North Harford), and freshman Melanie Bloch (Bethesda, Md./French International) earned All-CAC honors with their third-place finish in the 200 free relay (1:40.40).

Hotchko picked up all-conference honors in the 50 freestyle with her third-place finish in 24.75.

Senior Laura VanBlargan (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin) was the Seahawks' top finisher in the 500 freestyle, placing 10th in 5:33.03.