Seahawk Women Move into Second Following Day Two Action

Rachel Hotchko

Finals Results for Day Two

St. Mary's City, Md. - Ten NCAA provisional times, six Capital Athletic Conference championship meet records and two NCAA automatic qualifying times were the highlights Saturday as the second day of the 2010 CAC Women's Swimming Championships wrapped up.

University of Mary Washington maintained its grasp on first place in the team standings with 639 points as the Eagles captured four of seven events.  St. Mary's moved into second place with 417.5 points, nabbing gold-medal performances in the 400 individual medley and the 100 butterfly events.

St. Mary's freshman Kelly Heyde (Wilton, Conn./Wilton) registered her first championship meet record as Heyde won the 400 individual medley with an NCAA provisional time of 4:31.74, breaking Mary Washington Shannon Hutcherson's 17-year old mark of 4:37.24.

Senior Rachel Hotchko (Yakima, Wash./A.C. Davis) swam a pair of NCAA provisional and school record times en route to a first-place finish in the 100 butterfly, touching the wall in 56.63.  In the morning prelims, Hotchko posted a time of 56.98 to head into the finals seeded first.  She broke her own school mark of 57.09 that she had set two months back at the Franklin & Marshall College Invitational.

UMW's junior Sarah Crockett (Toano, Va./Lafayette) notched a pair of NCAA ‘A' cuts and CAC meet records in the 200 freestyle as Crockett captured the event with an automatic qualifying time and CAC meet record of 1:52.04, breaking the record she had set in the morning prelims of 1:52.28.  Her morning preliminary time broke the championship meet mark of 1:52.51 set by DeSmit from last year.

The Eagle foursome of sophomore Megan DeSmit (Bridgewater, Va./Turner Ashby), senior Nina Michelle Sawyer (Warrenton, Va./Liberty), junior Adriana Lesiuk (Bensalem, Pa./Nazareth), and Crockett swam an NCAA ‘B' cut and CAC meet record of 1:46.87 to win the 200 medley relay.  UMW's efforts displaced the CAC meet mark of 1:47.17 set by St. Mary's last year.

DeSmit, the 2009 CAC Rookie of the Year, tallied two CAC meet records as well in the 100 breaststroke, picking up a gold medal with her NCAA provisional time of 1:05.91.  Her finals time surpassed the championship meet record of 1:06.18 she had posted in this morning's prelims.  The 1:06.18-finish in the prelims broke the championship record of 1:06.30 that DeSmit set a year ago.

Marymount University's sophomore Anna Macedonia (Annandale, Va./Bishop O'Connell) nabbed her second NCAA provisional time of the championship meet as Macedonia captured the 100 backstroke in 58.48.

TEAM STANDINGS: 1. Mary Washington 639, 2. St. Mary's (Md.) 417.5, 3. Marymount (Va.) 323, 4. York (Pa.) 267, 5. Salisbury 242.5, 6. Gallaudet 109, 7. Hood 98.

SEAHAWK HIGHLIGHTS
Senior captain Monika Disque (Annapolis, Md./Annapolis), junior Rosa Trembour (Takoma Park, Md./Albert Einstein), Heyde and Hotchko banded together for a second-place finish in the 200 medley relay (1:51.26).

Junior captain Sofia Sokolove (Bethesda, Md./Bethesda-Chevy Chase) earned third team All-CAC honors in the 400 individual medley in 4:45.85 while sophomore Katelyn Grue (Ellicott City, Md./Mount de Sales) captured the consolation finals in the same event with her ninth-place finish in 4:57.70.

Sophomore Christine DiMenna (Baltimore, Md./Notre Dame Prep) won the consolation finals of the 100 butterfly with a ninth-place finish in 1:01.99.  Disque finished eighth in the 100 backstroke while DiMenna captured the consolation finals of the 100 back in 1:03.00 for a ninth-place finish.

Freshman Melanie Bloch (Bethesda, Md./French International) picked up a ninth-place finish in the 200 freestyle to claim those consolation finals with a time of 2:01.04.

The Seahawks grabbed second-, third-, and fourth-place finishes in the 100 breaststroke.  Trembour led the charge with her second-place finish in 1:09.75 followed by Sokolove in third (1:10.31) and freshman Chelsea Gulliver (Frederick, Md./Urbana) in fourth (1:10.50).  In the 100 breaststroke consolation finals, sophomore Amanda Pazouki (Silver Spring, Md./John F. Kennedy) finished ninth in 1:12.05 to win the B finals.

The foursome of Heyde, freshman Maddie Casey (Potomac, Md./T.S. Wootton), Grue, and Bloch earned All-CAC honors with their third-place finish in the 800 free relay (8:15.86).