University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and Northeastern University extended their leads in the men’s and women’s divisions, respectively, at the America East Swimming and Diving Championships at Stanley M. Wallace Pool on the campus of the University of Maine. The Retrievers, competing in their first America East Championship, have a 611-387 lead over second-place Binghamton University while the four-time defending champion Huskies enjoy a 491.5-404.5 advantage over UMBC after two days of the three-day event.
Day 2 Results
Boston University is third in the men’s event with 358 points, followed by Stony Brook University (356), University of New Hampshire (294), Maine (248) and University of Vermont (115).
New Hampshire is third in the women’s event with 384 points, followed by Boston University (281), Binghamton (237), Maine (212), Stony Brook (211) and Vermont (118).
The Retrievers set a new conference championship record in the 800-yard freestyle relay as senior Josh Farley, sophomore Adam Blais, senior Carlos Canepa and junior Jakub Sroczynski combined for a winning time of 6:47.26.
Senior Brad Green of UMBC picked up his second individual title in as many days, winning the 100-yard backstroke in a time of 51.73. Senior Nicolas Lombo (53.27) and freshman Tim Conway (54.18) finished second and fifth to give the Retrievers 51 points in that event.
Sroczynski (1:42.03) and Canepa finished 1-2 for the Retrievers in the 200-yard freestyle with times of 1:40.62 and 1:41.44, respectively.
Farley was another individual winner for the Retrievers, capturing he 400-yard individual medley in 4:00.87.
Binghamton received three record-breaking performances. Senior Chris McGuire, who set the record in the 200-yard individual medley on Friday, set the conference mark in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 49.64.
Junior Robert Kaczynski set a conference championship and pool record with a time of 56.52 in the 100-yard breaststroke.
Kaczynski and McGuire also combined with Brian Koizim and Dan Holmberg to set the conference championship and pool record in the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:34.84.
Junior Victor Paguia of Boston University won his third-straight one-meter diving title with 330.75 points. Paguia joins Mike Savicky of Drexel as the only three-time winners in conference diving history.
On the women’s side, Northeastern set two more conference championship marks in the relays. Katie Schmaling, Katie Kane, Sarah Reddick and Kerby Lewis also established the pool mark with a time of 1:46.31 in the 200-yard medley relay. Emily Crookall-Nixon, Jesse Coxson, Lewis and Kelly McIsaac combined for the record in the 800-yard freestyle relay with a time of 7:37.05. Schmaling, Katie Kane, Reddick and McIsaac were part of the record-setting 200-yard freestyle relay on Friday.
Reddick, a sophomore, was an individual champion in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 56.56. Teammate Emily White finished third in that event with a time of 58.02.
Freshman Agnes Stanislawska, who broke the record in the 200-yard individual medley on Friday, won the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:51.26. Northeastern picked up 31 points in that event as McIsaac (1:53.80) and Crookall-Nixon (1:55.04) were third and fourth, respectively.
Junior Lindsey Prather of UMBC won the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:04.71 but Katie Kane (1:04.89), Emily Rochefort (1:05.50) and Kristen Kane (1:07.07) of Northeastern were second, third and fifth, respectively.
Senior Melissa Lague of New Hampshire posted a new conference championship and pool record in he 100-yard backstroke with a time of 56.12.
Sophomore Lidjia Breznikar of Boston University won the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 4:26.72.
The event concludes Sunday with five men’s events and six women’s events. The UMBC men will take aim at the conference record of 809.5 points set by Drexel in 2001.