With another day of the Akron Invitational over, I am pleased to report the team continues to improve. We had a couple of school records broken today and some individual champions. The evening session started with the women's 200 medley relay registering a 5th place finish. The team of Tara VanNatta, Caitie Zajko, Kirstie Shumaker and Meghann McGoldrick recorded a 1:47.40. They were followed by the men's team of Mitch Smith, Ian Walsh, Jim O'Hara and Brendan Schilling, recording a second place time of 1:33.09. Both relay times were season best swims.
Following the relays, the individual events started off with the 400 IM. Lori Yeaman got the ball rolling for the Lady Dukes, improving from her prelim swim by 5 seconds with a 4:45.43. Hannah Kondrotas and Miriam McGeath swam in the final heat, with Kondrotas swimming a time of 4:36.56 and McGeath winning the event with a time of 4:30.27. All the swims were season bests. On the men's side, Hunter Chiasson recorded a 19th place finish and Roman Becicka recorded a season best 4:01.19, finishing in second place. Following the IM, the swimmers jumped in the water for the 100 fly.
Kirstie Shumaker led the way for the women with a season best 58.21, finishing 10th. Erin Cawley finished out the consolation final with a 16th place finish, while Meghann McGoldrick finished in 20th. For the men, Dan Doyle and Greg Matuszewski scored in 22nd and 23, respectively. Brendan Schilling just missed winning the consolation heat with a season best time of 51.50, while Jim O'Hara captured first place with a time of 50.10. After the fly, the meet went back to the freestyle events with the 200 free.
Kristi Magee was the top finisher for us on the women's side, recording a 13th place finish with a solid 1:56.05. She was followed by Angela Majkut with a 16th place time of 1:57.44. In the men's event, Nick Kovacs finished 18th place with a season best time of 1:45.20. Chris Kobela was the lone swimmer for the Dukes in the consolation finals finishing with a solid 1:44.94. In the championship finals, Ed LeBlanc took home first place with a new meet and team record of 1:38.23. The next event, the 100 breast, was another solid one for the Dukes.
Caitie Zajko led the way for the women, finishing third with a new school record of 1:05.75. Karissa Gorman finished 6th with a season best of 1:07.43 and Hillary Hocson finished 14th with a time of 1:07.87. The men finished 1-2 in the 100 breast, with freshmen Mark Krchnak out touching Ian Walsh. Mark won the event with a time of 57.98 with Ian finishing with a 58.11. Another solid event followed for the team in the 100 backstroke.
Morgan Claycomb finsished 5th with a time of 58.58, Tara VanNatta finished 9th with a winning time of 58.55 and Briana Mangis finished 17th with a time of 58.98. For the men, Mitch Smith led the way with a 7th place finish of 52.36. Greg Matuszewski won the consolation heat with a time of 53.66, while Hunter Chiasson finished with a 55.42. In the bonus heat, Tim Mancuso finished 19th with a time of 54.69, while Dan Doyle finished 24th with a time of 56.15. The final event of the evening, the 800 free relay turned out to be one of the most exciting events of the evening.
The women's team of Annie Hayles, Amanda McClelland, Angela Majkut and Kristi Magee, put in a solid performance, finishing 6th with a time of 7:48.12. The men, had a great race with Xavier that came down to the last leg. Ed LeBlanc was just out touched by Nathan Green with a great split of 1:37.81. The time of 6:49.32 was good enough for second place and was also a season best time.
The invitational wraps up tomorrow with the 200's of the strokes, 100 free, 1650 and 400 free relay.
See you around the pool,
Dave
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