NEWMACs NEWMACs NEWMACs WOMEN

The women fought a tough field this year at the New England Men's and Women's Conference Swimming Championships. They finished third behind MIT, Springfield and US Coast Guard. Some of the highlights include -

Day 1
The first event of the competition was the 200 Freestyle Relay. The women finished 3rd 1:37.14 (Steph Perkins, Dania Piscetta, Elle Van Cott, Nicole Zais)

There were 3 scores in the 50 freestyle (Dania Piscetta 2nd 24.07, Nicole Zais 11th 25.04, Steph Perkins 13th 25.11)

The womens 400 Medley Relay team finished 2nd 3:59.52 (Elle Van Cott, Nicole Zais, Taryn Brosnan, Dania Piscetta)

Day 2
The women started the evening with a 3rd place finish in 200 Medley Relay 1:49.18 (Elle Van Cott, Nicole Zais, Sara Hollar, Steph Perkins)

The 400 IM found Caroline Isaacs breaking her own school record by 4 seconds to finish 5th 4:43.31 and Alisha Wilson dropping 3 seconds from her preliminary swim to finish 13th 4:52.54

Sara Hollar broke a minute in the 100 fly to finish 10th 59.86

Nicole Zais grabbed 2nd in the 100 breaststroke 1:06.82, Steph Perkins was 9th, Kirstie Parkinson 10th 1:09.94 and Nina Lanctot 15th 1:10.15 (prelims)

Elle Van Cott snagged the school record in the 100 backstroke on Day 1 of competition in the Medley Relay 1:00.31 and Dana Auger was right by her with a blistering 1:01.70 on the B Relay team. In the individual event they finished 5th and 12th

Day 3
The final day of competition was highlighted with three amazing swims. Elle Van Cott finished 12th in the 200 backstroke 2:13.65, Nicole Zais chased down her title in final leg of the 200 breaststroke, out touching MIT for the win 2:22.96. Sara Hollar then went on to finish 7th in the 200 fly with a smoking-fast-2:12.71

It was a great weekend. Congratulations ladies!

Stay tuned for NCAA results.

Nicole Zais and Charlie Maier named NEWMAC Swimmer and Diver of the week!!

Senior Nicole Zais was awarded female NEWMAC swimmer of the week last week for her outstanding showing at the Wheaton Invitational. Nicole won both breastrokes
(1:07.29, 2:30.02)and was part of the winning 400 Medley Relay team along with Elle Van Cott, Sara Hollar and Dania Piscetta. To read more about Nicole, click here.

Freshman Charlie Maier was awarded male NEWMAC diver of the week last week for his showing at the Wheaton Invite. It was the first time diving 11 dives and Charlie finished second on both boards, snagging the school record on 3 meter, 395.45. To read more about Charlie, click here.

Wheaton women are @ Mt Holyoke this weekend for NEWMAC Conference Championships.
The men are @ MIT next weekend.
Stay tuned.

Womens NEWMACs in 2 DAYS

@ Mt Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA

Friday Feb 18
200 Free Relay
500
200 IM
50
1 Meter Dive
400 Medley Relay

Saturday Feb 19
200 Medley Relay
400 IM
100 Fly
200
100 Breast
100 Back
800 Free Relay (finals only)

Sunday Feb 20
1650
200 Back
100
200 Breast
200 Fly
3 Meter Dive
400 Free Relay

Check out last years results here.

See you all there!!

Top Tens, so far :-)

The following swimmers and divers have achieved top ten swims and/or dives for the 2010/11 season. Congrats.

Emmerson Jenkins - 50free (22.22) 5th
Sam Neill - 50free (22.60) 9th
Dania Piscetta - 50free (23.74) 1st SCHOOL RECORD
Adrianne Madden - 50free (23.99) 3rd

Emmerson Jenkins - 100free (49.14) 7th
Dania Piscetta - 100free (52.38) 1st SCHOOL RECORD
Adrianne Madden - 100free (53.39) 2nd

Spencer Deans - 1650free (18:02.02) 9th
Vanessa Fuchs - 1650free (19:06.10) 8th

Adrianne Madden - 50fly (27.07) 2nd

Sam Jackson - 100fly (55.91) 9th
Adrianne Madden - 100fly (1:02.49) 8th

Sam Jackson - 200fly (2:10.51) 9th
Dania Piscetta - 200fly (2:20.01) 8th

Emmerson Jenkins - 50back (26.60) 10th
Adrianne Madden - 50back (29.04) 4th

Emmerson Jenkins - 100back (56.72) 9th
Adrianne Madden - 100back (1:00.92) 4th
Nicole Zais - 100back (1:02.64) 8th

Dania Piscetta - 200back (2:15.66) 5th
Elle Van Cott - 200back (2:17.68) 10th

Zach Fichman-Klein - 50breast (29.10) 5th
Nina Lanctot - 50breast (32.88) 5th
Sarah Miller - 50breast (33.21) 8th

Zach Fichman-Klein - 100breast (1:04.90) 8th
Nina Lanctot - 100breast (1:11.60) 8th

Zach Fichman-Klein - 100IM (57.55) 3rd
Ben Sabol - 100IM (58.50) 4th
Corey Best - 100IM (59.70) 7th
Sam Dean-Lee - 100IM (59.81) 8th
Eddie Gillie - 100IM (59.88) 9th
Nicole Zais - 100IM (1:01.49) 1st SCHOOL RECORD
Dania Piscetta - 100IM (1:01.96) 2nd
Alisha Wilson - 100IM (1:05.23) 3rd
Steph Perkins - 100IM (1:05.68) 5th

Zach Fichman-Klein - 200IM (2:05.35) 6th
Nicole Zais - 200IM (2:16.56) 6th

Sam Jackson - 400IM (4:41.76) 9th
Dania Piscetta - 400IM (4:54.14) 6th

Charlie Maier - 1M6dives (262.73) 1st SCHOOL RECORD
Taylor Wright-Sanson - 1M6dives (183.83) 10th
Emma Chaiken - 1M6dives (213.90) 6th
Alex Wilson - 1M6dives (204.45) 9th

Charlie Maier - 3M6dives (268.12) 1st SCHOOL RECORD
Jon Gold - 3M6dives (223.87) 3rd
Emma Chaiken - 3M6dives (225.35) 5th

Charlie Maier - 1M11dives (393.80) 1st SCHOOL RECORD
Taylor Wright-Sanson - 1M11dives (223.70) 9th

Charlie Maier - 3M11dives (395.45) 1st SCHOOL RECORD
Taylor Wright-Sanson - 3M11dives (297.60) 5th
Alex Wilson - 3M11dives (345.65) 3rd

Congratulations everyone. Stay tuned for NEWMAC results. It's going to be wild.