Bombers Move Into First Place at Swimming & Diving Championships
Webster, N.Y. – The Ithaca women's swimming & diving team moved into first place in the team standings with 711 points, a 37-point lead over second-place Stevens, following the second day of competition at the Upper New York State Collegiate Swimming Association and Empire 8 championship meets at the Webster Aquatic Center.
Junior Carly Jones won the 400-yard individual medley finals in 4:27.21, which met the NCAA B qualifying standard and set an Ithaca record as well as the UNYSCSA championship meet record in that event. Jones also won the 200 IM in Wednesday's competition.
Two Bombers advanced in the 100-yard butterfly preliminaries, as sophomore Fiona Mancuso swam 58.06 seconds in the preliminaries, the second-fastest time in Ithaca history. She went on to finish seventh in the event finals. Senior Cali DeSanto placed sixth in the finals with a time of 58.81 seconds. DeSanto's time is the third-best on the Ithaca record board in the 100 fly.
Sophomore Elizabeth Gawrys olaced fourth in the 200-yard freestyle finals in 1:54.94, the fourth-best time in program history and freshman Megan Buisman was eighth in the 200 free in 1:57.02.
Buisman's time is the 15th best all-time by a Bomber.
Sophomore Korie Fackler won the 1-meter diving event with a finals score of 446.10 as Ithaca swept the top-three places and earned four of the top-six spots on the 1-meter board. Fackler's score is an Ithaca record, as well as a championship-meet record. Senior Jodi Costello was second with 420.95 and graduate student Katie Kaiser was third with a total of 405.10. All three of those scores met the NCAA provisional qualifying standard. Junior Kloe Boeckel scored a career-best 352.85 to place sixth and earn her first-career all-state finish.
Ithaca placed fifth in the finals of the 200-yard freestyle relay as senior Amanda Vitullo, DeSanto, sophomore Carlene Ostromecki and Gawrys touched in 1:39.99. Ithaca's 400-yard medley relay of freshman Kylie Bangs, junior Madi Sherry, Jones and Gawrys placed third in the event finals in 3:57.70.
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Day 2 Finals