10/22 Weekly Release: @ NYU / Stevens
This Week:
SUNY New Paltz Hawks vs The Violets of New York University and the Ducks of Stevens Institute of Technology—Saturday 10/24/09 @ 1:00pm.
In the season opener, New Paltz and Stevens Tech will travel south to the Natatorium at NYU. These events will be contested:
200 Medley Relay
1000 Free
200 Free
100 Back
100 Breast
200 Fly
50 Free
–Break–
100 Free
200 Back
200 Breast
500 Free
100 Fly
–Break–
200 IM
400 Free Relay
Scouting the Violets:
Several members of the New York University Men’s and Women’s Swimming team competed at the NCAA Division III Championships from Wednesday, March 18, through Saturday, March 21, in Minneapolis.
Senior tri-captains Andrew Lardiere (50 and 100 Free and 100 Fly), Paul Hogan (500 and 1650 Free) and Eric Wang (400IM and 200 Fly), as well as junior Eric Pcholinski (100 Free), represented the Violets in the competition. The Violets totaled 37 points at the meet and finished 24th in the nation.
As for the Lady Violets, A trio of swimmers: junior Patricia Beck (200IM and 200 Back), sophomore Chelsea Pfohl (100 Fly and 100Back) and freshman Molly Rippe (500 and 1650 Freestyles), as well as senior diver Melanie Peters (1-Meter and 3-Meter diving), all represented the Violets at the competition.
This meet will also mark the 2009-2010 season opener for the Violets.
Scouting the Ducks:
The Stevens Institute of Technology swimming program closed out their 2009 season at the Division III NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in Minneapolis, Minn. The women’s team sent seven swimmers and the men’s team sent sophomore Evan Wilson.
The Women’s team finished with 100.5 points, good for 11th overall and was the top finisher in the Empire 8. Barito was a two-time All-American as Hatfield, Grunewald, and Woo earned the distinction once each. The team also took home 13 honorable mention All-America accolades.
Evan Wilson earned a 20th-place finish in the 500-yard freestyle on the first day of competition and came back to take seventh in the 400-yard individual medley on the second day. That seventh made him the first All-American in the history of the program, and his 3:58.87 broke his own school-record. Wilson closed out competition by taking 20th in the 1650-yard freestyle.
The Ducks opened their 2009-2010 season last weekend against Montclair State. Freshmen Alex Benham and John Hu each set pool records in their first-ever collegiate meet. Hu touched in with a record time of 1:59.40 in the 200-yard backstroke, while Benham set a new pool record in the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 9:39.44. Freshman Marissa Douglas set a new pool record in her first collegiate meet, posting a time of 2:16.31 in the 200-yard backstroke.
The link to the Ducks vs Montclair State meet : http://www.stevensducks.com/assets/sports/mswimming/Montclair.htm
Scouting the Hawks:
Juniors Marissa Morris and Christine Reith competed at the 2009 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships. Morris competed in the 200 Back and 200 and 500 Freestyle events. Reith swam the 50, 100, and 200 Freestyles.
On the year, the women set nine varsity records and won three individual SUNYAC titles, setting new conference and meet records in the two events. Junior Jessica Lester (Long Beach, NY/Long Beach) won the 1650 freestyle in a time of 17:36.70, an NCAA provisional cut. Her win broke a 25-year old varsity record and a 14-year old conference record and her split at the 1000 free mark (10:40.38) made the record chart. Reith teamed with Morris, Lester and Allison Wells to set a varsity record in the 800 free-relay (7:49.78) and in the 400 free relay (3:32.91). The 400 medley relay of Rieth, Morris, Ellis and Becky Baker took second in record time of 3:58.63.
In 2008-09, the men’s swim team re-wrote the record board with six new varsity records and one SUNYAC meet and conference record. Stephen Cozzolongo lead the team in record fashion as he won the 100 backstroke (52.67) in a new varsity, conference and meet record time and scored an NCAA provisional cut. He also won the 100 fly (51.74) in varsity record time. The team of Cozzolongo, Rob Webb, Dave Gardner and Billy Papetti in the 200 medley relay broke a seven-year record in 1:36.23. First year Jesse Sweeney posted a second place finish in the 200-backstroke in 1:55.62 breaking a 13-year old varsity record.
This meet will be the 2009-2010 season opener for the Hawks.
New Coaches:
This meet will be the first for new assistant coaches Kevin Milkovich and Kristy O’Brien. Milkovich joins New Paltz from Hartwick College, where he graduated in 2009 with a degree in sociology and certification in elementary education. He was named Hartwick’s MVP of the swimming program 3x in his 4 year career and won the departments prestigious Harry Mosher Memorial Award for selfless devotion to his program. O’Brien joins New Paltz from SUNY Oneonta. Also a 2009 grad, she majored in Psychology. She was a SUNYAC points scorer for the Oneonta Red Dragons in both the 400 IM and 200 Back last year.
Upcoming Schedule:
10/31 @ Union College Relays (Troy, NY) 1:00
11/6 @ SUNY Oneonta (Oneonta, NY) 4:00
11/7 vs. US Coast Guard Academy (New Paltz, NY) 1:00
Tags: New Paltz swimming