Complete Results
Final Team Scores
EAST MEADOW, N.Y. – The State University of New York at New Paltz women's swimming team finished the third and final day of the 2011 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Winter Swimming & Diving Championships ranked third out of 13 teams on Sunday at the Nassau County Aquatics Center.
The Stevens Institute of Technology won the meet title with 1,768 points, while Wagner College ranked closely behind with 1,752 points. The Hawks accumulated 1,076.5 points throughout the course of the three-day meet.
Senior
Christine Rieth (Penfield, N.Y./Webster Schroeder) missed the NCAA “B” cut in the 50 freestyle by .05 seconds, covering the two-lap event in 24.02 to place second in the event's 59-person field.
Beyond Rieth, sophomore
Chelsea Allocco (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) touched fifth in the 500 freestyle (5:12.66), while junior
Katina Lown (Bohemia, N.Y./Connetquot) and junior
Carly Marshall (Cornwall, N.Y./Cornwall Central) placed ninth in the 50 freestyle (25.34) and 10th in the 200 individual medley (2:14.12), respectively.
The Hawks fielded two impressive relay contingents as well, with the relay squad of juniors
Yuka Suzuka (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Yorktown) and
Anna Jakubek (Harriman, N.Y./Monroe-Woodbury), Marshall and Rieth clocking a third-place 3:59.88 in the 400 medley relay and the 400 freestyle relay quartet of sophomore
Victoria Scalise (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton), freshman Katherine Buyes (Wappingers Falls, N.Y./John Jay), junior
Katina Lown (Bohemia, N.Y./Connetquot) and Rieth going a third-place 3:38.13 in the 400 freestyle relay.
New Paltz competes in its final meet before the winter break on Saturday, Dec. 10, taking on Ramapo College at 1 p.m. at Elting Pool.