Complete Results
Day 1 Recap

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. – Pitted against the four-time defending State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) champions, SUNY Geneseo, the State University of New York at New Paltz women's swimming team (8-2) excelled, besting the Blue Wave (4-4) by a 182-150 final on Saturday afternoon, which was the second and final day of a tri-meet at Elting Pool. The Hawks also squared off with the Rochester Institute of Technology (2-5) and topped the Tigers, 255-77.

The pair of victories gives the team eight wins for the year, which serves as the most dual-meet wins in a single season achieved by fourth-year head coach Scott Whitbeck.  He went 6-3 overall during his first season at New Paltz in 2008-09.

Senior Christine Rieth (Penfield, N.Y./Webster Schroeder) and junior Yuka Suzuka (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Yorktown) each won two individual events. Rieth won by more than a second in the 50 freestyle with a time of 24.78 before claiming the 100 freestyle with a 53.88 standard. Suzuka led for the majority of the 400 individual medley and wound up winning the event with a 4:53.23 performance. She then followed up that swim with a 2:11.69 in the 200 backstroke, which was seven seconds faster than the second-place competitor.

Junior Carly Marshall (Cornwall, N.Y./Cornwall Central) had a thrilling race in the 200 butterfly, battling with Geneseo's Lily Powell throughout. Powell began gaining ground on Marshall on the last 50, but Marshall, the defending conference champion in the event, touched her out with a time of 2:14.94. Marshall also swam the 200 breaststroke and placed second (2:35.77).

Sophomore Chelsea Allocco (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) boasted a pair of second-place finishes, as she served as the runner-up in the 400 individual medley (4:53.23) and the 500 freestyle (5:22.25). Sophomore Victoria Scalise (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) also placed second for the Hawks, charting a 2:02.07 in the 200 freestyle.

The 400 medley relay team of Suzuka, junior Anna Jakubek (Harriman, N.Y./Monroe-Woodbury), Marshall and Rieth won by a sizable margin, registering a time of 4:06.74.

New Paltz returns to competition on Friday, Jan. 20, squaring off with SUNY Cortland at 4 p.m. in Cortland, N.Y.