Meet Results

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. – Junior Yuka Suzuka (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Yorktown) and senior Christine Rieth (Penfield, N.Y./Webster Schroeder) each won an individual event, but the State University of New York at New Paltz women's swimming team (9-3) lost to the Stevens Institute of Technology (3-1), 125-80, on Saturday afternoon at Elting Pool. Prior to the start of the meet, the program honored its five seniors in a Senior Day ceremony.

Suzuka covered the 100 butterfly in an event-best 1:01.02, while Rieth prevailed in a thrilling 100 freestyle race, winning with a time of 53.45. Rieth was also a runner-up finisher in the 50 freestyle, losing by one one-hundredth of a second to Stevens' Lou Moores with a time of 24.83.

In addition to Rieth's 50 freestyle swim, the Hawks received second-place performances from sophomore Niki Ghostlaw (New Windsor, N.Y./Newburgh Free Academy) in the 1,000 freestyle (11:41.83), sophomore Chelsea Allocco (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) in the 200 freestyle (2:00.55), junior Carly Marshall (Cornwall, N.Y./Cornwall Central) in the 200 individual medley (2:23.33) and the 100 breaststroke (1:14.51) and sophomore Victoria Scalise (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) in the 100 backstroke (1:04.58).

Both Stevens relays broke Elting Pool records. The 400 medley relay comprised of Megan Lisbon, Brittany Geyer, Moores and Hayley Hatfield registered a time of 4:03.48, bettering the former facility mark of 4:04.43 set by SUNY Cortland in 2007. The Ducks posted their second record of the day in the 400 freestyle relay, as the quartet of Sian Pearson, Nicole Miller, Allison Henning and Hatfield charted a time of 3:42.86. That swim erased the former pool record of 3:43.28, which was set by the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 2009.

New Paltz next returns to action at the SUNYAC Championships, which run from Thursday, Feb. 9, through Saturday, Feb. 11, at the Flickinger Aquatic Center in Buffalo. The preliminary heats start at 10 a.m. each day, while the final heats start at 6 p.m. each day.