Meet Results

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. – In its first dual meet of the 2012-13 season, the State University of New York at New Paltz women's swimming team (1-0) powered its way to a 148-95 victory over SUNY Oswego (1-2) on Saturday afternoon at Elting Pool. New Paltz placed first in all 14 events contested at the meet.

The Hawks declared the 500 freestyle, the 100 butterfly, the 200 individual medley and the 400 freestyle relay as exhibition.

Juniors Chelsea Allocco (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) and Victoria Scalise (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) and seniors Yuka Suzuka (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Yorktown) and Carly Marshall (Cornwall, N.Y./Cornwall Central) all were double-event winners individually. Allocco captured first in the 1,000 freestyle (10:58.02) and the 200 individual medley (2:21.59), Scalise placed first in the 200 freestyle (1:59.26) and the 100 freestyle (55.14), Suzuka claimed first the 100 backstroke (1:01.60) and the 200 backstroke (2:14.57) and Marshall nabbed first in the 200 butterfly (2:14.60) and the 200 breaststroke (2:34.86).

In addition, freshman Krista VerMeersch (Newark, N.Y./Newark) won the 100 breaststroke (1:13.67), senior Katina Lown (Bohemia, N.Y./Connetquot) touched first in the 50 freestyle (25.80), freshman Cassidy Griger (Cooperstown, N.Y./Cooperstown Central) topped the 500 freestyle field (5:24.64) and freshman Ella Graffin (Ithaca, N.Y./Ithaca) notched a first-place finish in the 100 butterfly (1:02.56).

The Hawks posted an event-best time in the 200 medley relay to start the meet, as the contingent of Suzuka, Marshall, Graffin and Scalise clocked a 1:53.12. To close the meet, New Paltz set a pool-record standard in the 400 freestyle relay by posting a 3:42.81. That record clipped the former mark of 3:42.86 that the Stevens Institute of Technology set last year.

New Paltz returns to action on Saturday, Nov. 17, as it takes on cross-river rival Vassar College at 1 p.m. at Elting Pool.