Day 2 AM Meet Results
Day 2 PM Meet Results
Team Scores (After Day 2)

BRONX, N.Y. – The State University of New York at New Paltz women's swimming team moved up to fourth out of 17 teams on day two of the three-day Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Winter Championships on Saturday at Lehman College, fashioning 556 points through two days of action.

New Paltz trails only New York University (first, 1,202.50), the Stevens Institute of Technology (second, 938.50) and Siena College (third, 685). The Hawks will be battling down to the wire with NCAA Division I Fairfield University, which is currently just nine points behind New Paltz with a fifth-place total of 547.

Saturday was split into two sessions: a 10 a.m. session and a 6 p.m. session. All events were contested as timed finals. Action concludes at the meet tomorrow, with the first heat going off at 10 a.m.

The highlight for New Paltz on Saturday came in the 800 freestyle relay, as the foursome of sophomore Cassidy Griger (Cooperstown, N.Y./Cooperstown Central), senior Chelsea Allocco (Chatham, N.J./Chatham), junior Kat Buyes (Wappingers Falls, N.Y./John Jay) and senior Victoria Scalise (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) charted a first-place time of 7:45.20. While that swim is a few seconds off the NCAA provisional qualifying standard, it still serves as a strong performance at this point in the season.

Saturday's morning session began with the 200 backstroke, and sophomore Casey O'Connor (New Fairfield, Conn./New Fairfield) led the Hawks with a 12th-place finish (2:16.45). In the 100 freestyle, Scalise and Griger took fourth (53.57) and eighth (53.82), respectively, while sophomore Kim Kallansrude (Muttontown, N.Y./Jericho) and sophomore Maggie Heaton (New Milford, Conn./New Milford) placed sixth (2:12.21) and 14th (2:17.87), respectively, in the 200 butterfly. Junior Samantha Granan (Hyde Park, N.Y./Franklin D. Roosevelt) rounded out New Paltz's top performances in the Saturday morning session by claiming 12th (2:29.89) in the 200 breaststroke.

In the evening session, the 200 freestyle relay squad of Griger, sophomore Ella Graffin (Ithaca, N.Y./Ithaca), sophomore Krista VerMeersch (Newark, N.Y./Newark) and Scalise kicked things off with a third-place time of 1:39.52. O'Connor placed 17th (1:02.52) in the 100 backstroke, while New Paltz had three top-10 finishers in the 200 freestyle: Scalise (second, 1:55.81), Allocco (third, 1:56.15) and Griger (seventh, 1:56.95). Granan took 11th in the 100 breaststroke (1:08.75), while Heaton and Kallansrude finished 11th (1:00.22) and 12th (1:00.46), respectively, in the 100 butterfly. In the final event of the night, New Paltz had three swimmers place among the top 16 in the 400 individual medley: Allocco took third (4:35.85), freshman Ann Fici (Hauppauge, N.Y./Hauppauge) took 14th (4:53.83) and senior Ali Smoak (Gansevoort, N.Y./Saratoga Springs) took 16th (4:54.69).