Day 3 Meet Results
Team Scores (Final)

BRONX, N.Y. – Senior Chelsea Allocco (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) set a meet record and met the NCAA provisional cut in the 500 freestyle on day three of the three-day Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Winter Championships on Sunday at Lehman College, and the State University of New York at New Paltz women's swimming team ended up placing fourth out of 17 squads with 765 points.

Allocco covered the 500 freestyle in a first-place time of 5:00.76, and in the process, she erased the former meet record and achieved an NCAA "B" cut for the second time this weekend. Allocco's performance bettered the former meet standard of 5:01.17, which was set by SUNY Geneseo's Michelle Rodriguez in 2010. She was also less than a second off of her own program record, which she set at the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Swimming & Diving Championships last year.

New York University ran away with the team title, gaining 1,650.50 points throughout the meet. The Stevens Institute of Technology finished second with 1,297.50 points, while Siena College was third with 949 points. Notably, the Hawks edged out NCAA Division I Fairfield University in the team standings, and the Stags sent a full 23-person contingent to the meet. Fairfield settled for fifth with 754.50 points.

New Paltz returns to dual-meet competition in 2014, as it squares off with Limestone College at 7 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 6, during its annual training trip in Bradenton, Fla.

Beyond Allocco in the 500 freestyle, sophomore Cassidy Griger (Cooperstown, N.Y./Cooperstown Central) checked in with an 11th-place standard of 5:15.25. Senior Victoria Scalise (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) and sophomore Ella Graffin (Ithaca, N.Y./Ithaca) took 10th (25.03) and 16th (25.45), respectively, in the 50 freestyle, while junior Samantha Granan (Hyde Park, N.Y./Franklin D. Roosevelt) was New Paltz's top swimmer in the 200 individual medley (2:17.09). The 400 medley relay squad of Scalise, Granan, sophomore Maggie Heaton (New Milford, Conn./New Milford) and Griger finished sixth with a time of 4:05.09, while the 400 freestyle relay contingent of Griger, Graffin, Allocco and Scalise charted a third-place 3:36.76 in the final event of the meet.