Meet Results

BUFFALO – SUNY Fredonia's diving helped the Blue Devils slip past the State University of New York at New Paltz women's swimming team on Saturday during the third and final day of the 2013 State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Swimming & Diving Championships at Erie Community College's Burt Flickinger Aquatic Center, as the Hawks wound up fourth with 561 points.

SUNY Geneseo won the team title for the sixth straight year, scoring 772 points. SUNY Cortland and Fredonia placed just in front of New Paltz with 586 and 567 points, respectively, while SUNY Oneonta (353), The College at Brockport (287), Buffalo State (173), SUNY Potsdam (159) and SUNY Oswego (131) rounded out the remainder of the field.

Junior Chelsea Allocco (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) posted a solid NCAA provisional time to start off the evening session, as she clocked a first-place time of 17:09.21 in the 1,650 freestyle. Allocco—who now has won the event for three straight years—set program, conference meet and conference overall records with the performance. She bettered her former program record of 17:26.44, which she set last year, and she also lowered the former conference meet and conference overall mark of 17:22.78, which SUNY Geneseo's Meghan Green set in 2010. Allocco also set the program standard in the 1,000 freestyle, as she stopped the clock at 10:24.89 after 40 laps of the event. Beyond Allocco, junior Niki Ghostlaw (New Windsor, N.Y./Newburgh Free Academy) placed sixth (18:20.00) and sophomore Kat Buyes (Wappingers Falls, N.Y./John Jay) took 16th (18:46.06).

Senior Yuka Suzuka (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Yorktown) won the 200 backstroke for the fourth time in as many years, as she covered the event in a first-place and NCAA-provisional-qualifying time of 2:03.65. Freshman Casey O'Connor (New Fairfield, Conn./New Fairfield) made the consolation final and took 13th (2:16.77).

Junior Victoria Scalise (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) touched third in the 100 freestyle, charting a third-place and NCAA-provisional-qualifying mark of 52.16. Freshman Cassidy Griger (Cooperstown, N.Y./Cooperstown Central) finished seventh (54.06), while senior Katina Lown (Bohemia, N.Y./Connetquot) came in 13th (55.11).

Sophomore Colleen Stewart (Shelton, Conn./Shelton) led the Hawks in the 200 breaststroke, placing fourth with a time of 2:28.24. Senior Anna Jakubek (Harriman, N.Y./Monroe-Woodbury) scored points in the consolation final, taking 13th overall (2:34.09).

Senior Carly Marshall (Cornwall, N.Y./Cornwall Central) enjoyed a strong 200 butterfly, taking down the program, conference meet and conference overall records in the event while cruising to a first-place time of 2:06.80. Marshall reset her program mark of 2:07.93 and her conference meet record of 2:08.30, and she lowered the conference overall standard of 2:07.30 set by SUNY Cortland's Elizabeth Neddo in 2009. Freshmen Kim Kallansrude (Muttontown, N.Y./Jericho) and Maggie Heaton (New Milford, Conn./New Milford) also made the championship final in the 200 butterfly, taking fourth (2:11.36) and eighth (2:14.24), respectively.

Finally, the 400 freestyle relay team of Scalise, Jakubek, Lown and Griger capped off the meet with a third-place performance (3:34.93).

With no automatic qualifiers this season, New Paltz will wait for the entirety of the invitations to go out for the 2013 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships. This year's national meet will run from Wednesday, March 20, through Saturday, March 23, in Shenandoah, Texas.