Meet Results

BUFFALO – Senior Chelsea Allocco (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) of the State University of New York at New Paltz women's swimming team became the fifth student-athlete in program history to earn the State University of New York Athletic Conference's (SUNYAC) Grace Mowatt Award and the third in as many years on Saturday at conclusion of the 2014 SUNYAC Swimming & Diving Championships hosted at Erie Community College's Burt Flickinger Aquatic Center.
 
The Grace Mowatt Award is given annually to a senior female swimmer/diver based on the following criteria: All-America honors, All-SUNYAC honors, improvement throughout collegiate career and academic achievement.
 
Allocco, who finished her SUNYAC Championship career with eight individual titles—four in the 400 individual medley and four in the 1,650 freestyle—and two conference overall records, joins Jessica DiFabio (1998-99), Joanna Masterson (2005-06), Christine Rieth (2011-12) and Yuka Suzuka (2012-13) as the Hawks' other Grace Mowatt Award winners.
 
New Paltz finished the meet in third place out of nine teams with 472 points. SUNY Geneseo earned its 22nd SUNYAC title with a first-place total of 880 points, while SUNY Cortland took second with 573 points. SUNY Oneonta (fourth, 409 points), SUNY Fredonia (fifth, 404 points), The College at Brockport (sixth, 320 points), Buffalo State (seventh, 189 points), SUNY Oswego (eighth, 184 points) and SUNY Potsdam (ninth, 124 points) rounded out the remainder of the field.
 
Allocco, who earned three NCAA "B" cuts throughout the course of the weekend, won her fourth 1,650 freestyle conference title in as many years, as she clocked an NCAA "B" cut time of 17:11.12. During that race, she reset her own program record of 10:24.89 in the 1,000 freestyle that she set last year with a 10:24.53.
 
Beyond Allocco in the 1,650 freestyle, the Hawks received a sixth-place finish from junior Kat Buyes (Wappingers Falls, N.Y./John Jay), a seventh-place finish from freshman Ann Fici (Hauppauge, N.Y./Hauppauge) and a ninth-place finish from senior Niki Ghostlaw (New Windsor, N.Y./Newburgh Free Academy).
 
In the 200 backstroke, sophomores Ella Graffin (Ithaca, N.Y./Ithaca) and Casey O'Connor (New Fairfield, Conn./New Fairfield) finished 12th (2:16.00) and 13th (2:16.32), respectively.
 
Sophomore Cassidy Griger (Cooperstown, N.Y./Cooperstown Central) finished fourth in the 100 freestyle with a 53.65, while senior Victoria Scalise (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) took fifth in the event with a 53.80.
 
Junior Samantha Granan (Hyde Park, N.Y./Franklin D. Roosevelt) engaged in an exciting race in the 200 breaststroke, and she edged out Fredonia's Larissa Dobson for second with a time of 2:26.23. Granan finished the weekend with one NCAA "B" cut, which she achieved in the 100 breaststroke on Friday.
 
In the 200 butterfly, sophomores Kim Kallansrude (Muttontown, N.Y./Jericho) and Maggie Heaton (New Milford, Conn./New Milford) placed seventh (2:14.01) and eighth (2:15.72), respectively, while senior Ali Smoak (Gansevoort, N.Y./Saratoga Springs) came in 15th (2:21.02).
 
Finally, the 400 freestyle relay squad of Griger, Allocco, Buyes and Scalise finished off the meet with a fourth-place finish with a time of 3:35.99.
 
Abby Max of Geneseo was named the SUNYAC Female Most Outstanding Swimmer, while Geneseo head coach Paul Dotterweich was named the SUNYAC Coach of the Year. Ashley Keller of Fredonia was named the SUNYAC Female Diver of the Meet.