Meet Results

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. – The State University of New York at New Paltz women's swimming team fell, 142-115, to SUNY Geneseo on Saturday afternoon at Elting Pool in its final tune-up before the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Championships.
 
New Paltz finished with outright wins in five individual events. Senior Cassidy Griger (Cooperstown, N.Y./Cooperstown Central) led the way by winning the 200 freestyle (1:56.78) and the 100 freestyle (54.37) in her final collegiate dual meet, while sophomore Megan Joseph (Hauppauge, N.Y./Hauppauge) won the 100 breaststroke (1:11.81), freshman Katie Donlevy (Bayside, N.Y./The Mary Louis Academy) topped the field in the 200 breaststroke (2:34.57) and freshman Jaimie Kaefer (North Bellmore, N.Y./W.C. Mepham) prevailed in the 400 individual medley with a pool-record time of 4:42.64. That swim eclipsed the former facility standard of 4:43.02 set by Julia Cunningham of Vassar College in 2014.
 
The 400 freestyle relay team of Donlevy, junior Aimee Del Favero (Auburn, N.Y./Home School), freshman Kaleigh O'Halloran (Sayville, N.Y./Sayville) and Griger closed out the meet with first-place points in the 400 freestyle relay (3:40.52) and swam under the former pool record time in the event, but Geneseo, who entered the event as exhibition, ended up with the pool record (3:38.22).
 
New Paltz drops to 5-2 with the loss and next competes at the SUNYAC Championships from Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 18-20, at Erie Community College's Burt Flickinger Aquatic Center in Buffalo, N.Y. Geneseo rises to 9-1 with the victory and next hosts the Geneseo Invitational on Saturday, Feb. 6, at 12 p.m.
 
Second-place finishes came from sophomore Molly McCulloch (Rome, N.Y./Holland Patent) in the 50 freestyle (25.56) and Griger in the 500 freestyle (5:17.18). Senior Ella Graffin scored second-place points in the 400 individual medley (5:07.08) by virtue of Geneseo marking its entries in the event as exhibition.
 
Of note, Geneseo established two pool records in addition to its facility standard in the 400 freestyle relay, as freshman Nancy Nasky set records in the 1,650 freestyle (17:45.53) and the 500 freestyle (5:12.49).