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Poughkeepsie, NY — In a meet that involved multiple pool records going down, the State University of New York at New Paltz lost on both the men's and the women's side Friday in a tri-meet hosted by Vassar College. 
 
The Hawks women's team started off the meet by swimming their fastest 200-yard medley relay of the year in which they were narrowly touched out by Franklin and Marshall to finish in third place. They finished with a time of 1 minute 53.94 seconds in which Junior Tessa Griger led off, junior Lindsay Kranitz swam the second leg, freshman Kelly Donlevy was third and senior Chelsea Angulas anchored. Kranitz had herself an MVP day as she was the lone Hawks swimmer to win not one, but two events. Kranitz won the women's 100-yard breaststroke in a time of 1:11.04 and then the 200-yard breaststroke in a time of 2:32.22. 
In the "most competitive women's 1,000-yard freestyle" SUNY New Paltz coach Thomas Eickelberg has witnessed in a dual meet, every swimmer was under 11 minutes, 20 seconds which would be competitive at the State University of New York Athletic Conference meet (SUNYAC). Giovanniello finished the women's 1,000-yard freestyle with a season best 11:17.71. 
 
"We've been training really hard, this is the time of the year that can put a lot of strain on a college swimmer and the team responded really well to making sure we were putting our best efforts forward," Eickelberg said.
 
Sophomore Tessa Griger had a bounce back day swimming two season-best times. First Griger swam the women's 200 yard backstroke going 2:16.91, then the women's 100 yard butterfly, finishing in 1:03.70.
 
On the men's side, the pool record for the 100-yard freestyle was broken five different times throughout the course of the meet. Sophomore Jared Finn was less than a second away from breaking the 100 freestyle pool record himself, swimming a time of 49.51. After barely eating for the past two days due to a medical procedure, freshman Owen Rowlands swam his first collegiate 1,000-yard freestyle and completed it in 10:45.77, which is the ninth fastest time in the SUNYAC conference. Rowlands also swam his first collegiate 200-yard breaststroke and went a 2:22.68 which is the fastest time swam by a Hawks men's team member this season. 
 
Sophomore Ethan Bonney dropped a new season-best time in the 1,000 freestyle, going a 10:07.63 and finishing in second place overall for the event.
 
"It was a nice change of pace getting to race someone that I knew could push me to my limit," said Bonney after the men's 1,000 yard freestyle.
 
The breaststroke duo of Zac Brown and Akiva Garfield continued to impress completing the men's 100 yard breaststroke in third and fourth place respectively in the event. Garfield finished with a season-best time of 1:04.10, while Brown touched in at 1:05.10. 

SUNY New Paltz will take on Hamilton College in their Green Out Game next Friday at 6 p.m.

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