Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell Breaks Four School Records at Patriot League Swimming Championships
2/15/2002 7:00:00 AM | Women's Swimming and Diving
Feb. 15, 2002
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - After two days of competition, the Bucknell University womens' swimming & diving team trails Navy by 35 points for first place at the Patriot League Championships at Navy's Lejeune Hall. The Bison men are in fourth place.
Navy's women's team has totaled 446 points. With 411 points, Bucknell leads American (394), Lehigh (323), Army (236), Colgate (230), Lafayette (162) and Holy Cross (137).
Lehigh currently is in first place on the men's side with 450 points. The Mountain Hawks are trailed by American (434), Army (383), Bucknell (295), Colgate (263), Lafayette (241) and Holy Cross (183).
The championships will conclude tomorrow with the 1,650 free, 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast, 200 fly, women's 3 meter diving and the 400 free relay.
The Bison women jumped to an 11-point lead after day one, and remains a threat to win the team title after recording three silver and three bronze medals this evening. Bucknell's 800 free relay team may have posted the most impressive performance of the night, as junior Rebecca Dolan, sophomore Daniela Faas, freshman Jackie Feinthel and sophomore Jennifer Cancro smashed the school record in the event and placed second in 7:41.16. The foursome took nearly seven seconds off the former BU record.
Bucknell also broke the school record in the 200 medley relay. Junior Darby Golino, Flick, freshman Ashley Aiken and sophomore Meghan Freese earned the bronze and finished just .18 seconds behind event winner Navy with a record-breaking time of 1:47.58.
Flick reset her own school record in the 100 breast while taking home the silver with a time of 1:05.55. Golino also picked up a silver in the 100 back in 58.67 after setting the BU record in the event in prelims earlier in the day.
Finishing third on the evening were Faas, who came away with the bronze in the 400 IM with a time of 4:31.20, second all-time at Bucknell, and Cancro in the 200 free. Cancro's time of 1:54.59 ranks second all-time at Bucknell.
Aiken also finished fifth in the 100 fly in 59.35. That time is seventh on Bucknell's all-time top-10 list. Dolan and senior Abby Weaver took ninth and 10th in the same event in 59.77 and 1:00.47, respectively.
Freese turned in a fourth-place performance in the 100 back in 59.22, while freshman Tricia Rado took sixth in the same event in 1:00.30. Rado also placed 13th in the 100 fly in 1:00.91. Senior Barbara Morgan placed eighth and swam to the fourth-best time ever (1:07.94) at Bucknell in the 100 breast.
Other Bison who contributed to the women's team score were sophomore Lynne Ashenfelter in the 400 IM (11th, 4:41.42), freshman Lauren Kmec in the 400 IM (15th, 4:47.81) and the 100 breast (15th, 1:10.08), sophomore Krisztina Poda in the 200 free (16th, 1:59.14) and sophomore Andrea Kern in the 400 IM (16th, 4:50.21).
On the men's side, sophomore Jack Sheehan was Bucknell's top finisher. Sheehan took the silver in the 400 IM while setting a new school record of 4:05.17.
Placing fifth for the Bison was junior Stephen Schwanhausser in the 100 breast (57.53). Schwanhausser broke the BU record (57.34) in the event in prelims this morning.
The Bison also placed seventh and eighth in the 100 breast. Junior Stelios Saffos took seventh in 58.29, second-fastest in school history, while junior Michael Guskey finished eighth in 59.01. Saffos also placed 16th in the 100 fly in 55.34.
Also earning points for men's team were junior Geoffrey Konopka in the 100 breast (10th, 59.22), sophomore Peter Garvin in the 100 fly (11th, 52.72), sophomore Matt Hallowell in the 400 IM (11th, 4:13.03), sophomore Michael Willats in the 100 fly (13th, 53.30) and the 100 back (15th, 57.41), sophomore Adam Puff in the 100 back (13th, 56.19), junior Adam Yerkes in the 200 free (14th, 1:45.80) and freshman John Hoffman in the 400 IM (15th, 4:16.84).
In the relay events, Sheehan, Saffos, Willats and Garvin finished fifth in the 200 medley relay in 1:34.53. Hallowell, junior Kurt McCoy, sophomore Michael Harrigan and Yerkes came in seventh in 7:04.65.
