Women's Swim & Dive Places Six on All-PL Team

2/23/2022 12:00:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving

Four earn spot on First Team, including gold medalist Maddie Hartigan

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The Bucknell women's swimming & diving team placed six on the 2022 All-Patriot League Team, the league office announced Wednesday afternoon.

Senior Maddie Hartigan, juniors Catherine Craig and Sabrina Vumbacco and sophomore Abby Doss represented the Bison on the First Team while junior Sophia Donati and sophomore Esme Hunter made the Second Team.

Hartigan will now graduate having made the First Team following all three of the Patriot League Championships contested during her time in Lewisburg. Craig and Vumbacco, both 2020 Second Team members, earned their first First Team spots. Doss, Donati and Hunter are all first-time All-Patriot League honorees.

Of Bucknell's All-Patriot League sections, four earned medals in individual events: Hartigan (gold in 500 & 1,650 freestyle, bronze in 200 freestyle), Doss (silver in 400 IM, bronze in 200 breaststroke), Vumbacco (silver in 1,650 freestyle, bronze in 500 freestyle) and Craig (bronze in 400 IM). Hartigan (400 & 800 freestyle), Donati (400 freestyle), Hunter (400 freestyle) and Vumbacco (800 freestyle) were also members of at least one silver medal winning relay team.

Hartigan is an eight-time Patriot League individual medalist; she previously earned one gold in the 1,650 freestyle (2019), two silvers in the 500 freestyle (2020, 2019), one silver in the 1,650 freestyle (2020) and one bronze in the 200 freestyle (2020).

This year, Hartigan became the first Bison to win two gold medals at one championship meet since Emma Levendoski swept the backstroke races for the record fourth-straight time in 2016. In addition, she was a member of four career medal-winning relay teams, having captured bronze on 800 freestyle relay squads in both 2020 and 2019 before winning silver in this event and in the 400 freestyle relay in 2022.

Vumbacco, previously the Rookie of the 2020 Patriot League Championships, is a four-time Patriot League individual medalist; she previously captured bronze in the 500 freestyle and the 1,650 freestyle as a first year. Craig and Doss, an NC State transfer and Shamokin, Pa. native, each earned her first individual medal this year.

2022 All-Patriot League Performers
First Team
Maddie Hartigan - 54.5 points (t-2nd)
- 1st in 500 freestyle & 1,650 freestyle, 3rd in 200 freestyle
- 2nd in 400 freestyle & 800 freestyle relays, 4th in 200 freestyle & 400 medley relays

Abby Doss - 47 points (t-12th)
- 2nd in 400 IM, 3rd in 200 breaststroke, 5th in 200 IM
- 4th in 200 medley & 400 medley relays

Sabrina Vumbacco - 47 points (t-12th)
- 2nd in 1,650 freestyle, 3rd in 500 freestyle, 5th in 400 IM
- 2nd in 800 freestyle relay

Catherine Craig - 44 points (14th)
- 3rd in 400 IM, 4th in 200 breaststroke, 6th in 100 breaststroke

Second Team
Esme Hunter - 36 points (t-21st)
- 5th in 200 backstroke, 8th in 100 backstroke & 200 IM
- 2nd in 400 freestyle relay, 4th in 200 medley, 400 medley & 200 freestyle relays

Sophia Donati - 30 points (t-33rd)
- 6th in 100 freestyle, 7th in 200 freestyle, 12th in 50 freestyle
- 2nd in 400 freestyle relay, 4th in 200 medley & 200 freestyle relay