Franklin & Marshall Invite

McDaniel Men

Stephen Gomez (Charlottesville, Va./Albermarle) finished fourth in the 200 butterfly to lead McDaniel to a ninth-place finish at the 2009 Franklin & Marshall Invitational in men's swimming action on Saturday and Sunday.

The Green Terror recorded 116 points. College of New Jersey won the 10-team event with 826.5 points.

Gomez recorded the top finish for McDaniel, finishing the 200 butterfly in a time of 2:00.73. He also added a 10th-place showing in the 400 IM with a time of 4:29.15.
Jason Harder (Philadelphia, Pa./Pennington) finished 13th in the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:09.89.

Morgan DeHart (Salisbury, Md./Wicimico) and Chris Steinheimer (Monrovia, Md./Urbana) placed 14th (18:07.89) and 15th (18:24.70), respectively, in the 1,650 freestyle to round out individual point scorers for the Green Terror.

The 400 free relay team of Gomez, DeHart, Jono Leafblad (Garnee, Ill./Warren Twp.) and Bryan Nuckles (Suffolk, Va./Nansemond-Suffolk Academy) was the top relay of the weekend for the Green Terror, placing seventh with a time of 3:28.54.

Wes Henry (Greencastle, Pa./Perkiomen) joined Nuckles, Leafblad and Gomez in the 400 medley relay, which finished eighth with a time of 3:57.69.

Henry, Nuckles, DeHart and Gomez were ninth in the 200 free relay (1:34.08) while Nuckles, DeHart, Leaflad and Henry teamed for a ninth-place showing in the 200 medley relay (1:47.23).

The Green Terror returns to action at Dickinson on Jan. 16. Meet time is 1 p.m.

Team Scores: 1. College of New Jersey 826.5, 2. Franklin & Marshall 554, 3. Gettysburg 446, 4. Rowan 382, 5. Widener 342.5, 6. Susquehanna 271, 7. St. Mary's (Md.) 191, 8. Marymount 120, 9. McDaniel 116, 10. Elizabethtown 60.
McDaniel Results: 200 Free Relay: 9. Wes Henry, Bryan Nuckles, Morgan DeHart, Stephen Gomez 1:34.08; 500 Free: 18. Gomez 5:04.68, 25. DeHart 5:14.09, 30. Chris Steinheimer 5:22.77; 200 IM: 35. Jason Harder 2:14.42; 18. Nuckles 22.78, 35. Henry 23.63, 47. Erik Brennan 27.65; 400 Medley Relay: 8. Nuckles, Jono Leafblad, Gomez, Henry 3:57.69; 200 Medley Relay: 9. Nuckles, DeHart, Leafblad, Henry 1:47.23; 400 IM: 10. Gomez 4:29.15, 14. DeHart 4:39.56, 18. Harder 4:47.39; 100 Butterfly: 28. Leafblad 57.79; 200 Free: 29. Steinheimer 1:57.99, 30. Henry 1:58.25; 100 Breaststroke: 18. Leafblad 1:06.89; 100 Backstroke: 19. Nuckles 1:00.86, 23. Brennan 1:08.80; 100 Free: 24. Nuckles 50.63, 46. Brennan 1:00.19, 200 Breaststroke: 18. Leafblad 2:26.42; 200 Butterfly: 4. Gomez 2:00.73, 13. Harder 2:09.89; 400 Free Relay: 7. Gomez, DeHart, Leafblad, Nuckles 3:28.54; 1650 Free: 14. DeHart 18:07.89, 15. Steinheimer 18:24.70.

McDaniel Women

Rachel Walega (Ambler, Pa./Wissahickon) placed third in the 100 breaststroke with a season-best time of 1:09.19, leading McDaniel to an 11th-place finish at the 2009 Franklin & Marshall Invitational in women's swimming action on Saturday and Sunday.

The Green Terror finished with 90 points. College of New Jersey won the 13-team event with 653.5 points.

Walega added a sixth-place showing in the 200 breaststroke, also covering the distance in a season-best time (2:32.60).

Jessica Fry (St. Mary's, Ga./Camden County) added a sixth-place showing the 1,650 freestyle, swimming a personal-best time of 18:23.67 - a time which ranks fourth all-time in program history.

Fry was also 13th overall in the 500 free with a time of 5:24.01.

McDaniel's four relay teams placed either 11th or 12th.

Megan Giroux (Damascus, Md./Damascus) and Alyssa Romasco (Gilbertsville, Pa./Perkiomen) teamed with Walega and Fry for an 11th-place showing in the 400 medley relay (4:29.74) while Andrea Mills (Laurel, Md./Laurel) teamed with Fry, Romasco and Walega for an 11th-place finish in the 400 free relay (3:56.55).

Romasco, Walega, Mills and Giroux finished 12th in the 200 free relay with a time of 1:48.94 before the quartet recorded the same place finish in the 200 medley relay with a time of 2:04.31.

The Green Terror returns to action at Dickinson on Jan. 16. Meet time is 1 p.m.

Team Scores: 1. College of New Jersey 653.5, 2. Kutztown 606.5, 3. Washington (Md.) 354, 4. Gettysburg 325, 5. Franklin & Marshall 315, 6. St. Mary's (Md.) 288, 7. Rowan 262.5, 8. Susquehanna 245.5, 9. Marymount 138, 10. Widener 121, 11. McDaniel 90, 12. Elizabethtown 56, 13. Juniata 34.

McDaniel Results: 200 Free Relay: 12. Alyssa Romasco, Rachel Walega, Andrea Mills, Megan Giroux 1:48.94; 500 Free: 13. Jessica Fry 5:24.01, 35. Romasco 5:41.35; 200 IM: 46. Giroux 2:35.27, 48. Caitlin Pozmanter 2:39.74; 50 Free: 31. Walega 26.94, 46. Andrea Mills 27.60; 400 Medley Relay: 11. Giroux, Walega, Romasco, Fry 4:29.74; 200 Medley Relay: 12. Giroux, Walega, Romasco, Mills 2:04.31; 400 IM: 17. Fry 5:00.77,100 Butterfly: 40. Mills 1:12.16; 200 Free: 25. Romasco 2:06.65; 100 Breaststroke: 3. Walega 1:09.19, 37. Pozmanter 1:23.30; 100 Backstroke: 33. Giroux 1:12.17; 100 Free: 32. Mills 59.81, 40. Giroux 1:01.54; 200 Breaststroke: 6. Walega 2:32.60, 31. Pozmanter 2:58.45; 400 Free Relay: 11. Fry, Romasco, Mills, Walega 3:56.55; 1650 Free: 6. Fry 18:23.67, 21. Romasco 19:44.34.

St. Mary's (Maryland) Men

Freshman Billy DeBoissiere (Columbia, Md./Atholton) notched three top 10 individual finishes and four top 10 relay finishes in leading St. Mary's College of Maryland men's swimming to a seventh-place finish at the two-day 2009 Franklin & Marshall College Invitational which concluded Sunday evening with the crowning of The College of New Jersey as the team champion.

The Seahawks finished in the seventh place for the second year in a row as SMCM tallied 191 points to best Marymount (Va.) University, McDaniel College and Elizabethtown College.

DeBoissiere tallied a fourth-place finish in the 100 breaststroke in 59.75 while picking up a sixth-place finish in the 200 breast in 2:15.78.  He also came in seventh in the 500 freestyle in 4:53.03.

Junior captain Jackson Webb (Leonardtown, Md./Leonardtown) put forth a strong weekend as well as Webb posted two top 16 individual finishes along with four top 10 relay finishes.  He finished sixth in the 200 butterfly in 2:02.10 while coming in 13th in the 100 fly in 54.70.  Webb was the Seahawks' top finisher in the 200 individual medley with his 19th-place finish in 2:05.51.

The foursome of freshman Jesse Stottlemyer (Hagerstown, Md./Smithsburg), DeBoissiere, sophomore Joe Kelly (Ellicott City, Md./Mt. Hebron), and Webb took sixth in the 400 medley relay in 3:43.56.  The same quartet finished seventh in the 200 medley relay in 1:41.75.

Stottlemyer had a solid individual effort as he was St. Mary's top finisher both backstroke events.  Stottlemyer came in 13th in the 100 back in 57.94 and 15th in the 200 back in 2:05.43 while junior captain Nico Pinto (Lima, Peru) was 15th in the 100 back in 58.82.

Webb, DeBoissiere, Kelly and Stottlemyer finished sixth in the 800 free relay as the foursome swam a 7:34.92.  The quartet of Webb, Kelly, Pinto and DeBoissiere placed eighth in the 200 free relay in 1:33.75 while the 400 free relay also finished eighth in 3:31.82 behind the efforts of junior Kalvin Day (Hagerstown, Md./N. Hagerstown), Stottlemyer, Pinto and sophomore Ron Michael (Sykesville, Md./McDonogh).

Kelly picked up a 12th-place finish in the 200 fly in 2:08.92 while freshman Logan Riley (Annapolis, Md./Broadneck) came in 16th in 2:26.70.  Freshman Chris Coghill (Brunswick, Md./Brunswick) was the team's top finisher in the 400 individual medley (5:13.91) while Michael was 32nd in the 200 freestyle in 1:58.83.  Day was top finisher for the Seahawks in both the 100 and 50 freestyle with a 35th (53.05) and 37th (24.14) finish.

The Seahawks will head to Florida for their annual training trip from January 4-13 before hosting University of Mary Washington in Capital Athletic Conference action on Saturday, January 16 at 1:00 pm.

TEAM STANDINGS: 1. TCNJ 826.5, 2. Franklin & Marshall 554, 3. Gettysburg 446, 4. Rowan 382, 5. Widener 342.5, 6. Susquehanna 271, 7. St. Mary's 191, 8. Marymount 120, 9. McDaniel 116, 10. Elizabethtown 60

St. Mary's (Maryland) Women

Freshman Kelly Heyde (Wilton, Conn./Wilton) racked up two Capital Athletic Conference records and two school records as well as four NCAA cuts as the St. Mary's College of Maryland women's swim team finished sixth at the two-day 2009 Franklin & Marshall College Invitational which wrapped up Sunday evening with the crowning of The College of New Jersey as the team champion.

The Seahawks notched 288 points to beat out Rowan University, Susquehanna University, Marymount (Va.) University, Widener University, McDaniel College, Elizabethtown College, and Juniata College for sixth place.

Heyde picked up an NCAA automatic qualifying time in capturing the 400 individual medley in 4:28.39, establishing a CAC, school and F&M Invitational record in the process.  She knocked off the conference's oldest standing record, shattering University of Mary Washington Shannon Hutcherson's 1993 mark of 4:33.22.  Heyde displaced her own record of 4:33.71 from two weekends ago.

Heyde then set another school and league mark in the 200 butterfly with an NCAA ‘B' cut of 2:05.57 to take second place in the event.  She replaced Mary Washington Lorena de la Garza's 2007 mark of 2:06.55 while breaking her own mark of 2:07.71 from October 31.  For her final individual event, Heyde finished second in the 200 individual medley with an NCAA ‘B' cut of 2:10.39.

Senior Rachel Hotchko (Yakima, Wash./A.C. Davis) finished second in the 100 butterfly with an NCAA ‘B' cut and school record time of 57.09.  Hotchko replaced her own mark of 57.30 from February 14, 2009.  She also took fourth in the 100 freestyle in 54.15 and sixth in the 50 free in 25.08.

The foursome of Heyde, Hotchko, freshman Maddie Casey (Rockville, Md./T.S. Wootton), and freshman  Melanie Bloch (Bethesda, Md./French International) staked a third-place finish in the 800 free relay in 8:05.79.

Junior captain Sofia Sokolove (Bethesda, Md./Bethesda-Chevy Chase) finished sixth in the 400 individual medley in 4:49.04 while notching a ninth-place finish in the 200 breaststroke in 2:34.62 to be the team's top finisher in that event.  Sokolove was the Seahawks' top finisher in the 100 breast in 1:11.51 for a 15th-place finish.

The Seahawks finished fourth in the 400 medley relay in 4:06.97 behind the efforts of senior captain Monika Disque (Annapolis, Md./Annapolis), Sokolove, Heyde and Hotchko while the quartet of Disque, junior Rosa Trembour (Takoma Park, Md./Albert Einstein), Hotchko and Bloch claimed fifth in the 200 medley relay in 1:54.13.

Senior captain Anna Chiplis (Silver Spring, Md./Montgomery Blair) took seventh in the 100 butterfly in 1:01.97 while Disque finished 11th in the 100 backstroke in 1:03.87.  Disque was top finisher for SMCM in the 200 breaststroke in 2:19.89.

The 200 free relay team of Bloch, Heyde, freshman Chelsea Gulliver (Frederick, Md./Urbana) and Hotchko finished sixth in 1:42.64 while Heyde, Disque, Gulliver and Bloch claimed a ninth-place finish in the 400 free relay in 3:49.86.

Sophomore Katie Serfling (Frederick, Md./Urbana) was 13th in the 400 IM in 4:59.88 while Bloch finished 14th in the 100 freestyle in 56.41.  Casey posted a top 16 finish in the 1650 freestyle as she finished 16th in 19:14.80 while tallying a 17th-place finish in the 200 freestyle in 2:02.90.  Casey was the top finisher for the Seahawks in the 500 free with a 25th-place finish in 5:33.87.

The Seahawks will take their annual training trip to Florida from January 4 to 13 before welcoming University of Mary Washington to the ARC Aquatics Center for Capital Athletic Conference action on January 16 at 1:00 pm.


Washington College

Junior Rachel Glasser (Silver Spring, MD/Springbrook) won three individual events, broke four school records and one Centennial Conference record, and qualified for the NCAA Division III Championships to lead the way for the Washington College women's swim team at the Franklin & Marshall Invitational, held yesterday and today in Lancaster, PA. The Shorewomen finished third of 13 teams overall at the event with 354 points, outpacing fellow Centennial teams Gettysburg (fourth, 325 points), Franklin & Marshall (fifth, 315), and McDaniel (11th, 90).

Glasser swam an NCAA Division III Championship automatic qualifying time of 2:04.20 to win the 200 butterfly. She won the 100 butterfly in a school and conference-record time of 56.72 and the 500 freestyle in a school-record time of 5:00.21. Glasser finished the meet by posting the fastest time in the 1650 freestyle as an exhibition entrant, finishing in a Washington College school-record time of 17:24.94. She also broke the school record for the 1000 freestyle during her 1650 swim, covering the first 1000 yards in 10:32.38. Glasser's times in the 100 butterfly, 500 freestyle, and 1650 freestyle events were NCAA provisional qualifying times. Glasser also swam an NCAA provisional qualifying time of 1:54.61 for the 200 freestyle while leading off the Shorewomen's 800 freestyle relay. Her performance in that lead-off leg also made her the Shorewomen's third-fastest swimmer ever in the 200 freestyle.

Senior Kathy Gerhart (Phoenixville, PA/Phoenixville Area) posted top-three finishes in all three of her individual events. She placed second in the 200 freestyle in 1:56.71 to become Washington's fifth-fastest swimmer ever in the event and was also second in the 100 freestyle in 53.54. She was third in the 50 freestyle in 24.65 and also led off the 400 freestyle relay with a 53.36, the Shorewomen's fastest 100 freestyle time of the season.

Freshman Melanie Craig (Newtown, PA/Council Rock) placed fourth in the 100 breaststroke in 1:09.31 to become the Shorewomen's fifth-fastest swimmer ever in the event and 10th in the 200 breaststroke in 2:34.84 to become WC's ninth-fastest swimmer in that event. She also tied for 27th in the 200 individual medley in 2:22.93. SophomoreJenna Moore (Catonsville, MD/Mount de Sales) was sixth in the 100 breaststroke in 1:09.54, 12th in the 200 breaststroke in 2:36.04, and ninth in the 50 freestyle in 25.33.

Senior Amy Smith (Phoenixville, PA/Phoenixville Area) finished ninth in the 100 backstroke in a WC season-best time of 1:03.29 and 14th in the 200 backstroke in a WC season-best time of 2:17.77. She was also 21st in the 500 freestyle in 5:29.26.

FreshmanSarah Sykes (Haworth, NJ/Northern Valley-Demarest) was 11th in the 200 individual medley in 4:58.14, eighth in the 1650 freestyle in 18:34.13, and 20th in the 500 freestyle in 5:28.20. Sophomore Morgan Phillips (Charlottesville, VA/Albemarle) was 13th in the 100 backstroke in 1:04.04, tied for 27th in the 50 freestyle in 26.39, and 28th in the 200 backstroke in 2:25.24. Sophomore Mary Stroman (Bala Cynwyd, PA) placed 13th in the 200 freestyle in 2:01.81 and 19th in the 100 freestyle in 57.86.

The Shorewomen also excelled in the relay events. Gerhart, Moore, Phillips, and Glasser were second in the 200 freestyle relay in a WC season-best time of 1:40.48. Smith, Moore, Glasser, and Gerhart were second in the 400 medley relay in a WC season-best time of 4:01.42 and third in the 200 medley relay in a WC season-best time of 1:50.73. Glasser, Sykes, Phillips, and Stroman were fourth in the 800 freestyle relay in 8:08.50. Gerhart, Moore, Phillips, and Stroman were fifth in the 400 freestyle relay in a WC season-best time of 3:44.96.

The College of New Jersey won the meet with 653.5 points, while Division II Kutztown was second with 606.5.

The Shorewomen return to action Saturday with a 1:00 p.m. dual meet at Widener.