Feb. 22, 2002
Final Stats
Baltimore, MD---The Marist College swimming and diving teams have maintained their first place positions after the second day of the three day 2002 MAAC Championship. The men have currently tallied 646 points over runner-up Rider (470), and the women have registered 572 points, and are followed by host Loyola (456).
The men had five first place finishes, combined with three conference and two new school records. The 200-yard medley relay team of Trevor Charles (Middletown, Conn.), Matthew Castillo (Jamaica, NY), Nick Lakin (Fairport, NY) and Ricky Kapusta (Stamford, Conn.) set a new school and conference record of 1:33.42, erasing the mark of 1:34.61 that the Red Foxes had set last year. Castillo touched the wall first in the 400-yard individual medley (4:03.37), while David Dobbins (Rochester, NY) swam his way to a first-place finish, and a new conference record in the 200-yard freestyle (1:39.39). The fourth victory was with Charles, who earned the winning title in the 100-yard backstroke (51.55). In the final event of the day, the 800-yard freestyle relay, the foursome of Kapusta, Charles, Castillo, and Dobbins set a new conference record of 6:49.34, breaking the mark of 6:51.45 set by LaSalle in 1988.
On the women's side, the Red Foxes had four first place finishes, adding four school records. The 200-yard medley relay team of Jennifer Meyer (Fairport, NY), Cynthia Rowley (Holbrook, NY), Alyson Fiorillo (Pottsville, PA), and Sarah McKinney (Schaumburg, IL), were victorious in school record setting fashion, touching the wall in 1:51.02. Jennifer Gelsomino (Harrison, NY) broke her own school record in the 400-yard individual medley (4:35.42), on her way to the victory. Kristen Schnitzer (Bronxville, NY) claimed her first MAAC individual title of her collegiate career, as she won the 200-yard freestyle (1:56.07), breaking the former school record of 1:57.07. The final winning, and school record breaking performance of the day, was with the 800-yard freestyle relay team of Gelsomino, Emily Heslin (Allendale, NJ), Schnitzer, and McKinney, producing a time of 7:55.59.
The Red Foxes wrap up the final day of conference competition tomorrow, with the preliminaries set to begin at 10:00 a.m.
