Women's Swimming And Diving Takes Down Canisius
10/14/2016 6:15:00 PM
Women's Swimming & Diving
POUGHKEEPSIE, New York - The Marist women's swimming and diving team cruised past Canisius, 169-126, in the 2016-17 season opener Oct. 14 in McCann Natatorium.
Senior Meredith Wurtz anchored a pair of relay squads that registered the fastest times in the meet. The Red Foxes' 200-yard medley relay squad came in first place by .30 seconds and the 400-yard freestyle relay team ended the meet by clocking in at 3:40.24. Wurtz also dominated at short distances, winning the 50- (24.77 seconds) and 100-yard (53.86 seconds) freestyle.
In other individual performances, senior Isabella Morreale was the top finisher in the 100- (1:07.41) and 200-yard (2:26.42) breaststroke. Freshman Jessica Miller was a double-winner in the butterfly, clocking in at 1:01.02 in the 100-yard event and 2:12.24 at 200 yards. Senior Sarah Mosca came in right behind Miller with times of 1:02.15 and 2:15.35 respectively.
Marist also had success in the long distance freestyle events. Junior Melanie Newton grabbed first place at 500 yards with her time of 5:17.73 while classmates Shannon Gordon (10:53.00) and Deirdre Connor (10:59.99) went 1-2 at 1,000 yards.
Junior Megan Berardelli was the highest finisher on both boards, posting 254.25 points at one meter and 269.70 points at three meters. Sophomore Lauren Katz placed second at one meter (240.07 points) and third at three meters (234.90 points).
The Red Foxes will compete at Fordham in their first non-conference dual meet of the season. The meet will begin at 6 p.m. Oct. 20.
