Women’s Swimming & Diving in Second Place Following Day Three of AE Championships

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Women’s Swimming & Diving in Second Place Following Day Three of AE Championships

2/13/2016 9:55:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving

WORCESTER, Mass. – The University of New Hampshire women's swimming and diving team is in second place after the third day of competition at the America East Championships, held at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The Wildcats have a total of 588.5 points through 14 events.

WHAT HAPPENED
Freshman Brittany Driscoll (Wallingford, Conn.) earned the first victory of the finals session as she touched the wall first in the 400-yard individual medley. She swam all four strokes to an ECAC-A qualifying time of four minutes, 21.47 seconds. Sophomore Bridget Miller (Longmeadow, Mass.) tagged the wall third with a time of 4:25.75, also an ECAC-A qualifying time.

Sophomore Jessica Harper (Easthampton, Mass.) took gold in the 100-yard butterfly with a result of 55.85 seconds, just one-tenth of a second faster than second place. Her time was an ECAC-A qualifying time.

In the 200-yard freestyle, sophomore Liza Baykova (Moscow, Russia) won the conference title as she was just two-tenths of a second off her conference record time set last year. Her time of 1:47.68 was an NCAA-B consideration time. Freshman Brittany Moffatt (Cedar Falls, Iowa) touched the wall in second place with a time 1:51.03, an ECAC-A qualifying time.

The 400-yard medley relay quartet of Harper, Baykova, Sarah Broderick (Haverhill, Mass.) and Bettina Caspersen (Lyngby, Denmark) finished the event with a time of 3:47.94, an ECAC-A qualifying result. Freshman Linnea Lemerise (Brentwood, N.H.) paced her way to a silver medal in the 100-yard back stroke with an ECAC-A qualifying time of 56.48 seconds.

Diver Hailee Miller (Milton, Mass.) recorded a score of 223.05 to finished third in the event. Erin Cullather (Highland Park, Ill.) posted a fourth-place mark of 201.80 points. Caspersen took fourth place to tally 15 points for the Wildcats in the 100-yard breaststroke. She tagged the wall to an ECAC-A qualifying mark of 1:05.03.

RESULTS AFTER DAY THREE
(1) UMBC – 626 points
(2) New Hampshire – 588.5 points
(3) Vermont – 446 points
(4) Maine – 301 points
(5) Binghamton – 224.5 points

THURSDAY'S EVENTS
1-meter dive – complete
800-yard freestyle relay – complete
200-yard medley relay - complete

FRIDAY'S EVENTS
Preliminaries (10 a.m.) | Finals (5:30 p.m.)
500-yard freestyle - complete
200-yard individual medley - complete
50-yard freestyle - complete
200-yard freestyle - complete

SATURDAY'S EVENTS
Preliminaries (10 a.m.) | Finals (5:30 p.m.)
3-meter dive - complete
400-yard individual medley - complete
100-yard butterfly - complete
200-yard freestyle - complete
100-yard breaststroke - complete
100-yard backstroke - complete
400-yard medley relay - complete

SUNDAY'S EVENTS
Preliminaries (10 a.m.) | Finals (5:30 p.m.)
1,650-yard freestyle
200-yard backstroke
100-yard freestyle
200-yard breaststroke
200-yard butterfly
400-yard freestyle relay

For more information on women's swimming and diving, visit www.UNHWildcats.com.