Women's Swimming Trio Make Program History on Day Two of ECAC Winter Championships

Hepburn won the B-final in the 100-yard breaststroke on Saturday night after breaking her own school record in the morning prelims to become the first B-cut qualifier in program history (PHOTO BY Jan Volk/SportsPix)

Hepburn, Gobora and Lundell earn individual finals spots on Saturday

EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (December 4, 2021) – The Stonehill College women's swimming program, competing in its first championship meet in program history, made more program history on Saturday by placing three individuals in finals races tonight to highlight day two of the 2021 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Winter Championships, at Nassau County Aquatic Center today.

Highlights

Stonehill freshmen Jami Hepburn, Sofiya Gobora and Sharlotte Lundell all made program history on Saturday morning by earning spots in Saturday night's individual finals.
Hepburn highlighted the night by winning the B-Final in the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:06.29 after becoming the first in Stonehill women's swimming history to earn a B-cut final with her school-record prelim time of 1:06.18. She led all non-Division I swimmers in the event, including three who made the finals, and was ninth overall to earn 20 points for the Skyhawks in the team standings after qualifying 11^th out of 46 entries overall in the morning.
Lundell qualified for the C-Final in the 100-yard breaststroke and finished sixth in that race in a personal-best 1:10.31 after qualifying in the prelims with a time of 1:10.80. She earned three team points with her finals position, qualifing as a first alternate after placing 25^th out of the 46 entries overall and then finishing ahead of two who had qualified ahead of her in the Saturday morning prelims in Saturday night's finals. Sophomore Maddie Conley clocked in right behind Lundell in the prelims, with her time of 1:11.00 placing 27^th overall.
Gobora became the program's first finals qualifier earlier in the morning and then finished second in the C-final for the 400IM (PHOTO BY Jan Volk/SportsPix)

Gobora earned the distinction of becoming the first in program history to earn a finals cut by qualifying for the C-Final in the 400-yard individual medley relay with her prelim time of 4:48.22 (school-record) in the morning – good for 19^th overall. She followed that up by finishing second in her finals heat and bettering her own school-record time at 4:45.11 to earn seven points for the team and was the lone non-Division I finalist for the event. It marks her second school record of the weekend after setting a new mark in the 200IM (2:14.54) on Friday morning.
Hepburn and Gobora were also part of Stonehill's 200-yard medley relay team that placed 12^th out of 22 entries in a school-record 1:50.74 to earn 30 team points. The Skyhawks led the eight non-Division I entries in the event, which included a Stonehill B-relay that finished 16^th in 1:54.79 (22 points). Joining Hepburn and Gobora on the A-relay were sophomore Sydney Stockwell on the lead backstroke leg, with Hepburn following with the breaststroke leg, sophomore Katie Keating on the butterfly leg and then Gobora swimming the freestyle anchor leg. Lundell and Conley featured on the B-relay after junior Nika Sokolova led with the backstroke leg and then Conley swam the breaststroke, with Lundell on the butterfly, before freshman Julie Mastroianni finished the freestyle anchor.
Stonehill holds its position at seventh in the team standings out of 12 women's programs that have scored through 28 total events with 188 points to lead the five non-Division I programs that have scored through two days. The Skyhawks point total is also good enough for tenth in the combined (men's and women's) team scores. Columbia University leads the women's standings with 1,577 points, followed by the University of Maryland Baltimore County (1,266) and Long Island University (730). UMBC is first in the combined team scoring with 3,414.5 points, followed by Columbia (1,577) and LIU (1,563.5).

Lundell caps the Skyhawks finals qualifiers with her spot in the 100-yard breaststroke C-cut (PHOTO BY Bob Blanchard)

More Stonehill Results

Stockwell finished 31^st out of 60 entries overall in the 100-yard butterfly with her time of 59.33-seconds – leading all non-Division I entries (nine total) and the three Stonehill competitors. Keating placed 41^st in 1:00.75, while Lundell was 42^nd in 1:00.99.
Mastroianni led nine non-Division I entries in the 200-yard freestyle and placed 50^th out of 63 swimmers overall with a time of 2:06.20.
Gobora, along with Stockwell, narrowly missed the C-final for the 100-yard backstroke. Stockwell placed 27^th out of 62 entries overall in 59.91 seconds, while Gobora was right behind in 28^th with a time of 1:00.04, leading the 15 non-Division I entries.

Up Next

Stonehill wraps up the ECAC Winter Championships at Nassau County Aquatic Center tomorrow morning with prelims at 9 a.m., and then finals scheduled to start at 4 p.m. Live results can be accessed via stonehillskyhawks.com.

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