Hepburn finished fourth in the 200-yard breaststroke tonight (PHOTO BY Ben Stockwell/NE10) |
Hepburn fourth in 200-yard breaststroke to highlight seven finals appearances
NE10 Swimming & Diving Championships Final Recap
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (February 20, 2022) – Stonehill College concluded its first appearance at the Northeast-10 Conference Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, hosted by Southern Connecticut State University, with seven more finals appearances on day four of the Championship at Hutchison Natatorium today.
Stonehill finished its debut at the NE10 Championships in seventh place in the team standings with 334 points – just two points behind sixth place Pace University (336 points). Southern Connecticut State successfully defended its 2020 championship by winning its NE10 record 14th title overall with 932 points. Bentley University finished second (711 points), edging third place Assumption University (710) by a single point. The Skyhawks finished ahead of Adelphi University (189) and Saint Michael's College (175).
Stonehill concluded NE10 Championships debut with two podium finishes, including the first NE10 individual championship in program history by freshman Jami Hepburn in the 100-yard breaststroke on Saturday night, 22 finals appearances, including 12 A-Finals, with six top five's in A-finals and three B-Final wins.
Gobora won her second B-Final of the weekend with her finish in the 200-hard backstroke tonight (PHOTO BY Jan Volk/SportsPix) |
Highlights
- Sophomore Katie Keating and freshman Sharlotte Lundell made program history by becoming the first Stonehill pair to qualify for an A-Final, qualifying seventh and eighth, respectively in the 200-yard butterfly this morning. They finished tonight's final separated by just 0.02-seconds, with Lundell sixth in a personal-best 2:15.26, after qualifying eighth for the final with her morning prelim time of 2:18.49, edging Keating who took seventh in 2:15.28 after qualifying seventh in the prelims in 2:17.11.
- Hepburn followed up her NE10 individual title in the 100-yard breaststroke on Saturday night with a fourth-place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke tonight in 2:28.08 after qualifying third for the final this morning in a school-record 2:27.66. Sophomore co-captain Maddie Conley finished fifth in the B-final in a personal-best 2:33.83 (13th overall) after qualifying 11th in the prelims in 2:34.35.
- Stonehill qualified three in backstroke finals for the second-straight day in today's 200-yard backstroke. Sophomore co-captain Sydney Stockwell, who posted a podium finish in the 100-backstroke last night, finished eighth in the A-final of the 200 tonight in 2:10.21 after qualifying tied for seventh in 2:10.77.
- Freshman Sofiya Gobora won her second B-final of the weekend with her school-record time of 2:08.80 in the 200-yard backstroke after qualifying 11th in 2:13.67. She won the 100-backstroke B-Final on Saturday night as well. Junior Nika Sokolova took seventh in the 200-yard backstroke B-Final in a personal-best 2:13.59 to place 15th overall after qualifying 12th in 2:14.79.
Stockwell received her third place medal for Saturday night's third place finish in the 100-backstroke tonight (PHOTO BY Ben Stockwell/SportsPix) |
More Stonehill Results
- Stonehill's A relay finished sixth in the 400-yard freestyle relay that brought the weekend championship to a close in 3:44.59. Stockwell swam the lead leg in 55.71-seconds, followed by Gobora with a 55.17-second split on leg two, before Lundell finished the third leg in 56.03 and then freshman Julie Mastroianni completed the anchor leg in 56.98-seconds.
- Stonehill's B relay took fifth in its heat with a time of 3:49.15 to place 21st overall in the 400-freestyle relay. Sokolova swam the lead leg in 56.10-seconds, with Hepburn posting a 57.14-second split in the second leg, before Conley completed the third leg in 58.51-seconds, and then Keating finished the anchor leg in 57.40.
- Conley and Mastroianni finished 13th and 15th, respectively in the 1650-yard freestyle. Conley finished in a school-record 19:20.32, while Mastroianni registered a time of 19:34.44 – besting her previous personal-best by 24-seconds.
- Junior Maggie Timmoney placed 31st in the 100-yard freestyle this morning in a personal-best 1:02.11.
Up Next
Stonehill is back in action next weekend when it competes at the New England Intercollegiate Swimming & Diving Championships, hosted by the University of Rhode Island, at Tootell Aquatic Center in Kingston, Rhode Island, Thursday through Sunday.
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