BUFFALO, N.Y. – Senior Taylor Houseman (Wellsville) set a conference meet record in the 200-yard breaststroke and the 400-yard medley relay team established a new school record during Cortland's final day of competition at the SUNYAC Women's Swimming and Diving Championships.

Cortland finished in second place out of nine teams with a score of 598. The showing is the Red Dragons' best since runner-up efforts in both 2007 and 2006. Geneseo captured its third straight league title with 814 points, followed by Cortland, New Paltz (495), Fredonia (473) and Oswego (407) in the top five.

Houseman won the 200-yard breaststroke in an NCAA “B” cut time of 2:21.09, besting the previous SUNYAC championship record of 2:22.33 set by Geneseo's Sierra Achin at last year's championships. Houseman also broke her own school record of 2:23.53 from last season.

Houseman received the SUNYAC's Grace Mowatt Award, which is presented annually to a conference senior female swimmer or diver for athletic achievement, improvement throughout her college career and academic achievement. The award is named for the former 30-year Oswego women's swimming and diving coach and 1959 Cortland alumna.

Cortland eighth-year head coach Brian Tobin was selected as the SUNYAC Women's Swimming and Diving Coach of the Year for the first time. He was also named the Men's Coach of the Year for the second time (the first was in 2006).

The 400-yard freestyle relay team of senior Katie Molzan (Plattsburgh/Peru), sophomore Michelle Seeger (Oneonta), freshman Jessica Evans (Hamburg) and senior Kristin Barnoski (Stanley/Marcus Whitman) finished third with a school-record time of 3:37.98. The old mark of 3:38.05 was set in 2007 by Molzan, Krista Bergquist (West Islip), Barnoski and Allie Houseman.

Barnoski finished third in the 100-yard freestyle (54.51, 54.33 prelims), while freshman Abigail MacDonald (East Amherst/Williamsville North) finished fourth in both the 200-yard backstroke (2:12.05) and 200-yard butterfly (2:17.36). Evans was fourth in the 100-yard freestyle (54.52) and senior Samantha Buckley (Holbrook/Sachem North) was the fifth-place finisher in the 1,650-yard freestyle (18:24.13).

Five other Red Dragons earned top-eight finishes. Junior Rachel Phillips (Eden) was sixth in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:29.20), Molzan placed seventh in the 100-yard freestyle (55.68) and sophomore Laura Bohneberg (Lockport) was seventh in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:31.67). Freshman Kelsey Roe (Auburn) touched the wall eighth in the 200-yard backstroke (2:18.22, 2:16.49 prelims) and senior Lauryn Kaznowski (Kingston) finished eighth in one-meter diving (342.40 points, 351.90 points in prelims).

FINAL STANDINGS

1) Geneseo – 814
2) Cortland – 598
3) New Paltz - 495
4) Fredonia - 473
5) Oswego - 407
6) Oneonta – 292
7) Brockport – 183
8) Buffalo St. – 173
9) Potsdam – 160

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