Cortland's winning 200-yard medley relay team (left to right): Amanda Grossman, Michaela Auer, Chrisanna Hickey and Sarah Culmo
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Seniors
Chrisanna Hickey (Hopewell Junction/John Jay East Fishkill) and
Sarah Culmo (West Islip) each set school records with individual runner-up finishes and combined with freshman
Amanda Grossman (Schaghticoke/Hoosic Valley) and junior
Michaela Auer (Oswego) to win the 200-yard medley relay during the second day of competition at the SUNYAC Women's Swimming and Diving Championships.
The Red Dragons extended their hold on second place in the team standings. Geneseo leads with 582 points, followed by Cortland at 392, New Paltz at 308 and Oneonta at 282 in the nine-school field. The meet will conclude on Saturday at Erie Community College's Burt Flickinger Center.
Hickey posted an NCAA "B" cut and broke the school record in the 100-yard butterfly with her runner-up time of 57.65 seconds. The previous school mark was 58.21 seconds by
Jessica Evans in 2012. Culmo bested her own school record in the 200-yard freestyle with a second-place time of 1:54.36. Her old record was 1:55.21 from last season.
The 200-yard medley relay team captured the conference crown in 1:46.82. Grossman swam the opening backstroke leg, followed by Auer in the breaststroke, Hickey in the butterfly and Culmo in the freestyle.
Freshman
Angelica Ford (Elk Grove Village, IL) placed third in the 100-yard backstroke in 59.64 seconds. All individual league champions earn first-team All-SUNYAC honors. Second-place and third-place individual finishers are awarded second-team all-league status.
Auer registered a fourth-place time of 1:07.26 in the 100-yard breaststroke. The Red Dragons also picked up fourth-place points in the 800-yard freestyle relay as sophomore
Katie Cornetta (Gardner, MA), junior
Krista Caputo (Staten Island/Curtis), sophomore
Chelsey Simon (Oneida) and senior
Caitlin Lanigan (West Seneca/West Seneca West) finished in 7:56.15.
Simon was seventh in the 100-yard butterfly (1:00.08), and three Cortland swimmers placed eighth after advancing to the finals – Cornetta in the 100-yard butterfly (1:00.15, 59.75 in prelims), Lanigan in the 200-yard freestyle (1:58.46) and Grossman in the 100-yard backstroke (1:01.48).
Caputo won the "B" final in the 200-yard freestyle in 1:58.31 for a ninth-place overall finish. Other Cortland scorers on Friday were: freshman
Emily McGurk (Monroe/Monroe-Woodbury) in the 200-yard freestyle (11th place, 1:59.51); senior
Francesca Davide (Ossining) in the 100-yard butterfly (13th place, 1:01.57, 1:01.38 in prelims); and freshman
Kelly Lambkin (Monroe/Monroe-Woodbury) in the 100-yard breaststroke (14th place, 1:11.31).
Day 2 Results
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2014 SUNYAC Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
STANDINGS AFTER DAY 2 (Feb. 21)
1) Geneseo – 582
2) Cortland – 392
3) New Paltz – 308
4) Oneonta - 282
5) Fredonia - 246
6) Brockport – 225
7) Oswego - 131
8) Buffalo St. - 121
9) Potsdam – 103