Oct. 15, 2006
Complete Results
New Britain, CT -- The Wagner College swim team completed day two of the CCSU Duals held by Central Connecticut State University earlier today. After the dust settled Wagner found themselves at 6-0 to start the season. Wagner gained victories over CW Post, NJIT, Sacred Heart, St. Francis (PA), St. Peter's, and St. Francis (NY).
Picking up where the meet left off on Saturday with event nine, Wagner tallied a fourth and fifth place mark in the 200 yard medley relay. The two green and white quartets came in at 1:56.11 and 1:56.28 respectively. The 400 yard IM followed and the Seahawks came on strong grabbing second, third, and fourth place. Freshman Melanie Rodriguez-Lapman (Chesire, CT/Chesire) tallied second at 4:45.45, Kate Wilson (Brentwood, CA/Liberty) was right behind at 4:46.72, while Jess Radka (Mohnton, PA/Holy Name) rounded out the group at 4:47.10.
Next on deck, the 200 yard freestyle and Wagner came up winners with senior Brigitta Roser (Ithaca, NY/Lansing) overcoming a two minute plus prelim time to register 1:57.63. Another senior in Nicole Paduano (North Haven, CT/North Haven) picked up second place in the next event, the 100 yard breaststroke. Paduano hit the wall at 1:12.82. Right behind her was Amanda Males (East Stroudsburg, PA/East Stroudsburg) in fourth place at 1:13.77.
Wagner continued the assault in the 400 yard freestyle relay notching second and third place. 3:43.02 and 3:46.03 were the times of the two units in what was event 13 overall. Skipping ahead to event 16 and the 100 yard freestyle it was more Roser as the senior co-captain accelerated through the chlorinated water for the win at a time of 54.83.
The 100 yard butterfly followed shortly after and yet again Wagner picked up some quality points taking third and fourth. The stroke which was first swum way back in 1934 had freshman Jessica Hart (Summerfield, NC/Northwest) and Radka come in at 59.94 and 1:00.35 respectively.
There were more first places to be had and the Seahawks were happy to obtain them. In the 1000 yard freestyle sophomore Alexandra Tomlinson (Telford, PA/Souderton) put the pedal to the proverbial metal winning the race at 10:36.62. Sophomore Colleen Bowman (Hauppauge, NY/Hauppauge) navigated her way into second place at 10:42.85.
Next up was the 200 yard IM and Wilson and Rodriguez-Lapman were back in action with a second and third place finish at 2:15.75 and 2:18.37. The competition closed out with a third place time in the 400 yard medley relay at 4:12.04.
The team will be right back in action this Friday down at Villanova University doing battle with Villanova and LaSalle.
