Boston, MA- The Wagner College women's swim team finished fourth this weekend at the three-day-long Harvard Invitational. Throughout the competition, the Seahawks garnered nine top-10 finishes. 

The Seahawks' best times of the contest came in three of its relay events, the 200 freestyle relay, 200 medley relay and 400 freestyle relay. In the 200 freestyle relay, the Green & White swam to a season-best fourth-place finish with a time of 1:41.65. The Seahawks also notched a season-best fourth-place finish in the 400 freestyle relay, clocking in at 3:42.61. Wagner's B team also finished eighth in the event with a time of 3:53.21.Wagner's last fourth-place mark came in the 200 medley relay, with a time of 1:54.75. The squad rounded out its relay events with a sixth and seventh-place finishes in the 800 freestyle relay with respective times of 8:08.09 and 8:34.74. 

Individually, senior Melanie Rodriguez-Lapman (Chesire, CT / Chesire) and senior Jessica Hart (Montreal, Canada / Northwest) led the team with eighth-place finishes in their respective events. In the 400 IM, Rodriguez-Lapman finished with a time of 4:45.67, one spot behind her was freshman Dana Samuel (Rivonia/ South Africa / Crawford College) with a ninth-place finish in 4:55.51. Hart swam to a season-best time in the 100 butterfly, clocking in at 57.62. 

"The coaching staff is pretty pleased with the way we performed at this meet,” said head coach Mark Sowa. “A good majority of our athletes were either at or close to their best performances from last year and this was thankfully without wearing any high tech suits. The goal of coming up to Cambridge was to race some very good teams and practice the way we want to approach our championship meets in February and March. Our girls were really objective about how they swam and made great adjustments in finals. I really like where we are at right now and now have a very clear idea of how we need to get better. We still got a lot of work to do but our coaching staff is confident that this group is excited to attack that challenge." 

The Seahawks return to action on Friday, December 4 when they travel to Piscataway, NJ to compete in a dual meet vs. Rutgers University. 

FINAL RESULTS