RESULTS- DAY THREE

Boston, MA - With day three of the 2014 Northeast Conference (NEC) Swimming & Diving Championships in the books, the Wagner women's swimming & diving team continues to reign supreme, finishing not only in first-place for the third day in a row, but also totaling 10 school records, five of which were set today.

The Seahawks had yet another successful preliminary round earlier in the day, sending 12 athletes into the 'A' finals of five different individual events.

During the morning session, Kailtlin Murtha, Kara Lacoste, and defending champion Amanda Lucia each secured top-eight spots in the 400-yard individual medley event. Erin Malone locked in her spot for the 100-yard butterfly 'A' final, before Sarah Menendez, Grace Baird, Meredith Ketchmark, and Alexandra Cooney assured their spots in the 200-yard freestyle event.

Katja Claesson and Kelsey Thomas were tabbed for the 'A' final in the 100-yard breaststroke, prior to Malone, Meghan Mendez, and Anu Nihipali securing their spots in the 100-yard backstroke event. Nihipali set both the conference and the school record in her heat, posting a time of 54.35.

In the first event final of the night, Lucia defended her 400-yard individual medley championship title, earning not only gold, but also the school record in the event ,finishing in 4:22.20. Lucia's time marked the seventh school record Wagner has broken while at Championships. Teammate Kara Lacoste took the bronze in the event, and Kaitlin Murtha earned fourth-place. Following that event, Malone earned a very respectable seventh-place finish in her first-ever NEC championship final, the 100-yard butterfly event.

The 200-yard freestyle event was positively thrilling, as Wagner's Ketchmark and Bryant's Taylor DeBever battled back and forth for the gold medal. After all was said and done, DeBever narrowly out-touched Ketchmark by .17 of a second to secure the top-spot. Ketchmark not only added another hard earned silver medal to her collection, but also set her first individual school record at the Championships, with a time of 1:50.42. Menendez took home the bronze, Alexandra Cooney earned sixth, and Grace Baird finished seventh.

Immediately following the 200-yard freestyle was the 200-yard breaststroke, which saw Thomas clock in with a speedy 1:04.96, earning her a fifth-place finish overall, as well as the school record. Claesson was close behind Thomas, taking sixth-place in the event. Michelle Greenough earned the top-spot in the 'B' final of the event.

In the final individual event of day three, the 100-yard backstroke, yet another Wagner school record fell as Nihipali knocked even more time off of her blazing prelim go, finishing in 53.42. Nihipali not only set the conference record once again, but also broke the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) pool record in the event, held by Olympian Elizabeth Beisel, in addition to Nihipali earning her second individual NEC championship title. Teammates Malone and Mendez earned fourth and eighth-place, respectively.

Wagner made conference history in the closing event of the night, the 400-yard medley relay, finishing with a spectacular time of 3:44.69, crushing the previous conference record of 3:46.64, and setting the school record to boot. Nihipali, Thomas, Lucia, and Menendez took the gold in the event, finishing almost two seconds ahead of second-place finisher Saint Francis U.

After three days of action, Wagner has been crowned champion of the 200-yard medley relay, the 800-yard freestyle relay, the 500-yard freestyle event, the 200-yard individual medley event, the 400-yard individual medley event, the 100-yard backstroke event, and the 400-yard medley relay event, while also posting a bevy of impressive season-best and personal-best times.

With day three of championships drawn to a close, the standings are as follows:

1. Wagner - 562 points
2. Bryant - 431.5 points
3. Saint Francis U - 371 points
4. Central Connecticut - 368 points
5. Mount St. Mary's - 221.5 points
6. Sacred Heart - 137 points
7. St. Francis Brooklyn- 123 points

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