East Meadow, NY- The Wagner women's swimming & diving team completed day one of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships on Friday at the Nassau County Aquatic Center.
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The Seahawks saw four swimmers qualify for finals events on Friday. The top 24 finishers of each preliminaries event qualified for the finals.
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Junior
Taylor Marjamaa placed 22
nd in the 500 Yard Freestyle with a time of 5:16.45. In the same event, teammate Raquel Rubalcava missed the finals by .07 seconds, touching the wall at 5:17.78 and finishing in 26
th place.
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Marjamaa went on to swim in the C Final heat of the 500 Yard Freestyle, where she finished 4
th in that heat with a time of 5:10.61.
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In the 200 Yard Individual Medley qualifiers, freshman
Bree Anderson and junior
Maile Mora finished in 14
th and 15
th places, respectively. Anderson swam in the B Final heat of the event, where she finished the heat in 2
nd place after hitting the wall at 2:08.22. Mora placed three spots behind her teammate with a time of 2:08.61.
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Senior
Judith Desforges hit the wall at 24.39 in the 50 Yard Freestyle, landing in 16
th place of the preliminaries. Also in that event was senior
Madeleine Delore, who just missed a spot in the finals by .05 seconds. Desforges competed in the B Final heat of the 50 Yard Freestyle and hit the wall at 25.07.
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In the 200 Yard Freestyle Relay, Wagner's Annabella Jencova, Delore,
Hannah Muro, and Desforges finished in 9
th place with a time of 1:38.13. The Green & White's other relay team in the event made up of
Kate Wilkerson,
Isabella Anton,
Rachel Sacerdote, and
Shamiya Guirre finished in 12
th place and a time of 1:40.87.
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Two Seahawks competed in the 1 Meter Diving Event on Friday. Each participant had six dives and sophomore
Meliti Efthimiou finished third with a score of 198.95. Teammates
Maggie Gregory and
Naomi Shorr finished in 5
th and 6
th places, respectively. Â
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Wagner is back in the pool Saturday for day two of the ECAC Championships from East Meadow, NY.
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