Oct. 23, 2009
FIVE SCHOOL RECORDS FALL IN SWIM MEET VS. MAINE
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| Freshman Molly Smith set two school records and was part of a school-record relay team in Bryant's home opener vs. Maine Friday. |
SMITHFIELD, RI - A total of five women's school record and six women's pool records fell in Bryant University's swimming home opener with Maine Friday night. The Bulldogs would fall to the visiting Black Bears as Maine won the men's meet by a score of 161-100 and Maine's women edged the Bulldogs 133-129.
After a record-breaking performance at Wagner a week ago, freshman Molly Smith (Belmont, Mass.) set a pair of school and pool records in the 100 and 200 yard breastroke. Smith broke her own school mark in the 100 breast winning in a time of 1 minute, 8.96 seconds, just ahead of Maine's Jennifer Trodden who was second in 1:10.10. Smith would later break the school mark in the 200 yard breaststroke with a first-place finish in a time of 2:28.82.
Fellow freshman Casey Ostrander (Yarmouthport, Mass.) also set a pair of records in the meet, taking home first place in the 50 freestyle in 24.65 seconds and later in the 100 yard free in 54.69 seconds. Both Smith and Ostrander helped get the meet off to a great start in leading the Bryant 400 yard medley relay to a first-place finish right off the bat. The team, including sophomore Abby Whittaker (Salisbury, Mass.) and senior Jess Looney (Goffstown, N.H.), who swam the final leg, finished first in a school record time of 4:06.02, shattering the old mark of 4:10.33 set last year.
The Bryant men were led by a pair of freshman standouts as well. Newcomer Kevin McDonald (New Haven, Conn.) earned a first-place finish in the men's 50 yard freestyle in 22.45 seconds and also was the first to touch in the 100 yard backstroke in 55.41 seconds.
Teammate Alex Kosenski (Lavalette, N.J.) was a double-winner as well for the Bulldogs as the freshman took first-place honors in the 100 yard free in 48.93 seconds and captured first in the 200 yard free in 1:48.36, just edging junior Steve Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.) who was runner-up in the 200 free in 1:49.64.
Nguyen was also second in the men's 200 yard individual medley in 2:08.86.
The Bulldogs will host Boston College in a non-conference meet on Sunday, November 1 at the Chace Athletic Center starting at noon.
