Back-to-Back Patriot League Champs! Bison Women Win Second Swimming and Diving Title
Feb. 28, 2004
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - With performances like the school-record times turned in twice each by Jamie Flick, Lectie Altman, and Meghan Freese, and once by Daniela Faas, the Bucknell women's swimming and diving team triumphed on the Patriot League stage once again, claiming their second league crown in as many years. The Bison women racked up 725 points, ahead of the 540 earned by runner-up Colgate. The evening started auspiciously for the Bison women, who accrued 60 points and five of the top 11 spots in the 1650 race. Faas and Jennifer Cancro earned second and third place, respectively, and Carlyn Donley came in seventh with the eighth-best time in Bucknell history. American's Cameron Miller won the race in 17:05.87, just .15 seconds ahead of Faas. Following a fifth-place finish by Sarah Petcavage in the women's one-meter diving event, Lectie Altman turned in the second school-record performance on the day, and the first in the evening session. Altman completed the 200 back in 2:01.67, also a Patriot League record, and more than three seconds ahead of Lehigh's Julie Mitchell. Freshman Laura Goeller turned in the fifth-best time in Bucknell history in the event, finishing third as part of a 58-point take for Bucknell. The 100 free followed, and although Meghan Freese came just .08 seconds short of the school record she set earlier in the day in the preliminaries, her time of 51.04 seconds was .02 faster than Navy's Tori Throckmorton. Both swimmers provisionally qualified for NCAA Championship competition, something Freese also did in the 50 free, where she set another school record on Thursday. The final school record on the day followed. Jamie Flick broke her own record in the 200 back, finishing the race in 2:19.44, .60 seconds behind Navy's Aubra Thomas, who would be named the Patriot League's Women's Swimmer of the Week. Flick set the school mark in the 100 breast on Friday. Bucknell had another individual champion in the following race, the 200 fly, when Jackie Feinthel beat Navy's Jennifer Windstein by .75 seconds to win the gold medal. The Bison women ended the night with a second-place, second-best all-time Bucknell finish in the 400 free relay, as Goeller, Altman, Freese, and Rebecca Scheffter completed the course in 3:30.80, 2.05 second behind Navy's squad. Patriot League Women's Coach of the Year honors went to Steve Jungbluth, coach of the runner-up Colgate squad. whose The Patriot League Women's Diver of the Year was Army's Chelsea Haviland. Rounding out the team scores were Navy in third with 534 ½, Army in fourth with 489 ½ points, Lehigh in fifth with 422, American in sixth with 319, Lafayette in seventh with 289, and Holy Cross in eighth with 142. |
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