Complete Results
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Cornell women's swimming and diving team charged all the way to fifth place, setting a team record for points at the Ivy League meet (734) for its best finish since 1995-96 on the final day of competition at Blodgett Pool. It was a true team effort, as the Big Red had only three individual swimmers in the championship final swims.
Both Meg Farrington and Emily Dean reached the finals in the 200 back and Heather Miller won the consolation final to combine for 68 points in the event. Chiara Spinazzola continued her fantastic sophomore championship meet with a fifth-place effort in the 100 free in 51.45. Like Miller, Emily Caras had a blazing 51.51 to win the consolation final, and then turned around and won the 200 breast consolation final as well in 2:03.14, three seconds better than her qualifying time. Ali Guba added valuable points with a fifth in the consolation in 52.32 for the 100 free, while both Laura Acchione (2:05.26) and Christina DiMaria (2:06.07) scored in the consoles of the 200 fly.
Juliann Rienecker was fourth in the consolation final in the 200 breast with a season-best 2:20.09, while Jen Park placed 15th overall in the 1-meter diving competition to lead the Big Red. She picked up an additional 12 points.
The 400 free relay squad capped off the exhausting meet with a solid fourth-place showing in 3L27.34, just over two seconds behind third-place Harvard and five seconds faster than its qualifying time. Spinazzola swam the lead-off leg and was followed by Guba, Sadie Ellison and Caras
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Sophomore
Chiara Spinazzola set an Ivy League record in winning the 100 back and placed second with a school record time in the 100 fly to help lift Cornell into sixth place on day two of the Ivy League championship at Blodgett Pool on the Harvard campus. The Big Red ended the day with 448 team points.
Spinazzola bettered her prelim time of 54.84 with a 54.09 swim in the finals of the 100 fly, an NCAA B cut time that put her second overall. She did even better later in the evening, capturing her first conference title with a 54.53 in the finals of the 100 back to edge out Yale's Emily Dominski (54.80). The time was an Ivy and meet record mark and also was an NCAA B cut time.
The 200 medley relay squad placed third as one of three squads to set a pool record, touching the line in 1:42.62. The team of
Emily Dean,
Jessie Holley, Spinazzola and
Sadie Ellison scored 54 points to earn a spot on the podium
Kim Summers shaved more than 11 seconds off her seed time to finish ninth in the 1000 free in 10:15.15.
Meg Farrington scored in the bonus final of the 400 IM before
Emily Caras sneaked into the championship final and scored a seventh in the 200 free. Holley and
Juliann Rienecker were 12th and 13th overall in the 100 breast, combining for 29 points.
Overshadowed in Spinazzola's Ivy-winning 100 back performance was a fifth-place effort by Dean, who raced to a 55.87 in the finals. Her time of 55.39 was a NCAA B cut time.
Both Katy Aden (207.55) and Jen Park (202.10) scored in the bonus final of the 3-meter diving competition to add points to the toteboard, while the Big Red ended the night with a fifth in the 800 free relay (7:32.94), another swim than was better than 10 seconds faster than the seed time. That team was made up of Summers,
Laura Acchione,
Sarah Icke and Caras.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- After day one of the 2010 Ivy League championship at Blodgett Pool, the Big Red women's swimming and diving team set a school record and posted three top five times in Cornell history. The Big Red scored 92.5 team points.
Leading the way was Cornell's 400 medley relay team that placed fourth overall in a school-record time of 3:47.04, more than seven seconds faster than its seed time and six seconds faster than the previous school mark (3:53.77 in 2005). Emily Dean, Jessie Holley, Chiara Spinazzola and Ali Guba put 52 big team points onto the final tally for the day.
Sadie Ellison tied for fourth in the B final in the 50 free with a 24.06 after a fast 23.88 in the prelims. Both Ali Guba (20th, 24:44) and Kim Levine (24.66) also scored while competing in the C final.
Heather Miller scored with a fourth-place effort in the C final of the 200 IM, swimming a career-best 2:07.78 to add five team points. The time was the fourth-best mark in Cornell history.
Kim Summers was the team's top finisher in the 500 free, becoming the fourth Big Red swimmer to break the five-minute barrier in the B finals (4:59.87). She was 15th overall. Ana Goya Arce also scored by shaving nearly two seconds off her prelim time to take sixth in the C final in 5:04.90.
Action continues on Friday.
