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Competing in the 1-meter diving competition, Demetra Williams enters the pool with great form during the Cornell Big Red women’s swimming and diving team’s contest against St. Bonaventure on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019 in the Kelsey Partridge Bird Natatorium at Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y. (Diann Lindsay/Cornell Athletics)
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Williams Shatters 1-Meter Diving School Record on Day Two of Ivy Championships

2/20/2020 9:29:00 PM

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Sophomore diver Demetra Williams shined on the second day of the Ivy League Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, placing fifth overall in the 1-meter diving competition and shattering the Cornell school record in the process.

Williams' point total of 266.50 points broke a 14-year old Cornell school record, besting Kristin Rayhack's 259.00 points that she recorded at the 2006 Ivy Championships. Paced by Williams' top-five finish and school record performance, the Big Red notched seven Cornell all-time top-10 marks on Thursday.

Competing in the first Ivy League Championship of her college career, freshman Elise Jendritz also scored points for the Big Red in the 1-meter diving competition, qualifying for the B Final and finishing 11th with 253.75 points, a mark which sits fourth in the Big Red record books.

Laurel Kiselis made the cut for the B Final in the 50-yard freestyle, touching the wall in 23.21 to place 13th overall with a time that ranks fifth in Cornell history. Lexi Schaaf notched an all-time top-10 mark of her own in the C Final, swimming the 10th-best time in Big Red history (23.58) to finish 23rd.

The Big Red had a quartet of swimmers qualify for the C Final in the 500-yard freestyle, with Sophia Cherkez (4:53.78) and Annaklara Doel (4:57.57) both finishing in the top-20 and cracking Cornell's top-10 list. The pair placed 18th and 20th, respectively, with the fourth- and ninth-fastest times in program history. Gillian Caverly (4:58.12) and Deedee Maizes (5:01.97) also made the C Final, finishing 21st and 23rd, respectively.

The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Kiselis, Melissa Parker, Claire Liu, and Schaaf closed out the day strong for the Big Red, placing sixth in 1:32.73 with the third-best time in the Cornell record books.

Through two days of the Ivy League Championships, the Cornell women's swimming and diving team sits in eighth place with 219.5 points. Action will resume tomorrow at Brown's Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center in Providence, R.I. at 11 a.m. with prelims. Tomorrow's finals are once again slated for 6 p.m.

For fans who can't be in attendance, tomorrow's finals and prelims will be available on ESPN+. Live results are accessible as well.

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