Records Fall in Final Day of Championships

Saturday, February 20

Annapolis, MD

10 AM / 6 PM

Army West Point

Patriot League Championships

Records Fall in Final Day of Championships

February 20, 2016 | Women's Swimming and Diving

FINAL RESULTS

ANNAPOLIS, MD. – The Army West Point women's swimming and diving team clocked seven new records during the final day of the Patriot League Championships Saturday to finish second overall with 556 points. The men's and women's teams combined for 33 total records broken at the conference meet with the women tallying 11 Academy and five plebe records. This was the highest that the Black Knights finished in 18 years.

"I am so proud of all of our women's team," said head coach Mickey Wender. "It was an amazing team effort to go from fifth to second and after all of the accomplishments this year I am so excited for the team, coaches and support staff. I am proud of how the women came together and their will to lead. The team never gave up, they stayed focus and engaged in the process. They everything they needed to do to pull it out. Tonight was a great end to a very good meet and season."

Sabrina Mortell captured her second Academy record of the week with a first-place finish in the 1650 free tonight. She touched the wall in 16:36.22 to claim the title in the mile. Meaghan McGovern (17:03.93) and Sidney Evans (17:04.77) were eighth and ninth in the finals for Army.

Monica Sowinski set an Academy and plebe record in the 100 free. She placed third with a time of 50.36 for Army. Kelly Hamilton was sixth after clocking a 50.81 and Molly Mucciarone finished 14th in 51.74.

Jess Ambrose had another stellar performance for the Black Knights. She touched the wall in 2:16.12 to place third in the 200 breast to set a new Academy and plebe record. Ambrose was followed by Kara Wineinger who was fifth after finishing in 2:20.51. Margaret Ireland won the consolation final with a time of 2:20.30, while Kate Kinley (2:21.43) and Jess Fabrizio (2:22.21) were 11th and 13th.

In the 200 back, Bailey Smith won the consolation final with a time of 2:01.89. She was followed by Cecelia Croman (2:03.43), Jess Burkett (2:03.51) and Kim Sembrano (2:04.43) who were also in the finals.

Teresa Groton was Army's top finisher in the 200 fly. She placed 10th and clocked a time of 2:04.87.

Army was able to clinch one more Academy record this week, this time in the 400 free relay. Sowinski, Mucciarone, Smith and Hamilton touched the wall in 3:22.84 to place third.

Jorie Mason competed for the Black Knights off the 3-meter. She tallied 219.75 points in the finals to place 13th, while garnering a score of 221.25 during the preliminaries, just 0.52 points shy of her career-best.

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