Cadets Place Second at Championships

Saturday, February 17

Annapolis, MD

ALL DAY

Army West Point

Patriot League Championships

Cadets Place Second at Championships

February 17, 2018 | Women's Swimming and Diving

Complete Results

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Army West Point women's swimming and diving team picked up its third straight second-place finish at the Patriot League Championships after ending the competition with 568 points.

Navy went on to win the meet with 904.5 points. Lehigh (543) fell right behind Army, while Bucknell (423) and Boston U. (385) rounded out the top five. Loyola (250.5), Colgate (191), American (172), Holy Cross (107) and Lafayette (93) placed in the final five spots.

ARMY NOTABLES

The 568 points was the second-most at the league championships by an Army team in the last 16 years.
Sabrina Mortell was the first Cadet in the pool on the final night of competition and she swam to a third-place finish in the 1650 free with her time of 16:42.64. Sidney Evans followed in sixth at 16:55.21.
After Bailey Smith won the B-Final in the 200 back at 2:00.06 and Kim Sembrano took third at 2:01.23, Josephine Marsh (2:00.25) and Cecelia Croman (2:00.43) finished in seventh and eighth, respectively, in the finals.
Kara Wineinger placed eighth in the 100 breast after touching the wall at 2:18.03.
Before Marie Docken finished seventh in the 200 fly with a time of 2:03.73, Whitney Chang won the B-Final at 2:01.44.
On the 3-meter board, Serica Hallstead placed second with a score of 280.40, while Heather Yoshii took sixth at 248.20.
The championships capped off with the 400 free relay and the group of Madison Berg, Bailey Smith, Chang and Jenna Forrester came in fifth with a time of 3:27.34.

WENDER'S WORDS

"I'm proud of our team," head coach Mickey Wender said. "We fought hard and swam fast. We broke a lot of records and won a bunch of events. We were tough, stayed focused, executed well and came together as a team. I was very proud of the way our team and staff represented the premiere leadership institution. The best is yet to come."