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ECAC Swimming & Diving Championships • Day 2
February 23, 2001

 Stephens Earns All-East Honors in 100 Breaststroke 

 

Sandy Stephens

SEWELL, NJ - University of Delaware athletes picked up four Top 15 finishes during the second day of action at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Championships Friday at Gloucester County College Pool.

After two days of action, Delaware is eighth in the team standings with 103 points. East Carolina leads the team standings with 371 points.

Sophomore Sandy Stephens (St. Mark's/Newark, DE) earned All-East honors with a third place finish in the 100 breaststroke while junior Kathryn Fryer (Severna Park, MD HS) placed 12th the 100 butterfly. In addition, Blue Hen relays had two top 10 and All-East finishes as the 200 medley relay of Meghan Marshall, Stephens, Fryer, and Jill Fitzgerald was sixth and the 800 freestyle relay team of Meghan Petry, Fryer, Emily Mitchell, and Jennifer Haus was seventh. No Blue Hen men competed on Friday.

Stephens, the America East runner-up in the 100 breaststroke last week at the University of Maine, swam to a third place time of 1:05.67, just over a second slower than winner Kristen Zeimetz of New Hampshire (1:04.26). East Carolina's Samantha Perry was second. Stephens also placed 21st in the 100 butterfly (59.92).

Fryer, who placed 17th in the 100 butterfly a year at ECAC's, placed 12th this year in a time of 58.46, just .28 seconds off her school record time. Marist's Erin McGrath won the race in a time of 57.29. Fryer also placed 20th in the 100 backstroke (1:01.57).

The 200 medley relay team placed sixth in a time of 1:50.59 behind winner East Carolina (1:46.03) while the 800 freestyle relay team was seventh in a time of 7:49.09. Central Connecticut won the event in a time of 7:38.19.

Also for Delaware, Denise Duncheskie (Gwynedd Mercy/Oreland, PA) placed 25th in the 100 backstroke (1:02.56), Nicole Gibson (West Potomac/Alexandria, VA) was 27th in the 100 breaststroke (1:10.39), and Haus (St. Mark's/Newark, DE) was 41st in the 200 freestyle (1:59.43).

 

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