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ECAC Swimming & Diving Championships • Final Day
February 24, 2001

 Blue Hens Place 8th; Petry Wins 1,650 Freestyle

 

Meghan Petry

Complete Meet Results

SEWELL, NJ -- Led by freshman Meghan Petry, the University of Delaware women's swimming and diving team placed eighth at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships Saturday at the Gloucester County College Pool.

Petry (Villa Walsh/New Providence, NJ) became the first ECAC champion in Delaware women's swimming history on the final day as she captured the 1,650 freestyle in a school record time of 16:54.35 to lead the Blue Hens.

Petry earned four All-East citations and set four school records during the three-day meet to lead Delaware to an eighth place team finish with 158 points. East Carolina won the team title with 554 points followed by Boston College, UMBC, Central Connecticut, Army, Navy, and New Hampshire. UMBC won the men's team title. Delaware's eighth place finish was its highest at the meet since the ECAC started sponsoring the meet in 1992-93. Delaware did not compete in the men's division.

Petry won the 1,650 freestyle in a time of 16:54.35 to break her own record of 17:02.99 set earlier this season. Later in the day she earned All-East honors by placing eighth in the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:07.63. She broke her own school record with a time of 2:06.24 in the preliminaries. Petry went on to swim a leg of the 400 freestyle relay team that placed 16th in a time of 3:47.52. She was joined by Kathryn Fryer (Severna Park, MD HS), Nicole Gibson (West Potomac/Alexandria, VA) , and Katie Poore (Glasgow/Newark, DE) .

Also leading the Blue Hens on the final day was sophomore Sandy Stephens (St. Mark's/Newark, DE) who earned her third All-East honors of the meet with a fourth place finish in the 200 breaststroke, breaking her own school record with a time of 2:23.08. Earlier in the meet, she earned All-East honors by placing third in the 100 breaststroke and sixth in the 200 medley relay.

Also for the Hens, Emily Mitchell (Arundel/Crofton, MD) was 10th in the 1,650 freestyle (17:39.97) and 24th in the 200 butterfly (2:11.43), Fryer was 18th in the 200 backstroke (2:12.15), Denise Duncheskie (Gwynedd Mercy Academy/Oreland, PA) was 20th in the 200 backstroke (2:12.82), Megan Rodgers (Lower Merion/Ardmore, PA) was 23rd in the one-meter dive (172.35 pts.), Poore was 28th in the 200 breaststroke (2:33.89), Gibson was 29th in the 200 breaststroke (2:36.17), Meagan Marshall (Thomas Jefferson/Frederick, MD) was 32nd in the 200 backstroke (2:15.78), Jill Fitzgerald (Archbishop Wood/Warminster, PA) was 33rd in the 100 freestyle (55.00), and Jennifer Haus (St. Mark's/Newark, DE) was 50th in the 100 freestyle (56.01).

 

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