RESULTS

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Fredonia State women finished second at the SUNYAC Swimming and Diving championship meet which ended Saturday night at the Erie Community College's Burt Flickinger Center. It was the highest finish in the history of the women's program.

Several more school records were set Saturday and one individual SUNYAC champ was crowned.
Sophomore Ashley Keller (Lockport) finished first in 1-meter diving, and broke the SUNYAC record in the process. Keller recorded 478.15 points for 11 dives and took down a record held by former national champ and current assistant coach Kelly Sponholz.

In addition, Keller defeated teammate Sarah Ficarro (Owego), a junior, who was second off the 1-meter board after winning her third straight SUNYAC 3-meter title Thursday. Ficarro had 474.85 points, which was also better than Sponholz's former record.

The Blue Devils again dominated diving as sophomore Katelyn Haley (Canandaigua) was third, freshman Heather Colby (Owego) fourth, senior Leanne Kies (Owego) sixth, and sophomore Breena Cogliandro (Penfield) ninth.

The 90 points earned by the divers Saturday enabled the Blue Devils to overtake Cortland in the final team standings, 627.5 points to 599 points. Geneseo won the team championship with 681.5 points.

Elizabeth Schake (Churchville), a junior, added her name to the school-record list for the fifth time at the meet when she was clocked in 54.04 seconds during the women's 100-yard freestyle preliminaries. She lowered the record even further in the evening final with a sixth-place time of 53.97 seconds. In the 100 free consolation final, freshman Katie Donnelly (Albion) finished 10th.

Schake would take part in a sixth school record in the final event of the night when she, Donnelly, sophomore Jennifer Smith (Pen Argyl, Pa.), and junior Emily Ginty (Chenango Forks) were clocked in 3:37.91 in the 400-yard freestyle relay and finished fourth in the race. During prelims, freshmen Ellie Brion (Canandaigua) and Camille Follman (Salamanca), junior Jessica Dosser (Eden), and Ginty had the fourth fastest qualifying time.

Nearly matching Schake with five school records was junior Stephanie Andrasek (Parma, Ohio), who broke her own school record in the 200-yard breaststroke by touching out in 2:29.66 -- over three seconds faster than her previous-best time. She was seeded second after prelims and junior Courtney Schmidt (Portville) was seeded eighth. In the final, Andrasek finished second in 2:28.09 -- further lowering her school record -- and Schmidt finished eighth.

Ginty broke the school record during preliminaries of the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:11.41, then re-broke it in the final with a fifth-place time of 2:09.66. Freshman Steph Rosa (Phillipsburg, N.J.) finished sixth and Follman seventh. In addition, freshman Breeona Henningham (Clarence) was 10th after swimming in the consolation final.

The Blue Devils began their move up the scoreboard with the first event Saturday night when earn points from four women in the finals of the 1,650-yard freestyle. Lizzie Lodinsky (Buffalo), a junior, led the way with a second-place finish in school-record time of 17:55.49. Enroute to the mile, Lodinsky's 1,000-yard time of 10:48.14 was also a new record. She was followed by Smith in seventh place, Schmidt in ninth, and sophomore Kristen Champoux (NIagara Falls) in 13th.

Another freshman, Jamie Reidy (Depew), finished 15th in the 200-yard butterfly.