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FREDONIA, N.Y. — Fredonia State women will be looking to dominate diving events and improve in swimming events during the SUNYAC championship meet starting Wednesday.
The divers are led by three-time SUNYAC champ and All-American junior
Sarah Ficarro (Owego). She has won the 3-meter competition the last two seasons and is ranked No. 1 in the event heading into the meet, which runs through Saturday at the Flickinger Center in Buffalo.
Ficarro is the No. 3 seed off the 1-meter board, just behind sophomore teammate and 2011 Second Team All-SUNYAC selection
Ashley Keller (Lockport). Ficarro was First Team All-SUNYAC last year.
Ficarro and Keller together with four teammates – senior
Leanne Kies (Owego), sophomores Katelyn Hayley (Canandaigua) and sophomore
Breena Cogliandro (Penfield), and freshman
Heather Colby (Owego) – comprise six of the top 3-meter divers on the performance list. They rank as high as second and as low as 12th on the 1-meter board.
In swimming events, the Blue Devils enter the meet with numerous top 10 seeds in the performance lists.
Stephanie Andrasek (Parma, Ohio), a junior, is the highest-seeded swimmer among the Blue Devils – second in the 100-yard breaststroke. She is also third in the 200-yard breaststroke, and seventh in the 200-yard individual medley.
Elizabeth Schake (Churchville), a junior, is third in the 50-yard freestyle, third in the 100-yard butterfly, and fourth in the 100-yard freestyle.
In the 500-yard freestyle, the quartet of junior
Lizzie Lodinsky (Buffalo), junior
Emily Ginty (Chenango Forks), sophomore Jennifer Smith (Pen Argyl, Pa.), and sophomore
Kristen Champoux (Niagara Falls) will be looking to add points. They are fourth, sixth, seventh, and ninth, respectively, on the performance lists.
Lodinsky is also third in the 1,650-yard freestyle and sixth in the 200 free. Smith is fifth in the 1,650 free and eighth in the 200 free. Champoux is eighth in the 1,650..
Courtney Schmidt (Portville), a junior, is fourth in the 200-yard breaststroke and sixth in the 400-yard individual medley.
The Blue Devils are fourth and fifth in the 100-yard backstroke with freshmen Steph Rosa (Phillipsburg, N.J.) and
Camille Follman (Salamanca). Rose is fourth, Follman seventh, and Ginty eighth in the 200-yard backstroke.
Blue Devil women are ranked third in five relays – the 200-yard freestyle, the 400-yard medley, the 200-yard medley, the 800-yard freestyle, and the 400-yard freestyle.
Fredonia State finished fourth at the 2011 meet.
Estanislau ranked second in three events
On the men's side, Fredonia State sophomore
John Estanislau (East Longmeadow, Mass.) is ranked second in three events heading into the SUNYAC.
Estanislau, a Second Team All-SUNYAC selection as a freshman, is No. 2 in the 50-yard freestyle, the 100-yard butterfly, and the 100-yard freestyle. He was third in the 50 free and fifth in the 100 butterfly at last year's championships.
Eric Jordan (Lancaster), a sophomore, also holds a No. 2 spot on the pre-meet performance lists. He is ranked second in the 200-yard backstroke, as well as fifth in the 100-yard backstroke.
Junior diver
Ryan Fuller (Endicott) enters the meet ranked second in the 3-meter and third in the 1-meter. Two teammates, senior
John Rodman (Livonia) and sophomore Josh Croft (Corning), will join Fuller on both boards. Rodman is fifth in the 1-meter and sixth in the 3-meter, while Croft is sixth in the 1-meter and eighth in the 3-meter.
Other top 10 rankings among the Blue Devils:
Sophomore
Andrew Case (Clarence Center), sixth in the 200-yard butterfly, ninth in the 100-yard butterfly, and 10th in the 100-yard backstroke; and sophomore
Adrian Van Hall (Owego) is ninth in the 500-yard freestyle and 10th in the 1,650-yard freestyle.
The top ranked relay team is the No. 3 seeded 200-yard freestyle quartet.
Like the women, the men finished fourth at last year's championship.
