Hamilton College Invitational
- Friday, December 4th – Saturday, December 5th, 2015
- Three timed-finals sessions: Friday 4PM, Saturday 10AM/3:30PM (Eastern Standard Time)
- Clinton, New York
- Bristol Pool, Hamilton College
- Session 1 │ Session 2 │ Session 3
After a successful first day of swimming and diving at the Hamilton College Invitational, the host team continued to perform well over the two sessions of Day Two at Bristol Pool in Clinton, New York. The Continental women finished the meet with a nearly 450-point lead over the competition, while the men closed the meet ahead by a nearly 340-point margin. Hamilton head coach T.J. Davis said, “I was happy with how we performed as a whole. I felt like the team had a tenacious approach to their events and it served us well throughout the bevy of events. We have more work to do, but this is a great way to close out our semester and roll into final exams feeling good about our effort!”
Lauren Klei (26.33) Hannah Mooney (25.77) Jessica Halladay (26.13), and Sarah Hooper (24.62) of Hamilton tied the meet record in the 200 free relay with 1:42.85. Klei (2:00.27) broke the meet record in the 200 free, edging teammate Halladay for the victory. Hooper (55.00), Klei (55.93) and Mooney (56.29) swept the podium in the 100 free.
Mount Holyoke’s Cathleen Pruden crushed the meet and pool records in the 400 IM with 4:26.88. Hannah Dari of SUNY Oneonta and Hamilton’s Lauren King went season-best times for second and third. Pruden repeated with another set of meet and pool records, winning the 1650 free in 17:30.46. Dari placed second again, just ahead of Smith’s Desi Stoyanova.
SUNY Oneonta’s Nicole DiFilippo lowered her own meet record in the 100 breast, winning in 1:10.14, while Bri Groves of Mount Holyoke broke the meet record in the 200 breast with 2:34.04. Taylor Waldrop (2:14.41) of SUNY Oneonta edged Hamilton’s Anya Nugent (2:15.10) and Emma Raynor (2:15.66) for the 200 back title.
The results of 3-meter diving mirrored those of the 1-meter event; SUNY Cortland’s Miranda Fergus led the field with 299.45 points. She was followed by Smith’s Elly Stone, Cecelia Arrison, and Anna Partridge and Hamilton’s Sarah Pickup.
Hamilton closed out the competition with a meet record in the 400 free relay when Hooper (56.07), Mooney (55.37), Olivia Shehan (56.25), and Klei (55.03) combined for 3:42.72, more than 2 seconds under the old mark.
Women – Team Rankings – Through Event 40
1. Hamilton College 980
2. Suny Cortland 536
3. Mount Holyoke College 505
4. Suny Oneonta 499
5. Smith College 498
6. Suny Oswego 435
7. Buffalo State College 197
8. Suny Potsdam 194
There were many meet record near-misses in the men’s meet, but Zeke Brynin of SUNY Oneonta was successful in taking down records twice. First he broke the meet mark in the 100 breast with 58.53, then he lowered his own meet record in the 200 breast to 2:07.99. Hamilton’s Ryan Cassidy and Tripp Miller were second and third. Despite outsplitting the field in the 400 medley relay, however, Brynin and his SUNY Oneonta teammates were out-touched by SUNY Cortland’s Dylan Burnes, Jack Jakubek, Matt Hasbrouck, and Timothy Thatcher, 3:41.14 to 3:41.29.
Hamilton’s Cassidy just missed the meet record in 1650, as he and teammate Case Tatro went 1-2. Buffalo State’s Connor Mergler narrowly missed lowering the meet mark in the 100 free, winning the event with 47.28. Reeve Callen of SUNY Cortland was second with 48.59.
Lucas Santiago of SUNY Oneonta won a crowded 200 back final in 2:02.35, just ahead of Hamilton’s Jordan Allen (2:03.74), Trevor Pearson (2:04.46), and Benjamin Cooper (2:05.06).
Men – Team Rankings – Through Event 40
1. Hamilton College 1075.5
2. Suny Cortland 737
3. Suny Oneonta 553.5 4. Suny Oswego 527.5
5. Buffalo State College 416
6. Suny Potsdam 339.5
Big swim by TP and the rest of the Hamilton Team. Bad Boys. Where’s wallace though??? Heard TP also had a big performance a couple weeks ago a the MCCMMC. Excited to see what he does end of season.