Submitted by Dominick Delello, St. Michael’s College.
Men’s Swimming & Diving Grabs Victory over Saint Lawrence, while Women’s Team Falls
The Saint Michael’s College men’s swimming & diving team defeated Saint Lawrence University, 114-70, this past Sunday, while the women stumbled in a 128-76 loss. This was the regular-season finale for both teams with the men finishing with a 4-4 record and the women ending at 3-6.
For the men, junior Connor Hopkins (Windham, N.H./Windham) and first-years Sean McGurn (Braintree, Mass./Braintree) and William Sullivan (Arlington, Va./Bishop O’Connell) each registered three wins. Individually, Hopkins claimed the 100-yard backstroke (54.85) and 200-yard freestyle (1:53.38), McGurn topped the 100-yard breaststroke (1:04.82) and 1,000 free (10:42.30), and Sullivan won the 50 free (23.26) and 100 free (51.63). Hopkins and McGurn joined sophomore Dan Fortier (Sandwich, Mass./Sandwich) and first-year Nate Imbergamo (Madison, Conn./Daniel Hand) to win the 200-yard medley relay (1:45.21), while Sullivan swam alongside seniors Seamus Butler (Waltham, Mass./Waltham) and Jacob Sutton (Tyngsboro, Mass./Tyngsboro) and sophomore Payton Stewart (Keene, N.H./Keene) to win the 200 free relay (1:37.92). Sutton added a win in the 500 free (6:09.85) for the first individual victory of his career. Stewart won the 200-yard individual medley (2:09.56) and combined with Butler, junior Aidan Mulderrig (Rockville Centre, N.Y./South Side), and first-year Myron Prograis (Etters, Pa./Cedar Cliff) to place second during the 200 medley relay. Mulderrig took home a victory in the 100-yard butterfly (57.48) – with Fortier second and Prograis third – while placing second in the 200 free. Imbergamo took second in the 100 back and third in the 200 free, while Prograis finished third during the 100 back. Butler and Fortier snagged third-place finishes in the 100 free and 50 free, respectively, while senior Tim Kinville (Colchester, Vt./Missisquoi Valley Union) was second in one one-meter diving event and third in the other. The men won all 11 swimming events, recording their fourth win, which is their most since 2009-10, when they went 5-4.
On the women’s side, senior Patty Kohn (Weston, Conn./Greenwich) upped her career wins total to 94 by claiming a solo victory in the 500 free (5:28.97) and working with fellow senior Tess Grimaldi (Higganum, Conn./Haddam-Killingworth) and juniors Lauren Giampietro (Watertown, Conn./Watertown) and Sarah White (Lakeville, Mass./Apponequet Regional) to win the 200 free relay (1:47.47). Kohn also finished third in the 1,000 free. Giampietro was runner-up in the 100 breast and 200 IM, while Grimaldi finished second in the 50 free and third during the 100 fly. White tallied a second-place finish in the 200 free and a third-place finish in the 100 free. Seniors Elizabeth Doherty (Dedham, Mass./Dedham) and Meg Flanagan (Middletown, R.I./The Prout School/Boston College) partnered with sophomores Leah Benoit (Franklin, Mass./Franklin) and Meg Geschwind (Rochester, Minn./Mayo) to snag second in the 200 medley relay, while first-year Maggie King (Clinton, Conn./Mercy) took second in one of the one-meter diving events. Flanagan also finished third in the 100 back.
