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Gillian Crews Sets Carnegie Mellon Record at UAA Championships

Gillian Crews Sets Carnegie Mellon Record at UAA Championships
Posted: Feb 13, 2015

From Carnegie Mellon University Athletics

The Carnegie Mellon University women's swimming and diving team continued the competition at the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships on Friday, February 13 at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Sophomore Gillian Crews (Fairfax, Va./Oakton) set a school record in the 100-yard butterfly and the Tartans sit in 5th place heading into the final day.

The 200-yard medley relay team of junior Kira Singhaus (Cherry Hill, N.J./Cherry Hill West), junior Felicia Wang (Mission Viejo, Calif./Capistrano Valley), Crews, and freshman Allison Kirkby (West Chester, Pa./Conestoga) placed fourth in 1:45.49. The time sets a new school record and provisionally qualifies the unit for the NCAA Championships in March.

Freshman Mary St John (Bethesda, Md./Sidwell Friends School) swam in the championship finals heat of the 400-yard IM, placing eighth in a season-best and NCAA provisional time of 4:32.36. Freshman Emma Shi (Penfield, N.Y./Penfield) just missed qualifying for the championship finals but won the B final in 4:28.89 which is a season-best and surpassed the time invited to the NCAA meet last year.

Crews raced to a fourth-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly, touching in 56.10, which breaks her own school record. Her time also gives her a great chance at competing at the NCAA meet.

Singhaus paced the Tartans in the 100-yard backstroke, finishing fifth overall in 58.62. Junior Elissa Maercklein (Whitefish Bay, Wis./Whitefish Bay) won the B final in 58.50 while freshman Anna Wong (Solon, Ohio/Solon), freshman Brinda Malhotra (Sharon, Mass./Sharon), junior Paige Sieffert (Ann Arbor, Mich./Saline) and sophomore Amanda Kuhn (Bethesda, Md./Walt Whitman) finished 13th, 14th, 16th and 17th overall.

Freshman Kimberly Hochstedler (Mishawaka, Ind./Penn) won the B final heat of the 100-yard breaststroke in a provisionally qualifying time of 1:05.21 while Wang touched 11th overall in 1:06.21 and sophmore Natalie Kronfli (Potomac, Md./Stone Ridge) touched 12th in a career-best time of 1:06.55.

The 800-yard freestyle relay closed the meet as Shi, freshman Miranda Ford (Skillman, N.J./Montgomery), St John and Wong touched fifth in 7:51.04.