From Emory University Athletics
Six conference records were broken during the second day of
competition on Thursday at the 2015 University Athletic Association
Swimming and Diving Championships in Atlanta, Georgia, with host
school Emory University taking leads in both the men's and women's
teams standings.
The Emory women jumped out to a large lead on the first full day of
competition, totaling 699 points. Washington University (Mo.)
ended the day in second place with 425 points, followed by the
University of Chicago (367), New York University (309), Carnegie
Mellon University (287), the University of Rochester (275), Case
Western Reserve University (193) and Brandeis University (89).
The race for the team title is considerably closer on the men's
side, with the top-three squads separated by just 22.5
points. Emory leads the way with 477.5 points, followed by
Chicago with 458 points and Wash U. with a score of 455.
Rounding out the standings for the men are NYU (386.5), Carnegie
(286), Rochester (235), Case (212) and Brandeis (129).
A pair of Emory swimmers broke UAA records in individual events.
Senior McKenna Newsum-Schoenberg won the 500-yard
freestyle with a time of 4:52.13, breaking former Emory swimmer Liz
Horvat's previous record of 4:52.65 in the event.
Junior Andrew Wilson picked up a first-place finish in
the 200-yard individual medley with a mark of 1:49.34, breaking the
mark set last year by Chicago's Eric Hallman.
Emory also set conference records in both the men's and women's
400-yard medley relay. For the men's relay,
sophomore Mitchell Cooper, Wilson, senior Hayden Bakerand
sophomore Hayes Burdette-Sapp won with a mark of 3:16.81
to break the record set by the team at last year's meet. The
women's relay of sophomore Claire Liu, sophomore Annelise
Kowalsky, freshman Megan Campbell and senior Nancy
Larson finished first with a time of 3:45.71, also breaking a
mark set by the Eagles last year.
Other UAA record performances on Thursday came from Washington's
men's 200-yard freestyle relay team (1:21.69) and NYU's Jeremiah
Crowley in the 50-yard freestyle (20.13 seconds).
Kowalsky and Larson each added individual conference titles for the
Emory women, with the former winning the 200-yard individual medley
(2:04.46) and the latter claiming the title in the 50-yard
freestyle (23.59), while the Eagles' 200-yard freestyle relay of
Liu, sophomore Marissa Bergh, freshman Ming Ong and
Larson won with a time of 1:33.88.
All UAA finishers (top-three) for the Emory women on day two
included freshmen Rebecca Upton (2nd)
and Julia Wawer (3rd) in the 500-yard
freestyle and Bergh in the 50-yard freestyle
(2nd). Earned all-UAA honors for the men on
Thursday were sophomore Christian Baker (2nd)
and Cooper (3rd) in the 500-yard freestyle.