From Brandeis University Athletics

The Brandeis University women's swimming and diving team set a relay and individual record on the first day of action at the 2017 University Athletic Association championships held at the University of Chicago.

The Judges established two school records on the first event of the day, the women's 200-yard freestyle relay. As a group junior Amy Sheinhait (Framingham, Mass./Framingham), rookie Natalya Wozab (Plantation, Fla./St. Thomas Aquinas), junior Abby Damsky (New York, N.Y./Brearly School) and rookie  and rookie Yvette Smith (Gainesville, Fla./Gainesville) erased the record that had been set at the 2016 conference championships with a time of 1:40.33. The quartet beat the old record time by 0.22 seconds. They ended up in eighth place after the finals, swimming 1:40.50.

Swimming the lead leg, Sheinhait eclipsed one of the two oldest records in the Judges' books with a 50-yard split of 24.90 seconds. The previous record of 24.93 had been held since 1990 by Hall of Famer Wendy Lowengrub '90.