From NYU Athletics

The New York University women's swimming & diving team sits in third place out of eight teams after day two of the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships, which is being held Wednesday-Saturday, February 8-11, at the University of Chicago in Chicago, IL.

The Violets currently have 446.5 points, trailing host Chicago in second place by 27.5 points. Emory University leads with 636 points.

Honore Collins set a UAA and NYU record of 2:02.96 in the preliminary round of the 200-yard IM, before taking fourth in the final (2:05.00). She was not the only Violet swimmer to enter the school record book, as the 400-yard medley relay team of May Li, Elise Gibbs, Noel Leung, and Serena Lightstone set a new mark of 3:45.96 in a second-place performance.

"I was very pleased with our performance today," said Head Coach Trevor Miele. "We got off to a great start."

On the diving boards, Carmen White and Ashlie Pankonin placed third (441.65) and fifth (429.60), respectively, in the three-meter competition. Nia Sorgente barely missed qualifying for the eight-person final, as she took ninth place (409.50).

"This was easily the most competitive event I've seen in the past 10 years," said Diving Coach Todd Kolean. "Carmen and Ashlie probably had better preliminaries than finals, and Nia had only one hiccup. But, overall it was an outstanding performance." 

NYU's NCAA Qualifiers

200 freestyle relay (Collins, Sarah Stone, Lightstone, Gibbs)

Grace Wakabayashi - 500 freestyle

Julien Zhu/Honore Collins - 200 IM

Gibbs - 50 freestyle