6 Thrilling Races: Middle Atlantic Conference Championship Recap

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By Allison Peters, Swimming World College Intern

The 2015 Middle Atlantic Conference Championships were brought to a close Sunday night. Walking away with the women’s victory was the defending champion, Messiah College. For the men, Albright College was able to come away with the victory for their fifth year in a row, edging out second place, Misericordia University, by a mere seven points.
Here’s a recap of the best races of the meet:

1. Women’s Mile

Seated first in the event was Senior from Albright, Amanda Osterlind. Osterlind led the event the first 1000 yards, with sophomore from Messiah, Emily Reale, trailing her from lane seven. Reale pulled ahead of Osterlind the last 650 yards and touched in at 17:42.72 for the victory. Osterlind hit the wall at 17:47.80 for second. Both Reale and Osterlind broke the championship record held by Lynne Cassidy set in 1991 (17:48.22).

2. Women’s 400 IM

Dani Blass of Misericordia blew away the competition when she won this event in 4:34.90. Blass broke the championship record that was held for 18 years (4:36.71). She also qualified for an NCCA Division III B cut.

3. Women’s 100 Free

Codi Herr of Albright and Katie Wingert of Messiah battled to the wall for the victory in this event. Herr edged out Wingert by just .43 when she hit the touch pad in 52.20. Herr was in third at the 50 split, but was able to come back with the fastest back half of the event.

4. Men’s 400 Free Relay

Perhaps the most exciting event of the entire meet came down to this final relay. The Albright men needed to take fourth place or better to win the meet. Albright came in fourth to secure their victory over Misericordia. Widener won the event in 3:05.08, setting a new championship and pool record along the way.

5. Men’s 200 Breast

Misericordia’s defending champion Thomas Scott swam away with the victory in this event (2:07.14) but not without a fight from Albright’s Ken Richardson. Richardson dropped four seconds from prelims to finals to try to run down Scott. It seemed that with every lap, Scott pulled away but was caught by Richardson off of every pull out. Scott just managed to out touch Richardson by .13 for his first individual win of the meet.

6. Men’s 100 Back

First through fourth were all within a second of each other in this event. Alex Bodine came away with the victory after he touched in at 52.12, just .6 ahead of second place. Bodine placed second in the event in 2014.

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