DAY 1 RESULTS
GAMBIER, OHIO – Ann Carozza (West Chester, Pa./East) broke a school record and the 200-yard freestyle relay team broke a conference mark to lead West Chester University on the first day of the Total Performance Mid-Season Invitational at the James A. Steen Aquatics Center on the campus of Kenyon College Thursday.
The mid-season meet is set up the same way as the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships with a prelim round in the morning and the finals at night. West Chester is currently in second place behind host Kenyon with 436 points. Kenyon has 676.5. Carnegie Mellon is third (342) and Hope College fourth 296). SUNY-Geneseo is fifth with 193.5 while John Carroll is sixth with 107. Milligan University is seventh with 106 points.
Carozza topped the school record in the 50 free set by hall of famer Jackie Borkowski with a time of 22.67 seconds. Teammate
Mikayla Niness (Spring City, Pa./Owen J. Roberts) was third in 23.43 while
Sam Trumble (Dallastown, Pa./Dallastown) won the 'B' final to place ninth overall.
The Golden Rams' 200 free relay consisting of
MacKenzie Hemingway (Chestertown, Md./Queen Anne's County), Trumble, Niness and Carozza shattered the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference record with a time of 1:32.77 while also hitting an NCAA 'B' time. The old record was set by another West Chester foursome in 2018.
Also posting an NCAA 'B' time was the Golden Rams' 400 medley relay made up of
Lila DiCarlo (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Trinity), Hemingway, Carozza and Niness. They finished in 3:44.83 to place second overall.
Keeley Durkin (Brookhaven, Pa./Sun Valley) and Niness finished first and second, respectively, in the 500 free. Durkin's winning time of 4:54.34 was faster than her time at NCAAs a year ago – and it's only November. Niness finished in 4:58.76.
Day Two of the Total Performance Mid-Season Invitational gets under way Friday morning at 10:30 a.m.
