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Women's Swimming and Diving

School records fall in day two of CAA Championships

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Day two results: Preliminaries  |  Finals
Day one results


Northeastern swimmers turned in record performances in nearly every event on Thursday at the second day of competition of the 2012 CAA Championships in Fairfax, Va.

The Huskies currently stand in seventh place in the team standings. James Madison leads the nine-team meet with 269 points, while Towson is in second (191) and UNCW is in third (153). William and Mary sits in fourth (126.5), with Old Dominion (110), George Mason (87), Northeastern (76.5), Delaware (74) and Drexel (41) rounding out the field.

Four school records fell on the day and five new season-best times were achieved.

Northeastern picked up 40 points on the day in the relay events. In the 200-yard freestyle relay, the Huskies finished in ninth place to earn 18 team points. The team of Chelsea Lim, Erica DeMunbrun, Kelley Becherer and Nicole Colucci touched the wall in 1:36.11, to post a new season-best time.

In the 400-yard medley relay, the quartet of Anna Schegoleva, Julia Alvarez, Jill Kearns and Adriana Sepulveda set a new school record with a time of 3:46.86. That time was good for an eighth-place finish and 22 team points.

In the individual events, Northeastern posted a championship finals finish and made four consolation finals appearances.

After posting a new school record in the 200-yard IM prelims (2:03.06), Jill Kearns swam to seventh-place in the championship finals with a time of 2:03.26. Three Huskies placed in the consolation finals of the same event, led by Anna Schegoleva, who bested Kearn's record with a time of 2:02.69 (10th place). Julia Sepulveda was 11th (2:03.12) and Erica DeMunbrun was 16th (2:08.07).

In the 500-yard freestyle, Adriana Sepulveda rewrote the Huskies record book by touching the wall in 4:56.34, good for 13th place.

In day one of the meet, Rachael Peterson took 13th (242.70) and Candace Young took 14th (240.30) in the consolation finals of the three-meter diving.

Day three of the CAA Championships gets underway from George Mason's Jim McKay Natatorium on Friday, with the preliminaries set for 10 a.m. The finals are scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.

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CAA CHAMPIONSHIP - DAY TWO
School-record performances
200-yard IM - Jill Kearns (2:03.06, prelims)
200-yard IM - Anna Schegoleva (2:02.69, finals)
500-yard freestyle - Adriana Sepulveda (4:56.34, finals)
400-yard medley relay - Anna Schegoleva, Julia Alvarez, Jill Kearns, Adriana Sepulveda (3:46.86, finals)

Season-best performances
200-yard IM - Jill Kearns (2:03.06, prelims)
200-yard IM - Anna Schegoleva (2:02.69, finals)
200-yard freestyle relay - Chelsea Lim, Erica DeMunbrun, Kelley Becherer, Nicole Colucci (1:36.11, finals)
500-yard freestyle - Adriana Sepulveda (4:56.34, finals)
400-yard medley relay - Anna Schegoleva, Julia Alvarez, Jill Kearns, Adriana Sepulveda (3:46.86, finals)



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