Live meet results
Day three results: Preliminaries - Finals
Day two results: Preliminaries - Finals
Day one results

Northeastern swimmers set four school records and turned in eight season-best times on Friday in day three of the 2012 CAA Championship in Fairfax, Va. The Huskies climbed one spot in the team standings and are sixth with one day of competition remaining.

Jill Kearns set a new Northeastern record in the 400-yard IM prelims, a mark that was later topped by Julia Sepulveda in the event final. Anna Schegoleva turned in a school-record performance in the 100-yard backstroke. And the team of Anna Schegoleva, Julia Sepulveda, Megan Foran, and Adriana Sepulveda shattered the previous Northeastern mark in the 800-yard freestyle relay.

Eight season standards fell on the day, including the 200-yard medley relay (Anna Schegoleva, Julia Alvarez, Erica DeMunbrun, Kelley Becherer), 400-yard IM (Kearns, Sepulveda), 100-yard butterfly (Erica DeMunbrun), 200-yard freestyle (Megan Foran), 100-yard breaststroke (Keary McClernan), 100-yard backstroke (Schegoleva), and 800-yard freestyle relay (Schegoleva, J. Sepulveda, Foran, A. Sepulveda).

After three days of competition, James Madison leads the nine-team field with 572 points. Towson (430) is second and UNCW (338) is third. William & Mary (325) in in fourth, followed by Old Dominion (225), Northeastern (203), George Mason (190), Delaware (174), and Drexel (109).

In the evening's championship and consolation finals, Northeastern collected 18 team points with a ninth-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay. The team of Anna Schegoleva, Julia Alvarez, Erica DeMunbrun and Kelley Becherer finished with a Northeastern season-best time of 1:45.51.

In perhaps its strongest single-event showing of the championship meet, Northeastern received two championship final finishes in the 400-yard IM. Julia Sepulveda finished third with a time of 4:18.68 to earn 16 team points. Teammate Jill Kearns touched the wall in 4:19.46, good for fifth place and 14 team points. Both Sepulveda and Kearns collected NCAA "B" cut times in the event. Sepulveda's time was good for a new Northeastern school record, besting the mark set by Kearns just hours earlier in the preliminaries.

In the consolation final of the 100-yard butterfly, Erica DeMunbrun and Alli Gielowski finished 11th and 13th, respectively. DeMunbrun clocked in at a team season-best time of 56.10, while Gielowski finished with a time of 56.28.

Megan Foran touched the wall in 1:52.84 to finish 15th in the 200-yard freestyle. Teammate Kelley Becherer was 16th at 1:56.26.

Two Huskies placed in the 100-yard breaststroke. In the championship final, Keary McClernan finished at 1:04.18 to earn seventh-place. Swimming in the consolation final, Julia Alvarez earned an overall ninth-place finish with a time of 1:03.79.

In the 23rd event of the championship, the 100-yard backstroke, Anna Schegoleva finished in 11th place with a time of 56.52.

Teammates Candace Young and Rachael Peterson earned respective 12th and 13th place finishes in the one-meter diving. Young earned a score of 232.45, while Peterson garnered a 228.65.

In the evening's final event, the team of Anna Schegoleva, Julia Sepulveda, Megan Foran, and Adriana Sepulveda shattered the Northeastern school record in the 800-yard freestyle relay, finishing fourth with a time of 7:28.26.

Earlier in the day, in the preliminaries, Jill Kearns and Julia Sepulveda finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 400-yard IM with times of 4:20.59 and 4:21.33 to advance to the championship final. Kearns time set a new Northeastern record, which was later bested by Sepulveda in the evening session.

In the 100-yard butterfly, Alli Gielowski and Erica DeMunbrun earned spots in the consolation final. Gielowski touched the wall in 56.54 to finish 13th, while DeMunbrun was 16th with a time of 56.76. Cassandra Cesaro turned in a 30th-place finish at 59.36.

Megan Foran and Kelley Becherer finished back-to-back to advance to the consolation final of the 200-yard freestyle. Foran placed 15th with a Northeastern season-best time of 1:52.26. Becherer was 16th (1:53.30). Adriana Sepulveda grabbed an alternate spot by finishing 18th (1:53.48). Rounding out the Huskies' showing in the event were Jenny Doolin (27th, 1:55.31), Jill Shields (30th, 1:56.12), Chelsea Lim (33rd, 1:57.02), Jessica Colucci (34th, 1:57.19), and Alli Gielowski (36th, 1:57.60).

In the 100-yard breaststroke, Keary McClernan advanced to the championship final by placing seventh with a team season-best time of 1:03.79. Julia Alvarez finished ninth in 1:03.88 to earn a spot in the consolation final.

Anna Schegoleva qualified for the consolation final in the 100-yard backstroke and set a new school record in the process. Schegoleva touched the wall in 56.31 to finish 10th. Dana Schleif finished 19th (57.66), Cassie Cesaro was 22nd (58.25), and Nicole Colucci placed 25th (58.77).

In the one-meter diving, Rachael Peterson paced the Huskies with a 10th-place finish (235.50). Candace Young earned a score of 225.10 to finish 13th and Anne Schaafsma was 22nd with a total of 177.90.

The fourth and final day of the CAA Championship gets underway from George Mason's Jim McKay Natatorium on Saturday, with the preliminaries set for 10 a.m. The finals are scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.

George Mason University will offer a live video stream coverage of the finals on both Friday and Saturday night as well as the awards ceremony following the final event on Saturday. To view the video stream, click the Patriot Vision link on the front page of GoMason.com once the event has begun each night. There is a one-month fee of $8.95, a four-month fee of $24.95 and a 12-month fee of $69.95 for full coverage of all Mason video stream coverage. For all information, live stats and updated results on the CAA Championship, be sure to check the 2012 CAA Championship Central page.


CAA CHAMPIONSHIP - DAY THREE
School-record performances
400-yard IM - Julia Sepulveda (4:18.68, finals)
400-yard IM - Jill Kearns (4:20.59, prelims)
100-yard backstroke - Anna Schegoleva (56.31, prelims)
800-yard freestyle relay - Anna Schegoleva, Julia Sepulveda, Megan Foran, Adriana Sepulveda (7:28.26, finals)

Season-best performances
200-yard medley relay - Anna Schegoleva, Julia Alvarez, Erica DeMunbrun, Kelley Becherer (1:45.51, finals)
400-yard IM - Julia Sepulveda (4:18.68, finals)
400-yard IM - Jill Kearns (4:20.59, prelims)
100-yard butterfly - Erica DeMunbrun (56.10, finals)
200-yard freestyle - Megan Foran (1:52.26, prelims)
100-yard breaststroke - Keary McClernan (1:03.79, prelims)
100-yard backstroke - Anna Schegoleva (56.31, prelims)
800-yard freestyle relay - Anna Schegoleva, Julia Sepulveda, Megan Foran, Adriana Sepulveda (7:28.26, finals)

Team standings (through event 27)
1. James Madison - 572  
2. Towson - 430
3. UNCW - 338  
4. William & Mary - 325
5. Old Dominion - 225  
6. Northeastern - 203
7. George Mason - 190  
8. Delaware - 174
9. Drexel - 109