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Women's Swimming and Diving

Huskies finish sixth, set 10 records in CAA Championships

Day 4: Results | Team Results | Top Performers
Day 3: Results | Team Results | Recap
Day 2: Results | Team Results | Recap
Day 1: Results | Team Results | Recap
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BOSTON – The Northeastern women's swimming and diving team closed out the Colonial Athletic Association Championships on Saturday by finishing in sixth place with 325.5 points. The Huskies broke 10 team records during the four-day event. 

Towson won the CAA title with 858 points while JMU (653) and William & Mary (462) finished second and third, respectively. UNCW placed fourth with 408.5 points, and Delaware finished just ahead of NU with 329 points. College of Charleston (269) placed seventh, and Drexel (189) finished in eighth.

Anna Schegoleva continued her record-setting performance in the CAA Championships by finishing third in the 200 backstroke. Her time of 1:57.81 is a new NU standard, breaking her own record of 2:00.10. Schegoleva's time also made the NCAA B cut.

Colleen McCormack broke two Northeastern records when she competed in the 1,650. McCormack finished the event in 17:00.62, good for 10th place and topped her own record of 17:04.47.  Additionally, her 1,000-yard time during the event – 10:12.25 – beat the previous school mark by over three seconds.

Addison Koelle finished in fifth place in the 200 butterfly when she touched the wall in 2:02.03, just 0.2 seconds behind the fourth-place finisher. Julia Alvarez grabbed 11th place in the 200 breaststroke when she timed in at 2:17.85.

The 400 freestyle relay team comprised of Schegoleva, Koelle, Julia Sepulveda and Jordan Domeier finished in eighth with a time of 3:28.69.

On Wednesday, Northeastern set new records in the 200 medley relay (1:43.44) and 800 freestyle relay (7:21.90). The next day, Domeier topped the school record in the 500 freestyle by timing in at 4:55.43, and Schegoleva's time of 2:01.20 in the 200 individual medley became a new program best. On Friday, Schegoleva set a new standard in the 100 backstroke (54.64), Koelle set a new benchmark in the 100 butterfly (54.75), and the 400 medley relay team broke the previous school record by timing in at 3:44.80.

Both Scheogoleva (200 individual medley, 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke) and Koelle (100 butterfly) achieved NCAA B cut standards. Schegoleva finished the CAA Championships with 47 points, good for the seventh-best mark.

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