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Swimming Day Two: Results
Swimming Day Three: Results

RICHMOND, Va. – Three program records, two NCAA Division I B-cut times, and a collection of great individual performances were the notable headlines associated with the Northeastern women's swimming team on Friday during day three of the 2015 CAA swimming championships.
 
The Huskies tacked on 102 points to their overall score (224 points) through 27 events, gaining 72 individual points and 30 team points to widen their fifth-place lead to 18.5 points ahead of UNCW (205.5).
 
Towson (465) improved its first-place overall advantage to 44 points in front of the rest of the field on day three, and now leads James Madison (421), William & Mary (400), Delaware (326), Northeastern (224), UNCW (205.5), College of Charleston (144.5), and Drexel (142) in the overall meet standings. Results from last Saturday's 3-meter diving event have yet to be added into the overall championship scores.
 
Sophie Browne began day three for the Huskies as Northeastern's lone entrant in the 400 IM. The junior from Scarsdale, New York, earned a season-best time of 4:33.33 in the preliminary round, but ended up on the outside looking in at the consolation final, finishing the event in 19th place overall.
 
Already an NU record-holder in the 50 and 100 freestyle, freshman Sara Touchette-McGowan came within 0.32 seconds of an individual championship in the 100 butterfly, but broke the school record in the event with a third-place time of 54.36. Touchette-McGowan's time was also fast enough to earn an NCAA Division I B-cut designation as the first-year NU swimmer celebrated her first top-three result during championship week.
 
Erica DeMunbrun managed to qualify for the consolation final in the 100 butterfly, and finished the event in 10th place overall with a time of 55.40. Teammate Delaney Lanker ended the event four positions behind DeMunbrun, registering a time of 56.38. Caroline O'Brien netted a 19th-place time of 57.13 during the preliminary round.
 
Senior co-captain Megan Foran swam to a season-best time of 1:51.26 in the 200 freestyle, improving 0.10 seconds on her preliminary time. Sophomore Rachael Geiger placed 24th overall with an opening time of 1:54.15 in the event.
 
Taylor Ellis continued her strong championship week outing with a Northeastern record-setting performance in the 100 breaststroke. Ellis' fourth-place time of 1:01.96 awarded the sophomore an NCAA Division I B-cut designation, and was the Hanson, Massachusetts, native's second school record set at the CAA championships this week (500 freestyle). Tove Bjork finished 17th overall in the preliminary round (1:06.11), while fellow NU swimmer Amanda Liew tagged the wall in 21st place with a time of 1:07.59.
 
Anna Schegoleva's time of 54.77 in the 100 backstroke was 0.13 seconds away from breaking her own program record in the event, but the senior co-captain settled for another NCAA Division I B-cut time and a runner-up finish. Schegoleva caught Drexel's Katie Duggan and James Madison's Mary Warhol during the final 50 yards, coming in just 0.39 seconds behind Wiliam & Mary's Sophie Rittenhouse for first place. Christine Leong also notched a top-eight result in the 100 backstroke, landing in seventh place overall with a time of 56.03. Browne placed 19th overall after a preliminary round time of 58.81.
 
In the final event of the session, Northeastern's 400 medley relay team of Leong, Ellis, Touchette-McGowan and Schegoleva swam to a record-breaking time of 3:42.62, smashing the Huskies' previous record by more than two full seconds. NU was more than one second off James Madison's pace for third place, while Towson enjoyed a CAA championship record-breaking time of 3:39.25 at the top of the event leaderboard.
 
After three days of completion, Schegoleva (33 points) leads Ellis (22), Touchette-McGowan (21), Leong (12), DeMunbrun (7), Lanker (3), Foran (2), and Domeier (1) as the Huskies' best individual point scorers in swimming events through three of four competition days.
 
The final six events of the 2015 CAA swimming championships will be held on Saturday, Feb. 28, with preliminary rounds beginning at 10 a.m. and the event finals starting at 6 p.m. Northeastern looks to equal its best all-time finish at the conference title meet (fifth) when it puts its best stroke forward in the 1650 freestyle, 200 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 200 breaststroke, 200 butterfly, and 400 freestyle relay.