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Women's Swimming and Diving

Nine records help NU finish fifth at CAA championships

The Huskies finished the CAA championships in fifth place overall, matching the program's best conference result
Diving Day One: Results  |  Highlights  |  Recap   
Diving Day Two: Results  |  Highlights  |  Recap
Swimming Day One: Results  |  Highlights  |  Recap
Swimming Day Two: Results  |  Highlights  |  Recap
Swimming Day Three: Results  |  Highlights  |  Recap
Swimming Day Four: Results  |  Recap
Overall Results: Overall Results

RICHMOND, Va. - Three more school records came crashing down on Saturday during the fourth day of the 2015 CAA swimming championships as the Northeastern women's swimming team captured fifth place overall, matching the program's best all-time finish at the league title meet (2008, 2013).
 
A series of top-16 results during the meet's final five individual events of competition helped the Huskies claim 140 additional points, bringing their six-day championship week score (including both diving events) to 364 overall points.
 
Towson celebrated its third consecutive CAA championship with a 720-point performance this week, topping second-place James Madison (640 points) by 80 points. William & Mary (585) took third place ahead of Delaware (498), Northeastern (364), UNCW (283.5), College of Charleston (202.5), and Drexel (201).
 
Sophomore Jordan Domeier began the day on a positive note for the Huskies when she broke the school record in the meet's longest event, the 1650 freestyle. Domeier finished eighth overall with a time of 16:54.72, coming in more than five seconds below the previous record that was held by Colleen McCormack at the 2014 CAA championships. Rachael Geiger cruised to a 12th-place time of 17:18.96, while Megan Foran was less than two seconds off her pace in 14th position (17:20.41).
 
Co-captain Anna Schegoleva posted a second-place time of 1:58.38 in the 200 backstroke, coming within 0.57 seconds of her own school record but achieving another NCAA B-cut time in the event. Schegoleva's split times were just out of reach of Towson's Charlotte Holz, who tagged the wall 0.90 seconds ahead of the NU senior. Christine Leong placed 14th overall with a time of 2:01.91, and Sophie Browne finished in 21st with a preliminary round time of 2:03.51.
 
Freshman Sara Touchette-McGowan broke her own NU-record in the 100 freestyle Saturday with a ninth-place overall time of 50.72. The first-year Northeastern swimmer had first set the record back at the Frank Elm Invitational on Nov. 23 (51.25), but bettered that mark in both the preliminary round (51.00) and the consolation finals. Touchette-McGowan was the top NU swimmer in the 100 freestyle, finishing ahead of senior Jessica Colucci in 23rd (52.27), junior Amanda Liew in 26th (52.68), and Rachael Green in 27th overall (52.73).
 
Taylor Ellis qualified for the final round of the 200 breaststroke and registered a time of 2:17.37 that was good for eighth-place overall, while Tove Bjork completed the preliminary round in 18th-place overall (2:22.89), two positions away from earning a spot in the consolation finals.
 
Domeier continued her strong day in the pool during the 200 butterfly, tagging the wall in seventh-place overall with a time of 2:03.98. The sophomore from Spring, Texas, was seeded as high as fourth following the preliminary round, but ended just off the pace of College of Charleston's Corinne Taylor for sixth place in the finals. Erica DeMunbrun netted ninth-place overall with a time of 2:03.31 in the consolation final, finishing directly in front of Delaney Lanker in 10th place (2:04.49). Caroline O'Brien rounded out the consolation field in 16th overall with a time of 2:09.71.
 
Northeastern wrapped up its relay season with another top-five result in the 400 freestyle relay as Touchette-McGowan, Schegoleva, Ellis, and Colucci secured another 28 points for the Huskies in the event. The four NU swimmers combined for a Northeastern-record time of 3:24.55, breaking the mark the same four Huskies had set earlier this season at the Frank Elm Invitational by roughly 1.50 seconds.
 
With another record in the 400 freestyle relay, Northeastern finishes championship week having set a total of nine new school-best times.
 
After six competition days, Schegoleva (40 points) led Ellis (33), Touchette-McGowan (30), Domeier (24), DeMunbrun (16), Jacquelyn Gover (15), Leong (15), Alyssa Seales (13), Lanker (11), Caroline Gonsalves (8), Foran (5), Geiger (5), Megan Rutter (3), and O'Brien (1) as the Huskies' best individual scorers throughout the week.
 
With the CAA championships complete, Gover and Gonsalves will compete next for Northeastern at the NCAA Zone A dving championships, held at Rutgers Aquatics Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey, from Monday, March 9, to Wednesday, March 11.
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Players Mentioned

Colleen McCormack

Colleen McCormack

5' 10"
Senior
Tove Bjork

Tove Bjork

5' 6"
Sophomore
Sophie Browne

Sophie Browne

5' 6"
Junior
Eastchester
Jessica Colucci

Jessica Colucci

5' 5"
Senior
Erica DeMunbrun

Erica DeMunbrun

5' 4"
Senior
Jordan Domeier

Jordan Domeier

5' 6"
Sophomore
Megan Foran

Megan Foran

5' 4"
Senior
Rachael Geiger

Rachael Geiger

5' 10"
Sophomore
Delaney Lanker

Delaney Lanker

5' 0"
Sophomore
Amanda Liew

Amanda Liew

Junior
Caroline O

Caroline O'Brien

Sophomore
Megan Rutter

Megan Rutter

5' 6"
Junior
Central York

Players Mentioned

Colleen McCormack

Colleen McCormack

5' 10"
Senior
Tove Bjork

Tove Bjork

5' 6"
Sophomore
Sophie Browne

Sophie Browne

5' 6"
Junior
Eastchester
Jessica Colucci

Jessica Colucci

5' 5"
Senior
Erica DeMunbrun

Erica DeMunbrun

5' 4"
Senior
Jordan Domeier

Jordan Domeier

5' 6"
Sophomore
Megan Foran

Megan Foran

5' 4"
Senior
Rachael Geiger

Rachael Geiger

5' 10"
Sophomore
Delaney Lanker

Delaney Lanker

5' 0"
Sophomore
Amanda Liew

Amanda Liew

Junior
Caroline O

Caroline O'Brien

Sophomore
Megan Rutter

Megan Rutter

5' 6"
Junior
Central York