By: Dana Relation
Sports Information Assistant
relatdm10@juniata.edu • juniatasports.net
SCRANTON, Pa. – Another day of three record setting performances spurred the Juniata College women's swim team to be sitting sixth overall after two days of competition at the Landmark Conference Swimming & Diving championships.
Senior Hillary Palmer (Fayetteville, Ga./Fayette County) was Juniata's biggest winner of the day. Her preliminary time of 59.37 in the 100 backstroke broke the Landmark, pool, meet, and her own program record. Palmer went on to win the event with a time of 59.44.
The relay team of Palmer, freshman Erika Fimple (Drexel Hill, Pa./Upper Darby), and sophomores Emily Nye (Shippensburg, Pa./Shippensburg) and Tzvia Cahn (San Jose, Calif./Kehilla Jewish) that broke the conference, pool, meet, and program record in the 200 freestyle relay came back to place second in the 200 medley relay in another record breaking race. The team touched the wall in 1:51.24 while breaking the school record which was set in 2004.
In the preliminary races of the 100 fly, Fimple broke the school record which she set earlier this season at a tri-meet with Susquehanna and Marywood while qualifying second overall in a time of 59.99. In the finals, Fimple yet again broke her own record, touching the wall second in 59.60.
Sophomore Chrissy Whiteman (Delmont, Pa./Franklin Regional) placed 10th overall in the 200 free. She finished with a mark of 2:03.54, which secured her as ninth place on Juniata's all-time list. Nye also picked up individual points when she came in 14th overall in the 100 breaststroke.
The quartet of Cahn, Whiteman, junior Mary Kate Meingossner (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn), and sophomore Sarah Rhodes (Bloomfield, N.Y./Bloomfield) placed seventh as they finished the 800 free relay in 8:32.35.
The Eagles currently sit sixth overall with 245.5 points, just 2.5 points away from fifth place Drew University. Juniata will wrap up their season tomorrow, Feb. 9 as they compete in the final day of the championships starting at 10 a.m.
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