Wheaton synchro posts runner-up finish at ECAC Championship meet

March 20, 2005

CAMBRIDGE, MA- The Wheaton College synchronized swimming team posted a runner-up finish at the two-day Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championship held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as the Lyons racked up 84 points among the 11 competing teams at Zesiger Pool.

Canisius College earned the team title with 92 points, while Keuka College placed third overall with 81 points. The College of William & Mary was fourth with 68 points and the University of Pennsylvania rounded out the top five teams with 51 points.

Wheaton brought home three individual champion performances, including two from freshman Sachi Maekawa (Seattle, WA/Franklin) in the solo routine and A figures. Maekawa tied with a Keuka swimmer for top honors in solo with 84.667 points and then went on to capture first place in the technical elements with 78.3021 points. Classmate Megan Kinney (Los Angeles, CA/Marlborough) was the school's third title winner in the C figure category.

Maekawa and Kinney also assisted Wheaton secure a second-place finish in the team routine, joining senior co-captain Jamie Olken (Brighton, NY/Brighton), sophomore co-captain Elizabeth Corman (St. Paul, MN/Hill-Murray), sophomore Sarah Swinkin (Hamden, CT/Hamden) and freshmen Tori Hay (Danville, CA/Monte Vista) and Esther Kovacs (Windham, NH/Notre Dame Academy).

The squad's B team, comprised of sophomore Renata Paglio (Portland, ME/Deering) alongside first-year athletes Laura Fleck (Auburn, ME/Hebron Academy), Perri Kapp (Yarmouth Port, MA/Dennis Yarmouth), Ru-Shyan Yen (Des Moines, IA/Abraham Lincoln) and Ru-Huey Yen (Des Moines, IA/Abraham Lincoln), took sixth overall.

Wheaton's top trio of Corman, Hay and Kinney accounted for a third-place standing, while Kovacs, Olken and Swinkin finished sixth in the competition. Other notable results included Kovacs placing second, Olken fifth and Swinkin sixth in C figures, and Corman and Hay taking sixth and seventh, respectively in the B category.

Wheaton will turn right back around next weekend and compete at the United States Collegiate Championship held at the University of Florida's O'Connell Center in Gainesville, Florida. Slated to begin on Thursday, March 24 with a Saturday conclusion, the Lyons will look to better their eighth-place finish from a year ago.

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