Lehigh Women’s Swimming Sets Two More Records Friday at Patriot League Championships

Friday, February 19

Annapolis, Md.

10:30AM | 6PM

Lehigh University

Patriot League Championships

Lehigh Women’s Swimming Sets Two More Records Friday at Patriot League Championships

2/19/2016 9:56:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving

Complete Results (Day 3)

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The Lehigh women's swimming and diving team earned a school record breaking, runner-up performance from the 200 freestyle relay team and a new school record from Kelly Carroll in the 100 yard butterfly on Friday at the Patriot League Championships. The Lehigh women have now set six new program records through the first three days of the league championships, and find themselves in fifth place overall heading into Saturday's final day of competition.

The Mountain Hawks capped the night of women's races with the runner-up performance by the 200 freestyle relay quartet of Carolyn Koch, Julianne Koch, Courtney Ferreira and Kaitlyn Ruffing. The group set a new school record time of 1:32.10, finishing only behind Navy's winning team which set a new league championship meet record of 1:30.94. The Koch's and Ruffing were all a part of the previous record holding team that set the previous 200 relay benchmark at last year's PLC.

A day after her record setting performance in the 200 IM, Carroll followed that up with another school record setting performance in the 100 yard butterfly prelims of 55.71 seconds. The time qualified her for the 'B' final and coming within one-hundredth of a second of qualifying for the 'A' final. She went on to win the 'B' final and take ninth place overall in 55.87.

Sydney Bornstein also qualified for the 'B' final and finished in 16th place overall, touching the wall in 57.12 seconds.

Senior Courtney Patterson qualified for the 'A' final of the 400 IM. The school's record holder raced her way to a fourth place finish in the finals, touching in at 4:22.87. Freshman Kate Bergin also found herself finishing fourth in the 'B' final, placing 12th overall with a time of 4:26.95.

Julianne and Carolyn Koch placed back-to-back in the 'A' finals of the 200 freestyle, with Julianne edging out her sister for fourth place in 1:49.13. Carolyn took fifth place with her time of 1:49.20. Meghan Thompson and Courtney Ferreira both qualified for the 'B' final of the 200 free, which was won by Ferreira in 1:50.23 for a ninth place tally overall. Thompson's finish of 1:50.60 was good enough for three spots behind her in 12th place.

Abby Thomson also competed in the 200 free, finishing 20th in prelims in 1:53.23.

Melissa Feeney represented Lehigh in the 'B' final of the 100 yard breaststroke, putting forth an overall finish of 1:05.52, improving on her preliminary heat time of 1:05.73. Allison Morel (1:07.19) and Melissa Segovia (1:08.89) placed 21st and 25th, respectively, in the prelims.

Rachel Rider (17th/58.47), Ruffing (19th/58.54) and Julia Perry (24th/29.24) all represented the Brown and White in the prelims of the 100 yard backstroke. Rider had to compete in a swim-off against Loyola's Kelsey Dramis to break their 17th place prelim tie. Rider took full possession of the 17th spot by winning the swim-off in 57.78 seconds.

The 2016 championships will wrap up on Saturday with the prelims for the 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast and 200 fly taking place at 10:30 a.m. Women's three meter diving prelims will start at 1 p.m., followed by the 1650 prelims at 3:30 p.m. All final heats are scheduled for the 6 p.m. session. Be sure to check out the Patriot League's Championship Central Page for a full schedule.