NESCACS Day 2: Bantams Set 5 More School Records

The Bantams carried the momentum they set on the first day right in to Day two of the NESCAC Championship meet. Leading off this morning's 200 Medley Relay First Year, Lexi Moroney established a new First Year and Team Record in the 50 Back with a time of 28.70. Her new record time bettered the previous record established just last night by Junior, Shelby Friel who went a 28.92. The 200 Medley Relay of Moroney, Butler, Friel, and Jensen tied the previous record time of 1:52.39 set just last year.
In the last event of the morning session, Sophomore, Chloe Miller set a new team record in the 1000 Free with a time of 10:58.96 bettering the previous record of 10:59.73 set in 2002 by Julia Kaye. Miller's time was good enough for 22nd in finals.


To start the evening finals the 200 Medley Relay of Moroney (28.84), Butler (30.58), Friel (26.55), and Mullen(24.16) shattered last years record of 1:52.39 with a new record time of 1:50.13. In the next event the 400 IM Sophomore Joanna Wycech finished 24th while Junior Daisy Letendre finished 23rd, and Chloe Miller finished 15th with a personal best time of 4:41.86. Junior, Shelby Friel added another record to her list with a 58.79 in the 100 Fly, improving upon the record she set last year of 59.15. With her time in finals she won her heat and placed 9th, Megan Chiu who went a 59.84 finish 16th in the same heat. Audrey Butler continued her record setting tear with a 1:08.03 in the 100 Breast which placed her 11th in finals and bettered the previous record of 1:08.35 set by Carrie Rorer in 1998. The women closed out day two with some phenomenal swims in the 800 Free Relay. Jenna Carroll led off the B Relay with a lifetime best of 2:00.80 and Friel tied her own record leading off the A Relay with a 1:58.11. The A Relay finished just off record time with a 7:59.64 while the B Relay finished with an 8:12.79. With one day left the Bantam women look to end the 2012 Championships with a bang. Go Bants!

NESCACS Day 1: Bantams Set 4 School Records

The Bantams had very strong day one at the 2012 NESCAC Championship at Wesleyan University. Freshmen, Audrey Butler led the way with a new First Year and School Record time in the 50 Breast of 30.13. She finished 4th in finals and her time broke the previous record of 31.34 set by Sarah Sweatt in 2007 by over a second. Junior, Shelby Friel established a new mark in the 50 Back with a time of 28.92, bettering the previous record of 28.99 set in 2005 by Kate Mortensen.  Emily Johnson broke her own record on the 1-Meter set last year with a score of 397.98 and finished 7th in finals. The fourth record of the day belonged to the women's 200 Free Relay consisting of Emily Jensen, Carleigh Haron, Sara Mullen, and Megan Chiu. Their time of 1:39.76 broke the oldest record on the Trinity board of 1:39.79 set in 1983 by Dea Frederick, Barbara Brennan, Lulu Cass, and Karen Hubbard. Congrats to all our new record holders!


Other highlights of day one included Megan Chiu going a 27.00 in the 50 fly and finishing 14th in finals, Shelby Friel's 26.78 50 Fly and 16th place finish finals, Megan Chiu's 2:13.74 IM and 22nd place finish finals and Daisy Letendre's 2:13.95 IM and 24th place finish. Lexi Moroney also established a new first record in the 50 Free with a time of 24.78. The Bantams will be back in action tomorrow morning and will look to continue the fast times and record setting performances on day two.

Bantam Men and Women End Regular Season Wins Against Roger Williams

The Trinity College Bantam women's swimming and diving team took first place in every event but two in a 189-105 win over the visiting Roger Williams University Hawks.  With the win they close the 2011-12 with a 4-5 record.

Junior Shelby Friel won four events for the Bantams, taking first in the 50-yard backstroke, the 50-yard butterfly, the 100-yard freestyle, and swimming a leg of the 400-yard medley relay.  Trinity senior captain Jenna Carroll earned victories in the 1,000-yard freestyle (11:25.06) and the 500-yard freestyle (5:33.05), while rookie Alexandra Moroney posted first-place finishes in the 50-yard freestyle and the 200-yard freestyle. 

Sophomore Emily Johnson took a pair of firsts for the Bantams, handily winning both the one- and three-meter diving events.  Johnson's one-meter score of 290.69 both the pool and College-records, moving past her own Trinity mark of 269.76, and qualified her for the NCAA Division III Championships in March.  Bantam sophomore Megan Chiu broke the pool record in the 100-yard individual medley with a time of 1:03.36, although the exhibition event was not part of the team scoring.

Sophomore Max Ma won three events and was part of the winning 400-meter freestyle relay, as Trinity College Bantams defeated the visiting Roger Williams Hawks 156.5-131.5 in men's swimming and diving action this afternoon.  Trinity finishes the dual-meet season with a 2-6-1 record.

Ma won the 50-yard breaststroke, the 50-yard freestyle, the 200-yard breaststroke, as well competing with the winning 400-yard freestyle relay for Trinity. Senior Adam Eramo was also a member of the winning 400-meter freestyle relay, and earned individual victories in the 1,000-yard and 500-yard freestyle races.  Sophomore Mark Yanagisawa was the third Bantam two earn multiple victories with wins in the 200-yard butterfly (2:01.79) and the 400-yard IM (4:28.78).

Women and Men Continue Strong Swimming Verse Bowdoin and Colby

Sophomore Emily Johnson and first-year Megan Darnley  took the top-two spots in both diving events to lead the Trinity College Bantams to a 160-137 win over the visiting Colby College Mules in a women's swimming and diving quad meet at Trinity Natatorium this afternoon.  Trinity, which also dropped a 192-104 decision against the Bowdoin College Polar Bears in the meet, are now 3-5 in dual meets this winter.  Wesleyan University also participated in the meet, but the Bantams and Cardinals did not compete against each other in the team scoring.

Johnson won the one-meter event with a score of 225.15 and the three-meter event at 229.95, while Darnley finished roughly 10 points ahead of the third-place diver off both boards with a one-meter score of 176.90 and a three-meter score of 192.95.  Bantam rookie Lexi Moroney added a second-place time of 56.11 in the 100-yard freestyle, and sophomore Joanna Wycech took third place in the 200-yard breaststroke at 2:32.91.  Trinity led Colby for the majority of the meet, and two Bantam relay foursomes finished ahead of all three Colby entries in the 200-yard freestyle relay to clinch the win in the day's final race.

The men's team dropped a pair of decisions as the Bantams lost to the Bowdoin College Polar Bears, 211-86, and just narrowly to the Colby College Mules, 146-141.  

Trinity senior Adam Eramo won the 500-yard freestyle at 4:57.88 and first-year Sam Ruddock won the 200-yard free at 1:48.57.  Ruddock also earned a second-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle at 49.42, while sophomores Mark Yanagisawa and Max Ma were third in the 200-yard butterfly and the 200-yard breaststroke, respectively.  Trinity and Colby traded leads throughout the meet, and Colby's 200-yard freestyle "A" relay team finished .34 seconds faster than Trinity's "A" foursome to clinch the victory for the Mules in the day's last race.

Moroney '15 & Eramo '12 Selected Bantams of The Week

First Year, Lexi Moroney and Senior, Adam Eramo were selected as the Trinity Bantams of the week.

Lexi Moroney '15

Swimming and Diving first-year Lexi Moroney took first place in three events and swam a leg of the winning 200-yard medley relay, as Trinity downed Vassar, 178-114, for its first win of the year. She posted winning times of 1:04.07 in the 100-yard free, 26.05 in the 50-yard free, and 56.82 in the 100-yard free. Moroney teamed with sophomores Megan Chiu and Emily Jensen, and rookie Audrey Butler to open the meet with a first-place time of 1:56.54 in the 200-yard medley relay. Moroney won the 200-yard freestyle at 2:04.38, and finished second in the 100-yard free at 57.29 in a 142-96 win at Wheaton two days after the Vassar meet. She also swam a leg of Trinity’s second-place 200-yard medley relay foursome at Wheaton that finished 0.22 seconds behind the event winner with a time 1:57.13.



Adam Eramo '12

Swimming and diving senior Adam Eramo won the 200-yard freestyle in 1:49.77 and the 500-yard freestyle in 5:01.39. His win in the 500-yard free gave the Bantams a double-digit lead that stayed that way for the duration of racing in a 163-131 win over Vassar. He also teamed with sophomores Brendan Kelley and Max Ma and first-year Sam Ruddock for a first-place time of 3:25.77 in the 400-yard freestyle relay. Two days later at Wheaton in a 122-119 loss, Eramo took first in the 1,000-yard freestyle at a season-best 10:13.56 and the 500-yard freestyle at 4:57.71, and teamed with sophomores Ma and Mark Yanagisawa and Ruddock for a first-plce time of 1:44.32 in the 200-yard medley relay.

Bantams Train In Pompano Beach, Florida

 The Bantams returned from winter break on January 1st ready to ring the New Year in with some intense training in sunny Pompano Beach, FL. The team arrived in Florida the morning of the third to brisk 40 degree temperatures. After the first day of cold and windy outdoor training temperatures rose into the mid 70's and continued to rise into the high 70's with sunny skies all week long.

For the week the Bantams were in Florida they swam, did beach workouts, swam some more, and hung out on the beach in between. While in Florida the team did some of their best training of the entire season in their twice daily long course meters workouts. The Bantams competed against Tufts in a beach Olympics competition in which the Bantams were strong in several events, notably the soft sand sprints.

The team returned to Hartford on January 9th and were back to racing on the 12th. In their first meet back both the men and women beat Vassar. The women’s team made it two straight wins against Wheaton College on the 14th, while the men just narrowly fell, and both teams came out strong against Connecticut College with some personal bests and lots of in season bests. Way to go Bantams!

                                                                    

Emily Johnson Establishes New Mark On 1-Meter 6 Dives

In the Bantams meet versus the Connecticut College Camals, Sophomore, Emily Johnson broke her own varsity record for 6 dives on the 1-Meter Board. Her score of 277.20 broke her previous best score of 269.76. Besides being a new team record, her new high score was also a new Trinity College Pool record, as well as an NCAA Provisional Qualifying Standard. Congrats Emily!