Tuesday, March 15, 2011

NEAC CONFERENCE RUNNER UP!!!

Women's Scores
Gallaudet University 565
Cazenovia College 372
Wells College 347
SUNY Coblskill 301
College of Saint Elizabeth 197
SUNY IT 48

Men's Scores
Gallaudet University 502
Wells College 428
SUNY IT 348
Cazenovia College 274
SUNY Cobleskill 162

Friday, March 11, 2011

Day 3 NEAC Championships

Day 3 of championships is probably the hardest day of all 3 days, the swimmers are physically and emotionally tired. With that said, the entire team had many PB and a few more broken records!The first event was the women's 200 BA where Idolyn Villiotti (JR) earned 2nd place (2:34.68). Mike Scharvella (SR) broke his own record by 2 seconds and earned 3rd place (2:23.06). Hunter Harris (SR) also had a PB placing 5th (2:37.81).


Gabby Spencer (FR) became conference champion in the 100 FR (1:01.82) while her team-mate Molly Heslin (FR) earned 8th with a PB (1:12.30).


Matt Sleezer (FR) was also a conference champion in the 100 FR (50.84) as well as breaking his own Wells record by almost a full second. His team-mates Taylor Dunn (FR) came in 6th (54.27) and Elvis Okumu (FR) came in 11th (1:00.82).


In the 200 BR Erika Bareiss (SO) earned 4th place (3:10.71). Drew Teter (JR) who normally swims fly earned 2nd place and a PB (2:36.34).

Caitlin Farris (JR) swim the 200 butterfly for the first time every at championships. Farris was even able to drop 8 seconds from Prelims earning 3rd place. Dan Schilling (SO) became a conference champion in the 200 Fly with a PB (2:24.24).


The final event for the 3 day championship was the 400 FR Relay. Swimmers, fans and coaches were all on the feet to cheer in the excitment of the final event. The women's A relay included Idolyn Villiotti (JR), Britta Kilbourn (FR), Erika Bareiss (SO) and Gabby Spencer (FR) earned 2nd place with a PB (4:15.16). The women's B Relay included Emily Northrup (SR), Molly Heslin (FR), Caitlin Farris (JR) and Gwenn Lillie (SO) earned 9th place.

The men's A relay including Drew Teter (JR), Mike Scharvella (SR), Taylor Dunn (FR) and Matt Sleezer (FR) earned 2nd place and only .19 away from 1st place. This relay also broke the Wells record (3:30.87). The men's B relay including Elvis Okumu (FR), Chris Guard (JR), Hunter Harris (SR) and Dan Schilling (SO) earned 7th place!

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Day 2 NEAC Championships

The Wells swimming teams had a great first day with four 1st place finishes, one 2nd place finish, two 3rd place finishes and 3 Wells records broken! On to day TWO where the PB and broken records continue.

Idolyn Villiotti (JR), Erika Bareiss (SO), Gabby Spencer (FR) and Britta Kilbourn (FR) started out the day with a win in the 200 Medley relay (2:09.21) for the ladies. The men's team followed with a 2nd place win (1:49.73) with Mike Scharvella (SR), Drew Teter (JR), Dan Schilling (SO) and Matt Sleezer (FR).

Chris Guard (JR) continued the success in the 400 IM where he earned 1st place by 9 seconds, earned a PB by 36 seconds and broke the Wells record by 15 seconds earning a time of 4:55.68.


The men's team grabbed some more points in the 100 fly where Drew Teter (JR) took 1st (57.70), Dan Schilling (SO) took 2nd (59.30) and Taylor Dunn (FR) took 3rd place (1:01.55).


Britta Kilbourn (FR) earned 2nd place in the 200 FR with a PB (2:21.18) and her team-mate Gwenn Lillie (SO) earned 6th place (2:29.96).


Erika Bareiss earned 3rd place in the 100 BR (1:26.45) while her team-mate earned 9th place and a PB (1:33.10). Hunter Harris (SR) also earned 3rd place with a PB (1:16.71).



The Wells team did very well in the 100 BA event with Gabby Spencer (FR) placing 1st (1:07.73), Idolyn Villiotti (JR) placing 2nd (1:09.63), Sarah Sherboneau (SO) placing 9th (1:26.95) and Emily Northrup placing 11th (1:31.74). On the men's side, Matt Sleezer (FR) earned a PB, a Wells record and earning 2nd place (1:01.64). His team-mate, Mike Scharvella (SR) earned 3rd place (1:03.71).]

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Day 1 NEAC Championship



The Swim Team had a great season and an even better taper and it shows through their performances in Day 1 of the 3 day NEAC Championships.

The men's team started off the day with a very exciting race in the 200 FR relay. They earned 2nd place and was only behind the winning team by .70. This race also earned the men's team's first broken record of the meet.




Next event was the 500 FR where Britta Kilbourn (FR) had a PB by 8 seconds (6:26.31) and placed 4th while her team-mate placed 5th. Chris Guard (JR) had an amazing swim where he took off 8 seconds in Prelims and then another 12 seconds at Finals (5:37.03) to earn 3rd place as well as breaking the Wells record by 3 seconds.










Idolyn Villiotti (JR) had her best swim of the season in the 200 IM (2:37.23) placing her 3rd at the meet while her team-mate Caitlin Farris (JR) placed 11th. Drew Teter earned a PB by 4 seconds (2:12.29) earning 1st place at championships and 2nd on the top ten times at Wells. His team-mates Dan Schilling (SO) place 3rd with a PB (2:17.95) and Hunter Harris (SR) place 5th with a PB (2:32.82).








The final individual event for the day was the 50 FR. Gabby Spencer (FR) was seated first in the meet and held her spot both in Prelims and Finals with a time of 26.97. Gabby already broke our 20 year old record back in the Fall. Her team-mate Erika Bareiss (SO) also swam this event and earned 2nd and Sarah Sherboneau (JR) placed 12th. Matt Sleezer (FR) was also fighting for 1st in the 50 FR and place 2nd in finals only .03 behind. Sleezer earned a PB and broke the Wells record.






Women's 400 Medley Relay earning 2nd place - Idolyn Villiotti (JR), Erika Bareiss (SO), Gabby Spencer (JR) and Britta Kilbourn (FR).
Men's 400 Medley Relay earning 2nd place - Mike Scharvella (SR), Drew Teter (JR), Dan Schilling (SO) and Matt Sleezer (FR).