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Women Win!

On Saturday, November 17th the women's team drove 4 1/2 hours down to College of Saint Elizabeth in Morrisstown, New Jersey. It was a long drive and challenging for the team to get ready to swim but the team pulled it together and won the meet 52-43.

There were many great swims throughout the meet and below are some of the highlights.

Hilary Feudale (FR) earned a season best and 1st place in the 50 FR (27.56). Feudale also earned 1st in the 100 BA and was part of the first place 200 FR Relay with Nina Daniels (FR), Gabby Spencer (JR) and Olive Touron (SO). Hayley Bloom (FR) earned a PR in the 100 Fr (1:07.25). Melanie Canales (FR) earned 1st place in the 100 BR while dropping 4 seconds (1:25.63). Canales also had a great swim in the 200 IM where she earned a PR by 8 seconds (3:01.87)

Hilary Feudale also won NEAC Athlete of the Week for the 3rd consecutive week!

Our next meet with be at SUNY Cobleskill (with Gallaudet University) on December 1st.

Hour of Power Relays

Carleton College swimmer, Ted Mullin died of a rare soft tissue disease called Sarcoma Cancer in 2006. His team-mates wanted to honor him and designed an event called, "Hour of Power Relays". Basically the swim team swims an hour in relay fashion. The goal is to swim each 50 in an all out sprint and also to make sure the lanes stay together.

This is our 5th year in a row that the Wells Swim Team has participated in this event. Every year we include the student body as well as faculty and staff. This year there were about 10 students, an athletic trainer, swim coach and the entire Wells Swim Team that participated in this event.

It is a tough event but it is a great way to not only bring the team together and get a great workout but it is for a better cause! We raised awareness and funds to go towards Cancer Research.

Leave it in the Pool!!!

Hayley Bloom (FR) on the blocks in Lane 2 and Nina Daniels (FR) in the water in lane 3

Matt VanArmerongen (FR)

NEAC Athletes of the Week

Feudale Feted By North Eastern Athletic Conference

GANSEVOORT, N.Y. – With her team-leading performance this past weekend against Utica College, freshman Hilary Feudale (Coal Township, Pa.) was selected as the North Eastern Athletic Conference Women's Swimming Student-Athlete of the Week, the conference office announced Monday. Feudale and the Express posted a 65-57 victory over the Pioneers this past Saturday.

Feudale, a freshman, made appearances in four events for the Express on Saturday, finishing first in all but one event while contributing to a total of 21 points in the team's victory. Feudale set a personal record in the 100-yard backstroke, posting a time of 1:08.35 to rank her fourth all-time in program history in that event.

She also claimed first place in the Women's 50 Yard Freestyle (0:28.57) and second in the Women's 200 Yard Backstroke (2:34.00), trailing the event leader by just greater than one second in the latter event. In relay competition, Feudale helped her team take first place in the Women's 200 Yard Medley Relay with an overall time of 2:05.42.

The selection of Feudale by the NEAC is her second career conference award nod, having also received the award earlier this season on Oct. 22.

Sleezer Named NEAC Student-Athlete Of The Week

GANSEVOORT, N.Y. – Junior Matthew Sleezer (Gloversville, N.Y.) was named the North Eastern Athletic Conference Student-Athlete of the Week for his performance against Utica College this past weekend, the conference office announced Monday.

Sleezer, a junior, set the program record in the Men's 1000 Yard Freestyle and placed first in all three of his individual events during the Express' dual against Utica on Saturday. In the aforementioned freestyle event, Sleezer posted a field-best time of 11:36.93, which ranks first all-time in program history and shatters the previous team record by 19 seconds.

In the Men's 100 Yard Freestyle, Sleezer also captured first place with a time of 0:51.96.  In his only relay appearance in the Men's 200 Yard Freestyle Relay, Sleezer also posted his team's fastest time (0:22.37) while swimming the final leg. Sleezer, who also set the Express record in the Men's 50 Yard Freestyle last Saturday, now has the top-two marks in that event after finishing with a first-place finish time of 0:22.50 against Utica.

With the award, Sleezer has now received Student-Athlete of the Week honors five different times dating back to his sophomore season.

Wells Women Win!

The Wells swim teams went against Utica College this past Saturday. Both teams had amazing races and even better times!

The women's team gets the honors of winning this dual meet. This is first time the women's team has won over Utica within my career here at Wells. The last time Wells beat Utica was in 1996! Below are the reasons why the women's team did so well.

Meghan Terry (FR)

Women's Team Highlights
- First event of the day was the 200 Medley relay (2:05.42), where Feudale (FR), Terry (FR), Spencer (JR), Touron (SO) beat the competition by almost a full 4 seconds. This race also put the ladies 5th of the Top Ten List, just shy of a full second off of the record.
- Olive Touron (SO) is a great racer. If anyone is near by she will fight till the very end and that is exactly what she did in the 200 FR. She fought hard and earned 1st place (2:14.52).
- Hilary Feudale (FR) and Gabby Spencer (JR) were ahead of the competition by over 5 seconds in the 100 BA and both recieved season bests earning 1st and 2nd place respectively.
- Many of the swimmers swam a new event including Hallie Hanson (SO) and Gwenn Lillie (SR) in the 200 Fly; Meghan Terry (FR) and Melanie Canales (FR) in the 200 BR. Terry earned 3rd place at the meet and 7th place on the Top Ten List; Feudale in the 200 BA.
- Spencer (JR) and Terry (FR) also took 1st and 2nd place respectively in the 200 IM.

Men's Team Highlights
- Matt Sleezer (JR) won all 3 individual events including breaking the 1000 record by over 20 seconds, 11:36.93. He also took first in the 50 FR (22.50) and 100 FR (51.96).
- Patrick Munroe (FR) and Tom Laier (JR) earned 1st and 2nd place respectively in the 500 FR. Munroe also swam the 200 Fly for the first time and missed the record by only a second with a time of 2:22.20.
- Tom Dougherty (SO) earned 2nd place at the meet, 8th place on the Top Ten List in the 100 BR (1:16.63) and dropped 7 seconds for a PR.

Captains: Gwenn Lillie (SR) and Tom Laier (JR)

What an amazing meet!

Our next meet will be this Saturday @ College of St. Elizabeth

GO EXPRESS!!

Left to Right - Stephanie Todd (FR), Tyler Fischetti (SO) and Matt Sleezer (JR)

On Saturday, November 3rd the Express went on the road to SUNY Brockport for a dual meet. It was a tough meet however there were MANY great swims by both the men and women's team. Below are the highlights.

Women's Team
- Nina Daniels (FR) - earned 2nd place in the 1000 FR and took off 15 seconds (12:51.33). She also had a large drop (15 seconds) in her 500 FR (6:18.76)
- Gabby Spencer (JR) - earned 2nd place in the 200 IM (2:30.72). She currently holds the record (2:25.46). Also part of the 400 Medley relay where she took off 4 seconds in her 100 Fly.
- Meghan Terry (FR) - earned 3rd in the 100 FR (1:01.87) and 2nd in the 100 BR (1:22.25).
- 400 Medley Relay earned the 4th spot on the All Wells Top Ten List - Feudale, Terry, Spencer, Touron

Left to Right - Stephanie Todd (FR), Hayley Bloom (FR), Melanie Canales (FR) and Hallie Hanson (SO)

Men's Team
- Matt Sleezer (JR) earned 1st place and broke his own 50 FR record - 22.48. Matt also swam the 100 Fly (1:00.26) earning 2nd at the meet and 4th on the All Wells Top Ten List.
- Patrick Munroe (FR) took 4 seconds in the 200 IM (2:22.71) and  over 10seconds in the 500 FR (5:38.78).
- 400 Medley Relay earned the 5th spot on the All Wells Top Ten Times with VanArmerongen (FR), Dougherty (SO), Munroe (FR) and Sleezer (JR). 

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Wells Swimming vs SUNY Brockport this Saturday. Check back for results!