Swimming and Diving

Isaacs Breaks Meet Record in Capturing 100 Breast Title at ECAC Swimming and Diving Championships

Junior Dory Isaacs won the 100 breast title at the 2010 ECAC Swimming and Diving Championships, which took place over the weekend at the University of Pittsburgh.

Isaacs was the top preliminary qualifier out of 36 swimmers, finishing in 1:02.72, nearly two seconds ahead of the second place qualifier. She then backed up that performance with a 1:02.15 swim in the final, defeating runner-up Laura Gorinski from Navy by more than a full second. Isaacs swim set a new ECAC record, edging Central Connecticut State's Jamie Crowley's 1:02.61 time from 2006.

Isaacs' 100 breast swim shaved nearly a tenth of a second off her time from last week's Patriot League Championships, where she placed second with a time of 1:02.23.

The San Jose, Calif., native was the 2009 Patriot League champion in the 100 breast, finishing in 1:01.23, which is also the school-record in the event.

Isaacs was the only Eagle to compete at the meet. The ECAC is regional conference comprised of 300 Division I, II and III schools. Schools included in the ECAC stretch from Maine to North Carolina, and as far west as Illinois.

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