ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Fiona Caulfield finished 12th in the women's 1-meter diving competition and the women's 400-yard medley relay squad placed sixth to highlight American University's performances Thursday at the 2016 Patriot League Swimming & Diving Championships, hosted by Navy.
Caulfield, a sophomore, scored 220.55 on the 1-meter board Thursday, posting her second-best score of the year.
The women's 400 medley relay team of
Paris Wood, Ali Follman, Caylee Watson and
Julianna Cavano went 3:49.52, three seconds better than the Eagles' best mark of the season. Wood went 56.16 in the 100-yard backstroke in the opening leg, a mark that was surpassed only by her school-record swim of 55.96 in November.
American ended the second of four days of competition in ninth place on the women's side with 55 points. The Eagles were in 10th place on the men's side, suffering a disqualification in the 400 medley relay due to an early start in one of the legs of the relay.
Kilian Korth posted a lead leg of 50.70 in the 100 back, nearly a half-second better than his fastest mark of the season in that event.
The host Midshipmen will head into the final two days of competition with a 100-point lead over the field on both the women's and men's side in the team standings.
THURSDAY NOTES
- Freshman Scott Callander trimmed nearly a full second off his previous season-best in the men's 50 free, with his 20.98 to finish 22nd besting his 21.74 from November and jumping him from off the list into a tie for eighth all-time at AU. Roberto Bazzi also had a season-best at 23.79.
- All three Eagles in the women's 500 freestyle hit at least season-bests. Tori Haviland was 27th overall in 5:06.62; Shannon Scovel's 5:10.52 was a career-best and moved her into 15th all-time at AU; Maddie Fazen cut six seconds off her season-best at 5:31.19.
- Korth just missed a spot in evening finals in the men's 500 free with his 18th-place finish. Julian Wainer (4:44.54), Ryan Richards (4:44.90), Ben Mitchell (4:54.23) and Pat Hooks (5:00.05) all hit season-bests. Hooks' swim sliced 15 seconds off his previous best.
- Cavano was 23rd (2:08.09) to lead AU in the women's 200 IM, while Wood's mark of 2:08.75 was a career-best and moved her from 14th to 13th all-time at AU. Alexis Danchak (2:13.02) and Rebecca Kaliff (2:19.56) also had season-bests.
- Tomas Kloosterman became the second Eagle this season under two minutes in the men's 200 IM (1:59.39), followed by Jakobi Jackson (2:01.10) and Liam Bond (2:02.24), each of whom swam their best time of the year.
- Shannon Exley missed her career-best in the women's 50 free by 0.01 seconds, going 24.70 in Thursday's prelims. Alyssa Colasurdo (25.03) and Lena Mentyka (25.11) also had season-bests.
