Senior Whitney Boeckel capped off an outstanding collegiate career by winning gold medals in the 100 and 200 backstroke events to go with a silver medal in the 200 individual medley at the 2015 Middle Atlantic Conference Championships. She is now the most decorated and highest scoring individual in program history.
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Boeckel captured her first career MAC title after touching the wall in 59.50 seconds to close out the third day of competition after setting a new program record in Saturday’s prelims with a time of 59.06 seconds. She then opened the final day of competition by dominating the 200 backstroke, registering a winning time of 2:08.65 that was 4.02 seconds faster than the runner-up. Boeckel earned her first medal of the meet with a runner-up finish in the 200 IM Friday, posting a school-record time of 2:12.04, and earned Second-Team All-Conference honors as a member of the fourth-place 400 freestyle relay and the sixth-place 200 freestyle relay, both of which finished with new school records.
