Complete ResultsGLENSIDE, Pa. – The Arcadia University women's swimming team improved to 5-0 in dual meets this season after cruising to a 168-86 victory over Middle Atlantic Conference rival Albright College Saturday at Lenox Pool, marking the program's first-ever dual meet win over the Lions.
Junior
Megan Obarowski broke her own school record in the 200 butterfly, posting a first-place time of 2:22.45. She went on to win the 100 butterfly in 1:04.90 and was a key member of the winning 200 medley relay team.
The Knights opened the meet with a one-two finish in the 200 medley relay. The team of sophomore
Rose Georgias, freshman
Samantha Carpenter, Obarowski and freshman
Taylor Byers posted a winning time of 1:58.24, while the grouping of freshman
Sara Bianco, junior
Lillie Curtis, sophomore
Lindsay Fortier and freshman
Kate Wojnar placed second in 2:02.24.
Wojnar won the 100 and 500 freestyle events with respective times of 59.26 seconds and 5:37.28, and was the runner-up in the 1,000 freestyle with time of 11:42.94. Carpenter took the top spot in the 100 breaststroke after touching the wall in 1:09.20, and later won the 200 backstroke after clocking in at 2:16.64, while freshman
Alyssa D'Esposito won the 1,000 freestyle in 11:32.23, and took second in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:40.75.
Curtis won the 50 freestyle with a time of 27.45 seconds, finishing just ahead of junior
Anna Sweeney's second-place time of 27.88 seconds. Curtis went on the notch a second-place finish in the 100 freestyle with a time of 59.27 seconds, which was one-hundredth of the second off Wojnar's winning time of 59.26 seconds. Byers won the 200 breaststroke after registering a time of 2:40.06, and was runner-up in the 100 breaststroke (1:14.51).
Bianco won the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:04.62, while Georgias (1:06.63) and freshman
Rylee Cella (1:08.63) placed second and third, respectively. Bianco went on to finish second in the 200 backstroke (2:23.95), while Georgias was runner-up in the 200 breaststroke (2:52.46). Sophomore
Danielle Fundakowski was the runner-up in the 200 freestyle (2:10.57), edging out Fortier's third-place time (2:10.68) by just 13 tenths of a second.
The Knights will be back in action next Saturday, November 14, hosting a dual meet against Wilkes University at 3 p.m. at Lenox Pool.
