2011-12 RESULTS NOVEMBER 11-12, 2011- TRI MEET
NOVEMBER 17-19, 2011- PATRIOT INVITATIONAL
Piscataway, N.J.
SETON HALL - 74
seton hall - 58
RUTGERS - 278
TCU - 295
OVERALL RECORD: 5-2
PISCATAWAY, N.J. - The Seton Hall University women’s swimming and diving team suffered its first losses of the season as the Pirates fell to Texas Christian University, 295-58, and Rutgers University, 278-74, on Saturday, Nov. 12, as a two-day tri-meet at Rutgers University came to an end in Piscataway, N.J. Sophomore Kerrie Kolackovsky (Franklin Square, N.Y.) and sophomore Jane Ehret (Florida, N.Y.) both had a productive second day for the Pirates. Ehret swam the 400-yard individual medley for the first time this year, placing seventh overall with a BIG EAST automatic time of 4:37.69.
Fourth/14 Teams • Fairfax, Va.
UMBC - 1089
UNCW - 749.5
GEORGE MASON - 702
seton hall - 483.5
FAIRFAX, VA. - Sophomore Kerrie Kolackovsky (Franklin Square, N.Y.) had a record breaking day to lead the Seton Hall University women’s swimming & diving team on the third day of the 2011 Patriot Invitational on Saturday, Nov. 19, in Fairfax, Va. Kolackovsky broke the Seton Hall University school record in the 1,650-yard freestyle and grabbed a pair of first-place finishes as the Pirates finished in fourth place overall in the team standings with 483.5 points. The University of Maryland Baltimore County won the meet with 1,089 points.
Kolackovsky posted an automatic BIG EAST mark in the 200-yard breaststroke, where she came in fourth with a time of 2:28.68.
Kolackovsky won the grueling 1,650-yard freestyle with a time of 16:55.80, eclipsing the old school record of 16:57.13 that was set by Michelle Ducharme during the 2005-06 season. Kolackovsky was swimming the 1,650 for the first time this year.
Ehret and Kolackovsky teamed with junior Andrea Shuba (Pittsburgh, Pa.) and senior Rose Virgilio (Bloomingburg, N.Y.) to post a third-place finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:45.72).
She also finished first in the 200-yard breaststroke with a season-best time of 2:20.48. Both of her first-place swims met 2012 BIG EAST Championship automatic qualifying standards.
Shuba, Kolackovsky, Virgilio and sophomore Kelly Markwell (Old Bridge, N.J.) made up the Pirates’ fifth-place 200-medley relay (1:51.47) squad in the first event of the day. Markwell also placed sixth in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 1:00.48, which represented an automatic conference championship mark.
The Pirates saw four student-athletes post an automatic BIG EAST mark in the 200-yard butterfly. Sophomore Jane Ehret (Florida, N.Y.) led the way by coming in fourth in 2:05.45.
Seton Hall also saw two swimmers submit Automatic BIG EAST swims in the 200yard backstroke. Shuba finished sixth in 2:10.38 while senior Marilyn Purvis (Old Saybrook, Conn.) came in seventh with a time of 2:11.79.
Sophomore Kelly Markwell (Old Bridge, N.J.) finished 10th in 2:09.76, freshman Sarah Dougherty (Waterford, N.Y.) set a new personal record with a time of 2:11.34, and junior Brenna O’Keefe (Hyde Park, N.Y.) posted a time of 2:11.23 in the 200-breaststroke preliminaries. Senior Rose Virgilio (Bloomingburg, N.Y.) finished 12th in the 100-yard freestyle finals to lead a group of four SHU swimmers that met automatic BIG EAST standards. Sophomore Kate Dwyer (Freehold, N.J.) posted a 100-freestyle time of 54.71 and junior Alie Zelenky (Mechanicsburg, Pa.) had a time of 54.86. Junior Andrea Shuba (Pittsburgh, Pa.) also met automatic conference standards in the 100-yard freestyle but her time came from the opening leg of the Pirates’ eighth-place 400-yard freestyle relay team. She finished the opening leg in 54.59. Shuba nearly broke her second school record of the meet, but she fell just fractions of a second shy of that feat, finishing fifth in the 200-yard backstroke in 2:04.50, which was .03 behind her school record of 2:04.47. Senior Marilyn Purvis (Old Saybrook, Conn.) also had an automatic BIG EAST swim in the 200-backstroke with a time of 2:08.40. Seton Hall’s other top times of the day came from senior Kaley Swider (Gallway, N.J.), who was eighth in the 200-breaststroke (2:28.38), freshman Samantha Granan (Hyde Park, N.Y.), who finished 11th in the 200-breaststroke (2:28.62) and O’Keefe, who came in eighth in the 1,650-freestyle with a personal record time of 17:42.73.
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