Lyons place third overall at East Collegiate Regional Championship

March 5, 2005

CANTON, OH- The Wheaton College synchronized swimming team placed third overall at Saturday's East Collegiate Regional Championship held at Walsh University's CT Brainin Natatorium, as the Lyons totaled 80 points in the seven-team field.

Canisius College captured its fifth consecutive title with 92 points, while Keuka College took runner-up honors with 80 points. Wheaton, which had defeated Canisius' A team for the first time in program history at the Keuka Invitational on February 12, finished second overall to the Golden Griffins.

Competing on Wheaton's A squad was senior co-captain Jamie Olken (Brighton, NY/Brighton), sophomore co-captain Elizabeth Corman (St. Paul, MN/Hill-Murray), sophomore Sarah Swinkin (Hamden, CT/Hamden) and freshmen Tori Hay (Danville, CA/Monte Vista), Megan Kinney (Los Angeles, CA/Marlborough), Esther Kovacs (Windham, NH/Notre Dame Academy) and Sachi Maekawa (Seattle, WA/Franklin).

The Lyons' B team also turned in an impressive performance, as sophomore Renata Paglio (Portland, ME/Deering) alongside first-year athletes Laura Fleck (Auburn, ME/Hebron Academy), Perri Kapp (Yarmouth Port, MA/Dennis Yarmouth), Ru-Shyan Yen (Des Moines, IA/Abraham Lincoln) and Ru-Huey Yen (Des Moines, IA/Abraham Lincoln) finished sixth overall.

Individually, Maekawa completed the solo routine portion of the meet in second place. Corman and Hay picked up fifth-place honors in Wheaton's first scoring duet of the season, while Corman, Hay and Kinney sided for a fourth-place standing in the trio competition. The second trio, consisting of Kovacs, Olken and Swinkin, was sixth on the day.

In technical elements, Kinney was victorious in the C figure category while Maekawa was credited with a runner-up finish in A figures. Fleck registered a fourth-place standing in D figures and Hay was the top Wheaton performer in the B figure category in ninth.

Rounding out B figures was Corman in 10th place. Kovacs took fourth overall in the C category, while Olken and Swinkin weren't far behind at fifth and seventh place, respectively. In D figures, Paglio placed sixth and Kapp eighth to complete the top scorers for the Lyons.

Wheaton will return to action in a couple of weekend's at the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championship, hosted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. The two-day meet held at Zesiger Pool begins on Saturday, March 19 at 12:00 p.m.

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