Dartmouth Women's Swimming and Diving Falls in Meet with Columbia

Saturday, February 16

New York, N.Y.

12:00 p.m.

Dartmouth College

104

192

Columbia

Dartmouth Women's Swimming and Diving Falls in Meet with Columbia

2/16/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Swimming & Diving

By: Dartmouth

Complete Results

NEW YORK, N.Y. ? The Dartmouth women's swimming and diving team challenged throughout its meet with Columbia, but fell to the Lions, 192-104, in the Big Green's final regular-season meet

Freshman Anna Sonstegard (Sioux Falls, S.D.) earned two wins for the Big Green, placing first in the 1000 yard freestyle and was a member of the team that won the 500 yard individual medley relay.

In the relay, Sonstegard teamed up with junior Hillary Preston (Medina, Wash.), freshman Virginia Selden (Birmingham, Ala.) and freshman Maddie Steiner (Dallas, Texas) to place first with a time of 4:42.10 to earn 11 points for the Big Green. Sonstegard blew away her competition in the 1000 yard freestyle as she finished with a collegiate-best time of 10:29.36. She eclipsed her previous best by 16 seconds and beat her competition by the same 16 seconds.

Dartmouth got two second place finishes from senior captain Liz Mancuso in the 100 yard individual medley with a time of 1:02.61 and the 100 yard butterfly with a time of 1:00.29. Steiner took second in the 500 yard freestyle with a time of 5:10.78 and senior Jackie Benson (Lynnwood, Wash.) placed second in the 50 yard breaststroke with a time of 0:33.13.

On the diving side, senior Julianne Mifflin (Greenwich, Conn.) took second in the 3-meter dive with a score of 257.55 and placed third in the 1-meter with a score of 251.25.

Next up for the Big Green women's swimming and diving team will be Ivy Championships at Princeton on the weekend of February 28-March 1.