Women's Swimming and Diving Falls to Harvard, Cornell

Saturday, November 14

Ithaca, N.Y.

10:00 am

Dartmouth College

Harvard/Cornell

Women's Swimming and Diving Falls to Harvard, Cornell

11/14/2009 8:00:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving

By: Dartmouth

The Dartmouth women's swimming and diving team opened the 2009-10 campaign with losses to Harvard and Cornell in Ithaca.

Cornell topped the Big Green, 190.5 - 104.5 and Harvard took a 203-92 win.

In the deep pool, Dartmouth sophomore Erica Serpico (Moorestown, N.J.) was the Green's top finisher in both events, taking second in the one meter with a score of 238.90 and fourth in the three meter with 238.35 points.

Virginia Selden (Birmingham, Ala.), a junior led the day taking fourth in the 200 butterfly in a time of 2:09.08 while Kelsey Pinson (Portland, Ore.) finished seventh in the 100 in 59.87.

In her first collegiate meet, Charlotte Williams (Boca Raton, Fla.) took fifth in the 200 breaststroke in 2:29.86 and fifth in the 100 in 1:10.02. Sophomore Caitlin Keenan (Encitas, Calif.) was just behind her to take sixth in both events.

Caitlin Foley (Chesapeake, Va.), a freshman, was Dartmouth's top finisher in the 1000 freestyle taking fifth in 11:12.10 while sophomore Tara Henn (Lawrenceville, N.J.) was seventh in 11:22.96. Foley was also the Big Green's top swimmer in the 500 free, finishing sixth in 5:28.49. Maddie Steiner (Dallas, Texas), Elizabeth Kamai (Corte Madera, Calif.) and Isa Guardalabene (Albany, Calif.) finished sixth through eighth, respectively, in the 200 free with Steiner's 1:57.27 time edging Kamai's 1:58.50. In the 50 free, Guardalabene edged Kamai for fifth in 25.16 to Kamai's 25.20.

Galen Barry (Wayne, Pa.) was Dartmouth's best finisher in both backstroke events, taking seventh in both. She finished in 2:09.60 in the 200 yard and 1:00.44 in the 100.

In the relays, the team of Barry, Williams, Pinson and Guardalabene took fourth in the 200 medley with a time of 1:52.17. Dartmouth swam uncontested in the 400 freestyle relay with Kamai, Foley, Guardalabene, and Steiner finishing in 3:36.84.Henn, Pinson, Selden and Catherine Armstrong (Marietta, Ga.) finished in 3:53.1.

Dartmouth opens the home portion of its schedule against Brown on Saturday, Nov. 21 at 11 a.m. at Karl Michael Pool.