Women's Swimming & Diving Drops Granite State Battle to UNH

Wednesday, February 3

Hanover, N.H.

6:00 pm

Dartmouth College

127

173

UNH

Women's Swimming & Diving Drops Granite State Battle to UNH

2/3/2010 8:00:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving

By: Dartmouth

Hanover, N.H. - The Dartmouth women's swimming and diving team lost to instate rival New Hampshire, 173-127 this evening at Karl Michael Pool.

The event was the final home meet of the season for the Big Green, which turned pink for the night in support of breast cancer awareness.

Sophomore diver Erica Serpico stole the show again, continuing her recent dominance on the boards, winning both the one and three meter events for the sixth straight meet. She broke the Karl Michael Pool record on the three meter with a first place score of 311.78. Serpico now owns the pool record for both events. She also took first in the one meter with a score of 266.39. Teammates Bridget Duffey and Kate O'Brien took second and third, respectively, in both events.

Caitlin Nicholson and Virginia Selden swept first and second in the 200 butterfly with times of 2:10.21 and 2:10.77, respectively. Nicholson finished second in the 100 butterfly in a time of 59.64.

Maddie Steiner was another big winner for Dartmouth, taking the 500 freestyle by 0.01 over UNH's Wollenzien in a time of 5:14.24. Steiner's UNH rival beat her out in the 200 freestyle, but she took second in 1:58.10.

Galen Barry was Dartmouth's top finisher in the 100 backstroke, taking second in 1:01.22, while New Hampshire's Amy Perrault broke the pool record in a time of 57.79. Barry was also second to Perrault in the 200 backstroke in 2:08.93.