Women's Swimming Finishes Sixth at Ivy Championships

Saturday, February 26

Princeton, N.J.

All Day

Dartmouth College

Ivy Championships - Day 3

Women's Swimming Finishes Sixth at Ivy Championships

2/26/2011 7:57:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving

By: Dartmouth

PRINCETON, N.J. — The Dartmouth women's swimming and diving team moved up one spot on Saturday and finished sixth at the Ivy League Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. The Big Green finished with 794.5 points. Princeton won the championship with 1,562 points, Harvard placed second at 1,436 and Columbia finished third with 894 points.

Over the course of the three-day event, the Big Green set eight school records. The team also had multiple competitors set new personal bests and finish with Dartmouth top ten times in their respective events.

On Saturday, Dartmouth had two new school records set and five individuals finish in the top eight in their events. In the 200 butterfly, the Big Green had two swimmers finish in the top seven. Freshman Kendall Farnham (Severna Park, Md.) finished in fourth place at 2:00.42. Freshman Danielle Kerr (Gainesville, Fla.) finished seventh at 2:02.90, but in the prelims, she broke the school record with at time of 1:59.88. Both women achieved the NCAA provisional time for the 200 yard butterfly.

Dartmouth also had two top eight finishers in the 200 backstroke. Freshman Meredith Sweeney (Hinsdale, Ill.) broke the 19 year-old school record in the prelims with a time of 1:59.04, and then finished fourth in the finals at 1:59.19. Her mark in the prelims was a NCAA provisional cut time. Junior Galen Barry (Wayne, Pa.) touched the wall eighth in the event with a time of 2:03.55. Her preliminary time of 2:02.04 was also under the previous school record time.

In the one-meter diving competition, freshman Katy Feng (Westford, Mass.) took seventh place with a score of 253.75 points. Katy will be representing the Big Green at the NCAA Zone Diving Meet from March 11-12.

In the final event of the championship, Dartmouth placed sixth in the 400-freestyle relay. The group of freshman Christine Kerr, junior Elizabeth Kamai (Corte Madera, Calif.), Danielle Kerr and senior Maddie Steiner (Dallas, Texas) finished at 3:26.11 with the second-fastest time in school history.