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Geneseo women capture 2016 SUNYAC swimming and diving title

SATURDAY RESULTS
OVERALL RESULTS

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The Geneseo women captured its 24th State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) title with 964 team points, Saturday night at the Burt Flickinger Center at Erie Community College.
Meghan Bartlett from Fredonia was the women's 3-meter dive champion with 489.30 points.

Top swimming and diving awards were announced Saturday night. New Paltz's Cassidy Griger was honored with the Grace Mowatt award given to a female senior for overall academic and athletic excellence throughout their collegiate career. Grace Mowatt was a long time swimming coach at Oswego State, was a pioneer of Women's Swimming in the SUNYAC.
 
Geneseo's Hailey Modelewski was named the Swimmer of the Meet for winning titles in the 200 individual medley, 100 butterfly and 200 butterfly.

Cortland's Miranda Furgus won the Diver of the Meet award. With a SUNYAC tile in the 1-meter dive and a second place finish in the 3-meter dive Furgus tallied the most points overall in the meet.

Geneseo coach, Paul Dotterweich was selected as the women's Coach of the Year while Geneseo's diving coach, Shawn Austin was named the Diving Coach of the Year. These awards are voted on by all conference coaches.

Geneseo's Nancy Nasky broke the conference and meet record in the 1650 freestyle finishing in 17:07.27 to top the 17:09.21 record set by Chelsea Allocco (New Paltz) in 2013.

Saturday Finals – SUNYAC Champions
1650 Free: Nancy Nasky, Geneseo, 17:07.27!%B
200 Back: Sydney Ng, Geneseo, 2:06.91
100 Free: Mary Jane Leja, Brockport, 52.25
200 Breast: Katie Donlevy, New Paltz, 2:27.54
200 Fly: Hailey Modelewski, Geneseo, 2:09.01
3M Dive: Meghan Bartlett, Fredonia 489.30B
400 Free Relay: Julie Holloway, Nicole Fico, Leeza Seelbach, Kaitlin Doherty, Geneseo, 3:32.18
! - Conference Record
% -  Meet Record
A -  NCAA DIII A Standard
B – NCAA DIII B Standard

2016 SUNYAC Women's Swimming and Diving All-Conference 
(1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers in individual events)

 
First Team (1st Place) Event(s)
Nancy Nasky, Genseo 500 Free, 200 Free, 1650 Free
Hailey Modelewski, Geneseo 200 IM, 100 Fly, 200 Fly
Mary Jane Leja, Brockport 50 Free, 100 Free
Miranda Fergus, Cortland 1M Dive, 3M Dive 
Jaimie Kaefer, New Paltz 400 IM
Cassiday Griger, New Paltz 500 Free, 200 Free
Jenna Gibbons, Geneseo 100 Breast, 200 Fly
Emily Smith, Geneseo 100 Back, 200 Back
Sydney Ng, Genseo 500 Free, 200 Free, 200 Back
Katie Donlevy, New Paltz 200 Fly, 200 IM
Meghan Bartlett, Fredonia 3M Dive, 1M Dive
Second Team (2nd/3rd Place) Event(s)
Nancy Shemet, Geneseo 200 IM
Molly McCulloch, New Paltz 50 Free
Leeza Seelbach, Geneseo 50 Free, 100 Back, 200 Free
Meghan Bartlett, Fredonia 1M Dive
Claudia Kolakowski, Geneseo 1M Dive
Angelica Ford, Cortland 400 IM
Hannah Dari, Oneonta 400 IM, 1650 Free
Molly McCulloch, New Paltz 100 Fly
Julia Llewellyn, Oneonta 100 Fly, 200 Fly
Mic Del Favero, Buffalo State 100 Breast
Nico Difilippo, Oneonta 100 Breast
Taylor Waldrop, Oneonta 100 Back, 200 Back
Sophie Defreitas, Geneseo  1650 Free
Dani Dembrow, Fredonia 200 Breast
Megan Joseph, New Paltz 200 Breast
Sam Kowalewski, Fredonia 3M Dive 
            
Outstanding Swimmer of the Meet Hailey Modelewski, Geneseo
Outstanding Diver of the Meet Miranda Fergus, Cortland
Grace Mowatt Award Cassidy Griger, New Paltz
Coach of the Year Paul Dotterweich, Geneseo

Women's Team Scores
Geneseo, 964
New Paltz, 681
Cortland, 438
Oneonta, 356.5
Fredonia, 294
Oswego, 250.5
Brockport, 199
Buffalo State, 186
Potsdam, 161