UB Swimming Weekly Release

Buffalo Finishes Sixth at MAC Championships

The University at Buffalo women's swimming and diving team set ten school records and was the MAC Champion in the 200 medley relay as they swam to a sixth-place finish at the MAC Championship meet at Bowling Green's Cooper Pool last weekend.

Brynn Marecki

Bulls Open Meet with First-Place Finish

The 200 medley relay team of Jessica Ballard, Brynn Marecki, Sam Eckert and Jessie Koltz swam to an impressive 1:39.74 to win the overall event and take home Buffalo's only MAC championship of the weekend, just touching out the competition from Miami. The 800 freestyle relay of Ballard, Jordan Deren, Alie Schirmers and AKeri Chandler also set a UB record on the opening day, placing seventh in a time of 7:30.39, bettering the previous record set in 2000.

UB Sweeps Relay Records

Besides the 200 medley relay and 800 freestyle relay, the Bulls set records in the all other weekend relays as well. On Friday, Koltz, Sam Palma, Catherine Scharf and Eckert finished the 200 freestyle relay in sixth place with a time of 1:33.83, bettering the record set last season of 1:34.52. In the 400 medley relay, Rachel Sorg, Marecki, Eckert and Koltz swam four seconds faster than the previous UB record, in a time of 3:44.39 to place fourth in the event. Finally, on Saturday, Koltz, Palma, Deren and Ballard broke the school record in the 400 freestyle set last season with a time of 3:25.02, completing the Bulls? clean sweep of record breaking relays for the weekend.

Bulls Impressive in Backstroke and Breaststroke Events

Sorg placed third in the 100 backstroke, breaking the school record in a time of 55.26, while Ballard dropped seven seconds in her 200 backstroke time, to finish fourth with a new school record of 1:59.66. Marecki swept the breaststroke records. The freshman made an NCAA "B" cut in the 100 breaststroke, breaking her own school record for the fourth time this season with a time of 1:01.81, good enough for a third place finish. Marecki earned sixth place in the 200 breaststroke with a school record time of 2:15.99. Distance specialist Deren, broke the school record in the 1650 freestyle, dropping nearly 30 seconds to finish the season with a time of 16:46.06.

Meili Carpenter

Diving

Meili Carpenter placed second in the one and three-meter diving events, earning 280.05 points on the one-meter board and 282.65 points on the three-meter board. Ursula Jeske finished 16th in the three-meter event with a score of 180.30 and 18th in the one-meter event, with 192.70 points. Akron's Katie Carter swept both diving events.

Final Scores

The Bulls ended the meet in sixth place with 335 points. Miami was the 2009 MAC Champion with 639.5 points, followed by Ohio (611.5 ), Toledo ( 568.5), Eastern Michigan ( 497.5) and Akron (347). Bowling Green (305.5) and Ball State (200.5) finished behind Buffalo in seventh and eighth respectively.