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Ohio Claims MAC Women's Swim Title

Saturday's finals

Saturday's preliminaries

Andrea Lehner

BUFFALO, NY – The 2008 Mid-American Conference Women's Swimming and Diving Championships concluded Satruday night with Ohio University claiming its first title since 2001 and two University at Buffalo athletes earning all-league honors.

Ohio scored a total of 679.5 points to take the title, their 10th overall and first since 2001, the last time that UB hosted the conference meet. Following the Bobcats were Toledo (605.5), Eastern Michigan (575), Miami (538), UB (341), Bowling Green (333.5), Akron (246) and Ball State (175.5).

Madeleine Pilchard of Eastern Michigan was named the Swimmer of the Year and Senior Swimmer of the Year. On Saturday, she won her third MAC title of the weekend with a MAC, MAC meet and UB pool record time of 49.02 in the 100-yard freestyle. The time, an automatic NCAA qualifying mark, bettered her record-setting performance in the heats of 49.42. Pilchard also anchored EMU's 400-yard freestyle relay team to league and meet records in 3:20.43.

Toledo's Meg Reissig also won her third event of the meet on Saturday with a victory in the 200-yard backstroke. Reissig set MAC, MAC meet and UB pool records to win in 1:58.16. UB's Andrea Lehner (Lockport, NY/Orchard Park) finished third in the final in 2:00.92. Lehner broke her own UB school record in the morning preliminaries with a clocking of 2:00.60.

Meili Carpenter

Toledo scored two more champions on Saturday in the 200-yard breaststroke and three-meter diving. In the breaststroke, Kylie Gamelier took first place in 2:15.98, setting a UB pool record. Megan McKinley won the diving competition with 317.10 points for six dives and earned Diver of the Year honors as she swept both the one- and three-meter events this weekend. UB's Meili Carpenter (Boulder, CO/Fairview) finished second to McKinley on the three-meter board on Saturday night with a total of 291.80 points and earned her second consecutive All-MAC second team award in as many years.

Ohio crowned two champions on Saturday night with Stacey Huber winning the 1,650-yard freestyle in 16:32.96 and Amanda Cecere taking the 200-yard butterfly in a MAC meet and UB pool record 2:00.01.

Jordan Deren

UB's Jordan Deren (Lackawanna, NY/Nardin Academy) also scored points in the 1,650-yard freestyle with her sixth-place showing in the timed final. Deren turned in a lifetime-best mark of 17:18.97.

In all, 11 MAC, 13 meet and 16 pool records were set in the four-day meet. A complete list of awards is listed below.

Final team scores: Ohio 679.5, Toledo 605.5, Eastern Michigan 575, Miami 538, Buffalo 341, Bowling Green 333.5, Akron 246, Ball State 175.5.

Saturday's champions

1,650 freestyle: Stacey Huber (Ohio) 16:32.96

200 backstroke: Meg Reissig (Toledo) 1:58.16

100 freestyle: Madeleine Pilchard (Eastern Michigan) 49.02

200 breaststroke: Kylie Gamelier (Toledo) 2:15.98

200 butterfly: Amanda Cecere (Ohio) 2:00.01

3-meter diving: Megan McKinley (Toledo) 317.10

400 freestyle relay: Eastern Michigan (Alissa Ricard, Cat Lee Ha, Hannah Burandt, Madeleine Pilchard) 3:20.43

Senior of the Year: Madeleine Pilchard (Eastern Michigan)

Swimmer of the Year: Madeleine Pilchard (Eastern Michigan)

Diver of the Year: Megan McKinley (Toledo)

Swim Coach of the Year: Greg Werner (Ohio)

Diving Coach of the Year: Marie Canarecci (Toledo)

First team All-MAC

Madeleine Pilchard (Eastern Michigan)

Meg Reissig (Toledo)

Andrea Lehner (Buffalo)

Karen Frazier (Miami)

Leah Woodard (Toledo)

Alisha Yee (Bowling Green)

Rachel Heim (Ohio)

Allison Stevens (Miami)

Amanda Cecere (Ohio)

Emily Wylam (Ohio)

Kelsey Vehr (Miami)

Alissa Ricard (Eastern Michigan)

Kylie Gamelier (Toledo)

Ashley Marion (Ohio)

Stacey Huber (Ohio)

Megan McKinley (Toledo)

Second team All-MAC

Ashley Durand (Eastern Michigan)

Leeza Moser (Eastern Michigan)

Jacy Dyer (Toledo)

Michaela Hahn-Lawson (Ohio)

Mallory Rico (Ohio)

Steph Zielinski (Akron)

Michael Carriaga (Bowling Green)

Amanda Traylor (Ohio)

Ilse Petersen (Ohio)

Leah Giancarli (Ohio)

Hannah Burandt (Eastern Michigan)

Becky Renkola (Eastern Michigan)

Meili Carpenter (Buffalo)

Jill Reighard (Toledo)