WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING

Roster  |  Coaches  |  Schedule / Results  |  News

Bulls Sweep MAC Swimmer of the Week Awards

BUFFALO, NY – The Mid-American Conference announced this morning that University at Buffalo sophomores Andrea Lehner (Lockport, NY/Orchard Park) and Connor Vander Zalm (Kelowna, British Columbia/Kelowna) have been named as the league's Women's and Men's Swimmers of the Week.

Andrea Lehner

Lehner, who swam at Maryland last season, won five indviudal events and was part of a winning relay squad at last Saturday's Western New York Invitational, held at UB's Alumni Arena Natatorium. Lehner opened the meet by winning the 500-yard freestyle in 4:58.93, just one second off the UB school record set by Jennefer Brankovsky in 2004. Lehner also scored first place finishes in the two other distance freestyle races. In the 200-yard freestyle, she took first place in 1:56.24 and won the 1,000-yard freestyle in 10:15.36. Lehner also won the 200-yard individual medley in 2:08.25 and the 200-yard backstroke in 2:05.43. The backstroke time was also a second off the UB school record. She was also part of UB's victorious 200-yard medley relay squad (1:49.43), swimming the leadoff backstroke portion of the race. She was followed into the water by Ashley Schaffert (Lockport, NY/Lockport), Jessie Koltz (Chenango Bridge, NY/Chenango Valley) and Sam Palma (Lancaster, NY/Lancaster).

Connor Vander Zalm

Vander Zalm won a pair of distance freestyle races and added a second-place finish for the UB men at the Western New York Invitational. Vander Zalm won the 500-yard freestyle in 4:48.85, taking the race by just over a second over Binghamton's Brenno Varanda. He later scored a victory in the 1,000-yard freestyle in 10:01.30, more than five seconds ahead of the second-place finisher. Vander Zalm also placed second overall in the 400-yard individual medley in 4:23.24.

Both squads host Duquesne in the first dual meet of the season on Friday, October 19 at Alumni Arena Natatorium starting at 4:00 pm.