NEW ENGLAND WOMEN’S AND MEN’S ATHLETIC CONFERENCE (NEWMAC) – MEN AND WOMEN
- Dates: Thursday, February 20-Sunday, February 23, 2020
- Location/Host: MIT – Cambridge, MA
- Defending Champion: MIT women (9x); MIT men (11x)
- Live Video: Available here
- Championship Central
- Results
Courtesy: New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference
WOMEN
Cambridge, Mass. (February 22) — After day three of the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Swimming and Diving Championship, the No. 6 ranked MIT women’s swimming and diving team continues to lead as the Engineers now have 905.50 points overall.
MIT leads the field by 323.50 points as Wheaton College is second with 582 points. Wellesley sits in third at 466.50 along with WPI in fourth (448), Springfield in fifth (413), Coast Guard in sixth (355.50), Babson in seventh (248.50), Smith in eighth (233), Mount Holyoke in ninth (183) and Clark in tenth (122).
The final day begins with the prelims on Sunday, February 25th at 10 a.m., followed by the finals session at 6 p.m. at the Zesiger Athletic Center Pool. The events for Sunday include the 1650 free, the 200 back, the 100 free, the 200-breast, the 200 fly, one-meter diving and the 400 freestyle relay.
Saturday Championship Results
(Champion earns First Team All-Conference honors, while runner-up is Second Team All-Conference)
400 IM
Champion: Josie McGuire – Coast Guard, 4:28.92 (NCAA B Cut, improved 4.10 seconds from prelims)
Runner-Up: Laura Rosado – MIT, 4:30.49 (NCAA B Cut, improved 4.39 seconds from prelims)
100 Fly
Champion: Jessica Wegner – Wellesley, 55.57 (NCAA B Cut, 2019 Champion, improved 1.01 seconds from prelims)
Runner-Up: Hannah Mahaffey – MIT, 55.88 (NCAA B Cut, improved 1.13 seconds from prelims)
200 Free
Champion: Lydia DaCorte – Wheaton, 1:49.61 (Meet Record, NEWMAC Open Record, NCAA B Cut, Runner Up in 2018)
Runner-Up: Hannah May – Wellesley, 1:53.63 (Placed Third Last Year)
100 Breast
Champion: Edenna Chen – MIT, 1:02.29 (Meet Record, NCAA B Cut)
Runner-Up: Sara Nicholas – MIT, 1:03.45 (NCAA B Cut, 2019 Champion)
(Madeline Eller from Wheaton (1:03.62) also achieved an NCAA B Cut)
100 Back
Champion: Laura Rosado – MIT, 56.46 (NCAA B Cut, improved by 1.00 seconds from prelims, 2019 Champion)
Runner-Up: Grace Moore – Springfield, 57.33
200 Medley Relay
Champion: MIT, 1:43.25 (Nanette Wu, Edenna Chen, Olivia McGrath, Lilia Staszel)
(Meet Record, NCAA B Cut; Olivia McGrath was on 2019 Championship team)
Runner-Up: Wheaton, 1:44.17 (Chloe Deubner, Madeline Eller, Lydia DaCorte, Hope Campbell)
(NCAA B Cut; Chloe Deubner and Lydia DaCorte were on the 2019 runner-up team; DaCorte was also on the 2018 runner-up team)
MEN
Cambridge, Mass. (February 22) — After day three of the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Swimming and Diving Championship, the No. 4 ranked MIT men’s swimming and diving team continues to lead as the Engineers now have 1041 points overall.
MIT leads the field by 257 points as the U.S. Coast Guard Academy currently sits in second place with 784 points. WPI is third at 574, followed by Springfield (373), Babson (348), Wheaton (318) and Clark (213).
The final day begins with the prelims on Sunday, February 25th at 10 a.m., followed by the finals session at 6 p.m. at the Zesiger Athletic Center Pool. The events for Sunday include the 1650-free, the 200-back, the 100-free, the 200-breast, the 200-fly and the 400-freestyle relay.
Saturday Championship Results
(Champion earns First Team All-Conference honors, while runner-up is Second Team All-Conference)
400 IM
Champion: Jordan Ren – MIT, 3:55.13 (NCAA B Cut, improved by 6.94 seconds from prelims, 2019 Champion)
Runner-Up: Bouke Edskes – MIT, 3:55.36 (NCAA B Cut, improved 2.36 seconds from prelims)
(Christian Lower from Coast Guard (3:58.45) also reached an NCAA B Cut)
100 Fly
Champion: Sam Ubellacker – MIT, 48.51 (NCAA B Cut)
Runner-Up: Tucker Besch – WPI, 48.94 (NCAA B Cut)
200 Free
Champion: Alex Ellison – MIT, 1:38.95 (NCAA B Cut, Just 0.03-seconds shy of Meet Record, 2019 Champion)
Runner-Up: Devin McClure – Coast Guard, 1:39.27 (NCAA B Cut, 2019 Runner-Up)
100 Breast
Champion: Eric Fuhs – Coast Guard, 55.82 (NCAA B Cut, Won three consecutive 100 breast NEWMAC titles)
Runner-Up: Kyri Chen – MIT, 56.38
100 Back
Champion: Jaya Kambhampaty, MIT – 49.25 (NCAA B Cut, Finished fourth in 2019)
Runner-Up: Sidney Williams, WPI – 49.29 (NCAA B Cut, Finished seventh in 2019)
(Adam Janicki from MIT (49.91) also achieved an NCAA B Cut)
Three-Meter Diving
Champion: Jay Lang MIT, 587.30 Points (Regional Cut, 2019 Champion, Broke Meet & Open NEWMAC Records with his score of 605.10 during prelims this morning)
Runner-Up: Connor Pennington – Springfield, 583.05 Points (Regional Cut, 2019 Runner Up)
(Sean Andrews from Springfield (470.45) also registered a regional qualifying score)
200 Medley Relay
Champion: MIT, 1:28.51 (Henry Hu, Kyri Chen, Bouke Edskes, Sam Ubellacker)
(Meet Record, NCAA B Cut; Bouke Edskes and Sam Ubellacker have won the event four years in a row)
Runner-Up: Coast Guard, 1:30.34 (CJ Omweg, Eric Fuhs, Tyler Dominick, Joseph Rodriguez)
(NCAA B Cut; Tyler Dominick and Joseph Rodriguez were on last year’s runner-up team)
