BOSTON – The Vermont women’s swimming & diving team swept the America East weekly awards on Tuesday afternoon. Kelly Lennon was named the conference’s Swimmer of the Week, whileMaggie Preston took home her fourth Diver of the Week award this season. The duo led the Catamounts to a pair of convincing wins over the weekend against Central Connecticut State and Bryant.
Lennon registered a pair of individual wins at Central Connecticuton Saturday in the both the 200 free by two seconds in 1:53.54 and the 500 free by four seconds in 5:13.68. The sophomore followed that performance by winning the 200 free (1:53.71) and dominating the 500 free (5:14.20) by more than nine seconds on Sunday at home against Bryant.
Preston won three of her four diving events over the weekend. She swept the diving events at CCSU on Saturday, posting a score of 246.22 in the 1-meter and collecting 233.62 points to win the 3-meter. Against Bryant on Sunday, Preston narrowly won the 1-meter diving event with 237.96 points and claimed second in the 3-meter event with a total of 235.34.
The Catamounts have won four consecutive meets by an average of nearly 72 points to improve to 5-2 on the season. Vermont broke the CCSU pool record in the 200 free relay on Saturday(1:37.07) and set a new pool record in the 200-yard medley relayon Sunday at home against Bryant (1:46.64).
UVM returns to action this weekend when it travels to compete in the Terrier Invitational from Friday (Nov. 20) to Sunday (Nov. 22) against Fairfield, Boston University, Boston College, Army, Soka, and UMass. Competition is set to begin at 10 a.m. each day at BU.
Swimming news courtesy of Vermont Swimming & Diving.
