2nd Place Good but not good enough!!

We completed the season with a second place finish for the fourth consecutive season after last winning it in 2006. UMass garnered the top spot, once again, with a very strong meet finishing with 814.5 as we trailed with 531.5 points just ahead of Duquesne 496, Fordham 474.5, LaSalle 382.5, Xavier 362, St. Louis 252 and George Washington 186.
It was a difficult final night as we were saying goodbye to the Duquesne men's team as they have been informed that they are being eliminated as of the completioin of this season. We have grown close to the Duquesne men over the past 5 seasons and ache for what they are going through. Despite this, we knew that they would be super-motivated to finish strong and ahead of us and had to dig in and try to get it done.
I would characterize our meet as very mixed with our results. We had many very strong performances, a lot of good ones and more subpar ones than normal. We have a lot of work to do and realize that the quest to improve begins today.

Here is a link to the results: http://www.star-meets.org/results/A-10/index.htm

A-10's Wednesday Night "Could have been Better"

Some mixed results from the first night of racing. A third place finish in the 200 Medley Relay (Koenig, Murphy, Kundzik, Robinson)could have been better with a weak freestyle split that cost us but the ability is there. Mike Murphy finished 3rd in the 1 Meter Dive, then the 800 Free Relay (Rowan, Baker,Dansa, Murphy) finished third which should have been challenging for 2nd. Room for improvement is the moral of the story. We should be able to rally a solid session tomorrow if people have trust in their training and get themselves warmed-up properly. The events are the 500 free, 200 IM and 50 free with the 200 free relay competed at night at finals.

Here is a link to the live results: http://www.star-meets.org/results/A-10/index.htm

After the first night we are in 2nd place behind UMass.

A-10 Reception

There will be an Alumni and Friends of SBU Swimming gathering at Irish Times in Buffalo next Friday February 19th starting at 4:00, prior to the beginning of the evening session of the Atlantic-10 Swimming and Diving Championships. We are hopeful to have a strong turnout from our area alumni to show the support that our program receives. Steve Watson, Director of Athletics will be in attendance along with some additional university officials.

Irish times is located at:

Irish Times 38 Swan Street, Buffalo, NY 14203-2615

It is the old McGinty’s across from the baseball field and in very close proximity to the ECC Flickinger Natatorium.