BLOOMSBURG, Pa. - Freshman Cat Coppler (Enfield, Conn./Enrico
Fermi) and sophomore Courtney Griffith (Westminster,
Md./Westminster) participated in five relay victories to lead the
Mount St. Mary's women's swimming team to a second-place finish at
the Bloomsburg Relays in the season-opening event on Saturday.
Coppler made an impressive debut swimming the opening leg in the
winning 300-fly relay (3:02.46), the 800-free relay (8:18.67), the
200-free relay (1:43.82) and the 400-free relay (3:45.67) while
also anchoring the winning the 500-free crescendo relay (5:01.80).
Griffith swam the second leg of the winning 300-fly relay and the
800-free relay before swimming the third leg of the first place
200-free relay, the 400-free relay and the 500-free crescendo
relay.
Coppler and Griffith opened up the 300-fly relay before freshman
Patricia Yam (Plancenta, Calif./Rosary) closed out the Mount's
first winning relay of the year in the first event at the
Bloomsburg Relay.
Coppler, Griffith and Yam teammed up again for the first three
legs of the 800-free relay before freshman Victoria Shaw (Malvern,
Pa./Villa Maria Academy) finished out the squad's second win of the
afternoon.
Freshman Mollie Walsh (Haverton, Pa./Archbishop John Carroll)
and junior Courtney Gaddi (Silver Spring, Md./Our Lady of Good
Counsel) started the winning 500-free crescendo free before
Griffith and Coppler concluded the event.
The quartet of Coppler, Gaddi, Griffith and Walsh reunited to
win the 200-free relay before Coppler, Gaddi, Griffith and Yam won
the 400-free relay for Mount St. Mary's final win of the
invitational.
Coppler, Gaddi, Griffith and Walsh also finished second in the
4x100 IM (4:26.88).
Bloomsburg won the event with a score of 198 while the Mount
(176) and Suquehanna (127) rounded out the three-team field. The
Mountaineers finished second in the event for the third-straight
campaign and posted the most points in their five trips to the
event.
Mount St. Mary's returns to action on Oct. 23 at Saint Francis
(Pa.). Events begin at 1 p.m.
