RADFORD, Va. - Courtney Griffith (Westminster, Md./Westminster)
won two individual events and participated in two third-place relay
teams to lead the Mount St. Mary's women's swimming team to a
fifth-place standing after two days at the Radford Invitational on
Friday. The squad posted program-record times in every event on the
night except for the 100 breast. In addition, swimmers that placed
in the Top-10 at Radford recorded Top-8 times for the Northeast
Conference in one of the best nights at an invitational in program
history.
Griffith, the current Northeast Conference Swimmer of the Week,
won the 100 fly (57.36) and the 100 back (59.39), opened the third
place 200-medley relay (1:57.72) and swam the final leg of the
third place 800-free relay (7:54.91). In the first two days of
competition, Griffith has posted two first-place finishes and a
second-standing individually and has participated in one second and
two third place relays.
In the 200-medley relay, Molly Kristiniak (Oreland, Pa./Gwynedd
Mercy Academy), Mollie Walsh (Havertown, Pa./Archbbishop John
Carroll) and Cat Coppler (Enfield, Conn./Enrico Fermi) swam the
final three legs while Patricia Yam (Placenta, Calif./Rosary),
Victoria Shaw (Malvern, Pa./Villa Maria Academy) and Coppler opened
up the 800-free relay.
Coppler was also in the "A" final with Griffith in the 100 fly
and the 100 back, finishing in fourth place (59.18) and third place
(1:01.01) respectively. Walsh joined the duo in the "A" final in
the 100 back and placed seventh (1:02.33) while the freshman
finished 10th in the 100 fly (1:00.28). Yam was fourth in the 400
IM (4:45.96) and fifth in the 200 free (1:58.58).
Yam, Jessica Gardner (Montgomery Village, Md./Warkins Mill),
Shaw and Nicole Helmick (Hampstead, Md./North Carroll) earned
points for the Mount with a 14th-place standing in the 200-medley
relay (2:08.45) while the relay team of Joanna Hale (Voorhees,
N.J./Eastern), Murphy Alafoginis (Lawrenceville, Pa./Wellsboro
Area), Chelsea Marrocco (Old Bridge, N.J./Red Bank Catholic) and
Emily Dargay (Colver, Pa./Central Cambia) finished 12th in the
800-free relay (8:55.75).
Georgia Southern continues to lead the three-day event with a
score of 662 while Youngstown State (546.5), Campbell (402.5),
Radford (326), Mount St. Mary's (295), Liberty (214), Millersville
(206) and North Carolina A&T (15) are also competing in the
event. The Mount has 295 points in the first two days after posting
236 in three days at the Radford Invitational last year.
Mount St. Mary's returns to action on Saturday in the final day
of the Radford Invitational.
