CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - For the second-straight day sophomore Courtney Griffith (Westminster, Md./Westminster) posted the best finish in program history for Mount St. Mary's at the Northeast Conference (NEC) Swimming and Diving Championships. Griffith finished second in the 100 fly to help the Mount women's swimming team to sixth place after the second day of the league championships on Friday.

Coming into the weekend, the best standing in the program's five year history was Maggie O'Connell Dubois' fifth-place finish in the 100 fly in 2008-09. In two days, Griffith has bested that mark twice. The sophomore will become the first player in program history to earn All-NEC second-team honors after finishing second in the 100 fly with a time of 56.06. Griffith placed fourth in the 50 free on Thursday with a program-record time of 24.07.

Cat Coppler (Enfield, Conn./Enrico Fermi) posted her second Top-6 performance of the three-day event with a fifth-place standing in the 100 fly (58.74). It marks the third Top-5 finish in the championships and the fourth in program history.

Patricia Yam (Placenta, Calif./Rosary) finished 14th in the 400 IM (4:52.51) and Victoria Shaw (Malvern, Pa./Villa Maria Academy) finished right behind Yam in 15th place in the event (5:02.59). Mollie Walsh (Havertown, Pa./Archbishop John Carroll) placed 16th in the 100 fly (1:01.01).

Coppler and Griffith helped the Mountaineers to fifth place in the 200-medley relay (1:51.67) by starting and anchoring the relay, respectively, while Molly Kristiniak (Oreland, Pa./Gwynedd Mercy Academy) and Walsh swam the middle two legs. Yam, Shaw, Griffith and Coppler wrapped up the evening by finishing fourth in the 800-free relay (7:55.89).

Central Connecticut State leads the event with a score of 492, two points ahead of Saint Francis (Pa.) (490), Wagner (373), Bryant (296), Sacred Heart (212), the Mount (180) and St. Francis (N.Y.) (123) round out the seven competing teams.

Mount St. Mary's returns to action in the final day of the NEC Swimming and Diving Championships on Saturday. Events for the day will be the 1650 free, the 200 back, the 200 breast, the 200 fly, the three-meter dive and the 400-free relay. Preliminaries start at 11 a.m. and the finals will start at 7 p.m.