Cambridge, Mass. (February 22, 2014) – For the second day in a row, Mount St. Mary's junior swimmer Erin Regan won an individual Northeast Conference title, breaking the school record in the 200 butterfly on the final day of the NEC Championships as the Mount finished fifth with 284.5 points at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Saturday.
Regan, who won the 100 fly on Friday, won the 200 fly with a school record time of 2:01.45. The junior from Ft. Washington, Pa. now has the only three NEC individual titles in program history having captured the gold in the 200 fly as a freshman in 2011-12. Regan also becomes the first Mount swimmer to win multiple titles in a single NEC Championship meet.
In the 200 fly prelims, Regan posted the second-best time of 2:05.53. She held the previous school record of 2:02.88 from last season's NEC Championships, and her fastest time in the event this season was 2:06.64 at the Radford Invitational.
Competing in the 1650 free, freshman Sarah Bonson posted a personal record time of 18:05.73 to take fifth in the field. Bonson also placed third in the B finals of the 200 fly in 2:10.14. Another freshman, Morgan Runk tied her career best in the prelims of the 200 backstroke in 2:11.71 to take 18th and clinch a spot in the B finals. Her 2:13.05 performance in the B finals earned her eighth.
Cat Coppler (54.07) and Mollie Walsh (54.25) took seventh and eighth, respectively, in the 100 free B finals. Earlier in the day in the prelims, Walsh placed 15th (54.10) and Coppler was 16th (55.53).
Kaitlyn Powell's 200 fly time of 2:23.06 was good enough for eighth in the B finals.
The squad of Amanda Moore, Haley Fournier, Walsh and Regan finished fifth in the 400 free relay in 3:34.36.
Wagner won the team competition with 844 points. Bryant and CCSU finished behind Wagner with 643.5 and 628 points, respectively. Saint Francis U (574) took fourth followed by the Mount (284.5), St. Francis Brooklyn (180) and Sacred Heart (167).