University of Richmond Athletics
University of Richmond
Atlantic 10 Championships
Spider Swimming & Diving Captures 2015 A-10 Title
02/22/2015 | Women's Swimming & Diving
GENEVA, Ohio -- The Richmond swimming and diving program won its fifth-straight Atlantic 10 Conference Championship on a strong final day at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio Saturday night. Richmond has won 13 of the last 14 A-10 titles.
Spider freshman Annie Lane (Vinton, Virginia / William Byrd HS) was awarded the A-10 Outstanding Rookie Performer, and diver Irina Chiulli (Westwood, Massachusetts) won the school's first A-10 Outstanding Female Diver award.
The Spiders trailed by two points entering the final day, but put swimmers in multiple finals heats on the night to win going away by 88 points. Richmond finished with 586 points, with UMass landing second at 498 points. Duquesne was third at 479 and Davidson finished fourth at 437.
All told, Richmond won medals in four of the five relays (one gold, two silvers and a bronze), and took home eight individual medals (four gold, two silver and two bronze), but also finished fourth four times to build the lead.
The Saturday evening session started with the women's 1650, “the mile,” and Richmond finished 3-4-5 in that event to take the lead for good on the night. Junior Emma Terwilliger (Niskayna, New York), senior Meredith Gouger (Cockeysville, Maryland) and junior Molly McSweeney (Stoneham, Massachusetts) pushed the Spiders ahead in the team scoring, with Terwilliger claiming her first individual medal of the meet, the bronze.
Kelley Yang (Ellicott City, Maryland) later won silver in the 100 Free, while junior Melissa Ross took home gold in the 200 Fly with a time of 2:00.27, which was one-tenth of a second off the school record. She had set a career-best earlier in the day when she was three-hundredths of a second faster in her preliminary heat.
The Spiders will send a pair of divers, Chiulli and freshman Laura Rokop (Carmel, Indiana), to NCAA Zones in Buffalo, New York from March 9-11. They will compete for spots to the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina in late March.
| 2015 A-10 Championships | ||
| 1 | Richmond | 586 |
| 2 | Massachusetts | 498 |
| 3 | Duquesne | 479 |
| 4 | Davidson | 437 |
| 5 | Fordham | 425 |
| 6 | George Mason | 421 |
| 7 | La Salle | 286 |
| 8 | Saint Louis | 189 |
| 9 | Rhode Island | 152 |
| 10 | St. Bonaventure | 129 |
| 11 | George Washington | 99 |
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