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Women’s Swimming & Diving Sets Two Program Records to Highlight Performances at the Fisher Invitational at Wheaton

NORTON, Mass.—The Babson College women's swimming and diving team captured first place in five of the eight events and set a pair of new program records to highlight the action on day one of the Fisher Invitational at Wheaton College's Balfour Natatorium.

The Beavers totaled 378 points on Friday night to hold down second place in the team standings. Roger Williams is sitting in first place after eight events with 426 points, Wheaton is third with 319 points, Eastern Connecticut is fourth with 200 points, and Saint Joseph's (Maine) is fifth with 3 points.

Sophomore Tuana Turhan (Lake Forest, Ill.) led the Beavers with a first-place finish in the 200 butterfly in a program-record time of 206.72, breaking the previous mark of 2:07.27 set by April Kupsky in 2022.

The Beavers won both relay events and collected a program record while doing so. The quartet of sophomore Samantha Gilbert (Arlington, Va.), senior Sophia Sznewajs (Edina, Minn.), junior Sylvie Racicot (Arlington, Mass.), and sophomore Julia Netishen (Exeter, N.H.) touched the wall first in the 200 free relay with a program-record clocking of 1:37.81, bettering the mark of 1:37.96 set last season. The team of Netishen, Gilbert, Turhan and Racicot also captured the 400 medley relay in 4:00.04, a time that ranks second on Babson's all-time list.

Gilbert was the individual winner of the 500 freestyle in a personal-best time of 5:16.39, which ranks second all-time at Babson. First-year Middy Hinckley (Trent Woods, N.C.) came in fourth in the 500 in a time of 5:28.32

First-year Becky Hwang (Needham, Mass.) led three Babson finalists in the 200 backstroke, taking first place in a time of 2:10.90, which ranks fourth in the Babson all-time list. Sophomore Marta Gershanok (Closter, N.J.) was third in 2:15.79 and first-year Lakshmi Prasanth (Apex, N.C.) was sixth in 2:18.86. Gershanok led a group of three Beaver finalists in the 200 IM, finishing second in a time of 2:15.13 while first-year AJ Hallbert (Enterprise, Ala.) was fifth in 2:17.47 and Netishen was sixth in 2:19.39.

The Beavers also had three finalists in the 100 freestyle, featuring Racicot in third place in 54.21, Sznewajs in fourth in 54.64, and sophomore Hailey Cronan (New Market, Md.) in sixth in 55.38.

The two-day meet winds up on Saturday with preliminaries at 10 a.m. and finals at 4 p.m.
 
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Players Mentioned

Marta Gershanok

Marta Gershanok

Back/Fly/IM
Sophomore
Samantha Gilbert

Samantha Gilbert

Breast/IM/Free
Sophomore
Julia  Netishen

Julia Netishen

Free/Back
Sophomore
Sylvie Racicot

Sylvie Racicot

Free
Junior
Sophia Sznewajs

Sophia Sznewajs

Free/Fly
Senior
Tuana Turhan

Tuana Turhan

Fly/Breast/IM
Sophomore
Becky Hwang

Becky Hwang

Back
Freshman
Hailey Cronan

Hailey Cronan

Free/Breast
Sophomore
AJ  Hallbert

AJ Hallbert

Back/Free/IM
Freshman
Middy Hinckley

Middy Hinckley

Free
Freshman

Players Mentioned

Marta Gershanok

Marta Gershanok

Sophomore
Back/Fly/IM
Samantha Gilbert

Samantha Gilbert

Sophomore
Breast/IM/Free
Julia  Netishen

Julia Netishen

Sophomore
Free/Back
Sylvie Racicot

Sylvie Racicot

Junior
Free
Sophia Sznewajs

Sophia Sznewajs

Senior
Free/Fly
Tuana Turhan

Tuana Turhan

Sophomore
Fly/Breast/IM
Becky Hwang

Becky Hwang

Freshman
Back
Hailey Cronan

Hailey Cronan

Sophomore
Free/Breast
AJ  Hallbert

AJ Hallbert

Freshman
Back/Free/IM
Middy Hinckley

Middy Hinckley

Freshman
Free