MARLBOROUGH, Mass.— After a statement victory in the first dual meet of the season, the Babson College women's swimming & diving team earned a pair of awards in the first round of New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) weekly honors of the season on Tuesday morning.

Junior Julia Netishen (Exeter, N.H.) was named NEWMAC Women's Swimmer of the Week, and the trio of first-years Parker Jacobson-Bertanzetti (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), Leni So (New Canaan, Conn.), and Ryan Vender (Winnetka, Ill.) joined Netishen as the NEWMAC Women's Relay Team of the Week.

Netishen won both her individual events and was part of two more victories in the relays to help Babson defeat Bentley in Friday's season opener. She won the 50 free with a time of 24.65 and touched the wall first in the 100 free by more than a full second with her time of 54.52. Netishen also swam the anchor leg in both the 200 medley and 400 free relays for the Beavers.

Babson's 200 medley relay team of Jacobson-Bertanzetti, So, Vender and Netishen took first place with a time of 1:51.02 to open Friday's dual meet at Bentley. The quartet finished nearly six seconds ahead of their closest competitors as the Beavers defeated the Falcons for the first time since 1999.

The Beavers resume competition on October 30 with an annual multi-team meet at WPI that includes Brandeis, Coast Guard and Smith.