WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – For the first time in head coach Jerry Hammaker’s 10-year career, the Lycoming College women’s swim team has won the Middle Atlantic Conference Championship. The Lady Warriors amassed 616 team points during the 2010 meet, besting Misericordia University’s 603. Lycoming broke eight schools records en route to the victory.
In addition to the team honors, Hammaker was named the conference’s Coach of the Year while freshman Lindsey Hunsicker was honored with the Evanson Award as the female swimmer of the year.
In the final day of action, Ashley Tudgay took third in the 100-yard freestyle, touching the wall in a time of 55.06. She was followed closely by teammate Randi Bosch, who earned fifth place in 55.92.
Junior Stacy Flick continued to swim well, taking second in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:31.03.
In arguably their strongest event of the day, the Lady Warriors took first, second and fourth in the 200-yard butterfly. Hunsicker won the event, getting to the finish line in 2:14.76, dropping three seconds from her preliminary time. Hope Weber was the second Warrior to the wall, touching in 2:17.58. Elisa Becker rounded out Lycoming’s effort with a time of 2:21.15.
In the final event of the meet, the 400-yard freestyle relay of Flick, Bosch, Hunsicker and Tudgay took second, completing their lengths in a new school record time of 3:40.80, which was less than a second behind Misericordia. The former school record of 3:45.3 was set in 2002. The group dropped 10 seconds from its preliminary time.