RELEASE DATE: 11/24/03
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SWIMMERS ACCOMPLISH GOALS AT IUP INVITATIONAL -- WRAP UP FIRST HALF OF SEASON

MANSFIELD -- The Mansfield University swim team entered the IUP Invitational this past weekend with three goals and came within an eyelash of accomplishing all of them.

The goals for the invitational were to 1) Qualify four swimmer for the PSAC Championship; 2) all swimmers to swim their fastest times of the seasons; and 3) beat Edinboro.

Goal #1 started with veteran senior co-captain Katie Houck who qualified for the conference meet on the second day of competition in the 200 free with a 2:04.07. Following her lead freshman, Abbe Tipton swam her fastest 100 back race this season to qualify her for the conference meet with a 1:04.14.  On the third and final day of the invitational, sophomore Andrea Popovic qualified for the conference meet in the 1650 with a 19:15.83, only 7 seconds off her school record of 19:08.89.  Freshman Daniella Borrelli is still knocking at the door of qualifying for the meet, she was sick during the invitational and yet she held her times at 1:05.41 in the 100 yard fly and 2:25.88 in the 200 yard IM events.  All four swimmers are not a their peak yet and will continue to train and prepare for the conference meet which will take them back to IUP in February.

The meet was also successful for the Mountaineer swim team with many swimmers racing to their best times of the season and for some even life time best. Senior co-captain Kelly Coyle lead the charge for best swims in the 100 fly event when she swam 1:09.88 which was a 10 second drop since the beginning of the season.  Sophomore Kelsey Hogan continued the season best performance in both 100 and 200 back where she swam 1:10.09 and 2:30.88 dropping both times by two seconds and five seconds respectively.  Senior Katie Houck's qualifying time in the 200 free was an eight seconds drop since the beginning of the season.  Sophomore  Andrea Popovic dropped six seconds in her 500 free race to a season best time of 5:34.16, also swimming the 500 free was teammate and training partner of Andrea's, freshman Eileen Spellman who swam a life time best at 5:48.86.  Sophomore Melissa Recchiuti swam a life time best in the 100 free at 1:04.49.  Sophomore Diana Daniel dropped seven seconds for a season best in the 200 back at 2:34.62. Freshman Jill Netterman dropped four seconds in the 200 yard breast to swim a 2:54.79 also dropping seven seconds in the 200 breast is junior Renee Allington to swim a season best of 3:08.63.

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