Meet Results
THROGGS NECK, N.Y.—In the team's first season as a league member, Sarah Lawrence College men's swimming took fourth place at the 2015 Skyline Men's Swimming Championships, hosted by Maritime College on Friday and Saturday.
SLC's
Cameron Martinez (Aledo, Texas/Aledo) earned first-team All-Skyline honors, while Head Coach
Eric Mitchell was tabbed 2015 Skyline Men's Swimming Coach of the Year.
Martinez put on a show with three individual wins and a runner-up finish. In the 200 yard butterfly, the junior shattered the previous Skyline Championship record with a swim of 2:02.35, nearly six seconds faster than the previous meet best. Martinez also won the 100 butterfly (54.06) and took first in the 200 freestyle (1:51.01).
The two-time SLC Athlete of the Year showed signs of being mortal, as he slipped to second place in the 200 individual medley (2:05.31), racing just minutes after his 100 fly triumph. Martinez scored the second-most points of any individual male swimmer.
The Green and White also banked points in the two relay events. In Friday's opening race, rookie
Brendan McAlevy (Fairfax, Va./Paul VI Catholic), senior
Jay Pulitano (Mountain Lakes, N.J./Mountain Lakes), Martinez, and sophomore
Nick Ransom (Bakersfield, Calif./Stockdale) put together a swim of 2:06.15 for fifth place. Saturday's final event saw Martinez and McAlevy join seniors
Owen Marks (Pittsfield, Mass./Pittsfield) and
Michael Turadek (Bronx, N.Y./HS for Environmental Studies) to complete the 400 freestyle relay in 4:00.04, also earning fifth place.
Other notable finishes included season-bests by McAlevy in the 50 free (26.80) and 200 individual medley (2:44.67). Pulitano posted a season-best in the 100 breast (1:24.33), while Marks completed the 500 free with a season-best of 6:17.74. Ransom swam his best 100 back of the season (1:19.07), while
Amit Sankaran (San Francisco, Calif./Mallya Aditi International) swam his career best in the 200 free (2:58.96).
The host Privateers had little trouble securing their eighth-straight title, scoring 152.5 team points. Mount Saint Mary College took second place (105.5), followed by Purchase College (44). Behind SLC with 34 points, SUNY College at Old Westbury scored 12 points, and College of Mount Saint Vincent rounded out the field with four points.
Sarah Lawrence concludes the season at the 2015 Upper New York State Collegiate Swimming Association Championships, February 18-21, at the Webster Aquatic Center in Rochester, N.Y.
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