PURCHASE, N.Y. - The Sarah Lawrence women's swim team had five second place finishes in this weekend's Skyline Conference Championship and the team overall earned a fourth-place finish. 12 individual swims placed in the top six in their respective events, as multiple Gryphons earned top finishes.

Top Performers

• Reigning conference rookie of the year Keilani Talma earned three second place finishes* in individual events while also being part of the school's 400 freestyle relay team that finished with the day's second-best time
• Senior Genevieve Chiappetta earned a second-place finish* in the 200 backstroke while also being a contributor on the aforementioned relay team

*Each Second Place Finish Represents a Spot on the Skyline's All-Conference Second Team

Meet Recap

The first event of the meet gave the Gryphons a top-three finish, with their 200 freestyle relay team finishing just one second behind SJLI's second-place squad. The aforementioned Talma was joined by Hannah Drum, Ella Hernan and Josie Laur as the team gave the Gryphons a great finish to kick off the weekend of competing. Chiappetta took to the pool next for the Gryphons, earning a fourth-place finish in the 500 freestyle while finishing in 5:47.35, over ten seconds ahead of the next closest finisher. Talma earned a top-five finish in the 50 freestyle, one of three Gryphons to earn top-ten times in the event. Hernan and Drum finished the same event in ninth- and tenth-place respectively. 

Another SLC relay team took the pool and earned a fourth-place finish, with Chiappetta, Hernan, Talma and Drum completing the 200 medley relay in 2:04.81, less than a second behind Mount Saint Mary's third-place team. The team would then take home fourth-place once again, this time in the 400 medley as the same four swimmers finished just over half a second out of third place. Talma then took the pool alone for the 100 butterfly, finishing in 1:01.41 and earning a second-place finish behind USMMA's Annie Hood who set the conference record with her first-place finish this year. Drum and Chiappetta finished behind Talma, taking home fifth- and sixth-place finishes in the same event. In the next women's event, Talma took home second place once again, this time finishing the 200 freestyle in 2:03.01. 

Hernan and Chiappetta earned two more top-four finishes for the Gryphons after the 100 yard backstroke as Hernan and Chiappetta both finished in under 1:06.00, with Hernan besting Chiappetta by just 36 hundredths of a second. The duo both finished together again in the 200 backstroke, with the senior, Chiappetta, narrowly besting Hernan this time around, finishing in second place with a time of 2:20.24 ahead of Hernan's third-place time of 2:23.05. Drum and Laur would be the next SLC duo to earn back-to-back finishes, coming in sixth and seventh place in the 100 freestyle to earn Sarah Lawrence two more top-ten finishes. 

Talma would then return to the pool for the 200 butterfly, once again securing a second-place finish after USMMA's Hood set another Skyline record with her first-place finish. The team's final event would be the 400 freestyle relay, where the foursome of Chiappetta, Drum, Hernan and Talma would finish with the event's second-best time, as Talma would touch the wall after 3:56.41, narrowly edging out the squad from St. Joseph's Long Island.

Up Next

The Gryphons will wrap up their season on the weekend of February 16th when they head to New Brunswick, N.J. for the Metropolitan Swimming Championships. More information regarding Mets will become available on the swim schedules at GoGryphons.com in the coming weeks.