POTSDAM, N.Y. - Senior
Rafael Kowal (Plattsburgh, N.Y./Plattsburgh/Alfred State) tied a school record for career individual wins and
Eileen Hall became the winningest head coach in the history of the Saint Michael's College men's swimming & diving program as the men and women swept the State University of New York at Potsdam on Saturday in Maxcy Hall Pool. The men claimed a 195-22 victory, tying a school record with a seventh triumph for the third straight season, and the women nabbed a 174-47 win.
Kowal pushed his career solo wins total to 60 in just three years with the squad, matching
Connor Hopkins' '20 school mark. Hall earned her 49th victory guiding the men's team, breaking a tie with mentor
Jim Donoghue '72. Hall already owned the women's program wins standard, a figure she extended to 76 on Saturday.
MEN'S MEET
NOTES
- Saint Michael's (7-2), SUNY Potsdam (0-4)
- The Purple Knights won their fourth straight in the series
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
- Kowal, 3 wins
- 1st place: 1,000 freestyle (10:28.16), 200 individual medley (2:05.69), 500 freestyle (5:04.69)
- Junior Hunter Daily (Amherst, N.H./Souhegan), 3 wins
- 1st place: 200 medley relay (1:44.51), 100 butterfly (56.43), 100 breaststroke (1:04.64)
- Senior Ben Insley (Plattsburgh, N.Y./Plattsburgh), 2 wins
- 1st place: 50 freestyle (23.20), 200 freestyle relay (1:33.34)
- 2nd place: 100 butterfly
- Senior Ryan McCaffrey (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/George Washington), 2 wins
- 1st place: 200 medley relay (1:44.51), 200 freestyle relay (1:33.34)
- 2nd place: 50 freestyle
- Senior Connor Quirbach (Lowell, Mass./Chelmsford), 2 wins
- 1st place: 200 freestyle (1:53.16), 200 freestyle relay (1:33.34)
- 2nd place: 200 medley relay
- Became fifth Purple Knight with 40 career individual victories
- Senior Sebastian Revesz (Bedford, Mass./Bedford), 2 wins
- 1st place: 1-meter diving (179.99), 3-meter diving (174.15)
- Sophomore Lucas Haynes (Holliston, Mass./Holliston), 2 wins
- 1st place: 100 freestyle (52.44), 200 freestyle relay (1:33.34)
- Senior Alex Meek (Essex Junction, Vt./Essex), 1 win
- 1st place: 100 backstroke (59.21)
- 2nd place: 200 medley relay, 200 freestyle
- Senior Gavin Nelson (Winona, Minn./Winona Senior), 1 win
- 1st place: 200 medley relay (1:44.51)
- 2nd place: 100 backstroke, 200 freestyle relay
- First-year Robert Riccobon (West Hartford, Conn./Avon Old Farms School), 1 win
- 1st place: 200 medley relay (1:44.51)
- 2nd place: 200 freestyle relay
- Senior Thorlief Prior (Luxembourg, Luxembourg/International School of Luxembourg)
- 2nd place: 1-meter diving
- Junior Cal Baird (Saratoga Springs, N.Y./Saratoga Springs)
- 2nd place: 1,000 freestyle, 500 freestyle
- Junior Liam Jordan (Mendon, Mass./Wellesley)
- 2nd place: 200 individual medley, 200 freestyle relay
- Junior JJ Kane (Sparta, N.J./Pope John XXIII Regional)
- 2nd place: 200 medley relay, 100 freestyle
- Sophomore Nate Alexander (Liverpool, N.Y./Liverpool)
- 2nd place: 200 freestyle relay
- Sophomore Dylan Reichl (Loudonville, N.Y./Shaker)
- 2nd place: 200 medley relay, 100 breaststroke
WOMEN'S MEET
NOTES
- Saint Michael's (7-2), SUNY Potsdam (1-3)
- The Purple Knights have won 13 of the last 14 meetings
- The Purple Knights' seven wins are their second-most since 1996-97, having gone 8-4 in 2017-18
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
- Sophomore Sydney McSweeney (Warwick, N.Y./Warwick Valley), 3 wins
- 1st place: 200 medley relay (2:00.75), 50 freestyle (26.00), 200 freestyle relay (1:49.99)
- 14 relay wins this season are one short of Meade's two-year-old school record
- First-year Olivia Larsen (Riverview, New Brunswick/Riverview), 3 wins
- 1st place: 200 medley relay (2:00.75), 100 backstroke (1:04.98), 100 breaststroke (1:15.60)
- Senior Ashley Silveira (Seekonk, Mass./Seekonk), 2 wins
- 1st place: 1-meter diving (178.33), 3-meter diving (172.65)
- Junior Ashley Meade (Belle Harbor, N.Y./Sacred Heart Academy), 2 wins
- 1st place: 200 freestyle (2:10.27), 200 freestyle relay (1:49.99)
- Junior Hannah Steen (Portsmouth, R.I./Portsmouth), 2 wins
- 1st place: 200 medley relay (2:00.75), 100 freestyle (58.53)
- 2nd place: 50 freestyle
- Junior Madeline Waldt (Abingdon, Md./The Catholic High School of Baltimore), 2 wins
- 1st place: 200 medley relay (2:00.75), 1,000 freestyle (11:28.33)
- 2nd place: 100 butterfly
- Senior Riley Beaudoin (Groton, Mass./Groton-Dunstable Regional), 1 win
- 1st place: 500 freestyle (5:45.63)
- 2nd place: 1,000 freestyle, 200 freestyle relay
- Junior Ayden Walsh (Tallahassee, Fla./Creekside), 1 win
- 1st place: 200 freestyle relay (1:49.99)
- 2nd place: 200 individual medley, 100 freestyle
- Sophomore Mary Mongelli (Rockville, Md./Academy of the Holy Cross), 1 win
- 1st place: 200 freestyle relay (1:49.99)
- Senior Livy Waranis (Narragansett, R.I./Narragansett)
- 2nd place: 100 backstroke, 200 freestyle relay
- Junior Nicole Garcia (Rochester, N.Y./Great Valley)
- 2nd place: 1-meter diving
- Sophomore Shay Callanan (Shaftsbury, Vt./Mount Anthony Union)
- Sophomore Rachael D'Amico (Glenville, N.Y./Niskayuna)
- 2nd place: 200 freestyle relay
- Sophomore Katie Rocha (Stratham, N.H./Exeter)
- 2nd place: 100 breaststroke
- First-year Adriana Richardson (Ellsworth, Maine/Ellsworth)
- 2nd place: 200 freestyle relay
NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S MEET
- Next Saturday at Assumption University, 1 p.m.
