COLCHESTER, Vt. - Saint Michael's College men's swimming & diving senior
Rafael Kowal (Plattsburgh, N.Y./Plattsburgh/Alfred State) tied a school record with his 23rd individual win of the season on Saturday as the Purple Knight men and women lost to Northeast 10 Conference power Southern Connecticut State University during Senior Day in the Ross Sports Center natatorium. The men lost a 185-106 decision while the women fell 210-81. The Purple and Gold hosted the Owls for the first time.
The Purple Knights honored 12 seniors during their regular-season finale: Kowal,
Riley Beaudoin (Groton, Mass./Groton-Dunstable Regional),
Ben Insley (Plattsburgh, N.Y./Plattsburgh),
Ryan McCaffrey (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/George Washington),
Alex Meek (Essex Junction, Vt./Essex),
Gavin Nelson (Winona, Minn./Winona Senior),
Arianna Petta (Brookfield, Conn./Immaculate),
Thorlief Prior (Luxembourg, Luxembourg/International School of Luxembourg),
Connor Quirbach (Lowell, Mass./Chelmsford),
Sebastian Revesz (Bedford, Mass./Bedford),
Ashley Silveira (Seekonk, Mass./Seekonk) and
Livy Waranis (Narragansett, R.I./Narragansett).
MEN'S MEET
NOTES
- Saint Michael's (8-3), Southern Connecticut State (5-3)
- The Owls won the last four NE10 Championships and were no worse than runner-up at all 21 league meets.
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
- Sophomore Lucas Haynes (Holliston, Mass./Holliston), 2 wins
- 1st place: 100 freestyle (49.30), 500 freestyle (4:55.07)
- 2nd place: 200 freestyle, 200 freestyle relay
- Kowal, 1 win
- 1st place: 1,000 freestyle (10:11.46)
- 2nd place: 500 freestyle (trailed Haynes by 0.20 seconds), 400 individual medley
- Tied Pierce Farrington's '15 11-year-old school record for individual wins in a season (23)
- Insley
- 2nd place: 200 freestyle relay
- Meek
- 2nd place: 200 freestyle relay
- Quirbach
- 2nd place: 200 freestyle relay
- Revesz
- 2nd place: 3-meter diving, 1-meter diving
- Junior Hunter Daily (Amherst, N.H./Souhegan)
- 2nd place: 100 breaststroke
- Junior Liam Jordan (Mendon, Mass./Wellesley)
- 2nd place: 200 backstroke
- First-year Robert Riccobon (West Hartford, Conn./Avon Old Farms School)
WOMEN'S MEET
NOTES
- Saint Michael's (8-3), Southern Connecticut State (7-1)
- The Owls won the past five NE10 Championships and were top two at 19 of 21 championships all-time.
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
- Silveira, 2 wins
- 1st place: 3-meter diving (146.00), 1-meter diving (165.60)
- Passed Erin Stinchfield '01 (21) to take over seventh in program history in career diving wins (22)
- Junior Madeline Waldt (Abingdon, Md./The Catholic High School of Baltimore)
- Junior Ayden Walsh (Tallahassee, Fla./Creekside)
- Sophomore Mary Mongelli (Rockville, Md./Academy of the Holy Cross)
- 2nd place: 100 freestyle (58.47)
- Sophomore Sydney McSweeney (Warwick, N.Y./Warwick Valley)
- First-year Olivia Larsen (Riverview, New Brunswick/Riverview)
- 2nd place: 200 backstroke
NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S MEET
- Feb. 12 at Day 1 of four-day NE10 Championship at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
