WORCESTER, Mass. - Senior Ashley Silveira (Seekonk, Mass./Seekonk) captured all-conference honors while placing third in the one-meter diving on Friday to highlight the Saint Michael's College men's and women's swimming & diving teams' second day at the four-day Northeast 10 Conference Championship at Worcester Polytechnic Institute's (WPI) Sports & Recreation Center.
 
WOMEN'S MEET
NOTES

• The Purple Knights occupy sixth place among nine teams halfway through the meet with 142 points.

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Silveira captured third place in the one-meter diving with 277.85 points in the finals, improving upon her 267.05-point trials performance, to secure an NE10 All-Conference third team nod. She joined Tierney Carey '09 (2007-08) and Max O'Brien '13 (2009-10) as the lone all-league divers in College history, with Carey the only other honoree from the women's squad. Carey and O'Brien also landed the accolade during the 1M event, both earning second team citations. In the history of the women's program, only Carey, Silveira, and swimmers Eileen Mullowney '12 and Lindsay McNall '17 have qualified for all-conference.
• Junior Nicole Garcia (Rochester, N.Y./Great Valley) made her NE10 Championship debut by placing seventh in the 1M diving with 159.50 points.
• Junior Madeline Waldt (Abingdon, Md./The Catholic High School of Baltimore) took 10th in the 500-yard freestyle (5:27.01) after entering the event as the No. 12 seed, and senior Riley Beaudoin (Groton, Mass./Groton-Dunstable Regional) was 16th (5:35.98), improving upon a 22nd seed.
• Waldt also aided the eighth-place 400-yard medley relay (4:16.60), joining junior Ayden Walsh (Tallahassee, Fla./Creekside), sophomore Mary Mongelli (Rockville, Md./Academy of the Holy Cross) and first-year Olivia Larsen (Riverview, New Brunswick/Riverview). Beaudoin swam for the B relay, which captured 17th (4:23.97). Senior Livy Waranis (Narragansett, R.I./Narragansett), junior Ashley Meade (Belle Harbor, N.Y./Sacred Heart Academy) and first-year Adriana Richardson (Ellsworth, Maine/Ellsworth) also swam legs.
• Meade and Mongelli sided with junior Hannah Steen (Portsmouth, R.I./Portsmouth) and sophomore Sydney McSweeney (Warwick, N.Y./Warwick Valley) on the eighth-place 200 free relay (1:41.53). Beaudoin, Richardson, Waranis and sophomore Shay Callanan (Shaftsbury, Vt./Mount Anthony Union) posted a 17th-place showing (1:48.09).

MEN'S MEET
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• The Purple Knights are fifth out of nine schools after day two with 166 points, 18 clear of sixth-place College of Staten Island.

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Sophomore Lucas Haynes (Holliston, Mass./Holliston) finished eighth in the 500 free (4:43.97), while senior Rafael Kowal (Plattsburgh, N.Y./Plattsburgh/Alfred State) was 10th (4:41.64). First-year Robert Riccobon (West Hartford, Conn./Avon Old Farms School), who was seeded 32nd entering the event, narrowly missed qualifying for the 16-swimmer evening finals after taking 17th in the morning trials.
• Haynes and Riccobon helped the Purple Knights take sixth in the 200 free relay (1:27.98), partnering with senior Alex Meek (Essex Junction, Vt./Essex) and junior JJ Kane (Sparta, N.J./Pope John XXIII Regional). Seniors Ben Insley (Plattsburgh, N.Y./Plattsburgh), Ryan McCaffrey (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/George Washington), Gavin Nelson (Winona, Minn./Winona Senior) and Connor Quirbach (Lowell, Mass./Chelmsford) took 16th (1:31.36).
• Haynes, Insley, Kowal and junior Hunter Daily (Amherst, N.H./Souhegan) nabbed seventh in the 400 medley relay (3:33.86). The B squad of Meek, Quirbach, Riccobon and sophomore Dylan Reichl (Loudonville, N.Y./Shaker) placed 15th (3:39.72).

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S MEET

• Saturday at Day 3 of four-day NE10 Championship at WPI, 10:15 a.m./6 p.m.