GROVE CITY, Pa. – After day one of the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Women's Swimming and Diving Championships held at Grove City College, Penn State Behrend sits in first place out of four teams with 106 points.
The Lions are also competing against the PAC teams this weekend in the 21st James E. Longnecker Invitational while going for their fifth conference title. In the overall rankings, Behrend is fifth out of 10 teams total, but paces the AMCC squads.
The Lions broke three records in just six events on the night. Rachael Ragen set a new AMCC meet record in the 50 free with a time of 25.35. The 400 medley relay consisting of MaryEllen Spooner, Ragen, Julie Cook and Katie Van Epps swam in 4:07.38 to reset the AMCC record that Behrend established at last year's championships.
The 200 free relay team of Ragen, Hillary MacManus, Spooner and Van Epps broke the school record with a time of 1:41.41. Van Epps was also a part of the record-setting foursome back in 2008 (1:42.95).
Anne Lawrence finished seventh in the 200 IM with a season-best time of 2:16.24, while Van Epps took eighth in 2:16.70.
In the 3m diving finals, Emily Frederick tallied a score of 207.25 for eighth place.
The Lions return to action tomorrow for the second day of the championships. Preliminaries begin at 10 a.m. and the finals are at 6 p.m.
