GROVE CITY, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend women's swimming and diving team won their seventh straight Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Championship on Saturday night.
The Lions turned a one-point deficit into a 31-point victory on the final day of the championships held at Grove City. Meghan Wade (Berea, OH/Berea) repeated as the one-meter diving champion with an NCAA qualifying score of 401.85 to complete the sweep of the diving events.
MaryEllen Spooner (Lockhaven, PA/West Springfield) was a double winner on the night. She took first place in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:14.30 and then was the anchor on the winning 400 free relay along with Lauren Rosato (Pittsburgh, PA/Chartiers Valley), Georgie Hatch (Middletown, MD/Middletown) and Alex Isaacson (Williamsport, PA/Williamsport). The team touched in 3:55.98 for the victory.
Meagan Daily (Pittsburgh, PA/Our Lady of the Sacred Heart) earned the third first place for Behrend. She won the 200 butterfly in 2:40.02.
Rosato led the Lions in the 100 free, taking the second-best AMCC time of 58.90 while Isaacson placed second in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:46.40. Rachel Skaluba (Sparta, NJ/Sparta) came in fourth in the 200 breaststroke (2:55.12).
In the 1650 freestyle, Hatch earned points with a fourth-place finish in a time of 20:14.16.
Cabrini came in second with a score of 183 and Franciscan was third (154), while Penn State Altoona took fourth (117) and Pitt-Bradford was fifth (99).
