GROVE CITY, Pa. – Mia Pietropola (Pittsburgh, PA/Plum) repeated as the 200 IM Champion while breaking six records along the way to lead the Penn State Behrend women's swimming and diving team at the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Championships on Thursday.
In conjunction with the Presidents Athletic Conference (PAC) championships at the Longnecker Invitational, the Lions sit in first place after day one of competition with a team score of 91. Cabrini is in second with a team score of 47.
Pietropola earned the top seed in the 200 IM after the preliminaries which saw her break the AMCC meet and open record, and also the school record with a time of 2:11.33. In the finals, she broke all three records again with a new time of 2:10.31 for first-place in the AMCC and third overall.
The sophomore was also a part of the winning and record-breaking 200 free relay team. Emma Daghir (St. Marys, PA/Elk County Catholic), Gwendolyn Lowery (Bellefonte, PA/Bellefonte) and Maryn Horn (Houston, TX/Jersey Village) joined Pietropola, setting the new AMCC open and meet record and school record in the preliminaries (1:41.06). The won the event in the finals and set a new record all around in 1:40.41.
In the first of two diving events, Rachel Cotton (Media, PA/Penncrest) was the individual AMCC champion on the 3-meter board competition with a final score of 390.40.
In the 50 freestyle, Daghir placed second in the AMCC and 14th overall with a new school-record time of 24.78. Also earning runner-up status was Anna Rose Watterson (Baldwin, PA/Seton-La Salle) in the 500 freestyle. Watterson clocked in at 5:36.46 for second and 18th place overall.
Lowery also earned points in the 200 IM, finishing behind Pietropola in 2:13.71 for second in the conference and seventh overall.
In the final relay of the night, Allie Schneider (Erie, PA/McDowell), Pietropola, Lowery and Daghir were first in the AMCC and fifth overall in the 400 medley with a time of 4:07.01.
Behrend returns to action tomorrow for day two of the AMCC Championships. Preliminaries begin at 10 a.m. with finals starting at 6 p.m.
