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As they prepare their final appearance at the MAC Championships before joining the Landmark Conference, the Lycoming College women's swimming team has been selected to finish eighth and the men's swimming team ninth at the MAC Championships in the MAC Swimming Pre-Championship Coaches' poll.
In the women's poll, Messiah (166) earned 11 first-place votes, Stevens (157) took the remaining three top votes, as Misericordia (142), Arcadia (133), and York (112) round off the top five. Widener (108), FDU-Florham (101), Lycoming (77), Stevenson (72), Hood (63), Lebanon Valley (47), King's (42), Albright (38), and Wilkes (16) bottom the poll.
The women's team enters the weekend with a 5-4 overall record, their best since 2019-20, and a 4-2 conference record.
The 2022 MAC Swimmer of the Year, senior Katherine Brown, leads the women's team with 13 event wins and four performances amongst the conference's top 25 swims going into the championship weekend. Brown was named the MAC Swimmer of the Week twice this season, first on Oct. 10, after winning three events in the Warriors first sweep of Albright College since 1996, and again on Dec. 12 after taking a season-high four event wins for the Warriors against Penn State Altoona.
Brown, who won the 200-yard breaststroke title, also won the 100-yard breaststroke title at the 2022 MAC Championships, setting a championship record time of 1:03.88, and enters the event ranked second at 1:07.01. In the 50-yard freestyle, Brown is ranked 11th, clocking a 25.22 as she placed third in the event at Diamond City. Brown also ranks 15th in the 100-yard freestyle.
Junior Elisa DiNicola, a Loyalsock graduatewith nine event wins this season, is ranked 12th in the 50-yard butterfly at 28.45 and 22nd in the 100-yard butterfly with a 1:03.89, where she placed fourth at Diamond City.
Junior Cathryn Brought, a Wellsboro graduate, has six event wins and ranks 25th in the 50-yard freestyle (25.68), where she placed fifth at Diamond City, 18th in the 100-yard freestyle (55.93) with a third-place finish at Diamond City, and 22nd in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:13.49).
Freshman Augustus Wood highlights the team's distance swimmers, posting four wins and ranking 13th in the 1650-yard freestyle with a 19:47.49 after taking fourth at Diamond City.
Entering the MAC Championships with a 4-5 dual meet record and a 3-3 conference record, the team is lead by the trio of junior Eliot Keith, sophomore Noah Vivian and senior Will Marcinkowski.
Keith, who has won seven individual events, was named the MAC Men's Swimmer of the Week on Dec. 12, after winning the 100-yard freestyle against Penn State Altoona with a 1:03.22 and setting personal bests in the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard individual medley. Keith heads into the championship weekend ranked 17th in the 100-yard breaststroke and 25th in the 100-yard breaststroke.
Marcinkowski, with four individual wins, enters championship weekend with the team's highest rankings, 15th in the 100-yard breaststroke, as he swam a season-best 1:02.18 against Wilkes and Moravian, and 18th in the 200-yard event with a season-best 2:22.08 at Diamond City.
Vivian also has taken home four individual event wins this year, and he highlighted the Diamond City Invitational with three top-five finishes, taking third in the 100-yard freestyle, swimming a 49.61, fourth in the 100-yard butterfly, clocking 55.34, and a fifth at 22.65 in the 50-yard freestyle. Vivian ranks 20th in the 50-yard freestyle and 22nd in the 100-yard freestyle.