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Final Results
 
GRANVILLE, Ohio—The Allegheny College women's swimming and diving team concluded competition at the 2018 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Championships Saturday (Feb. 17, hosted by Denison.
 
The Gators finished in fifth-place with a total of 981 points. That finish was the best for the Gator women since taking third in 2011. Kenyon College won the event with a score of 1953.
 
On the final day, the Gators had five swimmers compete in A-Finals.
 
Alyson Codner finished 14^th in the 1650-yard freestyle with a time of 18:43.76 while Claire Collier placed 18^th with a time of 19:20.88.
 
Aimee Verardi earned a trip to the A-Final of the 100-yard individual medley after establishing a new Allegheny record time of 1:00.62 in the morning prelims. In the finals, Verardi swam a 1:00.91 to take sixth-place.
 
Miranda Farley competed in the B-Final of the event, capturing the heat to finish 10^th overall with a lifetime best of 1:02.12
 
Maddie Janvrin and Anna Verardi made the A-Finals of the 200-yard backstroke, similar to the 100-yard backstroke earlier in the week.  Janvrin turned in the top performance for the Gators in the Championships as she placed fifth with a time of 2:08.19.  Verardi was not far behind as she placed seventh with a time of 2:08.45. Lizzy Kee swam in the C-Final of the event, placing 24^th overall with a time of 2:20.87.
 
McClaren Rodrigeuz and Aimee Verardi represented the Gators in the B-Final of the 100-yard freestyle. Rodriguez finished the race with a time of 54.31 to finish in 13^th.  Verardi was not far behind as she placed 15^th with a time of 54.64.
 
Similar to the 100-yard breaststroke, the Gators sent four to the finals of 200-yard breaststroke.  Megan Corletti and Amanda Carroll earned spots in the A-Final.  Corletti finished the race in sixth with a time of 2:30.2 while Carroll registered a time of 2:33.94 to take ninth.
 
Kaitlin Franzen placed fourth in the B-Final to finish 13^th overall with a personal best time of 2:33.57. Rachel Montgomery swam in the C-Final, taking 20^th overall with a time of 2:52.74.
 
Rachel Tobler and Riley Aul rounded out the individual events in the pool by competing in the 200-yard butterfly B-Finals. Tobler took third in the heat with a time of 2:19.25, taking 12^th overall.  Aul clocked in at 2:27.42 to finish in 18^th.
 
Rachel Steiner and Chelsea Pietrzycki made it to the finals of the three-meter dive.  Steiner repeated her finish in the one-meter dive with a fifth-place finish, tallying 358.90 points.  Pietrzycki placed sixth with a score of 302.95.
 
The Gators concluded the Championships with the 400-yard freestyle relay.  The team of Anna Verardi, Aimee Verardi, Farley and Rodriguez finished fourth with a time of 3:34.94. That time was just under a second short of the school record set in 2011.
 
Allegheny return to the pool next Saturday (Feb. 24) at the Kenyon Fast Chance Invitational.

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