FULL RESULTSGROVE CITY, Pa. --
Jessica Sweitzer won the 100 freestyle, while
Jennifer Suder and
Josh Vasko swept the diving events to claim Diver of the Year honors as the 2014-15 Presidents' Athletic Conference Swimming & Diving Championships wrapped up Saturday night.
Sweitzer's victory in the 100 freestyle came with a time of 52.45 in the championship final, besting the field by .28.
Suder had a record-breaking performance in her final showing at the conference championships. She earned her third-straight PAC Women's Diver of the Year award after claiming a 470.80 in the finals of the one-meter dive, breaking the PAC meet, Longnecker Pool, Longnecker Invitational and W&J school records in the process.
Vasko scored a 399.45 in the finals of the men's three-meter dive to capture his second PAC Men's Diver of the Year honor in his two-year career.
Haley Ashner wrapped up the W&J divers, placing seventh in the women's one meter at 364.05.
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W&J Diving Coach Vic Galati receives his Diving Coach of the Year awards from PAC Commissioner Joe Onderko.Thanks to the accomplishments of the W&J divers, diving coach
Vic Galati was recognized as the PAC's Diving Coach of the Year for the men and the women. It marks the 11th overall time he has won a diving coach of the year award from the PAC, including six-straight for the women and five-straight on the men's side. He is the only person to win the award as PAC women's diving coach of the year and has been awarded the last five men's laurels.
As a team, the W&J women finished third of 11 total teams competing at the event with a score of 446. Grove City won the women's team title at 808.5. For the men, W&J placed fourth of nine squads at 478. Westminster's 827.5 was best among the male teams.
Four other school records were broken on Saturday.
Nick Willison finished fourth in the 200 backstroke in 1:53.97 after previously posting a 1:53.00 in the preliminaries which sets a new school record and was an NCAA "B" cut.
Chris Ratliff broke the W&J record in the 100 freestyle with a 47.19 in the preliminaries and then broke it again with his 46.85 in the finals which was good for fourth.
Kevin Dunigan bested his own school record in the 200 breaststroke by nearly two seconds with his fourth-place finishing time of 2:08.15. In the final event of the day, the men's 400 freestyle relay of Willison, Dunigan,
Mike Magdic and Ratliff broke their school record from last season in touching the wall in 3:09.30, good for third place.
The women's 400 free relay of
Alexis Glenn,
Rachel Nye,
Madison Babicka and Sweitzer was fourth in 3:38.08, with Sweitzer's anchor leg the fourth fastest split (53.13) of the entire race.
Among other notable finishes for W&J were
Rachel Murphy's third place in the 200 back in 2:09.23, with Glenn ending the race in eighth at 2:14.19.
Jenny Matuszewski place seventh in the 200 butterfly in 2:18.17.
For the men,
Josh Emde and
Ben Mancini posted back-to-back finishes of fourth and fifth in the 1,650 freestyle with their respective times of 17:00.55 and 17:00.62. Magdic was seventh in the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:57.97.
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