The Stony Brook swimming and diving teams traveled to Boston University to take part in the America East Championship meet at the Boston University Aquatic Center, a four-day event from Thursday through Sunday.
The men’s team completed five events on the first day and achieved second place overall and the women fifth.
The first event of the day was the one-meter diving competition. Freshman Kyle Gannon took fifth place with a season-best score of 239.55. Freshman Kaleim Reid also placed in the event with ninth.
The men’s 200 medley relay team, consisting of freshman Larry Barbosa, junior Daniel Wenzel, senior Mark Anderson and senior Ed McIntyre, won second place with a time of 1:34.58 while the women’s team took sixth place in the same event even though it swam a season record time of 1:46.84.
Both the men and women also participated in the 800 freestyle relay. The men’s team achieved third place with a time of 6:53.27 and the women fourth place with a time of 7:28.78.
The standings did not change for the better for Stony Brook at the end of the second day’s events. The women remained in fifth while the men slid down to fourth after 14 total events over the first two days.
In the first event of the day, senior Darcy Heuser made seventh place in the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:56.48. She also was part of the 200 freestyle team who won second with a time of 1:35.20, which was less than a second behind the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) team.
Sophomore Allison Zelnick was part of a tightly contested 50 free; the top five competitors all finished within four-tenths of a second. Zelnick took fourth place with a time of 23.85.
In the same event for the men, senior Sean Conway achieved eighth place with a time of 21.46.
Junior Molly Swartz took fourth place in the three-meter dive in her first championship meet with a score of 235.10.
On the third day of action, both teams finished the places where they had started.
Conway and Heuser each finished in third place in their respective 200 freestyle events. Conway achieved a time of 1:40.54 while Heuser finished with 1:50.05.
Junior Julie Policht finished in sixth place in the 100 butterfly with a time of 56.61.
Barbosa also added a 10th place performance in the 100 fly with a time of 51.03.
Anderson finished in seventh place in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 57.76, and Wenzel completed the 100 backstroke with a time of 53.04, securing 10th place.
Ganon scored fourth place in the three-meter dive with a score of 252.25.
At the time of production, the results from the final day of the championship meet had not been released.