Buffalo, NY – The Manhattan Women's Swimming and Diving team closed the 2020 MAAC Championships, the same way they opened them. Breaking records.
The 400 freestyle relay team of freshman
Mackenzie Tuttle (Highland Mills, NY / Monroe-Woodbury), senior captain
Kali Nembach (Lynbrook, NY/ Lynbrook), freshman
Teddy Segmuller (Gainesville, VA / Foxcroft School) and sophomore
Jamie Quinn (Fairfax, VA / WT Woodson) broke the school record with a time 3:41.10 to earn 14 points.
Senior
Timothy Valentine (Massapequa, NY/ Chaminade) swam in his second straight "B" final on Day Four, finishing in 13
th place with a time of 2:05.02 in the 200 breaststroke to earn points for Manhattan, just a day after winning the "B" final of the 100 breaststroke.
Junior
Artur Polyak (Haifa, Israel / Pittsburgh) finished 11
th in preliminaries of the 200 backstroke, recording a season best time of 1:51.37.
The Men's team finished in tenth place with 118 points, just one-point shy of ninth place Niagara, while the women's team came in tenth with 96 points.
"We had some great swims this week and I am proud of the way we competed all week," Head Coach
Patrick Malone said. "I look forward to seeing how well we can build off the results for next season."
Diving Coach
Micah Rembrandt added, "The divers stepped up in a big way this week. Some stellar individual dives and great improvement across the board. All of which was capped by the first two A-finalists in diving program history. I'm very proud of what this team has accomplished this week and it gives us a great platform from which to build for next year."
