CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Senior Garin Stone (Barrington, R.I.) placed second in the 200-yard freestyle and helped the 200-yard medley relay place fourth to lead the Wheaton College (Mass.) women's swimming & diving team this evening at the New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference Swimming & Diving Championship hosted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center Pool in Cambridge, Mass.
The Lyons have racked up 352 points and sit in fifth place, just one point behind fourth-place Babson College. Host MIT leads the pack by a healthy margin with 1079 points.
Stone was the runner-up in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:51.19. She has now earned three silver medals at the NEWMAC Championships during her career, repeating as the runner-up in the 200 from last year. Stone led a contingent of four top-11 finishes in the race for Wheaton. Senior Vivian Van Holland (Excelsior, Minn.) finished seventh with a time of 1:57.63, while classmate Talia Dalton (Andover, Minn.) was ninth with a clip of 1:58.22. Junior Anna St. Jean (Alexandria, Va.) placed 11th with a personal-record time of 1:57.49.
The Lyons scored with a fourth-place showing in the 200-yard medley relay as well. Stone swam the lead backstroke, before senior Emma Claire Lambert-Shemo (Cleveland, Ohio) swam the breaststroke leg. Junior Kaleigh Morton (Milford, Conn.) followed in the butterfly, before St. Jean closed out with the freestyle to finish with a season-best time of 1:47.37. Wheaton's second unit finished 17th with a time of 1:58.40 behind first year Ella Werbecki (Scituate, R.I.), first year Amani Sodhi (Farmingdale, N.Y.), senior Grace Chin (Blooming Grove, N.Y.) and Van Holland.
Lambert-Shemo finished fifth in the 100-yard breaststroke with a personal-record mark of 1:05.58, before Sodhi also posted a personal-best time to finish 18th at 1:10.43.
Morton led the Lyons in the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 4:45.21 to finish eighth, while first year Lauren Bullins (Lenexa, Kan.) scored with a 14th-place finish in the race after shattering her personal-best mark with a time of 4:51.58. Chin scored with a 20th-place finish after touching the wall at 5:03.00.
Wheaton returns to the pool tomorrow for the final day of finals in Cambridge, Mass.
