Women's Swimming
2009-10

last updated 12/05/2009

LANCASTER, PA. (December 5, 2009) – The Kutztown University women’s swimming team leads the Franklin & Marshall Invitational with 431 points after the first day of competition. In each of the two sessions Saturday, Kutztown had a relay team and senior Steph Jeppesen (Bethlehem/Liberty) set meet records. (MORNING RESULTS)   (EVENING RESULTS)

The Golden Bears lead The College of New Jersey (425.5 points), Washington, Md. (263), St. Mary’s College of Maryland (219) and Gettysburg (212). The final session of the meet begins Sunday at 10 a.m.

Jeppesen had some fun re-writing the record books as she established meet records in winning the 200-yard individual medley (2:08.61) and the 100-yard breaststroke (1:05.07). Jeppesen also punched her ticket to the NCAA Division II championships by earning an automatic qualifying time in the 100-yard breaststroke and a provisional standard in the 200-yard individual medley.

In addition, Jeppesen was part of a pair of meet record-setting relay teams. She was a member of 400-yard relay team that included Allison Sheely (Enola/Trinity), Lauren Malloy (Lancaster/Lancaster Catholic) and Jordan Shaprio (Yardville, NJ/Princeton), (4:00.20) in the morning session of the Franklin & Marshall Invitational.

During the second session, Jeppesen, Lauren Malloy (Lancaster/Lancaster Catholic), Shapiro and Sheely teamed to win the 200-yard medley relay in a meet record time of 1:50.23.

In the final event of the first day, the quartet of Kerry Choplin (Thorofare, NJ/West Deptford), Nikki Hinsdale (Glen Mills/Bayard Rustin), Jeppesen and Heather Wolkom (Rumson, NJ/Rumson-Fair Haven) sped to victory in the 800-yard free relay (7:59.61).

Several Golden Bear swimmers enjoyed top five finishes. Those efforts helped Kutztown grab a slim advantage. Shapiro led a triumvirate of swimmers in the 100-yard backstroke. Shapiro finished third (1:00.95). She was followed by Hinsdale (1:01.81) and Sheely (1:01.85), who finished fourth and fifth, respectively.

Wolkom was fourth in the 200-yard freestyle (1:58.15) and 500-yard freestyle (5:13.12). Malloy and Choplin were fifth in the 100-yard butterfly (1:00.88) and 400-yard individual medley (4:48.75), respectively. Hinsdale placed fifth in the 200-yard free relay (1:58.23). Alex Crigler (Sinking Spring/Wilson West-Lawn) finished fifth in the 500-yard freestyle (5:15.68). 

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