MIAC championship web site with complete results | Macalester Day 1 recap

Macalester's Annie Flanagan (Sr., Madison, Wis. / East) and Karoline Hart (Fy., Rexford, N.Y. / Niskayuna) have won individual championships Friday on the second night of the MIAC women's swimming and diving meet at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center in Minneapolis. The Scots are in fifth place out of 11 teams going into tomorrow's events.

Flanagan got the second night of the MIAC women's swimming and diving championships off to a great start by winning the 3-meter diving competition. A three-time MIAC runner-up on the boards, Flanagan wins her first conference championships after jumping out to big leads in the preliminary round Thursday and the semi-finals this morning.

Flanagan placed second at last year's meet with a 358.90 score on the 3-meter board. This time, her scores were 234.10 after round one and 411.70 after the semi's. Her final score was 391.10 and she has a good chance of getting into the national championships next month. Flanagan competes tomorrow in 1-meter diving.

Hart swam to the fastest prelim time in the morning in the 100-yard breastroke (1:06.04) and backed that up in the final in a big way, setting an MIAC meet record to win the finals in 1:05.41 and earning NCAA Division III B-cut standards as the only frosh in the finals. Hart will swim in the 200 breastroke tomorrow.

Two of the three first-years to reach the 400-yard individual medley finals were Scots. Clare Pillsbury (Fy., Baraboo, Wis.), who was fifth yesterday in the 200 IM, placed fourth, just missing All-MIAC status by one place. Her time was 4:42.78. Teammate Hillary Frey (Fy., Portland, Ore. / St. Mary's Academy) placed sixth with a 4:50.32 clocking.

Grace Fleming (Fy., Northampton, Mass.) and Alex Cortes (Sr., Berkeley, Calif. / Head-Royce) made the consolation finals in the 200 free. Fleming was 10th overall (1:57.63) and Cortes was 13th (1:59.07).

Macalester placed sixth in the 200 medley relay (1:51.90) behind the efforts of Claire Eder (So., Evanston, Ill. / Evanston Township), Hart, Pillsbury and Cortes. The Scots closed out the night with another sixth-place performance in the 800-yard freestyle relay (8:04.06).  Relay team members were Pillsbury, Anna Gajewski (Jr., Wausau, Wis. / East), Cortes and Fleming.

The third and final day of the conference championships begins tomorrow with prelims at 10:30 a.m. and finals at 6:30 p.m.