Josh Thomas
Sophomore Josh Thomas finished third and set one of three school records on Sunday night at the MAC Championships.

Women's Swimming

More records fall for Warriors to wrap up MAC Championships

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YORK, Pa. – Three more school records fell and four individuals earned all-conference accolades to lead the Lycoming College men's and women's swimming teams in the final night of the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships at the Graham Aquatic Center on Sunday, Feb. 16, helping both teams to a sixth-place finish.
 
The Warriors finished the championships by setting eight school records, tied for the most in 13th-year head coach Jerry Hammaker's tenure, as the squad also set eight records at the 2013 championships.
 
Junior Alexia Follweiler (New Ringgold, Pa./Panther Valley) led the way with a second-place finish in the women's 200-yard butterfly, while sophomore Josh Thomas (Fort Wayne, Ind./Concordia Lutheran) also picked up First Team All-MAC honors by finishing third and setting a school-record in the men's 200-yard butterfly. Sophomore Trevor Endler (East Brunswick, N.J./East Brunswick) added a fourth-place finish to set a school-mark in the 200-yard butterfly.
 
Follweiler, who also earned Second Team All-MAC honors in the 200-yard individual medley on Friday night, posted an impressive performance to earn her first career First Team All-MAC honors, notching a time of 2:13.02 in the 200-yard butterfly. She just edged out the record set by junior Danielle Loiseau (Lancaster, Pa./Hempfield) at the 2013 MAC Championships of 2:13.18.
 
Thomas broke his own school-record in the 200-yard butterfly, taking third in 1:58.03, breaking his mark of 1:58.86 set as a freshman in 2013.
 
Endler, who became just the second Warrior to swim the 100-yard breaststroke in less than one minute on Saturday night, came back to post another school-record breaking performance in the 200-yard breaststroke, posting a time of 2:12.72 to surpass his own record of 2:13.83 set at the 2013 championships. He also finished fourth in the race to take fourth and earn second-team all-conference honors.
 
Loiseau also swam in the finals of the 200-yard butterfly, picking up second-team all-conference honors with a sixth-place finish in 2:16.42, despite swimming only half the year after studying abroad in the fall.
 
To cap the meet, both the men and the women finished fifth in the 400-yard freestyle relay to pick up Second Team All-MAC honors. The women, with the team of Loiseau, junior BethAnn Schwoyer (Williamsport, Pa./Homeschooled), Follweiler and junior Brigid Clark (Wyndmoor, Pa./Springfield) dropped nearly 10 seconds off their seed time, finishing 3:44.54. The men's team of junior Dan Woods (East Stroudsburg, Pa./East Stroudsburg North), sophomore Dan Apostolu (Springfield, Pa./Springfield), senior Luke Dohrman (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown) and senior Zack Brower (East Stroudsburg, Pa./East Stroudsburg North) finished in 3:14.54, just 1.01 seconds off the school record set in 2004.
 
Messiah won the women's title with 555 points, edging out Misericordia, which finished with 519. Albright (484) took third, Widener (371) fourth, Hood (319) fifth, Lycoming (303) sixth and Arcadia, King's (Pa.), Elizabethtown and Lebanon Valley rounded out the standings.
 
Albright ran away with the men's title with 729 points, while Misericordia (474), Hood (404), Widener (399) and Hood (334) rounded out the top half of the standing. Lycoming (306) finished ahead of Arcadia, King's, Lebanon Valley, Elizabethtown and FDU-Florham.  
 
In the 200-yard backstroke, a pair of Warriors placed for the women, as Schwoyer finished seventh at 2:15.59 in the finals and sophomore Felicia Sloyer (East Greenville, Pa./Upper Perkiomen) finished 15th in the consolation final, posting a time of 2:19.69.
 
Two Warriors competed in the final of the 200-yard breaststroke, with freshman Jess Wimmer (Souderton, Pa./Souderton Area) placing seventh in 2:35.11 and sophomore Jilly Flynn (Murrysville, Pa./Franklin Regional) taking eighth in 2:36.09. In the consolation final, sophomore Cathrin Manning (York, Pa./York Suburban) took 16th in 2:46.55 to earn a team point.
 
In the consolation finals of the men's 200-yard butterfly, sophomore Alex Anderson (Webster, N.Y./Webster Schroeder) won the race, posting a time of 2:07.06 to take ninth overall and senior Jack Port (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cedar Cliff) followed with a 12th-place finish in 2:10.63.

Junior T.J. Guminski (Ambler, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) added a time of 2:16.45 in the men's 200-yard breaststroke, dropping five seconds off his preliminary time, to win the consolation final and place ninth. Clark earned points in the women's 100-yard freestyle, as she took 11th in 55.85.
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