Entering the 2009-10 swim season, the Lycoming women's swim team returned 13 swimmers, a talented group that had combined to earn eight all-conference accolades while helping the team to a third-place finish at the 2009 MAC Championships. That group included just two seniors and featured Stacy Flick, who had posted an NCAA 'B' cut in the one-hundred-yard breaststroke.

In addition, 10^th-year head coach Jerry Hammaker welcomed 10 freshmen swimmers into the fold, creating one of the deepest teams in program history.

It opened the season in impressive fashion, a 108-96 win over Albright College, which had beaten the Warriors 10 straight times. However, the team took some lumps early on, winning just two of its first five meets and sitting at .500 with a 3-3 record when the semester break came.

The team's training trip to the Bahamas followed in early January, and when they returned to the state-side, they didn't lose again. In the team's final three meets, the Warriors won 40-of-42 races.

In all, the Warriors finished 7-1 in the MAC with only a narrow loss to Misericordia blemishing their record.

As the MAC Championships began at the Wilkes-Barre CYC, the Warriors entered seeded first in four events, but optimism could have turned to doubt when Flick, who was the top seed in three of those events, sprained her knee leading into the championship.  

The first night began with the 200-yard freestyle relay team breaking the school record in 1:40.28, but Misericordia came from behind in the last fifty yards to win.

Lindsey Hunsicker took center stage in the next event, winning the five-hundred yard freestyle in a school-record 5:18.44.

In the final event of Friday night, the Warriors finished second to Albright in the 400-yard medley relay, with Caroline LeHota, Flick, Hunsicker and Ashley Tudgay finishing in 4:05.50, just two tenths of a second behind the winners.

On Saturday morning, ten Warriors qualified for the finals in five events, including Hunsicker, who set the school-record in the one-hundred-yard butterfly. It set the tone for a big Saturday night.

LeHota, Flick, Hunsicker and Randi Bosch won the 200-yard medley relay in a record 1:51.21 to kick off the night. Hunsicker won her second individual title while Tudgay and Elisa Becker took third and fourth in the 100-yard butterfly. Flick also added her first MAC title in the one-hundred yard breaststroke in 1:07.02, earning her second NCAA 'B' cut time of the season in the event.

By the time the Warriors set another school-record to take third in the 800-yard freestyle relay, they had amassed 420 team points to take their first lead of the event, one ahead of Misericordia. But after the first event of the final session on Sunday wrapped up, the Warriors found themselves back in third place.

Caitlin DeAngelo, Meg Emery and LeHota took the lead back with a four/six/seven finish in the two-hundred-yard backstroke, but Albright's strong performance in the 200-yard breaststroke cut a nineteen-point advantage to just two points with two events to go.

Luckily, the event up next was the two-hundred-yard butterfly, where the Warriors finished one-two-three in qualifying. In the finals, Hunsicker dominated, winning it by nearly three seconds over teammate Hope Weber and Becker finished fourth, giving the Warriors a nineteen-point lead heading into the final event.

All the team had to do was finish better than ninth in the 400-yard freestyle relay and they would win the program's second MAC title. The team of Flick, Bosch, Hunsicker and Tudgay took second, setting one last school-record in 3:40.81.

Champions.

The Warriors won the title by thirteen points over Misericordia, one for each year since their first title in 1997.

As the championship wrapped up, Lindsey Hunsicker became Lycoming's first MAC Swimmer of the Year and Jerry Hammaker was named Coach of the Year.

The team had won a record five individual championships at the meet and broken school records in nine of the eighteen events they competed in that year. A decade after the season, six records still stand from that magical set of three nights in Wilkes-Barre, when Lycoming took the MAC by storm.