YORK, Pa. – As the night closed on the first day of the MAC Championships, junior Katherine Brown (Glenside, Pa./Abington) and senior Jake Booth (Wallingford, Pa./Strath Haven) each set school records, as Brown placed fourth in the 50-yard freestyle and Booth placed fifth in the 500-yard freestyle to lead the Lycoming College swimming teams on Thursday, Feb. 10, at the Graham Aquatic Center.
 
Brown notched a 24.56 to break Cara Zortman's mark of 24.63 set set at the 2020 MAC Championships. She also notched her two best performances of the year in the event, notching a 24.73 in the preliminaries before posting the record time in the finals.
 
Booth, likewise, posted two record-breaking times en route to the fifth-place finish in the 500-yard freestyle, Lycoming's best finish in the event since John Dougherty took fifth in 2008. Booth broke his own school record set as a first-year of 4:51.53 in the preliminaries, notching a 4:50.44, before rebreaking the record in the finals by posting a 4:50.37.
 
Sophomore Elisa DiNicola (Williamsport, Pa./Loyalsock Township) notched a 5:35.52 in the 500-yard freestyle to take 22nd. Senior Devon Kaiser clocked in at 2:23.18 in the 200-yard individual medley to finish 21st.
 
On the men's side, sophomore Carter Branigan (Lansdown, Pa./Commonwealth Charter) clocked a 2:01.24 in the 200-yard individual medley to finish 11th and junior Matthew Michenfelder took 20th with a time of 2:05.36. In the 50-yard freestyle, first-year Noah Vivian (Barto, Pa./Boyertown) took 15th with a 22.15.
 
The men's 200-yard medley relay team of Booth, Vivian, junior Will Marcinkowski (Philadelphia, Pa./LaSalle College), and sophomore Eliot Keith (New Ringgold, Pa./Blue Mountain) clocked in at 1:40.11, the fastest time of the season, to take ninth.
 
The Warriors return to the pool for the second day of the MAC Championships on Friday, Feb. 11, with preliminaries set for 10 a.m. and finals set at 6 p.m.
 
Men:
1. Stevens 326 2. Arcadia 241 3. York 212 4. Widener 203 5. Misericordia 174 6. Messiah 139 7. Albright 116 8. Hood 114 9. Lycoming 100 10. King's 93 11. Wilkes 53 12. FDU-Florham 52
500 Free: Ali Kolenovic (SIT), 4:37.96, 5. Jake Booth (LC), 4:50.37; 200 IM: Edward Platonov (SIT), 1:53.38, 11. Carter Branigan (LC), 2:01.24, 20. Matthew Michenfelder (LC), 2:05.36; 50 Free: Kurt Von Autenried (SIT), 20.95, 15. Noah Vivian (LC), 22.15; 200 Medley Relay: Arcadia, 1:35.37, 9. Lycoming, 1:40.11.
Women:
1. Messiah 296 2. Stevens 272 3. Misericordia 191 4. Widener 188 5. Albright 167 6. Arcadia 157 7. York 146 8. FDU-Florham 109 9. Hood 78 10. Lebanon Valley 72 11. Stevenson 60 12. King's 55 13. Lycoming 33
500 Free: Sophie Schulze (MES), 5:11.98, 22. Elisa DiNicola (LC), 5:35.52; 200 IM: Sophie Patz (SIT), 2:11.62, 21. Devon Kaiser (LC), 2:23.18; 50 Free: Camryn Hubic (MIS), 24.06, 4. Katherine Brown (LC), 24.56; 200 Medley Relay: A-Misericordia, 1:49.43.