LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Elyse Newlands won the 200 IM by four hundredths of a second, and Madeleine Kan broke the CMS record in the 50 free and anchored another program record in the 400 medley relay, to highlight the performance of the Athenas swimming and diving team on the second day of the SCIAC Championships at the East Los Angeles College Swim Center. 

CMS maintains a narrow lead at the midway point of the championships with 369 points, with Pomona-Pitzer just 10 points back at 359. Chapman stands in third place with 172. 

Newlands close finish in the 200 IM accounted for six of the 10 points that separate the two programs, as she edged Bennett Jones of Pomona-Pitzer 2:04.44 to 2:04.48. Newlands tallied 20 points for the win, with Jones getting 17 points for second. Sun Young Byun also earned All-SCIAC honors by coming in third at 2:04.60 in a close three-way finish, earning 16 points. 

Kan earned All-SCIAC in the 50 free with a 23.17 finish in the finals to come in third. That finals time was barely off her 23.15 in prelims in the morning, which set a new CMS record, breaking the old mark of 23.29 set by Jocelyn Crawford in 2019. 

Corley Smith was another All-SCIAC winner for the Athenas with a second-place finish in the 500 free, touching the wall in 5:09.15. CMS placed five swimmers in the finals to earn 71 points towards the team total, with Avalon Sanders fourth, Katy Shaw fifth, Samantha Wong sixth, and Louisa Lungershausen seventh. 

Annika Sharma, Newlands, Byun and Kan then capped off the day with a new program record in the 400 medley relay in 3:44.34, breaking a mark which had held since the 2010 team set it at the NCAA Championships with a 3:44.60.  Byun's 53.58 100-yard split in the butterfly set a new program record as well. 

The same quartet broke the SCIAC record yesterday in winning the league title in the 200 medley relay, while the 800 free relay team of Byun, Mackenzie Mayfield, Sanders and Katy Shaw also broke the CMS record in Wednesday's action, as the Athenas have set new program standards in all three relays so far. 

The third day of the SCIAC Championships gets underway tomorrow morning with prelims in the 400 IM, 100 fly, 100 breast, 100 back and 200 free. The women's three-meter dive will also take place in the afternoon, as CMS will try to have similar success as it had in the one-meter on Wednesday, when Simone Sabeeh, Meilan Uyeno and Josie Kearns swept the podium with a 1-2-3 finish.