LOS ANGELES, Calif. -
Elyse Newlands was named the SCIAC Newcomer of the Year,
Simone Sabeeh captured the Diver of the Year, and
Sun Young Byun (200 fly) and
Madeleine Kan (100 free) set new CMS records on the final day of the SCIAC Swimming and Diving Championships on Saturday.
CMS ended up in second place after the four-day competition, with Pomona-Pitzer earning 1050 points and the Athenas with 966. Chapman was a distant third with 409 and Caltech was fourth with 342.
Newlands captured the 200 breast title in 2:19.60, a margin of 4.51 seconds, for her third title of the weekend to solidify her Newcomer of the Year status. She also had 200 IM and 100 breast championships over the last three days, and contributed to a SCIAC record in the 200 medley relay on the first day of competition.
Byun swam a 2:01.01 in the 200 fly to set a new SCIAC meet record, and break the CMS record of 2:01.30, which was set by
Mackenzie Mayfield last year. Byun's previous best time was 2:03.07, and she took over two minutes off that mark to win by 4.23 seconds over Mayfield, who earned All-SCIAC honors with her second place finish.
Byun also broke her own CMS record in the 100 fly yesterday with a 54.22, finishing second to Kan, and capped off the final day with the first individual SCIAC title of her career in her final try, after previously earning All-SCIAC six times.
Kan set her second CMS record of the weekend with a 50.49 in the finals to come in second place. She broke the old record of 52.01 set by Kelly Ngo in 2016 in prelims with a 50.78, and then trimmed another .29 off that time in the final.
Katy Shaw made it 4-for-4 in 1650 titles by winning in 17:08.24, a margin of just over 13 seconds over teammate
Corley Smith, who earned All-SCIAC honors in both the 500 and the 1650 over the weekend.
Revere Schmidt also came in fifth,
Samantha Wong sixth and
Avalon Sanders seventh, as CMS used its traditional distance dominance to close the gap on Pomona-Pitzer early on the final day.
Nika Makhervaks,
Caitlin Kuhlmann and
Annika Sharma all reached the finals in the 200 back and came in fourth, fifth and sixth to give CMS 42 points, but Pomona-Pitzer had the top three and then had five of the top six in the 100 free to solidify their team win.
The all-senior relay team of Byun, Mayfield, Sharma and Kan finished off the meet with a 3:26.46 in the 400-yard freestyle relay to come in second and earn All-SCIAC, placing second all-time at CMS, just .14 off the program record.
CMS will await its NCAA selections after all of the conference championships are completed, while the divers will head to the regionals hosted by Emory next weekend.
Simone Sabeeh, who swept both boards to win the SCIAC Diver of the Year, will be among the CMS contingent hopeful to advance to nationals, along with
Meilan Uyeno, who qualified a year ago, and
Josie Kearns, who was All-SCIAC in both boards.