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Women's Swimming and Diving

Newlands, Sabeeh Win SCIAC Honors; Kan, Byun Set CMS Records on Final Day of SCIACs

Sun Young Byun won the 200 fly title in meet record time
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. 
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Players Mentioned

Sun Young Byun

Sun Young Byun

Fly, Free
Senior
Madeleine Kan

Madeleine Kan

Fly, Free
Senior
Josie Kearns

Josie Kearns

Dive
Junior
Caitlin Kuhlmann

Caitlin Kuhlmann

Back, IM
Sophomore
Nika Makhervaks

Nika Makhervaks

Back
Sophomore
Mackenzie Mayfield

Mackenzie Mayfield

Fly, Breast, IM
Senior
Avalon Sanders

Avalon Sanders

Distance
Sophomore
Revere Schmidt

Revere Schmidt

Distance, IM
Junior
Annika Sharma

Annika Sharma

Back, Free
Senior
Katy Shaw

Katy Shaw

Distance
Senior
Corley Smith

Corley Smith

Freestyle
Junior
Meilan Uyeno

Meilan Uyeno

Dive
Junior

Players Mentioned

Sun Young Byun

Sun Young Byun

Senior
Fly, Free
Madeleine Kan

Madeleine Kan

Senior
Fly, Free
Josie Kearns

Josie Kearns

Junior
Dive
Caitlin Kuhlmann

Caitlin Kuhlmann

Sophomore
Back, IM
Nika Makhervaks

Nika Makhervaks

Sophomore
Back
Mackenzie Mayfield

Mackenzie Mayfield

Senior
Fly, Breast, IM
Avalon Sanders

Avalon Sanders

Sophomore
Distance
Revere Schmidt

Revere Schmidt

Junior
Distance, IM
Annika Sharma

Annika Sharma

Senior
Back, Free
Katy Shaw

Katy Shaw

Senior
Distance
Corley Smith

Corley Smith

Junior
Freestyle
Meilan Uyeno

Meilan Uyeno

Junior
Dive