INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -
Katy Shaw earned second-team All-America honors in the 1650 with a 10th place finish, and the 400-yard freestyle relay team of
Avalon Sanders,
Mackenzie Mayfield,
Sun Young Byun and
Madeleine Kan set a new program record (3:25.70) on their way to 12th place on the final day of the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on Saturday.
Shaw came in tenth place in the 1650 with a time of 17:03.59, her best this season by 4.65 seconds. It was a particularly rewarding swim for Shaw, who has won the SCIAC Championship all four years in the 1650, after she missed qualifying for the consolation final (and second-team All-America honors) in the 500-yard freestyle earlier this week by just one-hundredth of a second.
The final swim of the day saw Sanders, Mayfield, Byun and Kan swim the best time in Athena history with a 3:25.70. The quartet broke the old program record in prelims with a 3:25.91, breaking the old mark of 3:26.32, which had held since being set at the 2014 NCAA Championships. They then took another .21 off the record in the finals, moving up from 14th in prelims to 12th in the final standings.
CMS ended the NCAAs with a 10th place finish on the team leaderboard, on a week which saw Kan win the national title in the 100 fly, and Byun earn runner-up honors in the 200 fly. Byun also came in sixth in the 100 fly, while Kan (50 free) and Mayfield (200 fly) added wins in the consolation heats for ninth-place finishes, with Mayfield also capturing second-team All-America honors in the 100 fly.
The Athenas 400-yard medley relay team of
Nika Makhervaks,
Elyse Newlands, Byun and Kan also captured first-team All-America honors, while Newlands was a second-team All-American in the 200 IM. The 200-yard medley relay of Byun, Mayfield, Newlands and Kan and the 800-yard freestyle relay team of Shaw, Sanders, Mayfield and Byun each earned second-team All-America as well.