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ECAC Championships
First Day of ECAC Championships Complete
2/27/2015 12:00:00 AM | Swimming & Diving
PITTSBURGH - With representatives of the Pitt men's team in Atlanta, Ga., for the ACC Championships, the remaining members of the University of Pittsburgh men's and women's swimming and diving teams, along with 26 other competing schools, today began competition in the 2015 Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships at Joseph C. Trees Pool.
The Panthers captured top finishes today in the women's 200 free relay, women's 400 medley relay, women's 1-meter diving and men's 3-meter diving.
The women's 200 free relay squad's winning time of 1:33.20 marked a new ECAC best and was the Pitt women's team's fourth-fastest showing in the event this year. The women's 400 medley relay raced to a 3:46.45 in prelims, also a new top ECAC mark, then beat their own time by a full second in the finals to post the third and fourth-fastest times in that event by Pitt women this season.
Meme Sharp took first in the 1-meter diving competition with a score of 297.10. She was joined by two other Panthers as Sam Winkelmann (258.80) and Rachel Saunders (268.25) were the second and third place finishers.
In the men's 3-meter dives, Pitt's Tony Galante (342.60) and Dom Giordano (332.95) finished one-two overall, respectively.
Other strong showings for the Panthers came from Andrew McCarthy in the 500 free (5th, 4:29.31), Charlene Yuan in the 200 IM (3rd, 2:05.00), and Alex Iwanicki in the 50 free (3rd, 23.36) - matching her career-best.
Competition will resume tomorrow morning with prelims set for 10 a.m. Finals will begin at 6 p.m.
