LOUDONVILLE, NY – Siena Swimming & Diving's second home meet of the 2023-24 season was capped off by a pool record for the second time in as many home contests this season.
The Saints played host to New Hampshire to mark its second meet in as many days, ultimately falling to the Wildcats by a score of 182.5-117.5 at the Siena Swim Center on Sunday afternoon.
Saving the best for last, the Siena team of freshman
Mea Amedio, junior
Shaylea Triller, freshman
Natalie Blume, and graduate student
Rory Kalac turned in a time of 3:35.18 in the 400 free relay to break last year's pool record set by the Saints by 19 hundredths of a second.
New Hampshire claimed victory in 11 individual events and also turned in three additional pool records, including in the 100 back (Ella Guilfoil, 56.99), 50 free (Audrey Mahoney, 23.98), and the 200 IM (Ella Guilfoil, 2:07.76).
Siena's first win on the day came in the 100 breast via senior
Audrey Shultz (1:07.37), while Kalac took first in the 100 free (53.55).
The Saints also claimed victory in both diving events thanks to stellar scores of 262.85 and 257.85 in one-meter and three-meter diving, respectively, from senior
Talia Spenziero.
Amedio took second in the 200 back (2:12.55), while Kalac finished second in the 50 free (24.23) and freshman
Mary Ellen Stratman went for second in the 100 back (1:00.53).
Siena will aim to get back in the win column when it heads southeast for tri-meet action against Sacred Heart and MAAC foe Rider in Milford, Connecticut on Saturday, November 11.