October 28, 2001
Washington, D.C.---The Georgetown University women?s swimming and diving team defeated visiting Loyola College on Saturday, 144-93, in the Hoyas? first dual meet of the 2001-2002 season. Georgetown had first place finishers in eleven of the thirteen events.
In the first event of the meet, the team of Michelle Herd (Fr./Canton Center, Conn./Westminster), Caragh Moynihan (Sr./New Canaan, Conn./New Canaan), Diane Foglizzo (Fr./Rosemant, Pa./The Baldwin School) and Liz D?Auria (Jr./Newton, Mass./Newton South) won the 400 yard medley relay. Herd, swimming the lead off leg, set a new Georgetown school record for the 100 yard backstroke with a time of 59.73 seconds, breaking the old record set last year by Lauren Schmidt. The time qualified her for both the BIG EAST Championships and the ECAC Championships next February. Herd also won the individual 200 yard backstroke, with a time of 2:11.42, six seconds faster than runner-up Francesca DiSilvio.
Hoya sophomore Kathryn Harrison (Chatham, N.J./Hotchkiss) won two separate diving events at the meet, taking first place in both the one meter and the three meter dive, with scores of 237.60 and 242.55, respectively.
Georgetown swept the top three spots in three of the day?s other races. In the 200 yard free, Amanda Anderson (Sr./Denville, N.J./Morristown Beard), Katie Hayes (Jr./Charlottesville, Va./Albermarle), and Laura Nevel (Fr./Birdsboro, Pa./Central Catholic) took the first three places. In the 500 yard free, Lauren Moynihan (Jr./South Hadley, Mass./South Hadley), Colleen Newman (So./Staten Island, N.Y./Notre Dame) and Erin Kehoe (So./Haddon Heights, N.J./Camden Central) placed first, second, and third, respectively. The same three Hoyas finished in the top three in the 1000 yard free as well, with Newman taking first, Moynihan second and Kehoe third. Newman, with a time of 10:54.59, and Moynihan, with a time of 10:55.49, both qualified for the ECAC Championships.
Other Hoya winners at the meet included Liz D?Auria in the 50 yard free, Diane Foglizzo in the 200 yard individual medley, and Caragh Moynihan in the 100 yard free.
