Men's (1-6) and Women's (3-3-1) Swimming & Diving Finish First-Semester Schedules

The Wheaton College men's and women's swimming & diving teams completed their first-semester slates at the two-day Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Invitational over the weekend, when the Lyon women were fourth among seven teams, while the men were sixth out of seven.

Athletes from the Blue and White's women's team produced nine top-five finishes, as sophomores Dania Piscetta (Belmont, NH/Belmont) and Nicole Zais (Sudbury, MA/Lincoln-Sudbury Regional) played a role in five apiece. Piscetta had a hand in each of Wheaton's runner-up showings, which came in the 100-yard freestyle and 200 free relay, when she joined Zais and classmates Samantha Farrell (Reading, MA/Reading Memorial) and Stephany Perkins (Monmouth, ME/Monmouth Academy). Zais was third in the 100-yard breaststroke and joined Perkins, Piscetta and sophomore Sara Hollar (La Crescenta, CA/Flintridge Prep) on the third-place 400 free relay team, while Piscetta also came in fourth during the 100-yard butterfly. Freshmen Taryn Brosnan (Westford, MA/Academy of Notre Dame) and Julia Wright (Pomfret, VT/Northfield Mount Hermon School) took fourth place in the 200 breast and one-meter dive, respectively. Zais tied for fifth in the 50 free while helping the 200-yard medley relay quartet to fifth, siding with Farrell, Piscetta and junior Iris Meehan (Bar Harbor, ME/Mount Desert Island). Sophomore Jonathan Gold (West Harrison, NY/Fordham Prep) was the most successful Wheaton male, taking fifth place in each the one- and three-meter diving events.