Clarkson Integrator

The Clarkson University Swim team broke record after record this weekend at the annual New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association (NYSWCAA) swim meet at Nottingham High School in Syracuse, NY.

A three-week layoff from competition did not keep Clarkson from posting solid results on the Thursday, the first day of the meet, as freshman Laura Shaddak broke a school-record in the 50 freestyle.

Shaddak came within two one-hundredths of a second of breaking a record in the 50 freestyle during her qualifying run, but then bettered the mark by three one-hundredths of a second with a time of 25.50 in the shortest event of the meet. The mark broken by Shaddak was a three-year-old standard swam by Roni Wolak in 2004.

The Knights also gained points in the 200 freestyle relay as Kristen Larsen, Shaddak, Emily MacWilliams, and Katherine Gawrys came within a second of setting a new Clarkson record. The team finished 11th at the event with a time of 1:43.39. Clarkson also finished 11th in the 400 medley relay with a time of 4:28.49. MacWilliams, Anne Parken, Robyn Stone and Katie Bragan participated in that event.

The records continued to fall on Friday when Shaddak came back with a 2:02.92 finish in the 200 freestyle, setting another new Clarkson standard, this time surpassing an 18-year-old mark by Laura Gregory. Gregory's name would be erased from the Clarkson record book in another category later in the day as the Knights' 800 freestyle relay team broke another 18-year-old mark by over two seconds in the final relay event of Friday's schedule. Shaddak, MacWilliams, Bragan, and Gawrys swam the race in 8:14.12, besting the previous mark of 8:16.24. More amazingly, both Shaddak and Gawrys surpassed the new mark posted by Shaddak just a few hours earlier in their personal 200 splits.

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