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NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. --- Nadine Menard of Woodstock was one of several local swimmers that helped power Eastern Connecticut State University to second place at the 10th Annual Little East Conference Women's Swimming and Diving Championships recently at UMass - Dartmouth.
The top two individuals and top two relays in each event are accorded all-conference accolades. In all, Eastern garnered 10 all-conference awards. Senior Amy Arisco of Wallingford earned honors in the 200 freestyle, 400 IM and with a second-place finish in the 100 butterfly, as well as with the 400 freestyle relay. Amanda Rivers of Meriden, freshman cousin of Arisco, was named all-conference with second-place finishes in the 50 and 100 freestyle and with the 400 freestyle relay; junior Menard by placing second in the 200 butterfly; and freshmen Michelle Schapp of Torrington, and Becky Odgers of Shelton with the 400 freestyle relay.
Senior Amy Arisco of Wallingford risco won the 200 yard freestyle (1:58.16) and 400 yard individual medley (4:48.51) as the No. 2 seed in program-record times and swam the final leg of the record-setting 400 freestyle relay (3:44.25) which finished second.
Eastern’s second-place finish is its third in as many years. The team totaled a program-best 338 points. Keene State (449) won its fifth straight title and eight in the championship’s ten-year history.Thirty-six of Keene’s point came in two diving events, a sport that Eastern does not sponsor.
Schapp (twice) and Menard missed out by one place on all-conference honors. Schapp was third in the 50 freestyle (8 hundreths of a second behind Rivers) and third in the 200 backstroke and Menard was third in the 200 breaststroke.
Arisco led all Eastern competitors with 45 points in individual events. Menard followed with 36. They were followed by five freshmen: Schapp with 35, Odgers and Rivers with 33 each, Colleen King (Barkhamsted) with 28 and Jacqueline Tromp (Bohemia, NY) with 23. Arisco and Menard earned their points in three different strokes, Schapp in two freestyle events and the backstroke; Odgers in two backstroke events and the freestyle; Rivers in three freestyle events, King in two breaststroke events and the butterfly; and Tromp in two backstroke events and the freestyle.