Marie Fritzsche

Last season’s highlights included defeating Middlebury College 140-103 and breaking 14 of 23 college swimming records, including all five relay events. The only loss, 141.5-155.5, came at Williams College when the Ephs’ sheer numbers overpowered the smaller Jeff squad. At the NESCAC Championships last year

Amherst’s victory in Williamstown extended the Jeffs’ winning streak over the Ephs to four matches-the Jeffs last lost to their hated opponents on Oct. 10, 2003. The Jeffs started this fall’s edition on the right foot, taking all three doubles matches. Sophomore Alicia Menezes and

First thing Sunday morning the Jeffs took two of three doubles matches from the visiting Polar Bears. Sophomore Alicia Menezes and senior tri-captain Kristen Raverta, who combined to win the ITA New England doubles tournament the previous weekend, paired for an 8-2 victory at first doubles. Senior tri-captain Hadley Miller

The Jeffs finished their 2004-2005 season with a 12-3 record, led by senior quad-captains Tristan Hedrick, Rachel Holt, Liz Libert and Erin Murphy. In the fall, Alicia Menezes ’08 won the singles competition at the ITA New England championships and teamed up with Holt to take the doubles crown

The 200-yard freestyle relay of tri-captain Liz Chiang ’05, Sasser, Lisa Pritchard ’08 and Rebecca Stein ’05 placed ninth overall and won the consolation finals in 1:37.01, while Sasser finished fifth in the 200-yard individual medley. The smashing of College records began in the 50-yard

“Considering that we are rarely able to field a full squad at NESCACs simply because we lack the numbers, we were thrilled to beat Middlebury this year, a team double our size,” said tri-captain Michelle McCreary ’05. Friday began with the 200-yard freestyle relay, in which the

Women’s Seniors Tri-captain Liz Chiang, a sprint freestyler and backstroker, holds Amherst’s 50-yard backstroke record. Chiang went to Nationals as a first-year for relays, and as a junior she qualified individually in addition to swimming the backstroke legs of the NESCAC Championship-winning 200-yard medley relay and

To open the meet, Lisa Pritchard ’08, Jill Wyrick ’05, Piper Pettersen ’07 and Julie Kim ’08 won the 200-yard medley relay in 1:52.66. The “B” relay, comprised of tri-captain Michelle McCreary ’05, Hilary Stockbridge ’05, Gretchen Sisson ’06

Tri-captain Liz Chiang ’05, Jill Wyrick ’05, Piper Pettersen ’07 and Lisa Pritchard ’08 opened the meet by winning the 200-yard medley relay with a provisional national qualifying time of 1:51.98. Tri-captain Michelle McCreary ’05 swam a season-best 10:53.19 to place

The meet opened with the 400-yard medley relay. Sasser swam the opening, backstroke leg for the “A” relay to earn her first of three NCAA A-cuts, which guarantee an invitation to Nationals. Her split of 57.90 also broke the Amherst record of 58.58, set in 1998.

By beating Wesleyan, the women are on their way to repeating as Little Three champions. Before the 2003 campaign, the team last claimed that title in 1987. This season’s deciding meet will take place at Williams College on Jan. 8. The meet opened with the 50-yard backstroke, which

Last season, in addition to defeating NESCAC rival Middlebury College, Amherst shut down NESCAC powerhouse Williams College, shattering the Ephs’ 103-dual-meet winning streak and paving the way to Amherst’s own undefeated season with a record of 10-0. The women placed third at NESCACs and eighth at Nationals.

The women competed in six singles and three doubles flights at the New England regional tournament. Quad-captain Rachel Holt ’05 and Alicia Menezes ’08 were in Florida for the ITA National Championships, so everyone stepped up two brackets. Senior quad-captain Erin Murphy won the number-four flight, where she

Amherst and cross-town rival UMass began play on Sept. 21, but the match was called due to darkness. On Friday the teams finished what they had begun, and UMass took its season opener, 7-0. Quad-captain Rachel Holt ’05 and Alicia Menezes ’08, the newly-crowned Omni ITA doubles champions,

Kristen Raverta ’06 and quad-captain Rachel Holt ’05 swept number one and two singles, 8-0, respectively. Two first-years, Alicia Menezes at third singles and Laura Stein at fifth singles, each dropped just one game to win 8-1. “It was great to see the freshmen come out fired

Kristen Raverta ’06 called last season “a year of achievement, both as a team and for many of the individual players as well.” Last fall, Amherst got off to a 4-0 start before falling in a close match to Williams College, to whom they placed second at

Yesterday, Amherst won a crucial match, besting Tufts by a score of 7-2 despite being forced indoors due to inclement weather. The Jeffs’ record now stands at 12-3. Tufts is currently ranked third nationally and first in the Northeast region, considerably better than Amherst’s 11th national and

Amherst began the spring on March 24 against a visiting Boston College squad. The Eagles defeated the Jeffs 5-2. Amherst’s two points came from co-captains Max Rettig ’05 and Rob Feeley ’04, who won the third and fifth singles matches, respectively. Second and fourth singles players

“Brandeis and Bates were good matches to start off our season here in the Northeast, in that they weren’t too tough, but made us play,” said Hadley Miller ’06. For the first match of the day, the Jeffs faced the Brandeis Judges, who are ranked

Kenyon College won its third straight national title and 20th in 21 years with 507 points, and NESCAC champion Williams College placed fourth with 289. Amherst finished just ahead of ninth-place Middlebury College. “The women were on and off this weekend, but when they were on, they were really

Hadley Miller ’06 remarked that the trip was “successful in that we got off to a great start and beat the teams that we felt like we should’ve beaten.” On March 15, the women swept seventh-ranked Pomona-Pitzer College 9-0, without dropping a single set to

The men began the fall season by defeating Salve Regina University, 6-1. The highlight of the fall season came early on, as the Jeffs won the ECAC North Championship, Sept. 19-21, at Vassar College, edging Div. I opponent Lehigh University. Josh Rilla ’06, Danny Babkes ’06, co-captain Max

This year’s seniors are distance freestyler Sarah Dobbs, co-captain butterflier Jaime Fisher, who returned to the pool mid-season after an eye injury, co-captain butterflier Ashley Simonsen and breaststroker Bea Wallace. The seniors reflected on their final season. “10-0 is pretty hard to believe,” said Fisher. “

Last year, the team finished the regular season 8-2, placing third at NESCACs and eighth at Nationals, their best NCAA finish since 1999. The team’s biggest loss will be that of senior co-captain and two-time 200-yard butterfly national champion Morgan Bayer ’03. Amherst is eager to build