Marie Fritzsche

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 second overall in the 1000-yard

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. The relay

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 tri-captain

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. At NCAAs,

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 was seeded

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, earned the