CAMBRIDGE - Smith College swimming & diving jumped from seventh to sixth place out of 10 teams on the second day of the NEWMAC Championships, hosted by MIT. Highlights included Welsh placing third on the 1-meter board and the 400 medley relay team establishing a new school record. 

MIT commands the team competition with 615 points. Coast Guard (305) and Wellesley College (246) make up the podium while Babson (232), Wheaton (200), Smith (197), WPI (176), Springfield (157), Clark (105) and Mount Holyoke (94( round out the tightly contested field.

Highlights

• Smith's 200 free relay A of Abby Caputo, Maggie Cline (Santee, CA/West Hills), Susannah Winfield (East Aurora, NY/East Aurora), and Madeleine Lucas (Salem, MA/Salem) placed seventh overall in 1:41.84
• Senior Katherine Welsh (St. Paul, MN/Saint Paul Academy) finished third overall on the 1-meter board with a score of 449.50. First year Miranda Strunk (Lowell, MA/Lowell) placed ninth with 374.95 points
• The 400 medley relay squad of Caputo, Emma Schultz (Hyattsville, MD/Elizabeth Seton), Jessie Wang (Princeton, NJ/Princeton), and Madeleine Lucas (Salem, MA/Salem) set the program record with a seventh place time of 4:03.16 in the A Final

Day three of three commences at 10:00 AM tomorrow morning with prelims before the 6:00 session of finals.

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