PURCHASE, N.Y. - The Purchase College swim teams competed for the first time in 2022 Saturday afternoon, as they welcomed the rest of the Skyline Conference for day one of the conference championship event.
On the men's side,
Matthias Schmidt earned the team's best individual finish of the day, placing eighth in the 100-breast with a time of 1:10.44.
Before that, the quartet of
Aryell Beaulieu-Shaffer (SO/Chatham, NY),
Aidan Mauer (JR/Poughkeepsie, NY,
Gabriel Schmid-Doyle (SO/Canton, NY) and Schmidt took fourth in the 200-medley relay.
For the women,
Brienne Westfall (JR/Grand Island, NY) collected her own eighth-place finish in the 200-fly with a mark of 2:44.70. The squad also earned points in the 200-medley relay by coming in fifth overall in the event.
After day one, both the Purchase men's and women's teams sit fifth overall, with team point totals of 27 and 25, respectively.
As for the overall leaders, the United States Merchant Marine Academy is currently in first with 432 points on the men's side and 446 on the women's.
To see the full results from day one,
click here.
Day two of the meet is set to begin tomorrow (1/23) at 10 a.m. You can follow along live with the video stream
right here.
