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2007-2008 Wells College Swim Team Express Swimming News To view  PDF files download Adobe Acrobat Reader Court Carnahan '10 set College records in the 50 free and 100 butterfly at the UNYSCSA Championship.	Swimming News Head Coach Patricia George 2007-2008 Women's Roster 2008-2009 Schedule 2007-2008 Men's Roster Women's Top Times Men's Top Times Wells College Awards Individual Honors & & Awards Athletic/Academic Recognition

The swim team has been breaking record after record so far this year.  Coach George is optimistic that the best is yet to come for every member of the swim team.  Here are some highlights and personal achievements from the season.
 
 

The Express swim team completed the second day of competition late Friday evening at the NYSWCAA championships at Nottingham High School in Syracuse, NY.  The women's swim team had even more succes on Friday as they did on opening day.  The following are the highlights from day two:

The first event of the day was the 400 IM where Kelsey Thomas' (11)  took 4 seconds off her lifetime best (5:30.56).

The second event was the 200 Freestyle where Colleen Keegan (10) took off 3 seconds (2:31.77) and Tiffany Raymond (10) took off 4 seconds (2:45.89) to achieve lifetime best times.

In the 100 Breaststroke Erica Rose Thomas (08) was seated at 31st but after she swam in the morning she earned the 24th spot, with a season's best time of 1:15.75, which enabled her to swim at finals. Erica is the first Express swimmer of the meet (and Coach George's first swimmer) to make it in the finals.

The last event of the evening was the 800 Free Relay where Colleen Keegan (10), Kelsey Stafford (10), Tiffany Raymond (10) and Beverly Bauman (10) earned the 4th spot on the All Wells Top Ten Times with a time of 10:41.62.

The Express will look to build off of their record breaking performances so far in the competition to finish off with a tremendous third and final day today!
 
 

The Wells women's swim team completed their first day of competition on Thursday evening at the NYSWCAA championships.  Coach George was very please with the performance of the Express swimmers on the first day.  Here are some of the highlights from day one:

The Express finished in the top 24 in the prelims which qualifies them for the finals in both of their relays - 200 Free Relay and 400 Medley Relay. The swimmers were Erica Rose Thomas (08), Kelsey Thomas (11), Samantha Hessling (11) and Jackie Ross (11).

The 1st event of the competition was the 500 free where Erica Rose Thomas (08) took 5 seconds off her season's best (5:55.40), Colleen Keegan (10) took off 3 seconds off her lifetime best (6:33.75) and Kelsey Stafford (10) took 11 seconds off her lifetime best (7:04.74).

The 2nd event of the competition was the 200 IM where Jackie Ross (11) took 4 seconds off her lifetime best time (2:37.17).

The 3rd event of the competition was the 50 free where Amber Hale (09), Beverly Bauman (10) and Tiffany Raymond (10) all took off a second.

We look forward to the Express having another succesful day today in day two of the three day meet.
 
 

Men's 200 Medley Relay team placed 2nd at the meet and for the first time in Wells history we have record for this event. The members of the relay team are Mike Scharvella (11), Matt Boyce (08), Court Carnahan (10), Chris VanWert (08) with a time of 4:45.21.

Chris VanWert (08) broke two of his own records. During the 1000 free he broke the 500 free record (6:02) and his 1000 free record (12:21.78)

Erica Rose Thomas placed 1st in both of her individula events, 100 Breaststroke
(1:17.65) and 200 breaststroke (2:44.79). During the 200 breaststroke, it was also the closest finish of the meet with Megan Beaulieu-Jones (Skidmore) coming in .25 behind Erica Rose Thomas.

Men's 400 Free Relay broke yet another record with a time of 4:10.21. The members of the relay team are Matt Boyce (08), Court Carnahan (10), Chris VanWert (8), and Mike Scharvella (11).
 
 

Mike Scharvella (11) - Broke his own Wells College record with a time of
1:07.29 for the 100 Backstroke.

Erica Rose Thomas (08) - placed 1st in the 200 Breaststroke (2:44.06)

Kelsey Stafford (10) - earned a life-time best time in the 500 free taking off
6 seconds from her old time (7:15.57). She is also one second off from her life-time best time in the 1000 free (15:11.02)

Kelsey Thomas (11) and Jackie Ross (11) placed 1st and 2nd in the 400 IM. 
Thomas took off 16 seconds and earned 7th place on the All Wells Women's Top Ten Times (5:34.54). This was Jackie's first time swimming this event and she place 8th on the All Wells Women's Top Ten Times (5:41.74).
 
 

1st Place winners:
200 Free Relay (2:09.75) - Samantha Hessling (11), Colleen Keegan (10), Tiffany Raymond (10), Kelsey Stafford (10).

Mike Scharvella (11) earned a life-time best time by just over 2 seconds in the 100 Freestyle with a time of 58.95. He also placed first in the event and is now in 3rd place on the All Wells Men Top Ten Times.

Chris Van Wert (08) earned the 1st place spot on the All Wells Men's Top Ten Times in the 1000 free with a time of 12:42.87.

Men Scores:
WC - 17
Pitt-Bradford - 35

Women's Scores:
WC - 21
Mansfield 60

WC - 59
Pitt-Bradford - 24
 
 

Colleen Keegan (10) started off the meet with a very close 1st place win in the 1000 free, it was the closest finish of the meet. Colleen Keegan (WC) touched out Emily Eisenberger (CAZ) by less than a second. Keegan's time was a life-time best time (13:35.10).

1st Place winners:

Colleen Keegan (10) - 1000 Free (13:35.10)

Erica Rose Thomas (08) - 200 Free (2:15.41), 100 Free (1:00.36), 200 Breaststroke
(2:55.92)

Chris Van Wert (08) - 200 Free (2:13.77)

Mike Scharvella (11) - 100 Backstroke (1:08.62), 100 Free (59.05)

Kelsey Thomas (11) - 100 Breaststroke (1:24.70), 200 Backstroke (2:43.62)

Jackie Ross (11) - 200 Fly (2:47.30) which also placed her 7th on the All Wells Women's Top Ten Times, 100 Fly (1:11.30)

Court Carnahan (11) - 50 Free (27.43)
 
 

1st Places -
200 Medley Relay (2:07.52) - Kelsey Thomas (11), Erica Thomas (08), Jackie Ross (11), Alli Beck (09)

Erica Rose Thomas (08)- 1650 Freestyle (21:32.64), 100 Breaststroke (1:19.90)

Jackie Ross (11) - 200 Freestyle (2:16.16), 100 freestyle (1:02.29),

Kelsey Thomas (11) - 400 IM (5:50.65), 100 Backstroke (1:18.35)

Closest fininsh between Emily Olson (MSC) with a time of 1:15.49 and Samantha Hessling (WC) with a time of 1:15.85 in 100 Fly!

Score:
Women
Wells - 59
MSC - 26

Men
MSC - 53
Wells - 10
 
 

Jackie Ross - Set her best personal time in the 100 Fly (1:08.97), placing 3rd at the meet and tied for 5th place on the "Wells Women's Top Ten Best Times".

Men's Team Broke the 400 Free Relay by over a minute! The members were Chris VanWert, Matt Boyce, Mike Scharvella  and McDonald Morris.

McDonald Morris - Broke the 50 free record by over 2 seconds with a time of 24.99.

Mike Scharvella and Matt Boyce also recordered times worthy of the "Wells Men's Top Ten Best Times". Mike in 2nd place (26.81) and Matt in 6th (30.43).
 
 

Women's 200 Medley Relay - 1st at the meet and they are now tied for 8th place on the Top Ten all Time Best times. (2:09.71)

Men's 200 Medley Relay - Broke the record by 21 seconds, with a time of 2:05.43.

Closest finish - Between Kelsey Thomas (Wells) and Anna Layton (Caz) in the 100 freestlye. Kelsey finished in 2nd place by .07 seconds.

Mike Scharvella (11) - Broke the 100 Backstroke record by 27 seconds, with a time of 1:11.40

McDonald (Mac) Morris (09) - Broke the 100 Freestyle record by 3 seconds, with a time of 55.69

Christopher VanWert (08) - Broke his own record in the 200 IM by 6 seconds, with a time of 2:38.41.

Women - 1st place wins
Erica Rose Thomas (08) in the 100 and 200 Breaststroke
Jackie Ross (11) - 100 Free and 100 Fly
Kathy Damato (11) - 200 Backstroke,

Men - 1st place wins 
200 Medley Relay (Scharvella, Boyce, VanWert, Morris) Chris VanWert - 200 Free and 200 IM
Mike Scharvella - 100 Backstroke
McDonald Morris - 100 and 50 free
 
 
 

Patricia George Head Swim Coach pgeorge@wells.edu 315-364-3413

Patricia George is entering her first full year as head women’s and men’s swim coach at Wells College. George served as interim head coach of both Express teams this last season from late December to the close of the campaign. She also served as assistant coach of the Express this past fall and in the 2005-06 season. For the last three years, George has served as a swim instructor and lifeguard at the Cortland YMCA. She was also the head modified swim coach for the Dryden School District in the 2005 fall season. George swam collegiately at SUNY Cortland where she served as team captain her senior season and was part of the 800 yard freestyle relay team that set the school record. She still has a top-10 time in the 200 yard freestyle at Cortland and still competes for the Masters Swim Association. George earned a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education and is in the process of completing a Master of Science in the same field from SUNY Cortland.

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2007-2008 Roster

Name	Year	Hometown	Event
Beverly Bauman	Sophomore	Rochester, NY	Backstroke
Amber Hale	Sophomore	New Hartford, NY	Breaststroke
Samantha Hessling	Freshman	Waterford, CT	Butterfly
Collen Keegan	Sophomore	Rindge, NH	Freestyle
Tiffany Raymond	Sophomore	Chittenango, NY	Backstroke
Jackie Ross	Freshman	Troy, NY	Butterfly/Freestyle
Kelsey Stafford	Sophomore	Colorado Springs, CO	Freestyle
Erica Rose Thomas	Senior	Albany, NY	Breaststroke/Freestyle
Kelsey Thomas	Freshman	Albany, NY	Backstroke
Matthew Boyce	Freshman	Baltimore, MD	Breaststroke
Courtney Carnahan
Michael Scharvella	Freshman	Crayville, NY	Backstroke/Freestyle
Chris Van Wert	Senior	Oswego, NY	IM/Freestyle

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2008-2009 Schedule

Date	Opponent	Time/Results
Sat., Oct. 18	at Hartwick Relay Meet	11:30 AM
Thur., Oct. 30	at Brockport	5:00 PM
Tue., Nov. 4	at William Smith (W)	TBA
Sat., Nov. 8	at Cazenovia	TBA
Wed., Nov. 12	Utica	TBA
Thur., Nov. 20	SUNY-Cobleskill	TBA
Sat., Dec. 6	Kings College	2:00 PM
Wed., Jan. 14	at Morrisville	TBA
Sat., Jan. 17	Pitt-Bradford/Mansfield at Wells	1:00 PM
Wed., Jan. 21	Cazenovia	TBA
Fri., Jan. 23	Potsdam/Morrisville at Potsdam	4pm
Thur.-Sat., Feb. 18-21	NYSWCAA (W) at Nottingham H.S.	TBA
Thur.-Fri., Feb. 25- 28	UNYSCSA (M) at Nottingham H.S.	TBA

home meets in BOLD 

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Women's Top Times

50 Freestyle	Date	Time
1 - Conrad	11/11/90	:26.62
2 - Moleski	2/16/84	:26.69
3 - Delahunty	11/7/85	:27.01
4 - Bettucci	11/28/79	:27.20
5 - Reid	2/11/89	:27.23
6- Thomas	1/24/05	27.23
7 - Boneham	11/10/92	:27.35
8 - Karr	12/5/98	:27.37
9 - Beck	12/7/90	:27.47
10 - Hurley	12/2/00	:27.68

 

100 Freestyle	Date	Time
1 - Thomas	2/5/05	:57.61
2 - Delahunty	11/19/85	:58.62
3 - Conrad	2/8/92	:58.92
4 - E. Young	2/18/06	:58.97
5 - Moleski	1985	:59.05
6 - Bettucci	11/28/79	:59.50
7 - Hurley	2/4/01	:59.90
8 - Ellis	11/1/80	1:00.01
9 - Reid	1989	1:00.14
10 - Wittenzellner	11/19/05	1:00.70

 

200 Freestyle	Date	Time
1 - Ingold	12/7/90	2:05.44
2 - E. Young	2/17/06	2:08.51
3 - Benson	12/1/83	2:08.84
4 - Hurley	2/3/01	2:09.11
5 - Delahunty	2/9/87	2:09.79
6- E. Thomas	11/30/07	2:11.00
7 - Globus	2/9/02	2:11.15
8 - Randolph	11/2/81	2:11.70
9 - Walmsley	1989	2:12.27
10 - C. Schnieder	11/22/85	2:12.33

 

500 Freestyle	Date	Time
1 - E. Young	2/16/06	5:39.96
2 - Ingold	11/10/90	5:40.70
3 - Benson	1984	5:42.70
4 - Globus	2/8/03	5:43.43
5 - Jankewicz	1985	5:43.86
6 - Randolph	11/2/81	5:46.67
7 - Thomas	2005	5:50.40
8 - Hurley	2/3/01	5:54.84
9 - C. Schnieder	11/19/85	5:57.84
10 - Levy	1989	6:04.89

 

1000 Freestyle	Date	Time
1 - Ingold	11/14/91	11:40.55
2 - Benson	12/9/85	11:47.45
3 - E. Young	2/8/04	11:55.20
4 - Jankewicz	11/11/85	11:55.45
5 - Globus	2/9/03	11:57.83
6 - Walmsley	2/4/89	12:25.04
7 - C. Schnieder	12/9/85	12:25.11
8 - Levy	2/1/89	12:34.75
9 - Hurley	11/17/99	12:46.60
10 - Boneham	12/5/92	12:52.00

 

1650 Freestyle	Date	Time
1 - Jankewicz	1986	19:41.85
2 - Benson	1987	19:53.96
3 - E. Young	2/18/06	20:07.11
4 - Globus	2/22/03	20:16.55
5 - Levy	1989	21:05.59
6- Thomas	States 2007	21:07.67
7 - Hurley	12/7/99	21:45.06
8 - Goodrich	2/20/93	21:51.53
9- C. Keegan	States '08	22:25.55
10 - Anderson	2/17/90	22:48.34

 

100 Backstroke	Date	Time
1 - Ingold	11/19/91	1:06.42
2 - Bettucci	12/4/79	1:09.50
3 - Hurley	2/4/01	1:10.39
4 - Reid	2/4/89	1:10.85
5 - Jankewicz	11/16/84	1:11.08
6 - Conrad	11/14/88	1:11.21
7 - Gurlitz	1/29/85	1:11.55
8 - Broncyzk	11/5/83	1:11.58
9 - Boneham	11/19/92	1:11.77
10 - Wittenzellner	2/4/06	1:12.01

 

200 Backstroke	Date	Time
1 - Ingold	2/2/92	2:19.35
2 - Gurlitz	12/9/85	2:31.98
3 - Yun	2/7/04	2:34.72
4 - Reid	12/9/88	2:34.76
5 - Wittenzellner	11/12/05	2:35.13
6 - Hurley	1/23/01	2:36.41
7 - K. Thomas	States '08	2:36.76
8 - Conrad	12/7/88	2:37.32
9 - Johnson	2/7/04	2:38.37
10 - C. Schnieder	11/9/85	2:41.70

 

100 Breaststroke	Date	Time
1 - Thomas	2/5/05	1:14.25
2 - McLaren	2/7/04	1:15.16
3 - Sills	12/6/83	1:15.97
4 - Walmsley	1989	1:16.03
5 - Reed	11/5/83	1:18.10
6 - Meier	12/5/98	1:18.38
7 - Frankel	11/19/90	1:18.60
8 - Eghigian	11/16/81	1:19.01
9 - Delahunty	11/5/83	1:19.37
10 - Cook	11/2/81	1:19.79

 

200 Breaststroke	Date	Time
1 - Thomas	2/6/05	2:40.12
2 - Benson	1984	2:42.36
3 - Walmsley	1989	2:45.51
4 - McLaren	2/22/03	2:46.70
5 - Meier	2/4/98	2:54.06
6 - Jankewicz	11/12/84	2:54.30
7 - Malinowski	11/17/87	3:00.17
8 - Self	2/17/94	3:01.24
9 - Morris	2/22/03	3:01.31
10 - Molholm	11/3/98	3:02.15

 

100 Butterfly	Date	Time
1 - Ingold	2/20/92	1:03.76
2 - Randolph	11/14/83	1:07.54
3 - Benson	12/9/79	1:07.62
4 - Wittenzellner	2005	1:07.90
5 - Meyers	2/9/03	1:08.97
6- J. Ross	11/6/07	1:08.97
7 - Moleski	12/1/83	1:09.19
8 - R. Young	2/10/02	1:10.47
9 - Bettucci	12/2/80	1:10.80
10 - Globus	2/21/03	1:11.19

 

200 Butterfly	Date	Time
1 - Ingold	2/22/92	2:18.47
2 - Benson	12/9/85	2:26.92
3 - Globus	2/9/02	2:34.54
4 - Wittenzellner	2005	2:37.80
5 - Meyers	2/8/03	2:39.84
6 - R. Young	2/9/02	2:40.68
7- J. Ross	1/23/08	2:47.30
8 - Levy	2/4/89	2:48.19
9 - Carson	11/17/87	2:49.20
10 - Hurley	2/5/00	2:54.04

 

100 Individual Medley	Date	Time
1 - Delahunty	11/22/85	1:07.75
2 - Eghigian	11/12/83	1:09.03
3 - Ingold	11/19/91	1:09.34
4 - Jankewicz	11/14/85	1:10.10
5 - Benson	11/14/85	1:10.15
6 - Conrad	12/1/88	1:10.41
7 - Bettucci	12/1/79	1:11.01
8 - Walmsley	2/1/89	1:12.25
9 - Cook	11/2/81	1:13.33

 

200 Individual Medley	Date	Time
1 - Ingold	11/19/90	2:25.69
2 - Randolph	11/16/83	2:26.25
3 - Benson	1984	2:26.39
4- Wittenzellner	2/17/05	2:30.02
5 - Ellis	11/11/81	2:30.48
6 - McLaren	2/9/03	2:30.48
7 - Delahunty	2/9/87	2:30.97
8 - Jankewicz	12/6/83	2:31.73
9 - Thomas	2004	2:33.05
10 - Hurley	2/4/01	2:33.53

 

400 Individual Medley	Date	Time
1 - Ingold	2/21/92	4:57.33
2 - Benson	1984	5:12.31
3 - Wittenzellner	2/5/05	5:20.58
4 - McLaren	2/8/03	5:25.39
5 - Globus	2/21/03	5:28.36
6 - R. Young	2/9/02	5:29.08
7- K. Thomas	2/22/08	5:30.56
8- J. Ross	1/25/08	5:41.74
9 - Hurley	1/23/01	5:43.23
10 - E. Thomas	11/18/06	5:48.60

 

200 Free Relay	Date	Time
1 - Eghigian, Benson, Delahunty, Moleski	1984	1:49.43
2 - Conrad, Loonan, Levy, Reid	11/29/88	1:49.91
3 - Randolph, Bettuci, Eghigian, Atkins	2/4/82	1:50.12
4 - Benson, Schnieder, Jankewicz, Delahunty	11/14/85	1:51.01
5 - Bettucci, Randolph, Eghigian, Ellis	11/4/81	1:51.50
6 - Wittenzellner, Young, Globus, Thomas	2004	1:51.50
7 - Wittenzellner, Thomas, Globus, Pratt	2/17/05	1:52.66
8 - Wittenzellner, Lowe, Marzeski, Young	11/16/05	1:54.59
9 - E. Thomas, K. Thomas, Hessling,Ross	States '08	1:54.90
10 - Vasak,Young, McLaren, Globus	2/4/03	1:55.81

 

400 Free Relay	Date	Time
1 - Conrad, Levy, Walmsley, Reid	2/18/89	4:01.07
1 - Randolph, Eghigian, Bettucci, Atkins	2/24/82	4:01.07
3 - Conrad, Levy, Walmsley, Reid	2/18/89	4:01.54
4 - Moleski, Delahunty, Jankewicz, Benson	1985	4:02.35
5 - Benson, Randolph, Moleski, Jankewicz	1984	4:02.87
6 - Goodrich, Riordan, Ingold, Conrad	11/10/90	4:03.72
7 - Schnieder, Walmsley, Jankewicz, Delahunty	1986	4:03.92
8 - Bettuci, Eghigian, Randolph, Ellis	2/27/82	4:04.36
9 - McLaren, Young, Meyers, Globus	2/9/03	4:05.57
10- Thomas, Whittenzellner, Pratt, Globus	2/17/05	4:10.52

 

800 Freestyle Relay	Date	Time
1 - McLaren, Brun, Young, Globus	2/21/03	9:10.69
2 - Moen, Schmutz, Williams, Harvey	12/10/96	9:40.39
3 - L.Young, Lukas, Lesney, Hale	2/16/06	10:18.94
4- Keegan, Stafford, Raymond, Bauman	2/21/08	1-:41.62
5 - Keegan, Roland, Timm, Thomas	11/17/06	10:54.57

 

200 Medley Relay	Date	Time
1 - Reid, Walkmsley, Levy, Conrad	2/16/89	2:04.46
2 - Reid, Walmsley, Benson, Delahunty	1987	2:04.95
3 - Broncyzk, Sills, Moleski, Benson	12/1/83	2:05.13
4 - Reid, Walmsley, Conrad, Loonan	12/1/88	2:05.62
5 - Zimpel, Riordian, Ingold, Beck	12/1/90	2:06.79
6 - Morris, McLaren, Meyers, Globus	2/8/03	2:06.95
7 - E. Thomas, K. Thomas, Ross, Beck	11/30/07	2:07.50
8- Globus, Thomas, Wittenzellner, Pratt	2/5/05	2:08.95
9- E. Thomas, K. Thomas, Hessling, Ross	11/14/07	2:09.17
10 - Morris, McLaren, Globus, Young	2/21/03	2:09.71

 

400 Medley Relay	Date	Time
1 - Broncyzk,