Pirates Open Season with Victory over Rider, 186-100 - Seton Hall University Athletics
Lawrenceville, N.J. – The Seton Hall women's swimming and diving team opened its season with a victory at Rider by a score of 186-100. Silvia Alessio (T...
Lawrenceville, N.J. – The Seton Hall women's swimming and diving team opened its season with a victory at Rider by a score of 186-100. Silvia Alessio (Trieste, Italy), Natalie Heim (Middletown, N.J.), and Julie Stampe (Allerod-Birkerod, Denmark) each picked up multiple individual victories on the afternoon.
The dual meet opened with the Pirates taking the top two spots in the 200 Medley Relay. Stampe swam the opening leg followed by Yosun Hacifazioglu (Istanbul, Turkey), Josie McCartney (Verona, Wisc.) and Lea Moeller (New Lenox, Ill.) to capture the win.
Allie Waggoner (Moorestown, N.J.) followed with a victory on the 1000 Free, touching the wall in a time of 10:21.55. Waggoner would later finish second in the 500 Free, a race which saw the Pirates sweep the top three spots. Waggoner was sandwiched between Amanda Zajdzinski (Mesa, Ariz.) in first place and Madeleine Bachand (Raleigh, N.C.) in third.
Heim picked up the first of her two wins in the 200 Free, finishing with a time of 1:54.36. The senior finished just ahead of Zajdzinski, who took second in 1:55.42. Heim would also take the victory in the 100 Free later in the day as the Pirates would once again sweep the top three spots. Heim claimed the win in 52.35, followed by Moeller in second and Leiya Istambouli (Danbury, Conn.) in third.
Moeller would claim victory in a freestyle event on the day, touching the wall first in the 50 Free. Moeller clocked a time of 24.46 to take the win, just ahead of McCartney in second place.
Stampe would sweep the backstroke events on Saturday, first claiming victory in the 100 Back with a time of 58.68. Stampe would go on to win the 200 Back later in the day with a time of 2:07.38. Both races saw MADI FIELD take second place just behind Stampe.
Alessio swept the diving events in her first meet as a Pirate. The Fresno State transfer posted a score of 299.10 to take the 3-meter diving, another event which saw the Pirates sweep the top three. Laura Stavila (Oakland, Calif.) and Nicolette Pawar (Lawrenceville, N.J.) took second and third, respectively, in the event. Alessio would later take her second win of the day with a score of 272.48 in the 1-meter, with Stavila claiming third in the event. Alessio's scores qualified her for the NCAA Zone Diving Championships later this season.
The Pirates return to action on Oct. 21 as they travel to Lewisburg, Pa, to compete in the Bucknell Fall Invite.
