GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Amherst College women's swimming and diving team collected three more All-America finishes on the final day of the NCAA Division III Championships at the Greensboro Aquatic Center on Saturday.
Senior
Sydney Bluestein capped her collegiate career with a fifth-place finish in three-meter diving, tallying a score of 474.50. Bluestein completes her four-year career with All-America finishes in seven of eight diving events, highlighted by a national championship on the one-meter board in 2013.
In her final collegiate swim, senior
Ali Lacroix finished 12th in the 200-yard breaststroke, touching in 2:17.00 in the consolation final to earn her fifth career All-America honor and second of the meet.
The meet concluded with the Mammoths earning Second Team All-America honors in the 400-yard freestyle relay. After clocking in at 3:26.13 in the preliminaries to qualify for the consolation final, sophomore
Lucy Smith, senior
Megan Lee, junior
Diane Koo and sophomore
Paige Arnold finished in 3:26.38 to claim 11th place. It was the first career All-America finish for Koo in her championship debut, fifth career All-America finish for Arnold, and sixth for Smith. Lee concludes her collegiate career with eight All-America accolades.
Arnold also finished 34th in the 100-yard freestyle, clocking in at 51.45 seconds in the preliminaries.
The Mammoths finished the meet tied for 13th place with 81 points, scoring at the national championship meet for the 37th straight season. The Mammoths leave the meet with a total of seven All-America finishes, including three first-team accolades. MIT won its first championship with 497 points.
| FIRST TEAM ALL-AMERICANS |
| Sydney Bluestein |
1m Diving |
4th |
433.75 |
| 3m Diving |
5th |
474.50 |
| Maeve Kelley |
200 Fly |
4th |
2:00.90 |
| SECOND TEAM ALL-AMERICANS |
| Paige Arnold |
800 Free Relay |
10th |
7:27.97 |
| 400 Free Relay |
12th |
3:26.38 |
| 400 Medley Relay |
14th |
3:46.36 |
| Maeve Kelley |
800 Free Relay |
10th |
7:27.97 |
| Diane Koo |
400 Free Relay |
12th |
3:26.38 |
| Ali Lacroix |
200 Breast |
12th |
2:17.00 |
| 400 Medley Relay |
14th |
3:46.36 |
| Megan Lee |
800 Free Relay |
10th |
7:27.97 |
| 400 Free Relay |
12th |
3:26.38 |
| Lucy Smith |
800 Free Relay |
10th |
7:27.97 |
| 400 Free Relay |
12th |
3:26.38 |
| 400 Medley Relay |
14th |
3:46.36 |
| Cora Spelke |
400 Medley Relay |
14th |
3:46.36 |
