Swimming & Diving Has Big Day in Tri-Meet Versus Richmond & La Salle

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It was another big day of action for the Fordham swimming & diving team on Saturday, as the team hosted both the La Salle Explorers and the defending Atlantic 10 women's champion, Richmond Spiders. 
 
The day ended with the Fordham women winning against both opponents, defeating Richmond, 159-140, and La Salle, 218-81, while the Fordham men fell short to La Salle, 177-121.
 
The closest of the match-ups was between arguably the top two women's teams in the Atlantic 10, which saw Fordham and Richmond tied at 122 with three events to go: the 100 butterfly, the 200 individual medley, and the 400 freestyle relay.

 
Fordham came through with flying colors, outscoring the Spiders in each of those events to post the win.  Sophomore Megan Polaha was a big contributor to the Fordham wins, posting event wins in the 100 butterfly in a season-best time of 55.51 seconds, as well as in the 200 individual medley (2:05.85) and the 200 butterfly (2:02.08).
 
Sophomore Kalena Laurent and junior Shannon Lulley came up with two event wins each, as Laurent won the 200 (1:53.97) and 500 (5:04.44) freestyle, while Lulley won the 50 (23.92) and 100 (52.42) freestlye events.  Seniors Megan Zarriello and Victoria McGovern also won individual events with Zarriello taking the 1000 freestyle in a season-best time of 10:23.56 and McGovern winning the 100 breaststroke in 1:06.55.
 
The Fordham win over Richmond was then sealed victory a win in the 400 freestyle relay, where Megan Gray, Laurent, Erin McBride, and Chandler Lulley posted a time of 3:31.39.
 
In the men's meet against La Salle, junior Steve Sholdra and freshman Liam Semple were stellar in loss.
 
Sholdra won three individual events, taking the 1000 freestyle in a season-best time of 9:24.45, as well as the 200 butterfly (1:51.13) and the 500 freestyle (4:36.83).

 

Semple won the 200 freestyle event in a season-best time of 1:43.12, while taking second in the 100 freestyle (47.63) and the 500 freestyle (4:39.49), where he set personal-best times this season.
 
Both Sholdra and Semple figured into the final event win of the day, as the duo joined Patrick Militti and Joe Mercurio to win the 400 freestyle relay in 3:10.67.
 
Beside these five event wins, freshman J.T. Klimko was the last event winner for the Rams in the meet, as he took first in the 100 backstroke in 52.65 seconds.
 
The Fordham Rams will next be in action on Saturday, January 31^st, when the Rams host Massachusetts at 1:00 PM.