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Patricia Manning earned bronze with a third-place finish in the 200-breaststroke on Sunday

King's Women Finish 6th at MAC Championships, Set Five School Records Sunday, 11 Overall

2/12/2012 9:26:00 PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

KING'S WOMEN FINISH SIXTH IN MAC CHAMPIONSHIPS, SET FIVE SCHOOL RECORDS ON FINAL DAY, 11 NEW MARKS OVERALL

Day Three Results

All Events Results

WILKES-BARRE -- The King's College women's swim team set five more school records to wrap up the final day of the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships Sunday at the Wilkes-Barre C.Y.C. King's finished sixth of 10 teams in the final standings.

All told, the Lady Monarchs set 11 new school-records over the course of the three-day event.

The youthful Lady Monarchs proved to be a team on the rise as its core group of freshmen and sophomores again paved the way.
Sophomore Patricia Manning placed third in the 200-breaststroke, breaking her own school-record with a time of 2:33.00. It was her second individual third-place finish of the championship meet.

Freshman Eric McLin finished ninth in the 200-backstroke, breaking her own school-record with a time of 2:18.64. Fellow rookie Caroline Fitch was 11th in the 1650-freestyle with a time of 19:33.69.

Kim Brino, another freshman, finished 14th in the 100-freestyle with a school-record time of 57.06.

In the 400-freestyle relay, King's team of Brino, Manning, McLin, and Shannon Johnson placed fifth, establishing a new school-record with a time of 3:50.34. In the process, Brino's leadoff leg set another schoool-record with a time of 57.63.

MAC Swimming Championships website is:
http://www.gomacsports.com/sports/2012/1/24/MSWIM_0124124002.aspx?id=4763




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