CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Mount Holyoke swimming and diving team had its best day of the 2024 NEWMAC Championships on the final day of the meet Sunday at MIT, with four athletes advancing to Sunday night's finals.
Senior diver Maddy Sewell (Scottsdale, Ariz.) led the Lyons once again with an outstanding performance in 3-meter diving, placing fourth out of 20 divers with a career-high 487.90 points on 10 dives. MIT swept the top three places in a highly competitive event, with Fio Beratahani scoring 549.00 points, Emma Scott scoring 506.30, and Rachel Loh scoring 502.90. In the 2023 NEWMAC Championships, Sewell placed second with 464.50 points, close behind Loh's winning score of 466.05.
Sophomore Carolina Loayza (Fort Myers, Fla.) and junior Hannah Heierhoff (Wiesbaden, Germany) both reached Sunday's B Final in the 200-yard butterfly with their prelim times Sunday morning, 2:16.81 and 2:18.25, respectively. In the B Final, Loayza took 13th place overall at 2:14.38, while Heierhoff placed 16th overall in 2:18.34.
Senior Evelyn Bushway (Schenectady, N.Y.) made the B Final in the 200-yard breaststroke with a prelim time of 2:34.20. Bushway lowered her time by 2.35 seconds in the B Final to place 17th overall.
The Lyons capped the meet with a seventh-place finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay, with junior Kamlyn Yosick (Portland, Ore.), Loayza, junior Megan Schneider (Newton, Mass.), and senior Eliza Williams (Andover, Mass.) finishing in 3:42.27.
Mount Holyoke finished the meet with 254 points to finish ninth among 10 teams, close behind seventh-place Babson (284) and eighth-place Smith (271).
