WATERVILLE, Maine - The Trinity College Bantams set new relay records on each of the last three days, including an eighth-place mark of 3:29.49 in the 400-yard freestyle relay today that qualifies them provisionally for the NCAA Division III Championship Meet, in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Women's Swimming and Diving Championships this weekend at Colby College.  Trinity had set new Bantam records in the 400-yard medley relay on Friday and the 200-yard free relay on Saturday, after narrowly missing the program's 800-yard free relay record by .21 seconds on Thursday.  As a team, Trinity totaled 497 points to finish 10th, besting Hamilton by 30 points.  Tufts won the team title with 1,809 points.  

Senior Aurelia Umholtz (Flagstaff, Ariz.), sophomore Morgan Lenoce (Westport, Conn.) and first-years Isabelle Tagliaferro (Bedford, N.H.) and Maddie Wambach (Boston, Mass.) posted the NCAA B-cut time in the 400-yard free relay to close out the four-days of championship racing.  Senior Serena Ly (Newton, Mass.), Lenoce, Tagliaferro and Wambach broke the 200-yard free relay with an eighth-place time of 1:46.28, and senior Marissa Lopez-Ona (Philadelphia, Pa.) , Lenoce, Tagliaferro, and Wambach came in eighth in the 400-yard medley relay with a record-breaking time of 3:52.88.  Lenoce, Tagliaferro, senior tri-captain Olivia Fournier (Southington, Conn.), and senior Emily Murphy (Gansevoort, N.Y.) gave Trinity four top-eight finishes in relays on Saturday with a time of 1:37.46 in the 200-yard free, and Umholtz, Tagliaferro, Wambach and junior Rachel Papalski (Flemington, N.J) were ninth on Thursday in the 800-yard free relay at 7:45.61.  

Wambach highlighted the individual events with a fifth-place performance in the 50-yard butterfly, setting a new Trinity record with a time of 25.46 in the preliminaries and registering a time of 25.50 in the finals.  Wambach set two other Bantam records this weekend, placing 10th in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 55.71, shattering the eight-year previous mark by 2.35 seconds yesterday, and 13th in the 200-yard backstroke today with a time of 2:08.32 (2:08.16 in finals).  Lenoce broke Trinity's 50-yard backstroke record with a time of 26.82 in her leg of the 200-yard medley relay on Saturday, and Lopez-Ona closed her college career today with a record-breaking time of 2:23.77 that was good for 12th place in the 200-yard breaststroke.

In today's individual races, Trinity boasted five other scoring performances.  Lenoce was 14th and first-year Katherine Dustin (Feeding Hills, Mass.) was 22nd in the 200-yard backstroke, while senior tri-captain Zoryanna Matlashewski (Anoka, Minn.) and rookie Julianna Rieker (Winston-Salem, N.C.) were 21st and 24th, respectively, in the 1,650-yard free.  Tagliaferro added a 24th-place mark in the 100-yard freestyle.  On Saturday, Lenoce earned an 11th-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke, Matlashewski was 12th in the 400-yard IM, Lopez-Ona placed 21st in the 100-yard breaststroke.  Three Bantams scored in the 200-yard free yesterday with Papalski, Umholtz, and first-year Addison Dunham (Concord, Mass.) placing 20th, 22nd, and 23rd, respectively.  On Friday, Lopez-Ona was one of three Bantams among the top 24 in the 50-yard breaststroke at 15th, while Ly came in 20th and junior Avery Rowland (Wilton, Conn.) was 24th in the same event.  Lenoce added an 11th-place finish in the 50-yard breaststroke, Tagliaferro was 12th in the 50-yard free, and Matleshewski was 21st in the 200-yard individual medley. 

Senior diver Olivia Ramos (Weston, Mass.) was Trinity's top diver, placing 14th today off the three-meter board with a score of 292.05 and 15th off the one-meter board on Friday at 289.60.  First-year Bridget Kahan (Lewiston, Maine) was 18th in the three-meter event today and 20th in the one-meter event, while senior tri-captain Grace Chouinard (Natick, Mass.) was 17th and senior Anastazia Chin (Kingston, Jamaica) was 22nd on Friday off the one-meter board.