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Swim Teams Complete Successful 2010 Metro Conference Championships

Swim Teams Complete Successful 2010 Metro Conference Championships
February 11, 2010

New Brunswick, NJ-The University of Bridgeport men's and women's swimming teams wrapped a tremendously successful 2010 Metropolitan Conference Championship Meet on Sunday night with the women topping the Division 1/II teams at the meet and men were second among the D I/II squads. The women's team was second overall in the 21 total team event, and the men's team was sixth in the overall meet standings in the 18-team competition.

On the men's side, Bridgeport's Piotr Safronczyk (Bialystok, Poland) was named the Rookie of the Meet.  The Bridgeport men's swimming program is in its first season as a varsity program in 2009-2010.

Both UB teams will now continue their seasons at the 2010 NCAA Division II Championship Meet which will take place in Canton, OH from March 10 through the 13.  Six Bridgeport women (Alena Gorlanova, Anna Krasnowska, Anna Kwiatkowska, Roxana Purcelea, Sandra Schmitz and Maris Visse)  and five men (Julio Lopez, Eddie Phillips, Piotr Safronczyk, Nikola Savic and Toni Valcic) will be heading to Ohio.

Here is a complete wrap-up of Bridgeport swims in the final day of the 2010 Metro Championships.

Women's 200-yard Backstroke
 
1st Sandra Schmitz (Defending Champion) - 2:05.33 - NCAA "B" Standard
6th -Patrycja Zera - 2:12.68
 
Women's 100-yard Freestyle
 
3rd - Anna Kwiatkowska - 52.86 - NCAA "B" Standard
5th - Roxana Purcelea - 53.63
7th - Anna Krasnowska - 54.11 (54.06p)
 
Men's 100-yard Freestyle
 
9th - Toni Valcic - 46.92 - NCAA "B" Standard
10th - Nikola Savic - 47.42
 
Women's 200-yard Breaststroke
 
1st - Alena Gorlanova - 2:22.07 - NCAA "A" Standard
12th - Michelle Ronsivalli - 2:32.65
13th - Anna Zahova - 2:33.53
 
Men's 200-yard Breaststroke

3rd - Piotr Safronczyk - 2:05.72 - NCAA "A" Standard
 
Women's 200-yard Butterfly
 
2nd - Maris Visse - 2:10.65 - NCAA "B" Standard
7th - Noufissa Chbihi - 2:11.71
 
Men's 200-yard Butterfly
 
2nd - Julio Lopez - 1:51.22 - NCAA "A" Standard
 
Women's 400-yard Freestyle Relay
 
2nd - Roxana Purcelea, Sandra Schmitz, Anna Kwiatkowska, Patrycja Zera -
3:32.65 (Roxana Purcelea Relay Lead-off 53.48 - NCAA "B" Standard)
 
Men's 400-yard Freestyle Relay
 
3rd - Nikola Savic, Eddie Phillips, Toni Valcic, Piotr Safronczyk - 3:06.94