HAMPTON, Va. – Junior Kelsie Miller (Rockville, Md./Winston Churchill) captured the 100-butterfly as St. Mary's College of Maryland women's swimming claimed the fifth spot at the eight-team Yellow Jacket Invitational hosted by Randolph-Macon College at Hampton Aquaplex Nov. 21-23. St. Mary's College tallied 302.5 points and 10 top-ten finishes for fifth place.
 
Salisbury University claimed the team title with 1320 points followed by Washington & Lee University in second place with 1157 points. The Catholic University of America rounded out the Top 3 with 586.5 points, edging host Randolph-Macon College by 1.5 points.
 
How It Happened
Sessions I and II (Friday, Nov. 21)

• The highest finish of the night came from junior Emerson Young (Bel Air, Md./Harford Technical) who tied for third in the 50-freestyle in 24.41. Sophomore Addison Willey (Lexington Park, Md./Great Mills) tied for 19th in 25.33.

• Young, Willey, sophomore Mandy Cartwright (Waldorf, Md./Thomas Stone), and Miller combined for a seventh-place finish in the 200-freestyle relay in 1:40.64.

• Miller took second in the consolation finals of the 200-individual medley in 2:12.16 for 10th overall.

• Friday night concluded with sophomore Isa Bianco (Catonsville, Md./Catonsville), junior Natalie Canham (Berlin, Md./Stephen Decatur), first-year Liv Macaluso (Killingworth, Conn./Haddam-Killingworth), and Cartwright taking 10th in the 400-medley relay in 4:22.36.

 
Sessions III and IV (Saturday, Nov. 22)

• Miller notched SMCM's lone gold medal of the weekend as she touched the wall first in the 100-butterfly in 56.19.

• The foursome of senior captain Venus Kai Judge (Gaithersburg, Md./Quince Orchard), Young, Willey, and Miller put forth a seventh-place finish in the 800-freestyle relay in 8:14.84.

• Young, Canham, Miller and Willey earned an eighth-place finish in the 200-medley relay in 1:51.87.
• Judge notched a 14th-place finish in the 400-individual medley in 4:57.54 while sophomore Jesse Slingluff (Crownsville, Md./Old Mill) came in 15th in 5:00.85.
• Young paced the Seahawks in the 200-freestyle, coming in 17th in 2:01.01.
• Canham collected the team's best finish in the 100-breastroke in 1:14.13.
• Bianco added a 21st-place finish in the 100-backstroke in 1:08.47.

 
Sessions V and VI (Sunday, Nov. 23)

• Young posted a fifth-place finish in the 100-freestyle in 54.07 while Willey placed 17th in 55.56.
• Miller picked up a sixth-place finish in the 200-butterfly in 2:12.03.
• Miller, Willey, Cartwright, and Young came together for a ninth-place finish in the 400-freestyle relay in 3:44.58.
• Canham tallied a 17th-place finish in the 200-breaststroke in 2:39.46.
• Judge notched an 18th-place finish in the 1650-freestyle in 19:09.15.
• In the 200-backstroke, Macaluso finished 22nd in 2:23.27.

 
Up Next for the Seahawks

• Dec. 6 at McDaniel (1-5) with Hood (3-4) – Westminster, Md. (Harlow Pool) – 1 pm

 
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