NEW ROCHELLE, NY - Before a capacity crowd at the Hynes Pool on senior day, the Iona University women's swim team defeated the visiting Fairfield University Swimming and Diving team for the first time since the 2016-17 by a score of 151.5-142.5.

Results

The Iona men fell to the visitors 199-95. The win for the Iona women raises their season mark 8-1 overall and closes out an undefeated home season for the first time in Coach Nick Cavataro's 42-year tenure with either gender. The Iona men fall to 3-5 on the year.

Meet Summary

The women were paced by Senior Tri-Captain Isabella Nicholson, who won the 50, 100 and 200-yard Freestyle events and anchored the decisive 400-yard Freestyle Relay to a win, combining with Megan Josephs, Benkert and Grace Curry.
 
Ashley Benkert who took both the 100 and 200-yard Butterfly events; Julia Moser who won both the 100 and 200-Breaststroke; Victoria Novinskiy who won the 200-Backstroke and Individual Medley events.
 
"This was a great team effort for our women and they never gave in, commented Coach Nick Cavataro. "We got off to a good start winning the 200-Medley relay with Novinskiy, Moser, Benkert and Josephs. Then Fairfield came right back with a win in the 1000 and good springboard diving and it came down to the end."
 
The Iona men picked up a pair of wins from Junior Michael Faughnan, who touched first in the 1000 and 500-Freestyle and also anchored the winning 400-Freestyle Relay where the team of Daniel Hadary, Liam Pyatt, Mikel Palaj and Faughnan posted a season best time of 3:04.93.
 
"Our men competed well today," noted Cavataro, "coming out of the training trip and last week and hard training this week, they are really looking forward to taper and MAAC Championships. Fairfield swam strong today and showed balance in every event. We will have to be sharper up and down the line-up."

Up Next

Iona goes right back to action on Wednesday as they travel to Fordham and then  to Manhattan College on Saturday, January 28 to close out the season.

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