WEST POINT, N.Y. -- The LIU Brooklyn women's swimming team fell to 7-2 in dual meets on the season, after falling 178-77 to Army West Point on Friday evening. Two Blackbirds, senior
Mads Carrigan and freshman
Amanda San Juan, set new school records in the meet.
In the first individual race of the meet, San Juan, who recently earned her third Northeast Conference Rookie of the Week award, crushed her own school record in the 1000 freestyle. San Juan went 10:37.90 in a competitive race, to break her previous mark of 10.49.10, by well over 11 seconds.
Then in the final solo event of the night a 100 individual medley, Carrigan went 1:01.10 to beat the two-year old LIU school record by 0.51 seconds. Freshman Lydia Amon also finished her meet strong, going 1:02.20 in the same event.
In other events: the Blackbirds had a pair of sub-one minute performances by both senior Noemie Lacroix-Moreau (58.76) and sophomore Amanda Peren (59.87) in the 100 butterfly … Peren also went 59.08 in the 100 backstroke … Senior Nathalie Meyers swam the 50 freestyle for the first time this season, going 25.39 to lead the Blackbirds.
The Blackbirds will be back to the Steinberg Wellness Center for the team's last home meet of the calendar year, a Saturday showdown with Lafayette at 2:00 p.m. in LIU Pool.