BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- The LIU Brooklyn women's swimming team (10-2, 3-1 NEC) will host the team's final home meet of the 2018-19 season on Saturday, when Northeast Conference foe Wagner comes across the Verrazano Bridge for a 12 noon battle. The team will also observe Senior Day prior to the start, saluting the program's first four-year seniors: Mads Carrigan, Nathalie Meyers and Briana Vega.
BLACKBIRDS PICK UP 10TH WIN OF THE SEASON
The team returned to competition on Saturday after the holiday break and moved to ten wins in dual meets for the first time in program history with a pair of non-conference wins in a double-dual meet at Saint Peter's, with Monmouth. The Blackbirds won 11 of the 15 events in the meet with eight LIU swimmers winning individual events. Three swimmers won two events apiece: senior, Mads Carrigan, sophomore Amanda Peren and freshman Lydia Amon.
NEC ACCOLADE FOR AMON
This week LIU freshman Lydia Amon was named the Northeast Conference Co-Rookie of the Week for the first weekly NEC award of her career. Amon joins four-time top rookie Amanda San Juan as the Blackbirds have won the NEC rookie honor in five of the 11 weeks it was awarded this season.
SEAHAWKS OUTLOOK
Seahawk seniors Andrea Gustafsson and Dorian McMenemy lead a very talented Wagner team, one of the main contenders for next month's NEC Championships. Wagner (8-4, 4-1 NEC) finished just ahead of LIU in second place in last month's ECAC Championships, so the two teams have faced off already this season, albeit not in a dual meet. LIU is looking for its first-ever win over Wagner, having faced the nearby NEC school every season, holding an 0-3 mark.
SENIOR DAY CELEBRATION
Between the Blackbirds' three senior swimmers: Mads Carrigan, Nathalie Meyers and Briana Vega, the trio holds eight school records, 14 ECAC Championship medals and 16 Northeast Conference Championship medals. It will be a special send off at the LIU Pool at 11:40 a.m., when these three cornerstones of the blossoming LIU Brooklyn swim program get one final salute at home.