Women's Swimming

Kidd Headlines Women's Swimming All-Conference Teams

LANCASTER, Pa. - The Atlantic East Conference announced the 2022 Women's Swimming Major Award Winners and All-Conference teams on Tuesday afternoon as St. Mary's College of Maryland, Marywood University and Marymount University earned major awards.

Anna Kidd, the 2021 Rookie of the Year, placed first in every event she was a part of over the weekend. The sophomore won and broke three records in her individual events: Women's 200 IM (2:12.26), Women's 200 Free (1:57.06) and the Women's 100 Free (53.43). Kidd was also a member of four first-place relay teams: Women's 200 Free Relay, Women's 400 Medley Relay, Women's 800 Free Relay and Women's 400 Free Relay. 

Marywood freshmen Molly O'Neill and Sabrina Zieger earned Co-Rookie of the Year honors after strong performances in their first conference championship meet.

O'Neill's best finish came in the Women's 400 IM with a second-place finish. The freshman was also a part of the bronze medal winning 800 freestyle relay. 

Zieger's top individual finishes came in the Women's 500 Freestyle and the Women's 1650 Freestyle with second-place finishes. She was also a member of the the third place 800 freestyle relay team.

St. Mary's was awarded Coaching Staff of the Year, as voted on by the coaches of the conference, after winning back-to-back Atlantic East swimming titles.

Lastly, the Atlantic East Elite 20 award winner for women's swimming, which is presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average competing at the finals site at each of the Atlantic East's 20 team championships, is Delaney Carey from Marymount University. Carey, a member of runner-up Marymount, maintains a cumulative 4.00 GPA.

In swimming, the Elite 20 winners are chosen from the top two team finishers at the championship. For the entire selection criteria and process, click here.

The full list of First-Team All-Conference and Second-Team All Conference is listed below. 

MAJOR AWARDS
Swimmer of the Year: Anna Kidd, St. Mary's
Rookies of the Year: Molly O'Neill & Sabrina Zieger, Marywood
Coaching Staff of the Year: St. Mary's
 
EVENT FIRST-TEAM SECOND-TEAM
50 Free Leila McCloskey, St. Mary's Christina Trnkus, St. Mary's
100 Free Anna Kidd, St. Mary's Sarah Gudas, Cabrini
200 Free Anna Kidd, St. Mary's Maddie Werndl, Cabrini
500 Free Maddie Werndl, Cabrini Sabrina Zieger, Marywood
1650 Free Maddie Werndl, Cabrini Sabrina Zieger, Marywood
100 Butterfly Christina Trnkus, St. Mary's Delaney Carey, Marymount
200 Butterfly Christina Trnkus, St. Mary's Samantha Peck, Marywood
100 Backstroke Rileigh Krell, St. Mary's Ari Koerner, Marymount
200 Backstroke Rileigh Krell, St. Mary's Ari Koerner, Marymount
100 Breaststroke Tara McCloskey, Cabrini Bailey Edgren, St. Mary's
200 Breaststroke Tara McCloskey, Cabrini Bailey Edgren, St Mary's 
200 IM Anna Kidd,
St. Mary's		 Bailey Edgren, St. Mary's
400 IM Tara McCloskey, Cabrini Molly O'Neill, Marywood
200 Free Relay St. Mary's (Trnkus, McCloskey, Bonass, Kidd) Cabrini (Werndl, T. McCloskey, Allison, Gudas)
400 Free Relay St. Mary's (L. McCloskey, Trnkus, Edgren, Kidd) Cabrini (Werndl, Windon, T. McCloskey, Gudas)
800 Free Relay St. Mary's (Edgren, Bowman, Grimm, Kidd) Cabrini (Werndl, Windon, Hedden, Allison)
200 Medley Relay St. Mary's (Krell, Edgren, Trnkus, L. McCloskey) Cabrini (Ziegler, T. McCloskey, Frino, Gudas)
400 Medley Relay St. Mary's (Krell, Edgren, Trnkus, Kidd) Cabrini (Ziegler, T. McCloskey, Frino, Gudas)


Final Team Results
1. St. Mary's College of Maryland: 660 points
2. Marymount: 594 points
3. Cabrini: 573 points
4. Marywood: 396 points
5. Immaculata: 307 points
6. Cedar Crest College: 240 points
7. Gallaudet: 109 points