Drexel University Athletics
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CAA Pod Meet
McCann and Hynes Win Two Events Each at Season-Opening CAA Pod Meet
11/4/2007 2:25:22 AM | Women's Swimming & Diving
Fairfax, Va. - The Drexel women's swimming and diving team opened its season at the campus of George Mason with the CAA Pod Meet as the Dragons took on the host school along with William & Mary. The Dragons finished third as Katie McCann won a pair of individual events while diver Kate Hynes took two events setting a duo of pool records in the process and breaking her own school record in the one-meter dive. Maria Luiza Coman broke Drexel's oldest women's swimming and diving school record. Coman, competing in her first meet at Drexel, broke Lisa Van Pelt's 100-yard backstroke record set in 1979. Coman touched the wall at 59.95 besting Van Pelt's time by 0.07 seconds.
McCann took the 1650-yard freestyle event on the meet's first day with a time of 17:09.25. She added a win at 500-yard freestyle the next day, posting a time of 5:01.60. Sarah Keeley took the 200-yard breast on the second day with a time of 2:27.60.
Kate Hynes, the two-time Colonial Athletic Association Diver of the Year, wasted little time in the first meet of her junior season impressing the rest of the conference again. On the meet's first day, Hynes posted a score of 324.45 to take the one-meter diving event and toppling her own school mark of 313.65. The score was also a pool record. The next day, Hynes took the three-meter diving event by more than 100 points as she established another pool record with a score of 335.15.
The Dragons return to action on Saturday, Nov. 10 as Drexel hosts Delaware and Vermont at the Daskalakis Athletic Center at 1:00 p.m.
