The 2013-14 athletic season at Drew University held a number of memorable moments from thrilling finishes to record-breaking milestones, along with some amazing individual and team accomplishments. In this summer series, we count down the Top 10 spots from the past year on the courts, fields and turf in Madison, N.J. A position on the countdown will be revealed every Tuesday and Thursday. A "Best of the Rest" list will be revealed before the No. 1 moment to highlight the memories that just missed the cut.
No. 8: Records Fall for Swimming Teams at Landmark Championships The 2013-14 men's and women's swimming season ended much the way it began. The Rangers held true to their goal of constantly improving as the season swam on. The culmination of that yearlong attitude came at the biggest meet of the season: the Landmark Conference Swimming and Diving Championships at Marywood Aquatic Center on Feb. 7-9, 2014.
School records fell on both the men's and women's side and one woman's effort in the 500-meter freestyle was rewarded with an All-Conference honor. It was a passing of the torch, in effect, as the All-Conference honoree raced her final laps for Drew University swimming, while a new star emerged from the men's team as a freshman at his first conference championship meet.
Senior
Mariel Schwinger put a bow on a successful career with a Landmark All-Conference Second Team performance in the 500 Free. Schwinger's 5:15.44 was good for second place and her third career Second Team All-Conference award.
After the standout performance in the distance freestyle race, Schwinger joined her teammates to shatter the Drew University record in the 400-meter medley relay. Teamed with seniors
Jess Harrington,
Alexa Morrissey and freshman
Karina Urquhart, Schwinger and the Rangers posted a 4:11.32 in the relay race, shaving significant time off the previous school record of 4:15.20 set in 2002.
In the men's championships, freshman
Logan Amodio showed what the future has in store for Rangers swimming. The Drew rookie broke a 17-year old record in the 200-yard butterfly on Sunday at the conference meet.
Amodio placed third in the Landmark with a time of 1:58.62, edging the previous school record of 1:59.63 in the 200 Fly set by Alex Duncan in 1997.
The women weren't done rearranging the Drew swimming record books just yet. The 200-meter freestyle relay team of Harrington, Morrissey and freshmen Jordan Jessup and
Tori Braun put on a show in a closely contest heat against the conference competition. Their time of 1:40.59 broke the school record of 1:42.32 set in 2011, and placed fourth in the Landmark. Their time was within a second of both the second and third place finishers in a tight conclusion to the relay.
The 2011 team that held the record before that day featured legs by Schwinger, Harrington and Morrissey, who were all racing in their first Landmark Championships as freshmen.
Drew Athletics Top 10 Moments of 2013-1410. Women's Basketball Wins Double-Overtime Thriller at Goucher College9. Michael Pezzuti and Ricardo Castro Named NSCAA All-Region8. Records Fall for Swimming Teams at Landmark Conference Championships
7. Thursday, July 17
6. Tuesday, July 22
5. Thursday, July 24
4. Tuesday, July 29
3. Thursday, July 31
2. Tuesday, August 5
Best of the Rest: Thursday, August 7
1. Tuesday, August 12
