January 30, 2012
Cortland and Fredonia Sweep Weekly Honors
SUNY Cortland and Fredonia State swept the SUNYAC Men's and Women's swimming and diving weekly awards for the week ending Jan. 29.
MEN’S SWIMMING – Cortland
Ben Strickland (Stanfordville, NY/Home School), junior
Ben Strickland won the 100-yard breaststroke (1:01.05) and 400-yard IM (4:30.99) and was part of the winning 200-yard medley relay team (1:38.62) in a 158-135 dual-meet win at Fredonia on Saturday. Earlier in the week, he won the 200-yard IM (2:05.92) and was part of the winning 400-yard medley relay (3:40.95) in a 134-96 dual-meet win vs. Oswego. Cortland finished its dual-meet season with a 10-4 record for its eighth straight season with at least 10 victories.
WOMEN’S SWIMMING – Fredonia
Stephanie Andrasek (Parma, Ohio/Normandy), junior
Junior Stephanie Andrasek posted the second-fastest 100-yard breaststroke time in the SUNYAC this season with a 1:09.13 to win the event on Saturday as the Fredonia State Blue Devils team claimed its first-ever team victory over SUNY Cortland with a 152-146 win. Andrasek was second in the 200 breaststroke (2:33.12) and part of the 200 yard medley and 800 yard freestyle relays.
MEN’S DIVING – Cortland
Travis Burke (Massapequa, NY/Massapequa), senior
Travis Burke finished third out of 19 competitors on the three-meter board and fourth out of 19 on the one-meter board at the Ithaca Diving Invitational Sunday. He recorded NCAA qualifying scores of 483.90 points on three-meter and 442.80 points on one-meter. Earlier in the week, he posted the highest scores, as an exhibition entry, on both the three-meter (301.35 pts.) and one-meter (271.00 pts.) boards in a home dual meet vs. Oswego.
WOMEN’S DIVING – Fredonia
Sarah Ficarro (Owego, NY/Owego), junior
For the second straight week and the fifth time this season, Sarah Ficarro has been named the SUNYAC Female Diver of the week. She was a double winner on Saturday Jan. 28 as the Blue Devils downed Cortland for the first time in a dual meet, 152-146. Both her diving scores were above the NCAA provisional qualifying standard -- 256.90 in the 1-meter, 279.65 in the 3-meter.
