January 23, 2004
Lessard Records Historic 200th Win
Two School Records Fall Against Goucher

CHESTERTOWN, MD - Washington College head swim coach Kim Lessard recorded her 200th victory at WC this evening as the host Shorewomen defeated Goucher, 137-67, in a non-conference meet at Casey Swim Center. With the win, Lessard became the fifth coach in Washington College athletics history with at least 200 wins at the school. Two Washington College school records were broken in the meet and two Shorewomen swam to NCAA "B Cut" times.

Lessard, who picked up her 201st win in the men's portion of the meet, has spent her entire collegiate head coaching career at Washington. She is now 120-45 (.727 winning percentage) in 14 seasons coaching the Shorewomen and 81-51-1 (.614) in 13 seasons coaching the Shoremen for a combined record of 201-96-1 (.677). She joins Edward L. Athey, J. Thomas Kibler, Tom Finnegan, and Penny Fall as the only coaches to record at least 200 combined wins at Washington College. Athey, Kibler, Finnegan, and Fall have all been inducted into the school's Hall of Fame.

Freshman Ally Simons (Camp Hill, PA/Cumberland Valley), sophomore Becky Binns (Orwigsburg, PA/Blue Mountain), freshman Sidra Carman (Silver Spring, MD/Albert Einstein), and senior Margaret Klag (Silver Spring, MD/Sherwood) broke the school and pool records and in the 200 freestyle relay, swimming a 1:41.83 in exhibition. Simons also broke the school and pool 400 individual medley records, winning that event in an NCAA "B Cut" time of 4:41.06.

Klag recorded the evening's other NCAA "B Cut" time, winning the 100 breaststroke in a WC season best time of 1:08.25. Simons and Klag each won one other event. Simons won the 200 backstroke in a WC season-best time of 2:13.39, while Klag won the 100 freestyle in a lifetime-best time of 55.35. Simons, who swam the 200 backstroke for the first time in college, came within a fraction of a second of both the school and pool records and is now WC's third-fastest swimmer ever in that event.

Freshman Erin Jones (Crofton, MD/Arundel), junior Samantha Shaffer (Elizabethtown, PA/Elizabethtown), junior Emily Rawson (Derwood, MD/Richard Montgomery), and senior Carolyn Myers (Lititz, PA/Linden Hall School for Girls) each won one individual event. Jones was first in the 1000 freestyle in 11:15.66, Shaffer won the 50 freestyle in 26.97, Rawson won the 200 butterfly in 2:15.97, and Myers was first in the 500 freestyle in 5:30.13. Freshman Liz Shoemaker (Berwyn, PA/Conestoga), Shaffer, Rawson, and junior Ana Prado (Ferrol, Spain/Tirso) won the 200 medley relay in 1:57.95.

Washington also placed second in five events. Sophomore Chrissy Romano (Westfield, NJ/Westfield) was second in the 1000 freestyle in 11:31.58, while Shoemaker was second in the 200 freestyle in 2:05.79, and Rawson was second in the 50 freestyle in 27.64. Jones was second in the 500 freestyle in 5:37.37, while Shaffer was second in the 100 breaststroke in 1:10.73.

The Shorewomen (6-2) return to action January 31st with a 1:00 p.m. Centennial Conference home meet against Dickinson.

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