College Swimming: First Annual Brown University Invitational Day 1

Rider's Molloy finishes 3rd in 500-freestyle

Rider men  5 of 6 after day one

Rider women 7 of 8 after day one

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Nov. 30) - The Rider University men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams are competing in the first annual Brown Invite.

The three day event is taking place this weekend at the Bear’s Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatic Center.

After day one, the Rider men are in sixth place out of six teams with 76-points. The Rider women finished the day in seventh place out of eight and currently have 42-points.

For the Rider men, senior Brian Molloy (Toms River/Toms River East) finished third in the 500 yard freestyle finals in 4:30.07 after placing fifth in the preliminary round Friday afternoon.

Senior John Funk (Las Vegas, Nev./Southeast Career & Tech. Academy) placed eighth in the finals of the 200 yard individual medley, clocking in at 1:54.20.  The men’s 200-yard freestyle relay team of freshman Adam Phillips (Springville, Pa./Elk Lake), senior Julien Hensen (Delafield, Wisc./Kettle Moraine), freshman Jeffrey Prichard (Yorktown, Va./Tabernacle) and sophomore Brett Pederson (Sewell/St. Augustine Prep) came in eighth place with a finishing time of 1:24.10, coming in just ahead of Brown (1:24.49).

For the Rider women, the 200-yard freestyle relay team of senior Kaitlyn Andrews (Lawrenceville/Notre Dame), sophomore Gess Charniga (Kendall Park/South Brunswick), senior Carly Misiewicz (Vineland/Sacred Heart) and sophomore Carlee Oswald (Henderson, Nev./Green Lake) finished in ninth with a time of 1:37.42

Also for the Rider women, senior Kaitlyn Andrews (Lawrenceville/Notre Dame) placed 13th in the 50-yard freestyle finals (24.03).

Both the Princeton men and women ended the day in first place. The men scored 300 points and the women amassed 343.

For the men, Dartmouth are in second place behind Princeton with 258-points. The United States Military Academy (245) is in third, Columbia is fourth (151) and the host Bears finished the day in fifth place (138).

On the women’s side, Yale (249) is behind Princeton in second with Dartmouth (197) in third. The Bears capped off the evening in fourth place with 149-points with the United States Military Academy (136) coming in fifth. The New Hampshire women are in sixth place with 60-points and Columbia is in eighth behind Rider with 27-points.

Competition continues through Sunday.