• Results

January 21, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

College Swimming & Diving
Women: Rider University 152, Drexel University 73
Men: Rider University 126, Drexel University 107

PHILADELPHIA, PA—Whether it is helping students in a classroom, or helping his teammates win a conference championship, Rider junior Eric McFerin wants to help, wants to make a difference. “I’ve wanted to be a teacher for some time now,” said McFerin, a junior Elementary Education/Psychology major from Columbus, OH (Upper Arlington), “either Special Education or Elementary. I like to help people and know that I made a difference.”

On Saturday McFerin made a difference helped Rider swept Drexel in swimming and diving. “We swept Drexel last year for the first time ever, so now it’s two in a row,” said Rider head coach Steve Fletcher.

McFerin won the 50 free (21.56) and the 100 free (46.88), and swam on the winning 400 medley relay. “McFerin is swimming fast right now, and currently has the top times in the MAAC in the 50 and 100,” said Fletcher.

“It was a good day,” McFerin said.  “As far as having one of the top times in the MAAC, it’s good to have a high seed time, but you still have to do it on championship day.”  Last year on championship day McFerin helped Rider break the MAAC Championship record in the 200 medley, and also swam on the winning 400 free relay. “My freshman year we won the championship as a team, and that is my fondest memory of MAACs,” said McFerin. “We put a lot of training in this year, and hopefully it will pay off at the right time. Personally, I’ve been swimming faster than I have in my career, so now I have to swim my best at the right time, at the MAACs.”

Also for the Rider men, junior Andy French (Richfield, MN) won the 1000 free (9:56.34) and the 200 butterfly (2:01.28), and sophomore Dylan Korn (Hawthorne, N.Y./Westlake) broke the Rider record in the 1-meter dive with a score of 294.45.

For the Rider women junior Lauren Urbanski (Lansdowne, Pa./Upper Darby ) won the 50 free (25.44) and the 200 butterfly (2:08.53) and freshman Priscilla Modrov (Smithtown, NY/Hauppauge) won the 200 individual medley (2:09.59) and the 100 free (54.07).

Freshman Kelsey Tokar (Frederick, Md./Gov. Thomas Johnson) won the 1000 free (10:51.42), freshman Ericka Kriedel (Wethersfield, Conn./Wethersfield) won the 200 backstroke (2:14.66), freshman Kristen Warwick (Catonsville, Md./Mount de Sales Academy) won the 500 free (5:20.51).

Junior Shannon Kahler (Ojai, Calif./Chaparral/Grossmont CC) won the 3-meter dive (22.868) and freshman Erin Crossing (Allentown, Pa./Parkland) won the 1-meter dive.  The 400 medley relay team of Kriedel, senior Kristen Enoch (Hatboro, Pa./Upper Moreland), Urbanski and sophomore Stephanie Cosentino (Staten Island, NY/Notre Dame) won (4:05.61).

Junior Brandon Modrov (Smithtown, NY/Hauppauge) won the 200 individual medley (1:56.21), senior Dan Burgess (Greeley, CO/Union Colony Prep) won the 200 free (1:44.44) and sophomore Peter Starr (Boyertown, Pa./Boyertown Area Senior) won the 200 backstroke (1:59.62). The 400 medley relay of Starr, sophomore Matt Bauer (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn), Burgess and McFerin also won (3:34.81).

Rider hosts Iona Saturday, January 28.