New Paltz, NY — The State University of New York at New Paltz took at look back at the Hawks record books, starting with the women's swimming program leaders. Take a look at all the record holders below.
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Hawks Women's Swimming Program Record Holders:
Michelle Coombs (2006-08)
Program Records:
50-yard freestyle (23.46) '07
100-yard freestyle (50.84) '07
Coombs spent two seasons on the Hawks women's swimming team after transferring in 2006. Through those two seasons, the Newburgh, NY native became one of the best to ever suit up for the orange and blue, becoming a 10-time All-American and a national champion in 2007 — the first female national champion in program history. Coombs also claimed gold nine times at the SUNYAC Championships, while setting conference records in the 50-, 100-, 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard backstroke and 200-yard medley relay along with being named SUNYAC Outstanding Female Swimmer of the Meet in both 2007 and 2008. Coombs' SUNYAC record in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle still remains to this day, while also holding the program records in both those categories, which she set in 2007 at the NCAA Division III National Championships.
Victoria Scalise (2011-14)
Program Records:
200-yard freestyle (1:51.84) '13
200-yard medley relay (1:46.36) '13
400-yard medley relay (3:52.37) '13
800-yard freestyle relay (7:41.70) '13
Scalise is a part of four program records during her four-year career with the Hawks. The Rochester, NY native set a program record in the 200-yard freestyle in 2013 at the NCAA Division III National Championships. Along with the 200-freestyle, Scalise aided in program-setting times in the 200- and 400-yard medley relay and the 800-yard freestyle relay, which all were set during the 2013 season.
Through her career, Scalise became a two-time All-SUNYAC selection and an All-American honorable mention in 2013. She finished as a Second-Team All-SUNYAC selection in 2013 and qualified for the national championship meet in the 400 medley relay alongside teammates Yuka Suzuka, Colleen Stewart and Carly Marshall, while also competing in the 200 medley relay, 200-freestyle, 100-freestyle and 800-freestyle relay at nationals. As a sophomore in the 2012 SUNYAC Championship meet, Scalise earned Second-Team All-SUNYAC honors after earning second place in the 200-freestyle, fifth in the 100 freestyle and 10th in the 100-backstroke. In her final season with the Hawks, Scalise finished fourth in the 200-freestyle, fifth in the 100-freestyle and seventh in the 50-freestyle at the 2014 SUNYAC Championships.
Chelsea Allocco (2010-14)
Program Records:
500-yard freestyle (4:58.01) '14
1,000-yard freestyle (10:24.53) '14
1,650-yard freestyle (17:09.21) '13
400-yard individual medley (4:30.56) '13
800-yard freestyle relay (7:41.70) '13
During her four-year career as a Hawk, Allocco claimed four individual program records and was a part of a program-setting 800-yard freestyle relay team. As a junior in 2013, Allocco placed her name as the SUNY New Paltz record holder in the 1,650-yard freestyle and the 400-yard individual medely after touching first at the SUNYAC Championship meet with a time of 17 minutes, 9.21 seconds and 4:30.56, respectively. During that same conference meet, Allocco helped the Hawks to a second-place standing in the 800-freestyle relay after clocking in with a time of 7:41.70. Allocco qualified for the 2013 national championships in the 1,650-freestyle where she swam a 17:21.54 for a 16th-place finish to claim All-America honorable mention honors to go along with a First-Team All-SUNYAC selection that season.
As a senior in 2014, Allocco added her name on the team's record board two more times for the 500- and 1,000-yard freestyle. She went on to become a First-Team All-SUNYAC selection after placing first in the 400-individual medley and 1,650-freestyle, while setting the Hawks record in the 500-freestyle after touching second in the event for the second-straight year. Allocco also became just the second Hawk to be a four-time First-Team All-Conference selection and the fifth to earn the Grace Mowatt Award, which is presented to the senior female swimmer or diver for their overall career athletic and academic achievements.
Additionally, the Chatham, NJ native was named team MVP after her final season as a Hawk and earned the prestigious SUNYAC Chancellor's Scholar Athlete Award and was a SUNY Chancellor's Award of Student Excellence honoree, along with being a CSCAA Scholar All-America.
Yuka Suzuka (2009-13)
Program Records:
100-yard backstroke (55.53) '12
200-yard backstroke (2:01.34) '12
200-yard individual medley (2:08.62) '12
200-yard medley relay (1:46.36) '13
400-yard medley relay (3:52.37) '13
Suzuka spent four seasons with the Hawks and became a 13-time SUNYAC Champion — a program record within itself — and holds three individual program records along with being a part of two record-setting relay teams. Her most illustrious season came as a junior in 2012 where she set team and SUNYAC records in the 100- and 200-yard backstroke, as well as the SUNY New Paltz women's swim record in the 200-yard individual medley, which all came at the 2012 SUNYAC Championships. In that same season, Suzuka was the first to earn Outstanding Female Swimmer/Diver of the SUNYAC Conference Meet since Michelle Coombs in 2008, as she claimed the SUNYAC title in the 200-individual medley, 100-backstroke, and 200-backstroke. Suzuka then earned All-America status after finishing seventh with a time of 2:01.34 in the 200-backstroke and All-America honorable mention in the 100-backstroke after placing 11th with a time of 56.57.
During her senior season, Suzuka was a part of two more program records in the 200- and 400-yard medley relay along with teammates Colleen Stewart, Carly Marshall and Victoria Scalise. Both record-setting relays came in the 2013 SUNYAC Championships. Suzuka helped the Hawks to a SUNYAC title in the 200-medley relay, while also claiming individual titles in the 200-indivdiual medley, 100- and 200-backstroke. The Yorktown, NY native was the first Hawk to become a four-time First-Team All-Conference selection and was the fourth to earn the Grace Mowatt Award.
Samantha Granan (2013-15)
Program Records:
100-yard breaststroke (1:05.68) '14
Granan spent two seasons on the Hawks women's swimming team after transferring from Division I Seton Hall University in 2013. The Hyde Park, NY native immediately earned Second-Team All-SUNYAC honors in her first year as a Hawk where she set a program record in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1 minute, 5.68 seconds at the 2014 SUNYAC Championship meet to claim second-place in the event. She also touched second in the 100-breaststroke as well at the conference meet and qualified for nationals in the event.
As a senior for the Hawks, Granan once again earned Second-Team All-SUNYAC honors after third and fourth in the 100-breaststroke and 200-breaststroke, respectively at the 2015 SUNYAC Championships.
Joelle Hopf (2005-09)
Program Records:
200-yard breaststroke (2:23.58) '09
Hopf spent four seasons with the Hawks and as a senior left her mark as the program leader in the 200-yard breaststroke, which she set at the 2009 SUNYAC Championships with a time of 2 minutes, 23.58 seconds to place fourth in the event.
Prior to setting a new Hawks record, Hopf was honored as a Second-Team All-SUNYAC recipient as a freshman in 2006 and as a sophomore in 2007. In 2008, Hopf was a part of SUNY New Paltz's conference winning 400-medley relay team alongside teammates Michelle Coombs, Erica Ellis and Christine Reith, which clocked in with a time of 3:58.89.
Program Records:
100-yard butterfly (57.10) '15
From Rome, NY, McCulloch was a four-year member of the SUNY New Paltz women's swimming team. She earned a spot on the All-SUNYAC team each of her four season's, including a First-Team selection in 2015 after winning the 100-yard butterfly with a program and SUNYAC setting time of 57.10 seconds. That season she also placed fourth in the 50-freestyle as well.
The following season she was named Second-Team All-SUNYAC after garnering two second-place standings in the 50-freestyle and 100-butterfly and third in the 100-freestyle. She again boasted Second-Team All-SUNYAC honors at the 2017 and 2018 conference meet. As a junior in 2017, McCulloch came in sixth in the 100-butterfly and helped the Hawks to a second-place finish in the 200-medley relay. She again aided the team in a second-place standing a year later at the conference meet in the same event.
Carly Marshall (2010-14)
Program Records:
200-yard butterfly (2:06.80) '13
200-yard medley relay (1:46.36) '13
400-yard medley relay (3:52.37) '13
Spending four seasons with the Hawks, Marshall was a part of three program records during her career with all coming during the 2012-13 season. Marshall set the program record in the 200-yard butterfly at the SUNYAC Championships, touching in a winning time of 2 minutes, 6.80 seconds. She also claimed gold in the 200-butterfly and placed seventh in the 200-indivial medley to earn First-Team All-SUNYAC honors.
She helped set Hawks records in the 200- and 400-yard medley relay alongside teammates Yuka Suzuka, Colleen Stewart and Victoria Scalise at the 2013 SUNYAC Championships as well, as Marshall notched her third SUNYAC title in the 200 medley relay after the team touched in 1:46.36. The Cornwall, NY native then helped with a second-place finish in the 400-medley relay in a program-setting time of 3:52.37.
Along with etching her name in the Hawks record books; Marshall also was named First-Team All-SUNYAC in 2011 after placing first in the 200-butterfly at the conference meet to qualify for the national championships. She again earned First-Team All-SUNYAC honors in 2012 after a second-place standing in the 100-butterfly and once again touching first in the 200-butterfly at the SUNYAC championship meet.
Yuka Suzuka, Colleen Stewart, Carly Marshall, Victoria Scalise
Program Records:
200-yard medley relay (1:46.36) '13
400-yard medley relay (3:52.37) '13
Suzuka, Stewart, Marshall and Scalise set both relay program records at the 2013 SUNYAC Championship Meet. The team became SUNYAC champs in the 200-medley relay after touching in 1 minute, 46.36 seconds just beating out second-place finishers SUNY Cortland (1:46.71). Before taking the title in the 200-medley relay, the quartet set the Hawks record in the 400-medley relay with a time of 3:52.37 to claim second place in the event, just behind SUNY Geneseo (3:51.14). Suzuka, Stewart, Marshall and Scalise qualified for the 2013 NCAA Division III National Championships in both events following their performance and ended their season with a 15th-place finish at nationals in the 400-medley relay, touching in 3:35.96 to earn All-America honorable mention honors.
Program Records:
200-yard freestyle relay (1:35.88) '18
400-yard freestyle relay (3:31.45) '18
Donlevy, Lee, Crespo and Angulas set team records in the 200- and 400-yard freestyle at the 2018 SUNYAC Championship meet. The team set the 200-freestyle relay with a time of 1 minute, 35.88 seconds and just missed at also notching the conference title with SUNY Geneseo edging the quartet with a time of 1:35.14. They again earned second after setting the program record in the 400-freestyle relay, clocking in with a time of 3:31.45, only behind the Knights who came in at 3:29.73.
Allocco, Cassidy Griger, Kat Buyes, Victoria Scalise
Program Records:
800-yard freestyle relay (7:41.70) '13
The quartet set the program record for the 800-freestyle relay back in 2013 at the SUNYAC Championship meet where they placed second behind SUNY Geneseo who touched with a time of 7:37.97.
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