Click the above image to watch Lauren Barber finish the 200 breaststroke final on Saturday and be recognized as the most decorated swimmer in league history.

LEWISBURG, Pa. –– The Navy swimming and diving teams put together a strong Saturday of competition to successfully close out the Patriot League Championship at Kinney Natatorium in Lewisburg, Pa.
 
The Navy women's team totaled 941 points to win the meet by 445 points (nearly doubling Army's second-place total of 496), and the men's team tallied 1,037.5 points to close with a 256-point margin of victory over second-place Army.
 
With the win, the Navy women's team tied the Patriot League record for the most titles won by a team in a single sport.  The Mids and Bucknell's women's indoor track and field team have each won 18 Patriot League titles since the league's inception in the 1990-91 school year.  This year's title was the eighth in a row and ninth in 10 years for Navy.
 
The Navy men's team has now tied the Patriot League record for the most consecutive titles won by a team in a single sport.  The Mids and Army's men's outdoor track and field team (1992-2007) have each won 16-straight titles.  Navy has placed first every year it has competed at the meet.
 
The Navy men's team also became the first to surpass 1,000 points in a meet since the league expanded to 10 teams starting with the 2014 championship.  Last year's Navy team held the record with 990.5 points.  Also, Navy's 2019 women's team point total was second to Navy's 2016 tally of 958.5 points.
 
Individually, Lauren Barber won three individual events and four relay events at the 2019 championship.  That matched her performance in each of her first three seasons, which gives her a perfect 28 gold medals in 28 career races.  The previous record for career overall victories was 20 (Navy's Laura Gorinski), the previous record for the most career individual event titles was 11 (Gorinski) and the prior mark for the most career relay event titles was 13 (Navy's Kenzie Margroum).
 
She also joins Navy's Tara Chapmon and Army's Joe Novak as the lone three-time league swimmer-of-the-meet recipients.  Chapmon won the women's award from 2008-10 and Novak won the men's award from 1997-99.
 
"An amazing competitor," said Navy women's swimming head coach John Morrison.  "She must be one of the most decorated student-athletes in the Patriot League.  She came to practice every day just wanting to get better and be the best she possibly could.  And along the way she made our team better too.  We are definitely going to miss her, but we are so excited for all of the great things she will do after graduation."
 
"It has been a true honor to watch Lauren's progression over the years," said Navy men's swimming head coach Bill Roberts.  "She is a class act and is very deserving of all the accomplishments she has and will receive."
 
Including Barber's accolade, Navy swept all of the major awards handed out at the conclusion of the meet.
 
Earning 2019 men's swimmer-of-the-meet honors was Navy's Ryan Waters.  Bradley Buchter and Hannah Montau were named the divers of the year.  Caleb Mauldin and Martina Thomas were selected the rookie's of the year.  John Morrison was named the women's coach of the meet, Bill Roberts was tabbed as the men's coach of the meet and Rich MacDonald was named the men's and women's diving coach of the meet.
 
All 15 of Navy's women's swimmers who were entered into Saturday morning's trial heats advanced to swim at night, with 11 of them reaching the championship final.  On the men's side, 13 of the 14 Navy swimmers who took part in the trial heats qualified for the championship final.
 
"We saved out best day for the last day," said Morrison.  "It was a thrilling morning that saw us put a lot of people into finals.  And that at night we had a lot of people on the podiums.  To sweep the podium positions in the 200 fly and the three-meter diving and then win the 400 free relay with Lauren anchoring was a great way to end the meet."
 
"We are very proud of the way both the Navy men and women performed all week long," said Roberts.  "It was great to see all of their hard work over the last 12 months realized with a championship meet such as our teams had this week.  It is really hard to single out any one person or two people for us as it was a total team effort that got us to the title."
 
"What an amazing way to end the weekend," said Navy diving coach Rich MacDonald.  "I'm not sure I would have believed someone if they told me we would sweep the women's three-meter event, but it happened.  The women stayed super focused and trusted in their training.  I can't begin to say how proud I am of all of our divers.  We have a young team and the remain poised and focused. I am excited for our future."
 
Saturday's Finals
1650 Freestyle – Women
2 – Erin Scudder / 16:49.58; 3 – Stephanie Downing / 16:54.33
Due to the duration of the event, the 1650 freestyle is contested in a timed final, which means there are no trial heats and swimmers are entered into different races based upon their best time in an event this season.  Navy's Erin Scudder had posted the second-best time this year to Bucknell's Maddie Hartigan, with Scudder being five seconds slower than Hartigan.
 
Hartigan would win the timed final this evening by five seconds over the second-place Scudder (16:49.58) and 10 seconds ahead of the third-place finishing Stephanie Downing (16:54.33).
 
1650 Freestyle – Men
1^st – Luke Johnson / 14:58.95; 2^nd – Ryan Waters / 15:07.19
Army's Tom Ottman had recorded the fastest men's 1650 free time of the year by six seconds over Navy's Luke Johnson and another 10 seconds over Ryan Waters.
 
However, it was Johnson who registered the fastest time on this day, recording a 14:58.95 to barely miss the Navy, league and meet record time of 14:58.72, and win the final.  Waters placed second in a time of 15:07.19, which was eight seconds ahead of Ottman's third-place effort.
 
200 Backstroke – Women
1^st - Jamie Miller / 1:56.67; 3^rd - Ashley Boddiford / 1:58.00; 5^th- Brooke West / 1:59.18; 6^th - Madison Milbert / 1:59.26
Jamie Miller, who won the 100 back on Friday, broke her own Navy and meet record of 1:55.30 in being the top swimmer in the trial heats of the 200 back.  She posted a time of 1:55.14 to lead all swimmers during the session by three seconds.  She was one of four Mids to advance to the championship final in the event
 
Miller would post a time of 1:56.67 to win her second backstroke title of the meet and third of her career.  She bettered the second-place time of 1:57.74 recorded by Bucknell's Julie Byrne.  Ashley Boddiford took the bronze medal in the event (1:58.00), Brooke West placed fifth (1:59.18) and Madison Milbert finished in sixth place (1:59.26).
 
200 Backstroke – Men
1^st - Caleb Mauldin / 1:43.86; 2^nd – Billy Cadigan / 1:44.71; 3^rd – Dominick Wallace / 1:44.85
Caleb Mauldin and Dominick Wallace each competed in a pair of championship finals on Friday.  They duo showed no ill effects of their busy day as they went 1-2 in the Saturday morning trial heats of the 200 back.
 
The final would be a race between the three entered Mids.  Mauldin, who won the 100 back title on Friday, touched the wall first in a time of 1:43.86, Billy Cadigan followed in second place with a 1:44.71 and Wallace finished third with an effort of 1:44.85.  Wallace's effort was seven-tenths of a second ahead of the fourth-place swimmer.
 
100 Freestyle – Women
1^st - Martina Thomas / 49,74; 5^th - Kelly Harrington / 50.59; 6^th - Sarah Sorensen / 50.63
Already the 2019 Patriot League champion in the 200 and 500 freestyle events, Martina Thomas recorded the fastest time in the trial heats of the 100 free.  She touched the wall in a time of 50.01 to be the top swimmer during the session by less than three-tenths of a second.
 
Thomas bettered her morning time to win the final by almost four-tenths of a second with her clocking of 49.74.  Joining her in the championship final were teammates Kelly Harrington in fifth place (50.59) and Sarah Sorensen in sixth (50.63).
 
100 Freestyle – Men
2^nd - Zach Piedt / 44.17; T4th - Daniel Cook / 44.65; 6^th – Vince Everman / 45.07
Seven of the eight championship qualifiers in the 100 free represented either Army or Navy.  Leading all swimmers in the morning heats were Zach Piedt and Vince Everman, respectively, but only 85-hundredths of a second separated Piedt's top time of 44.28 from the eighth-place swimmer, Navy's Daniel Cook, at 45.13.
 
Army's Nate Hein, who posted the No. 6 time in the morning, recorded a 43.77 to win the final.  Placing second was Piedt with a 44.17.  Daniel Cook tied for fourth place with a time of 44.64 and Vince Everman followed in sixth place with a 45.07.
 
200 Breaststroke – Women
1^st - Lauren Barber / 2:11.22
Lauren Barber continued with her impressive swims during her final championship as she posted a time of 2:12.29 to be the fastest swimmer in the trial heats by 3.5 seconds.
 
Barber dominated the final from start to finish as she led the field by almost one second after the first 50 yards on her way to a winning time of 2:11.22.  She placed first by just under three seconds.
 
200 Breaststroke – Men
2^nd - Brayden Lauffer / 1:57.59; 3^rd – Chris Bondarowicz / 1:57.93; 4^th - Dean Nguyen / 1:58.49; 5^th - Michael Velazquez / 1:59.36
Navy qualified four swimmers for the championship final of the 200 breast.  Dean Nguyen and Brayden Lauffer were second and third, respectively, in the morning trial heats, behind Army's Evan Zhang who was the top swimmer by 1.5 seconds over Nguyen.
 
Zhang made his seed from the morning hold up at night with a winning time of 1:55.65.  Lauffer was second with a 1:57.59 and Chris Bondarowicz placed third with a 1:57.93
 
200 Butterfly – Women
Sydney Harrington, Delaney Walz, Kelly Huffer
Navy swimmers recorded the three fastest times in the trial heat of the 200 fly.  Sydney Harrington was first with a clocking of 1:58.93, Delaney Walz was second at 2:00.00 and Kelly Huffer finished third with a time of 2:00.43.  Huffer finished 1.6 second in front of the fourth-place swimmer in the morning session.
 
The same trio of Mids placed 1-2-3 in the final, but in a slightly different order than this morning.  Walz broke the meet record with a winning time of 1:57.34 to sweep the fly events at the 2019 championship and give her five fly titles and one second-place showing in the stroke in her career (three titles in the 200 fly).  Harrington would post a 1:58.49 to finish second and Huffer placed third with an effort of 2:00.06.  Huffer finished 1.42 second ahead of the fourth-place swimmer.
 
200 Butterfly – Men
Micah Oh, Luke Shereston, Ethan Tack
The Mids sent three into the championship final of the 200 fly, with Micah Oh (1:46.44) and Luke Shereston (1:47.81) the top-two swimmers in the morning. 
 
Oh recorded a time of 1:47.31 to win the final.  Boston's Stuart Vickery broke up the top-two Mids with a second-place finishing time of 1:47.41.  Shereston followed in third place (1:47.89) and Ethan Tack placed fifth (1:48.42).
 
Women's 3-M Diving
1^st - Hannah Montau / 321.60; 2^nd - Meghan Gerdes / 298.10; 3^rd - Caroline Turner / 274.05
Navy had three of the top-four finshers in the afternoon trial heats.  Leading the way was one-meter champion Hannah Montau.  She won the trials by 28 points.  Meghan Gerdes and Caroline Turner placed third and fourth, respectively, in the session.
 
Montau claimed her second board title with a score of 321.60, Gerdes finished in second place with a 298.10 and Turner took third by less than two points with her 274.05.
 
400 Freestyle Relay – Women
1^st / 3:18.59
Based upon times posted this season, Navy entered tonight as a one-second favorite over Lehigh.  The Mountain Hawks won Friday night's 200 free relay by 11-hundredths of a second over the Mids.
 
Thomas was the first to take to the water and she staked Ali Kozlina to a lead of just over one-half of a second.  Kozlina exited with the Mids six-tenths of a second behind the Mountain Hawks. Casey Lawson was the third swimmer for the Mids and she took a very slight lead after 50 yards before leaving Barber with one-half of a second advantage.  Barber took that lead and nearly doubled it after just 50 yards, then cruised to the wall for the last time with a 1.79 second margin of victory.  Navy collectively recorded a winning time of 3:18.59 to outdistance Lehigh's effort of 3:20.38.
 
400 Freestyle Relay – Men
2^nd / 2:56.27
The Mids had recorded the league's fastest time of the season by 2.15 seconds over second-place Army's top clocking.
 
The Black Knights would take a slim lead after 100 yards and never let it go, winning by about six-tenths of a second.
 
Women's Team Scores
941 – Navy
496 – Army
482 – Bucknell
447 – Lehigh
405 – Boston U.
285 – Loyola
175 – Colgate
153 – Holy Cross
142 - American
68 - Lafayette
 
Men's Team Scores
1,037.5 – Navy
781.5 – Army
397 – Bucknell
376 – Boston U.
330 - Lehigh
277 – Loyola
154 – American
126 – Lafayette
97 – Holy Cross
78 - Colgate