Ithaca, NY – The Vassar College Women's Swimming and Diving team continued a standout performance at the 2024 Liberty League Championships in Friday morning's preliminary session. The 800-yard freestyle 'B' relay team won its heat on Friday and Alejandra Robins (El Cerrito, CA) qualified second inn the 200-yard butterfly.
 
The 800-yard freestyle relay team won its 'B' heat Friday morning by nearly four seconds. The team of Maleigha Vietti (Overland Park, KS), Alanna Muello (South Windsor, CT), Lilly Masters (Bloomfield Hills, MI) and Bella Rippon (Hershey, PA) produced a time of 7:50.60.
 
The Brewers also had stellar individual swims on Friday morning, led by Robins who posted a time of 2:10.13 in the 200-yard butterfly, the second fastest qualifying time of the event. First Year Vivien Li (Pittsburgh, PA) also qualified for the Finals in the 200-yard butterfly, swimming the sixth fastest time of 2:13.05.
 
Senior Sarah Quintana (Chandler, AZ) swam the third fastest qualifying time in the 100-yard backstroke on Friday, recording a time of 58.56 seconds. Quintana was one of four Brewers to move through to the Finals with Rippon posting a time of 58.95 seconds, Jolie Walker (Chicago, IL) swimming a time of 59.61 seconds and Maya Luongo (Katonah, NY) finishing in 1:02.50.
 
First Year Anna Little (Irwin, PA) led four Vassar swimmers to qualify for the Finals in the 100-yard breaststroke after posting the eighth quickest qualifying time with a mark of 1:08.23. Fellow First Year Lara Chebotarev (East Longmeadow, MA) posted a time of 1:09.66, Frances Pope (Orinda, CA) swam a time of 1:10.67 and Szofia Lewis (Pittsfield, MA) qualified in a time of 1:12.61.
 
The Brewers will be back in the pool for the Finals session Friday evening beginning at 6:00 p.m.