New Haven, Conn. – Junior Travis May (Mount Kisco, N.Y./Fox Lane) was named the Swimmer of the Meet after leading the Le Moyne College men's swimming and diving team to a third-place finish at the Northeast-10 Conference Championship hosted by Southern Connecticut State University at the Hutchinson Natatorium from Thursday to Sunday. Junior Kelsey Smith (Binghamton, N.Y./Chenango Valley) won the 100-yard breaststroke to lead the women's team to a sixth-place finish.
 
In the men's team competition, Le Moyne registered 629.5 points to place third for the fifth straight year. Bentley University captured the conference title with 880.5 points, dethroning six-time defending champion Southern Connecticut State. The Owls placed second with 812 points. Pace University tallied 448 points to place fourth for the second straight year, edging The College of Saint Rose (447.5 points) by the slimmest of margins. Adelphi University placed sixth with 309.5 points, while Saint Michael's College rounded out the standings with 199 points.
 
On the women's side, Le Moyne registered 341 points to place sixth. Southern Connecticut State University snapped Assumption College's three-year hold on the team championship by recording 861 points. The Greyhounds were only 36.5 points behind in second place with 851 points. Bentley University placed third with 602 points, while The College of Saint Rose tallied 476 points to place fourth. Pace University was fifth with 388 points. Saint Michael's College finished seventh with 266 points and Merrimack College followed with 193 points. Adelphi University rounded out the standings with 181 points.

May was the team's top individual scorer for the second straight year with 60 points after recording three first-place finishes, the second, third and fourth of his career. He earned his first victory of the weekend by registering a school-record time of 1:52.65 in the 200-yard IM. His broke the school record for the second time of the day as his preliminary time of 1:53.61 eclipsed the previous top time of 1:54.34 set by Ricky Chidsey '09 in 2006. On Saturday, he won the 100-yard butterfly with an NCAA "B"-cut time of 49.37 seconds, the second-fastest time in the program's and NE10 Championships history. He captured his third gold medal of the weekend by winning the 200-yard butterfly by just 0.01 seconds with an NCAA "B"-cut time of 1:51.13, which breaks the school and the NE10 Championships record. The previous school and NE10 Championships record of 1:51.22 was set by Daniel Tarbrake '16 at the 2015 NE10 Championships.

For the second straight year, May was a member of four top-four relay teams, including three medal-winning quartets. He teamed with freshman Matthew Walton (Queensbury, N.Y./Queensbury), junior Andy Raiola (Brooklyn, N.Y./Xavier) and sophomore Eric Burdge (Clifton Park, N.Y./Shenendehowa) to win the 400-yard freestyle relay on Sunday night with a time of 3:05.83, the fastest time by a Le Moyne quartet since the school record of 3:05.32 was set by Ricky Chidsey '09, Ryan Lowrie '08, Shawn Bankey '06 and Will Chidsey '06 at the 2006 UNYSCSA Championship.

May and freshmen Nicholas Buff (Latham, N.Y./Shaker) and Michael Dierolf (Pennsburg, Pa./Quakertown) and junior Cory Knapp (Weedsport, N.Y./Christian Brothers Academy) opened the Championship by placing fourth in the 200-yard medley relay in 1:34.73. The foursome finished in second place in the 400-yard medley relay in 3:25.51 to conclude Friday night's competition.

May, Walton, Raiola and Knapp combined to place second in the 200-yard freestyle in 1:24.69 to cap Saturday night's action.

To close out Thursday night's action, Walton, Burdge and Raiola earned their first relay medals of the Championship by teaming with senior Tim Buff (Latham, N.Y./Shaker) to place third in the 800-yard freestyle relay in a school-record time of 6:55.10. The mark eclipsed the previous school record of 6:57.42 set at last year's NE10 Championship by Burdge, Raiola, Buff and Knapp.

Tim Buff was the team's second-highest individual scorer with 54 points after registering three top-two finishes, increasing his career medal count to nine (two gold, three silver, four bronze). He earned his second career NE10 gold medal by touching the wall first in the 400-yard IM with a school-record and NCAA "B"-cut time of 4:02.64 to win by over two seconds. He eclipsed his own school record of 4:04.41 set at the 2015 NE10 Championships, when he placed third. He was right behind May in the 200-yard IM with a time of 1:53.79 to place second, the same as he did in 2015. His time is the third-best time in the program's history and trials just May's two times from Friday. He concluded the Championship by placing second in the 200-yard breaststroke in a school-record time of 2:04.53. The mark eclipses his own school record of 2:06.84 set at the 2015 NE10 Championships, when he placed third.

Walton recorded 52 individual points after posting a trio of top-four finishes. He claimed his first career gold medal by winning the 50-yard freestyle on Friday night by 0.09 seconds with a time of 21.18 seconds. On Saturday, he recorded a time of 1:42.76 in the 200-yard freestyle to place fourth. He earned a silver medal in the 100-yard freestyle on Sunday by touching the wall in 46.69 seconds.

Raiola turned in three top-five finishes, accumulating 43 points. He finished in fourth place in the 500-yard freestyle in 4:38.08. He then added a fifth-place finish on Saturday with a time of 1:43.37 in the 200-yard freestyle. He closed out the weekend by placing fifth in the 200-yard butterfly in 1:54.23.

Nicholas Buff recorded 27 points with a pair of top-seven finishes. He tallied a seventh-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke in 53.35 seconds to earn 12 points. On Sunday night, he touched the wall fourth in the 200-yard backstroke in 1:54.07.

Sophomore Connor Haldane (Homer, N.Y./Homer) placed sixth in each of the diving events to earn 26 points. Off the one-meter diving board, he posted 262.35 points. He also placed sixth in the three-meter diving event with 254.35 points.

Freshman Cameron Keatley (Avon, N.Y./Avon) earned 23 points over three events. He picked up three points in the 500-yard freestyle with a 14th-place finish in 4:51.02 and followed with an 11th-place finish in the 400-yard IM in 4:21.76 to earn six points. On Sunday, he recorded his best finish of the meet by placing fifth in the 1650-yard freestyle in 16:58.46.

Burdge scored in three events, totaling 16.5 points. He registered a 12th-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle in 1:45.23 to earn five points. He tied for 10th place in the 100-yard freestyle on Sunday with a time of 47.96 seconds. He capped his weekend by placing 12th in the 200-yard butterfly in 1:59.58.

Dierolf registered a fourth-place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke by touching the wall in 2:08.85 to collect 15 points.

Redshirt junior Henry Eisloeffel IV (Circleville, N.Y./Pine Bush) placed fifth in the one-meter diving event with a score of 271.05.

Senior Phil Stolarski (Elma, N.Y./Iroquois) garnered 12 points over three events. He placed 13th in the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:02.39. He also finished 15th in the 200-yard IM in 2:06.07 to record two points. He closed out his weekend by placing 11th in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:16.17.

Junior Pat McCormick (Washingtonville, N.Y./Washingtonville) recorded a 10th-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:00.73. On Sunday, he was 12th in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:16.17.

Freshman Christian Davis (Oswego, N.Y./Oswego) posted a time of 1:01.38 to place 11th in the 100-yard breaststroke. He added a 13th-place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke on Sunday in 2:17.87.

Freshman Nicholas Sinnenberg (Burnt Hills, N.Y./Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake) recorded one point with a 16th-place finish in the 400-yard IM in 4:42.27 on Saturday night. The following evening, he placed 10th in the 1650-yard freestyle with a time of 17:26.88.

Knapp placed 12th in the 50-yard freestyle in 22.02 seconds to tally five points and finished the 100-yard backstroke in 56.10 seconds to place 15th.

Junior Greg Kelly (Gansevoort, N.Y./Saratoga Springs) recorded seven points over three events. He placed 14th in the 200-yard IM in 2:05.73 to earn three points and followed with a 16th-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke in 57.33 seconds for one point. He completed his weekend by placing 14th in the 200-yard backstroke in 2:06.17.

Freshman Colin McCormick (Washingtonville, N.Y./Washingtonville) turned in a 14th-place finish in the 1650-yard freestyle in 17:46.62. He completed the weekend by placing 15th in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:21.14.

On the women's side, Smith earned a team-best 47 points on three top-six finishes. On Saturday night, she repeated as the gold medalist in the 100-yard breaststroke with a school-record time of 1:05.00 to win by over one and one-half seconds. She broke her own school record of 1:05.38 set at the 2015 NE10 Championships. She registered a sixth-place finish in the 200-yard IM on Friday with a time of 2:10.78. On Sunday night, she placed fifth in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:26.63.

Smith was also part of two fourth-place and two sixth-place relay teams. The quartet of Smith, classmates Alyssa Baker (Canandaigua, N.Y./Canandaigua) and Sarah Gaffney (Livonia, N.Y./Livonia) and sophomore Julia Marilley (Watertown, N.Y./Watertown) placed fourth in the 200-yard medley relay in 1:50.27 to open the Championship. They also placed fourth in the 200-yard freestyle relay to close out Saturday night's competition with a time of 1:40.58.

Baker, Smith and Gaffney teamed with sophomore Emily Nicastro (Rochester, N.Y./Webster Schroeder) to place sixth in the 400-yard medley relay in 4:02.64. The juniors and freshman Karen Silaika (Rexford, N.Y./Shenendehowa) closed out the Championships by placing sixth in the 400-yard freestyle relay in 3:39.97.

Gaffney and Silaika teamed with freshman Haley Decker (Vernon, N.Y./Vernon-Verona-Sherrill) and sophomore Haley Buchholz (Skaneateles, N.Y./Skaneateles) to place eighth in the 800-yard freestyle relay on Thursday night.

Junior Brittney Liddy (Rome, N.Y./Rome Free Academy/Iona) finished in fifth place in each of the diving events to earn 28 points. In the one-meter diving event, she posted 319.15 points, while she scored 282.10 points in the three-meter diving event.

Sophomore Kylee Wilson (Conesus, N.Y./Livonia) placed seventh in each of the diving events for 24 points. Off the one-meter board, she recorded a score of 300.00, while she tallied 259.50 on the three-meter board.

Junior Annie Steve (Cortland, N.Y./Cortland) scored in two events for 14 points. She placed ninth in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:07.96. She added a 12th-place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke on Sunday in 2:33.49.

Junior Lindsey Wright (Queensbury, N.Y./Queensbury) recorded eight points over two events. She tallied a 12th-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:09.16. She placed 14th in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:35.62.

Freshman Madeline Gallagher (Homer, N.Y./Homer) collected seven points in two events. She earned two points by placing 15th in the 400-yard IM in 4:52.56. She earned five points in Sunday's first event, the 1650-yard freestyle, by placing 12th in 18:19.71.

Nicastro tallied five points by scoring in two events. She recorded a 16th-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly in 1:01.73. She added a 13th-place finish in the 200-yard butterfly on Sunday in 2:16.36.

Junior Madison Allen (Oneonta, N.Y./Oneonta) recorded a 15th-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:11.00.

Senior Kelly Clemmer (Canton, N.Y./Canton) tallied a 15th-place finish in the 1650-yard freestyle in 18:58.15.

The Dolphins return to the pool at the ECAC Championships at the U.S. Naval Academy Friday, March 3 through Sunday, March 5.