Elms Men Finish 7th, Women 18th At NEISDA Championships

KINGSTON, R.I. – The Elms College men's swim team finished seventh out of 12 teams and the Blazer women finished 18^th out of 20 teams as the New England Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Association (NEISDA) Championships concluded on Sunday.

The Elms men finished with 203.5 points. Sunday's highlights included a fifth-place finish in the men's 400-yard freestyle relay as Eddie Capoldo, Matt Nodell, Michael Grippo and Nick Bergstrom finished with a time of 3:24.53 to pick up 28 points.

Bergstrom and Grippo combined to collect 24 points for Elms in the 100-yard IM. Bergstrom took fourth place (56.62) to earn 15 points and Grippo added nine more with a ninth-place finish in 58.09. Capoldo added 11 more points for Elms by finishing eighth in the 200 breaststroke (2:25.18).

The Blazer women also picked up points in the 400 free relay as Brittany North, Cricket Cavar, Julianne Gordon and Aislinn Carrier finished in 4:06.42 to finish 15^th and snag 24 points. Cavar added a 19^th-place finish in the 1650-yard freestyle with a time of 20:30.97.

Simmons College claimed the women's championship with 1504 points, edging second-place Roger Williams (1465). Roger Williams won the men's title with 965.5 points, well ahead of UMass Dartmouth (610) and Bridgewater State (607) who finished second and third, respectively.