{"id":3608,"date":"2018-02-19T21:33:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2018-02-19T21:33:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:33:06","slug":"swimmers-making-a-splash-at-macs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2018\/02\/19\/swimmers-making-a-splash-at-macs\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimmers making a splash at MAC&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kurt Harnish &#8217;20<\/p>\n<p>Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Lebanon Valley College men\u2019s and women\u2019s swim teams concluded their season with the MAC Conference Championship meet on Feb. 16-18, and some swimmers walked away with records and medals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Championship meet started on February 15 with two relay races. Individual events took place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Ian Lloyd, a senior butterfly specialist, was ecstatic to win another gold and set a new swim record, giving him 15 LVC records. On Friday, he won the gold in the men\u2019s 200-yard IM and broke his own original record with a new time of 1:53.58, which is also a MAC championship record.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u201cIt is great to achieve this feat again, but the win is much more than my own,\u201d Lloyd said. \u201cMy teammates, family and coaches have been so great and have helped me to achieve this honor. Without them, I would not be who I am today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">On Saturday, Courtney Betsock, a freshman breaststroke specialist, broke an LVC school record in the 100-yard breaststroke. Her time of 1:13.31 beat the previous record time of 1:13.68. Betsock ended up making two final appearances over the weekend in the 100 breaststroke and the 200 breaststroke. Betsock has 3 more seasons to go and hopes to build on her success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u201cAs a freshman it was cool being able to break a record and I hope in the future, I can continue to lower my times,\u201d Betsock said. \u201cBeing pushed by my teammates and coaches definitely helped me to lower my times during MAC\u2019s.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Kaitlyn Welch, another LVC freshman, broke the women\u2019s 100-yard LVC backstroke record with a time of 1:03.10. She plans to continue to make strides in her swimming ability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Albright College won the men\u2019s team championship, while Messiah College won the women\u2019s team championship.\u00a0 LVC men placed 9<sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">th<\/span><\/sup> in the overall standings and the women placed 11<sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">th<\/span><\/sup>. Both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s team will lose many seniors to graduation, but both teams have good young underclassmen still on the team. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>kph001@lvc.edu<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>&nbsp; Kurt Harnish &#8217;20 Staff Writer Lebanon Valley College men\u2019s and women\u2019s swim teams concluded their season with the MAC Conference Championship meet on Feb. 16-18, and some swimmers walked away with records and medals. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2018\/02\/19\/swimmers-making-a-splash-at-macs\/\" title=\"Swimmers making a splash at MAC&#8217;s\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}