Waterville, Maine
December 6th, 2025

The Colby women's swimming and Diving team put on a dominating performance at the Maine College Invite over the past two days and won the meet by over 600 points. The next closets team was Division I, the University of Maine with fellow NESCAC schools Bowdoin College and Bates College following. Final team scores were:

Colby College             1349.5
University of Maine    744.5
Bowdoin College        672.5
Bates College            626.5

From the first event right to the last event the Mules showed their dominance to all of the other schools from the state of Maine and did it in a very impressive fashion. Along the way the team set 4 school records, 7 meet records, 1 pool record (Eliza Marco -100 IM), achieved 6 NCAA B cuts and diver Avery Rappaport qualified for the NCAA Regional diving meet. A great performance by the entire team as there were 50 individual additions added to the All time program top 20 as well as 6 relay additions. (list posted below)

The strength of the team really shined thorough both in the individual events and relays. In all three relays the Mules got 1st and 3rd with both teams beating most of the other teams best relays. All 3 Colby A relays achieved NCAA B times and have a very good chance at qualifying for the NCAA Championships meet with those times.

200 Freestyle Relay     1:34.42   (Lucy Mackey, Eliza Marco, Zoe Buzzelli, Tahlia Crowley)    3rd place in School History
200 Medley Relay         1:42.34  (Alexis Coates, Kellen Mottl, Lexi Asch, Marco)   #Meet Record     2nd place in School History
400 Freestyle Relay       3:27.68 (Buzzelli, Mackey, Marco, Savannah Lombardi)   #Meet Record    2nd place in School History

Individually there were multiple event winners as Marco picked up 4, Coates won 3 while Asch and Rappaport both won two. In addition Abby Bauman won the 1650 Free for the Mules:

Eliza Marco
50 Breaststroke         28.82       # Meet Record
50 Freestyle               23.49      NCAA B cut
100 Freestyle            51.12       # Meet Record, NCAA B cut
100 IM                       57.84       SCHOOL RECORD, POOL RECORD, #Meet Record
Alexis Coates           
50 Backstroke             25.94       SCHOOL RECORD, # Meet Record
100 Backstroke           55.94      NCAA B cut, # Meet Record
200 Backstoke           2:02.52      SCHOOL RECORD, NCAA B cut
Lexi Asch
50 Butterfly                 25.41          # Meet Record
100 Butterfly              56.37          SCHOOL RECORD
Avery Rappaport
1M                             247.00
3M                             269.30        Regional Cut

It was a great way to conclude the fall semester and with this meet the Mules finished up an unbeaten fall and look forward to keep their win streak going. After finals they will head to Key Largo, Fl on the 16th for  a week of winter training and return to campus on Jan 2nd, They will continue their dual meet schedule on January 1oth in Middlebury, VT as they face off against Middlebury College. The meet start time is 1 pm.

Additions to All time top 20 List:
Zoe Antonio (50 fly -11th, 200 IM -14th, 200 Fly -3rd)
Lexi Asch (50 Fr - 20th, 50 Fly - 3rd, 100 Fly - 1st, 200 IM - 7th)
Abby Bartolacci (50 Fl -10th, 100 Fl -10th, 200 IM - 8th, 200 Fl - 10th)
Zoe Buzzelli (500 Fr -14th, 50 Fr -10th, 100 Fr - 5th, 100 IM -8th)
Olivia Cauley (200 IM 10th, 400 IM -13th)
Alexis Coates (50 Fr - 19th, 50 Bk - 1st, 200 Bk -1st)
Tahlia Crowley (50 Fl -16th, 100 IM -7th)
Mary Kate Daniel (50 Br -18th, 200 IM -18th, 200 Br -19th)
Zoe Fencil (50 bk -8th, 100 Bk -8th, 200 Bk - 8th)
Iris Freeman (500 Fr -16th, 1650 Fr - 14th)
Aria Kapoor (50 Fl -9th)
Caitlin Lacey (50 Fr -7th, 100 IM -11th)
Savannah Lombardi (500 Fr -5th, 200 Fr -3rd, 1650 Fr - 8th)
Lucy Mackey (50 fr- 5th, 50 bk -7th, 100 Bk - 12th, 100 Fr - 3rd)
Eliza Marco (200 Fr - 7th, 100 Br -5th, 100 IM - 1st)
Kellen Mottl (100 IM- 2nd)
Rhiannon Myhre (50 Br- 9th, 100 Br - 5th, 200 Br -4th)