THE BASICS:
 
- Meet: 2024 NEWMAC Swimming and Diving Championship
 
- Location: Cambridge, Mass. (Zesiger Center Pool)
 
- Results: 1^st of 9 (70 points)
 
- The Lead: The MIT women's swimming and diving team kicked off the NEWMAC Championship by winning the 800-yard free relay on Thursday night.
 
EVENT HIGHLIGHTS:
 
800-Yard Free Relay

• The MIT "A" team of sophomore Natalie Tang (Allen, Texas), sophomore Sonia Seliger (New York, N.Y.), first-year Sydney Smith (Atlanta, Ga.), and junior Kate Augustyn (Eau Claire, Wis.) logged a time of 7:26.22, which was almost 11 seconds ahead of runner-up Wheaton College.
• The performance resulted in an NCAA B Cut and a 2023 invited time.
• Tang led off the relay with her first collegiate personal-best time (1:51.75) while Augustyn anchored the relay with her best time of the season (1:49.40).
• Augustyn has now been a member of three first-place 800-free relay teams while Tang and Seliger are repeat winners.

 
UP NEXT:
 
- Day two of the NEWMAC Championship will begin on Friday, Feb. 23 with prelims at 10:00 a.m., followed by the finals at 6:00 p.m. Scheduled events include: the 200-free relay, 500-free, 200-IM, 50-free, 1-meter dive, and the 400-medley relay.
 
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