WELLESLEY, Mass.   – Eastern Connecticut State University combined to win six individual events and two relays and broke a total of 17 records at the 2023 Little East Conference Swimming and Diving Championships which concluded four days of competition Sunday evening at the Boston Sports Institute.
 
As a team, the women and men both repeated last year's third place finishes. In a ten-team field, the women totalled 583 ½ points while the men collected 655 points in a field of five competing teams. Keene won its 19^th women's championship – 16^th in a row – with 830.5 points to outdistance Bridgewater State University (692). In the second annual men's championship, Bridgewater State repeated by totalling 979 points, 119 better than runner-up Keene State.

All event winners are accorded first-team All-LEC recognition and second-place finishers in each event are second-team All-LEC. In all, Eastern earned a total of 34 first and second-team All-LEC awards.
 
The meet concludes Eastern's fourth season under head coach Sarit Gluz.
 
Brody Wins All Three of Her Events for Women's Team
 
 Sophomore Maya Brody (East Granby), who did not compete until mid-season while rehabilitating injuries, won all three of her individual events, breaking the record that she had set at last year's LEC Championship in the finals of the 50 butterfly with a time of 26.56. Brody, who led the team with 60 points, also captured the 50 freestyle and 100 freestyle, and swam anchor on the winning 200 medley relay which broke the ten-year-old record with a time of 1:50.83.
 
The records were the first broken by the women's team this year.
 
Sophomore Allison Ronan (Northbridge, MA) recorded the program's fifth winning performance on the weekend by capturing the 50 backstroke. Ronan was second to Brody with 51 points. She was also second in the 200 individual medley and fifth in the 100 backstroke.
 
Junior Lindsay Weaver (Newington) followed Brody and Ronan by adding 50 points to the team total. She was second in the 50 and 100 butterfly and third in the 100 IM.
 
Other top point-producers were first-year swimmer Natasha Frisch (Mendota Heights, MN), junior Kelly Schneider (Portland) and junior Jillian Norbut (Bristol). Frisch totalled 43 points with third-place finishes in the 50 and 100 breaststroke and with an eight-place finish in the 200 breaststroke; Schneider amassed 42 ½ points by taking fourth in the 50 and 100 backstroke and tying for sixth in the 50 freestyle. Competing in the distance freestyle events, Norbut was fifth in the 1000 and 1650 and seventh in the 500 for 40 points. Junior Nancy Scanlon (West Hartford) added 39 points by claiming third in the 200 butterfly, seventh in the 400 IM and eighth in the 200 IM.
 
Rego Wins Twice, Men Break 15 Records
 
Sophomores Connor Rego (Winsted) and Joseph Sylvester (Morris) each broke program records in all three of their individual events and Sylvester added a fourth record as the leadoff in the 400 medley relay as the men broke 15 of a possible 23 program records (11 individual, four relays) with their solid third-place finish.
 
Rego claimed both of the men's individual titles in the 100 and 200 butterfly and swam the third leg of the winning (and record-setting)  200 medley relay which included junior Nathan Melia (Manchester), sophomore Ben D'Addario (Fairfield) and first-year swimmer Sam Hurlburt (Meriden).
 
In addition to breaking the program record with a time of 55.21 as the opening 100 yard backstroke leg  of the 400 medley record, Sylvester broke his own records in the 200 backstroke (2:01.32) and 1000 (10:25.51) and 1650 (17:25.14) freestyle events. Rego's record-setting times were 53.09 in the 100 butterfly, 1:58.15 in the 200 butterfly and 4:23.62 in the 400 IM.
 
Also breaking program records were Hurlburt in the 50 (27.75) and 100 (1:00.10) breaststroke, D'Addario in the 50 freestyle (22.06) and Melia in the 50 backstroke (25.52) leading off the winning 200 medley relay.
 
The Warriors also re-wrote the recordbook of four of the five relays. D'Addario competed on all four, Melia and Rego on three each, and Sylvester, Hurlburt and junior Connor Scully (Oxford) on two apiece.
 
 Rego's two first-place finishes and one second in individual events netted him a team-high 57 points, D'Addario and Hurlburt adding 50 each, Scully 46, and Sylvester and Melia 44 each. Thirteen different members of the team registered at least 19 points.