BOSTON, Mass. – Saint Joseph's College completed the 2020 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Men's and Women's Swimming & Diving Championships at the Boston Sports Institute on the campus of Wellesley College on Sunday evening. The SJC men finished sixth with 91 points while the St. Joe's women placed ninth with 287 points.

Two team records fell on the final day of the three-day event, as freshman Evan Whaley (Merrimack, N.H.) broke the Monks' 200-Fly mark and won the race with a 2:02.04 time and senior Emily Roy (Sidney, Maine) finished 12th with a team-record 1:05.87 effort in the 100-Back finals.

With the GNAC victory, Whaley becomes the first SJC men's swimmer to win at the conference championship since 2015 and just the third in program history overall. Ben Johnson last won in 2015 while Alex Gilvey '16 claimed a pair of victories in the 2012 GNAC Championship.

For the women's side, the Simmons University Sharks cruised to their 16th-consecutive GNAC Championship with 1181.5 points, nearly twice the total of runner-up Regis College, which racked up 692 points in the three-day event. Husson University (658.5), Colby-Sawyer College (635), Norwich University (570.5), University of Saint Joseph (443.5), Elms College (335), Albertus Magnus College (305), and Saint Joseph's (287) rounded out the nine-team field.

On the men's docket, the Norwich University Cadets claimed their 10th-straight GNAC title after posting 466 total points, well ahead of runner-up Husson, which tallied 192 points. Regis (179), University of Saint Joseph (166), Elms (133), Saint Joseph's (91), and Colby-Sawyer (39) comprised the list of seven competing programs.

THE RUNDOWN – WOMEN:

• Senior Alexis Coiley (Fort Fairfield, Maine) paced the Monks with 39 points and finished seventh in the 50-Breast (36.13), eighth in the 200-IM (2:31.37), and 13th in the 100-Free (1:00.19)
• Sophomore Alirose Beauregard (Dover, N.H.) tallied 34 total points after placing seventh in the 200-IM (2:26.67), eighth in the 50-Free (26.90), and 18th in the 50-Fly (30.21)
• Senior Emily Roy (Sidney, Maine) recorded 33 points after placing eighth in the 200-Back (2:23.71*) and 12th in the 100-Back (1:05.87) and 100-IM (1:11.60) races
• Sophomore Hannah Kibbin (Augusta, Maine) notched 31 points after finishing 11th in the 200-Breast (2:55.87) and 50-Breast (36.62) races and 12th in the 100-Breast (1:22.16)
• Freshman Delaney Young (Woolwich, Maine) added 26 points with 12th-place finishes in the 200-IM (2:35.30) and 50-Breast (38.67) events and 13th in the 200-Breast (2:59.86)
• Freshman Madison Mills (Atkinson, N.H.) registered 19 points with a 12th-place effort in the 100-Free (59.49), a 13th-place time in the 50-Free (27.54), and a 19th-place finish in the 50-Fly (30.32)
• Sophomore Abby Lenko (Augusta, Maine) tallied 15 points with 16th-place finishes in the 200-IM (3:14.76), 200-Back (3:06.56), and 100-IM (1:24.96) events

THE RUNDOWN – MEN:

• Freshman Evan Whaley (Merrimack, N.H.) posted 21 points after winning the 200-Fly (2:02.04*) and finishing sixth in the 500-Free (5:10.23) and 100-Fly (57.00) events; Whaley also posted a team-record 5:03.03* time in the 500-Free prelims
• Sophomore Ryan Watson (Bangor, Maine) registered 18 points after placing third in the 1650-Free (18:14.17*), fifth in the 200-Fly (2:19.68), and seventh in the 500-Free (5:19.39)
• Sophomore Joseph Nichols (Tyngsborough, Mass.) totaled six points after finishing sixth in the 200-Back (2:30.15) and 10th in the 50-Back (31.28)
• Junior Anthony Blatus (Dracut, Mass.) posted six points with a seventh-place finish in the 50-Breast (35.93) and a ninth-place effort in the 50-Free (26.43)

*Team record

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