BANGOR, Maine — The Maine Maritime Academy women's swimming & diving team opened its 2025–26 season on the road Friday evening at the Husson Relays.
The Mariners began the night with a second-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay. The team of freshman
Emily Metzker, sophomore
Kate Griffin, junior
Claire MacDonald and freshman
Avery Fraga clocked a time of 2:10.55.
In the 200-yard butterfly relay, the team of seniors
Kylie Cantlon and
Rayelle Brewer, sophomore
Natalie Cady, and MacDonald finished second with a time of 2:03.84 — just four-hundredths of a second shy of the event win.
MMA posted third-, fourth- and fifth-place finishes in the mixed 400-yard medley relay. Metzer, Burke, Reda and Brewer placed third with a 4:17.53, while Miele,
Kate Griffin, Gibbons, and Fraga finished fourth at 4:30.95, and Cady, Davis, Guillen Barcia and freshman
Marin Griffin placed fifth at 4:35.42.
Brewer, Cantlon, freshman
Abigail Cormier and
Marin Griffin placed third in the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 2:02.25.
Cormier earned a third-place finish in the one-meter diving event with a score of 130.75, while Cantlon, Metzker,
Kate Griffin and MacDonald took first in the 400-yard 4x100 IM relay with a winning time of 4:53.82.
In the 200-yard backstroke relay, Cady,
Marin Griffin, Cormier and Fraga finished fourth at 2:21.26. The team of
Kate Griffin, Cady, Cantlon and MacDonald captured another win in the 200-yard breaststroke relay, posting a time of 2:39.18.
In the mixed 400-yard freestyle relay, the Mariners' squad of Ryan Johnson Rees, Brewer, Cantlon and Tim Reda placed fourth with a time of 3:50.96, while Miele, Metzker, Fraga, and Levesque finished fifth at 3:53.28. Boyer,
Marin Griffin, Cormier and Murray rounded out the evening with an eighth-place finish in 4:04.39.
Maine Maritime returns to the pool Saturday to face the University of Maine at 1 p.m. in Orono.