GENEVA, N.Y.—The swimming and diving season is only two meets old for the William Smith College team, but senior diver Sarah Costanza (Gwynedd-Mercy/Ambler, Pa.) is already in peak form. In last night’s 123-77 dual meet win over visiting Wells College, she established a pool and school record on the 1-meter board and took another step towards booking her third consecutive trip to the NCAA Championships meet.

Costanza was the first Heron to compete in the new NCAA championship format 1-meter diving event. Beginning this season, the championship format will require divers to perform 11 dives, one more than in years past. She didn’t just establish the new record, she also exceed the NCAA Championship qualifying standard with a score of 407.15 (the standard is 405).

While swimmers have automatic and provisional qualifying times, divers must meet or exceed the NCAA qualifying standard (once in championship format or twice in dual meet format) and then submit a video tape for review by a selection committee. Costanza has earned a qualifying score on the 1-meter board in each of the Herons’ first two meets.

Due to a computer software glitch, the score of the Wells meet was incorrectly reported and the diving results (an exhibition event since Wells doesn’t have divers) did not appear on the meet summary sheet. Several William Smith entries, originally marked as points eligible, were in fact exhibition, non-scoring entries.

Three Heron swimmers posted two individual victories each. Junior Charlotte McIntosh (Blair Academy/Reading, Pa.) captured the 200-yard freestyle (2:06.89) and the 200 backstroke (2:23.87) and sophomore Meghan Mosher (Livonia/Conesus, N.Y.) won in the 50 free (26.02) and the 100 free (57.97). While first-year Lynn Cutter (St. Gertrude/Richmond, Va.) remained unbeaten in her collegiate career, winning the 200 individual medley (2:31.18) and the 200 breaststroke (2:51.11) and swimming a leg on the victorious 400 medley relay with McIntosh, Mosher, and senior Kate Feller (Avon/Avon, N.Y.). Cutter also won two individual events and swam on a victorious relay against Buffalo State.

William Smith is back in action on Nov. 12, when they host Alfred University in Bristol Pool at 1 p.m.