Middlebury finished in fourth place overall at the 2016 NESCAC Women's Swimming & Diving Championship, as the Panthers hosted the three-day event inside the Middlebury Natatorium. Williams captured its third-consecutive title and 15th overall, amassing 2,045 points during the three-day meet. Amherst finished in second place with 1,343 points, followed by Bates (1,317.5), Middlebury (1,090.5) and Connecticut College (1,013).
Individually, Lucy Scott began the final evening for the Panthers with an eighth-place finish in the 1,650 free in 17:41.22. A few events later, Isabel Wyer swam to a sixth-place finish in the 200 back with an NCAA 'B' cut time of 2:03.27.
Other top-10 finishes came from Morgan Burke, who was fourth in the 100 free with a mark of 51.94, also an NCAA 'B' cut time. Lily Sawyer finished second in the 200 fly consolation final with a time of 2:08.94, good for 10th place.
Following her seventh-place effort during Friday's 1-meter final, Elissa DeNunzio dove to a fifth-place finish in Sunday's 3-meter competition with 391.25 points.
In the final event of the evening, the Middlebury team of Burke, Megan Griffin, Wyer and Stephanie Andrews finished sixth in the 400 free relay with an NCAA 'B' cut time of 3:29.31.
The Panthers will have over a month off from competition before members of the team who qualify will compete at the NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving National Championships in at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, North Carolina from March 16-19.