By: Noah Bartholomew, Athletics Graduate Assistant
This week's GoBonnies.com Student-Athletes of the Week presented by CPL for the week ending Feb. 19 are men's swimming junior
Maxwell Murray and women's track freshman
Adria Magnusson.
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Murray notched two medals and set two program records at A-10 Championships last week.
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The Penfield, N.Y. native earned a silver medal on the second night of championships with a time of 4:22.92 in the 500-freestyle. This time was good for a new program record, surpassing the time set by Vatslav Lets (4:23.90) in 2013.
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On the final night of championships, the third-year swimmer registered a bronze medal and delivered a new program record in the mile, touching the wall in a time of 15:27.81. With his effort, he broke a school record which had stood for over 25 years as he overtook George Eversmann's 1997 mile time of 15:35.19.
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Murray is now atop the record book in the 500-freestyle, 1000-freestyle, and 1650-freestyle.
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The Bonnies set five new school-best marks at the Cornell Invite this past Saturday, led by a pair of new program bests by the first-year runner. Magnusson posted new program records in both the 400 (1:01.92) and the 800 (2:26.47).
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The Ridgway, Pa. native crushed the old Bona record in the 400, beating it by over three and a half seconds. In Saturday's race, she placed third out of 24 competitors.
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In the 800, she broke her own record which stood for only two weeks. She just clipped her previous mark of 2:26.90 posted at Brockport and finished fifth in the race out of 17 runners.
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The Bonnies will travel to Kingston, R.I. this weekend to compete in the A-10 Indoor Championships.
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