ATLANTA – The final day of the 2022 NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships at the McCauley Aquatic Center saw
Kelly Montesi notch yet another top-five swim in the program record books, this time in the 200 Back on Saturday morning.
"This was a fantastic meet for Kelly and such a fine way for her to cap off her career," head coach
Rick Simpson said. "Bouncing back from the emotional Conference championships and pulling a quick turnaround for the NCAA's is such a difficult feat for every athlete competing, but Kelly really did a great job making it happen. Three swims; two school records. It just demonstrates how great of an athlete she is and why she has had such a huge impact on our program over the last four years."
The Greenwich, Conn.-native recorded a time of 1:54.87 in the 200 Back, marking the second-fastest time in Villanova history. With her latest time, she now owns the top four spots on the program's all-time times list, each of those times coming in her senior campaign. All-told, she has six of the top 10 times in program history.
Her time landed her at 39
th in the field after the prelim round.
Montesi's week at the NCAA Championships was marked by program-record swims. She reset the program record in the 200 IM on Thursday with a 1:58.98 before notching not only a program-best but a BIG EAST-best in Friday's 100 Back, touching in 52.45. For the three events she swam in throughout the week, she owns a total of 12 top-10 times.