All-Centennial Conference Men's Team | All-Centennial Conference Women's Team

LANCASTER, Pa. – After sweeping the Centennial Conference (CC) titles for the third year in a row, the Gettysburg College men's and women's swimming teams had 12 athletes named to the All-Conference Team.

The Centennial Conference recognizes all gold medalists with first-team status while runners up receive honorable mention.

In addition, the Bullets captured a pair of major awards. Mike Rawleigh was named the Men's Coach of the Year for the second-straight season while freshman Lea Candelmo was chosen as the Women's Rookie Outstanding Performer.

It was the 11th Centennial Conference men's swimming title for Rawleigh, whose Bullets won the meet by 216 points and registered 10 NCAA Division III Championship-qualifying “B” cuts. Candelmo won two events and captured the silver in another.

The men's team had six swimmers earn first-team all-conference status in six events:

Sophomore Stu Cubbison (Lancaster, Pa./Lancaster Catholic) – 400-freestyle relay
Freshman Tyler Gould (Darien, Conn./Darien) – 800-freestyle relay
Sophomore Mike Harmon (Shippensburg, Pa./home-schooled) – 200-backstroke, 400-freestyle relay, 200-IM
Sophomore Ashton Leyens (Fort Washington, Pa./Upper Dublin) – 400-freestyle relay, 800-freestyle relay
Sophomore Jason Potter (New Canaan, Conn./New Canaan) –100-freestyle, 400-freestyle relay, 200-freestyle, 800-freestyle relay
Junior Sean Staerk (Abington, Pa./Abington) – 800-freestyle relay

Six Bullets also captured honorable mention in five events:

Gould – 400-medley relay
Harmon – 100-backstroke, 400-medley relay
Leyens – 100-freestyle, 200-freestyle
Sophomore Will Nelligan (Newtown Square, Pa./Haverford School) – 400-medley relay
Potter – 50-freestyle, 400-medley relay
Junior Adam Weinbrom (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) – 200-backstroke

On the women's side, a pair of Bullets were named to the first team:

Candelmo – 400-IM, 500-freesyle
Freshman Marie Gingher (Boalsburg, Pa./State College) – 100-breaststroke

Three swimmers also received honorable mention in four events for the women's team:

Senior Caroline Coolidge (West Hartford, Conn./Kingswood-Oxford) – 200-backstroke, 200-IM
Gingher – 200-breaststroke
Sophomore Cooper Kearns (West Hartford, Conn./Miss Porter's School) – 1,650-freestyle

Gettysburg's women's team edged out Ursinus College by seven points to pick up the 14th Centennial Conference title in program history, all of which have also come under Rawleigh's watch.