WELLESLEY, Mass. – Freshman Cailey Simard (Haverhill, Mass.) broke her own one-meter diving record, and junior Olivia Ranck (Wilbraham, Mass.) eclipsed a 17-year-old backstroke mark, as the Bridgewater State University women's swimming & diving team competed on Saturday at the 2023 Little East Conference Swimming & Diving Championships held at the Boston Sports Institute.

Simard captured the Little East title in the one-meter diving competition with a finals score of 436.70 points. She shattered her previous school and meet record of 418.05 points set in yesterday's preliminary round.

Simard, who owns four of the Bears' five diving records, swept the diving competition at the four-day championship meet.

Ranck placed second in the 100 backstroke with a time of 1:01.42. She broke the previous BSU mark of 1:02.02 set by Lindsay Devereaux in 2006.

The four-day championship meet continues Sunday morning with events getting underway at ten o'clock. The Bears are currently in second place at the meet with 498 points. Defending champion Keene State University leads the way with 597.5 points.