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WALTHAM, Mass. – The Bentley University men's and women's swimming and diving teams will be in New Haven, Conn. at Southern Connecticut State University Thursday through Sunday for the 2017 Northeast-10 Conference Championships with both teams expected to turn in strong performances.

A pre-championship poll of conference coaches forecast the Bentley men to capture the championship for the first time since 2010 and the women's team to finish third, behind Southern Connecticut and Assumption.

Current members of the team have previously earned 15 individual and 28 relay medals at the championships with senior Kaitlin McGahie (Boylston/Tahanto Reg. HS) and junior Emily Niemiec (Meriden, Conn./Francis T. Maloney HS) both having made 11 trips to the awards podium.

Niemiec is a two-time individual champion in the 200 yard breaststroke and is the number two seed in that event this time around. Her NE10 championship history also includes seconds in the 400 individual medley in 2015 and 2016, second in the 200 IM last year and third in the 200 IM as a freshman.

McGahie was the runner-up in the 100 freestyle a year ago and also has three career bronze medals, including the 50 free in both 2015 and 2016. She's seeded third in the 50 free this season.

Sophomore Kate Kaduboski (Dedham/Dedham HS) captured two individual medals last year with a second in the 200 backstroke and a third in the 400 IM.  She's seeded in the top three of both for the 2017 championships.

The other two Falcons with individual medals are juniors Anne Warren (Ellicott City, Md./Mt. Hebron School) and Aidan Karam (Norwich, Conn./Norwich Free Academy). Warren captured the 200 fly in 2015 and was second in the same event last February. Karam, the only member of the men's team with an individual medal, earned his with a third in the 1650 free in 2015.

Last year, McGahie, Kaduboski, Niemiec and current sophomore Brooke Jameson (Bedford/ Bedford HS) combined for an NCAA B cut and broke both the school and meet record in the women's 800 free relay with a 7:40.02. Those four have teamed for the top seed time this season, 7:45.95.

On the men's side, Falcons to watch include senior diver Greg Coleman (Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y./Sachem North HS) and a pair of freshmen, Jarod Yosihara (Irvine, Calif./University HS) and Dan Sausto (Slingerlands, N.Y./Doane Stuart School). Coleman, a seven-time NE10 Men's Diver of the Week, has met the standard for the NCAA Division II qualifying meet in only his second year as a full-time diver.

Yoshihara is the top qualifier in the 200 back and second in the 100 back. Sausto is listed third on the psyche sheet in both the 400 IM and the 1650 free. As a team, the Falcons own the top qualifying time in the 800 free relay.

Among the Falcon men, senior Davis Wilson (Ransom Canyon, Texas/Lubbock HS) has the most medals with six, all coming in relays.

Action at SCSU's Hutchinson Natatorium gets underway with diving prelims Thursday at 2 pm. The first swimming action of the first day, the 200 medley relay, is slated for 6 pm. Prelims the rest of the weekend are scheduled for 9:45 am with the evening session following at 5:30 (Saturday) or 6 (Friday, Sunday).