ITHACA, N.Y. - The 200 medley relay team of Megan Beaulieu, Ola Nawrocki, Colleen Whittaker and Shannon Brown finished first with the school record and Beaulieu had a runner-up finish in the 200 individual medley in helping the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) women's swimming & diving team to third place at the 10-school, four-day Liberty League Championship taking place at the Kelsey Partridge Bird Natatorium on the campus of Ithaca College.

In the final event of the evening, Beaulieu opened the relay with a 27.53 in the backstroke, followed by Nawrocki's 29.27 in the breaststroke. Whittaker swam the butterfly in 25.27 before Brown closed with a 23.64 in the freestyle for a total time of 1:45.71. The squad was .18 in front of a team from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). 

Earlier in the program, Beaulieu, a senior, led a dominating performance by the Engineers in the 200 individual medley as four of the eight A finalists were from RPI. She swam a 2:08.15 to place second with teammates Alyssa Cahill (2:08.45) and Brown (2:08.73) finishing directly behind. Chloe Jepson was seventh with a time of 2:17.74. 

Rensselaer also got a third place finish from Gabriela Crother-Collado in the 500 freestyle, which she swam in 5:10.77. The freshman was only .02 from a runner-up finish.

Three individuals - Megan Lewis (500 free), Christina Cavalluzzo (50 free) and Gwyneth Yuen (50 free) - and the relay team of Yuen, Jepsen, Cahill and Mariam Tharwat each competed in the B finals of their respective events.

Ithaca leads the meet with 343 points, followed by RIT (327), Rensselaer (297) and Vassar College (205).

Action continues on Thursday with preliminaries starting at 10am.