BRISTOL, R.I. – The RWU women's swimming and diving team posted a fourth-place finish at the 2009 NEISDA Championships, concluding Sunday at Umass-Dartmouth. The Hawks were just 11 points shy of finishing in the top three.

Keene State College won the championship with 910 points totaled over the course of three days. Bentley University placed second with 830 points and Saint Michael's College rounded out the top three with 523 points.

Junior Brigid Houlihan (Nahant, Mass.) finished the 1650 Yard Freestyle in a time of 19:19.44 to take sixth place and earn 18 points for the Hawks.  In the next event, RWU again took sixth-place, as freshman Sarah Beron (North Providence, R.I.) registered a time of 30.42 in the 50 Yard Backstroke.

In an exciting 200 Yard Butterfly sophomore Caitlin O'Connor (Wallingford, Conn.) took sixth place with a time of 2:22.00, getting edged out by .01 second for fifth and .12 seconds for fourth.

Senior Cara Naylor (Windsor, Conn.) totaled an impressive 355.90 on the 3 Meter Board to earn 22 points with second place, edging out third place by .40.

Final results can be seen by clicking here. Listed below are the final team scores.

 Women - Team Scores
 Place  School  Points
 1  Keene State College  910
 2  Bentley University  830
 3  Saint Michael's College  523
 4  Roger Williams University  512
 5  Western Connecticut State University 486
 6  University of New England  481
 7  Eastern Conn. State U.  468.50
 8  Westfield State College  446
 9  Gordon College Swim Team  316  . 50
 10  Bridgewater State College  297
 11  Simmons College  261
 12  Umass Dartmouth  202
 13  Plymouth State University  189
 14  Assumption College  141
 15  Saint Joseph College-CT  130
 16  Western New England College  102
 17  St. Joseph's College of Maine 99
 18  Norwich  62
 19  Colby-Sawyer College  54
 20  Elms College  37
 21  Husson University  20
 22  Regis Swimming & Diving  9
 Total  6,534.00