PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Little East Conference (LEC) Announced its 2023 Women’s Swimming & Diving major award winners, which was determined by a vote of the LEC’s head coaches.
 
Bridgewater State University freshman Cailey Simard was named the Diver of the Year and Rookie Diver of the Year after sweeping the diving events at the LEC Championships, setting conference championship records and qualifying for the NCAA Division III Championships in both events. She won the 3-meter with a score of 433.55 after posting a total of 440.40 in the prelims, and went on to win the 1-meter with a tally of 436.70 points.
 
Keene State College senior Jaelin Jang was voted the LEC Swimmer of the Year after going undefeated in her three individual events and helped the Owls claim victory in three of the four relays of which she was a member. Jang won gold in the 100 butterfly (59.92), 200 butterfly (2:17.92) and 200 freestyle (1:59.97)
 
Jang swam the third leg of the winning 400 medley relay (4:09.80) and anchored the LEC champion 200 freestyle (1.41.12) and 800 freestyle (8:21.35) relays. The 200 freestyle relay set a new LEC meet record.
 
Western New England University freshman Amanda Robinson was named the Rookie Swimmer of the Year. She was victorious in the 200 IM (2:20.90), placed third in the 400 IM (5:08.23) and placed fourth in the 100 IM (1:06.43) in her first-ever collegiate conference championship meet.
 
Bridgewater State head coach Mike Caruso was named the LEC Coach of the Year for the first after guiding the Bears to a second-place finish in the final team standings. He is the first coach in conference history to be named the Men’s Swimming & Diving Coach of the Year and Women’s Swimming & Diving Coach of the Year in the same season.
 
The LEC’s all-conference honorees, based on finish at the LEC championships, are as follows.
 

Event	First Team All-LEC	Second Team All-LEC
50 Backstroke	Allison Ronan	Caitlyn Guntly
	Eastern Connecticut	Western New England
100 Backstroke	Kiley Young	Olivia Ranck
	Keene State	Bridgewater State
200 Backstroke	Kiley Young	Olivia Ranck
	Keene State	Bridgewater State
50 Breaststroke	Wiktoria Kaszor	Anna Vygoder
	Westfield State	Rhode Island College
100 Breaststroke	Wiktoria Kaszor	Anna Vygoder
	Westfield State	Rhode Island College
200 Breaststroke	Wiktoria Kaszor	Anna Vygoder
	Westfield State	Rhode Island College
50 Butterfly	Maya Brody	Lindsay Weaver
	Eastern Connecticut	Eastern Connecticut
100 Butterfly	Jaelin Jang	Lindsay Weaver
	Keene State	Eastern Connecticut
200 Butterfly	Jaelin Jang	Hannah Geoffrion
	Keene State	Bridgewater State
100 Individual Medley	Olivia Roy	Olivia Ranck
	University of New England	Bridgewater State
200 Individual Medley	Amanda Robinson	Allison Ronan
	Western New England	Eastern Connecticut
400 Individual Medley	Kiley Young	Ally Linkenhoker
	Keene State	Westfield State
50 Freestyle	Maya Brody	Alexa Richter
	Eastern Connecticut	Westfield State
100 Freestyle	Maya Brody	Alexa Richter
	Eastern Connecticut	Westfield State
200 Freestyle	Jaelin Jang	Nicole Pechulis
	Keene State	Westfield State
500 Freestyle	Annika Doeppers	Rory Lee
	University of New England	Keene State
1,000 Freestyle	Alexa Richter	Annika Doeppers
	Westfield State	University of New England
1,650 Freestyle	Emily Rogers	Annika Doeppers
	Keene State	University of New England
1-Meter Diving	Cailey Simard	Kara Banagan
	Bridgewater State	Westfield State
3-Meter Diving	Cailey Simard	Kara Banagan
	Bridgewater State	Westfield State
200 Freestyle Relay	Keene State	Eastern Connecticut
	Nunziata, O'Neill,	Schneider, Frisch,
	Young, Jang	Waever, Brody
400 Freestyle Relay	Keene State	Westfield State
	Nunziata, O'Neill,	Richter, Ferri,
	Chaffee, Young	Kaczor, Pechulis
800 Freestyle Relay	Keene State	Bridgewater State
	Lee, O'Neill,	Murray, Bradford,
	Chaffee, Jang	Matte, Pelletier
200 Medley Relay	Eastern Connecticut	Keene State
	Ronan, Frisch,	Young, Rogers,
	Weaver, Brody	Jang, Nunziata
400 Medley Relay	Keene State	Eastern Connecticut
	Young, Rogers,	Ronan, Frisch,
	Jang, O'Neill	Weaver, Brody