--Courtesy of CMS Athletics--

Madeleine Kan of the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's swimming and diving team won the national championship in the 100-yard butterfly with a program-record time of 53.57 seconds on the second day of the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships on Thursday. 

Kan had the fastest time in prelims, setting a new program record at the time with a 53.81, the first sub-54 second swim in program history. She also broke her personal best of 54.30 by just short of a half-second (.49), which she set to win the SCIAC Championship last month. Sun Young Byun, who held the previous program 100 fly record (54.22), also had the fourth-fastest time in prelims, and Mackenzie Mayfield qualified for the final spot in the evening session with a 16th place finish. 

In the championship final, Kan swam another .24 faster than her prelim time to finish in 53.57, building a lead over the first 75 yards, and then holding off Haley Zelen of St. Benedict's by .31 to win the title. Byun added a sixth-place finish to earn first-team All-America honors for the second year in a row, while Mayfield earned 12th with a 55.58 by coming in fourth in the consolation heat.
 

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