BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin College is scheduled to serve as the host site for the 2012 New England Small College Athletic Conference Women’s Swimming and Diving Championship this weekend at Greason Pool.

The three-day event was slated to begin this morning with preliminary heats, with the championship races in the evening. Williams has captured all 12 NESCAC titles.

Links to live coverage, including a live video webcast and live results, will be available at http://www.goubears.com

Last season, the Ephs (1,826) used their third-greatest margin of victory to top second-place Amherst by 368.5 points. Only their 578- point win during the 2010 championships and their 398- point differential in 2009 were wider margins.

Other teams competing for a spot among the leaders this weekend will be Middlebury, Bates and Bowdoin. The Panthers took fourth (1,142.5) and the Bobcats rounded out the top five for the second straight year with 867 points. The host Polar Bears collected 732.5 points last season, good for sixth, their best finish ever.

Williams will again depend on its depth, as last year the Ephs had six women combine for 11 individual victories, while claiming the top spot in four out of five relays. Williams will have to swim without last year’s high point swimmer Logan Todhunter.

Looking to replace Todhunter atop the podium in the 50-, 100-, and 200-yard butterfly events will be Amherst’s Sarah Conklin and a duo from Williams, first-year Anna Epstein and senior Kathryn Ha.

In the distance freestyle events, Ephs senior Caroline Wilson is back for a potential four-peat in the 1,650. Wilson shattered the NESCAC record by nearly 15 seconds during her first meet in 2010, then returned in 2011 and re-wrote the record books once again, shaving over three seconds off her previous performance. She finished first in 16:58.10 in 2012. Wilson will also be looking to defend her 500 freestyle and 400 individual medley wins.

Challenging Wilson will be teammates Sarah Thompson and Katherine O’Leary. Amherst’s Stephanie Ternullo and Bowdoin senior Katherine Foley will compete in the distance freestyle events, while Connecticut College’s Esther Mehesz will try for a second consecutive win in the 1,000 freestyle.

Hamilton’s Maggie Rosenbaum will look to defend her 50, 100, and 200 backstroke titles. Rosenbaum swept her specialty for the second straight season en route to being named Swimmer of the Meet in 2012. Williams’ Faye Sultan currently sits above Rosenbaum in the league’s top times in the 50 backstroke, while teammate Katie Bennett will contend for the 100 and 200 titles. Wesleyan’s

Angela Slevin will also vie for the 200 backstroke title.

Middlebury’s Jamie Hillas will look to repeat in the 50 and 100 breaststroke. Tufts’ Jenny Hu and a pair of rookies from Williams and Amherst, Breanna Nguyen and Emily Hyde, will be Hillas’ competitors in the breaststroke events.

Williams’ McKenzie Murdoch will aim for her secondstraight Diver of the Meet honor. Amherst’s Lizzy Linsmayer, Trinity’s Emily Johnson, Williams’ Michelle Higgins and a pair from Tufts in Sami Bloom and Ali Maykranz will challenge Murdoch in the diving events.

With Carolyn Geller from Williams and Megan Gibbons from Hamilton having graduated, the 50 and 100 freestyle events will be up for grabs. Julia Pielock from Connecticut College currently holds the NESCAC top time with a 24.16, but Williams’ Thompson and Sultan, and Amherst’s Vincett and Lulu Belak will also be in the hunt for a first-place finish.

Early morning sessions each day begin at 10 am., while the finals begin at 6 p.m. on Friday, 5:50 p.m. on Saturday and 5:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Tickets are $7 per session for adults and $3 per session for children and students. Doors will open one hour prior to the heats and finals.

Results from the NESCAC Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships will be available throughout the weekend at www.nescac.com.

Duo honored

Bowdoin men’s ice hockey players Daniel Weiniger and Ollie Koo have been named semifinalists for the 13th annual Joe Concannon Award.

Given by the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston, the award is presented annually to the best American-born small-college hockey player in New England. There are 16 semifinalists for the award, which will be awarded in March at the NCAA Final Four and presented at the New England Hockey Writers dinner in April.

Weiniger and Koo have been crucial to the success of the Polar Bears, who are recording their best season in over a decade and currently rank fifth in Division III in scoring (4.38 goals/game). A senior captain, Weiniger ranks third in the NESCAC with 14 goals this season, while also dishing out 11 assists.

Earlier this season, he became the 34th player in school history to reach 100 points and has twice been named the NESCAC Player of the Week.

After enjoying a breakout campaign as a sophomore, Koo has developed into one of the league’s most potent offensive threats as a junior. With a dozen goals and a dozen assists, he ranks fifth in the conference in points, with eight of his 24 points coming on the power play. He also has earned a NESCAC Player of the Week nod this season.

Bowdoin has twice had a player earn the Concannon Award. Michael Carosi took the honor in 2002 and Adam Dann was the recipient in 2006.

The Polar Bears (17-2-2), ranked third in the latest Division III poll, will look to clinch the top seed for the upcoming NESCAC Tournament when they host a pair of games at Watson Arena this weekend. Bowdoin will play Tufts tonight at 7 p.m. before battling Connecticut College at 4 p.m. on Saturday.

Hoops playoffs

Both Bowdoin College basketball teams will travel to Tufts for NESCAC quarterfinal games on Saturday.

The Bowdoin women (13- 10), seeded eighth, battle the top-seeded and 23-1 Jumbos at 4 p.m. Tufts downed Bowdoin, 62-44, on Jan. 11 at Morrell Gymnasium.

That game follows the matchup between the fifthseeded Bowdoin men (16-8) and No. 4 Tufts (14-9), which tips off at 2 p.m.

The Jumbos defeated Bowdoin at Brunswick 82-69 on Jan. 11.