Men's and Women's Swimming & Diving

August 10, 2009

Tiger Swimming & Diving Teams Earn High Academic Rankings

San Antonio – The Trinity University Tigers women’s swimming and diving team is ranked seventh in grade point average– in all divisions – by the Collegiate Swim Coaches Association of American (CSCAA).

Trinity has registered a 3.51 team GPA, based on a 4.0 scale. The Tigers are also tied for fifth place in the NCAA Division III rankings. New York University is the Division III leader, at 3.56. Rice University leads Division I, and the nation, with a 3.62 mark.

The Tiger men have a GPA of 3.15, and stand in a tie for 34^th place in Division III.  Trinity’s head swimming coach is John Ryan, and the head diving coach is Stan Randall.

Additionally, six Tiger women and men have been named as CSCAA Scholar All-Americans.

Lindsay Martin of Longview, Texas (Pine Tree); and Haley Emerick of Portland, Texas (Gregory-Portland); qualified for the CSCAA Women’s Scholar All-America Team. Martin, now a senior, and Emerick, a junior, each received diving All-America honors in 2009.

Emerick finished third on the NCAA Division III Championships 3-meter board (467.80) and Martin was fifth (456.80). In the 1-meter event, Martin was third (441.60) and Emerick placed sixth (414.70).

In the 2008 NCAAs, held at Oxford, Ohio, Emerick was an Honorable Mention-America on the 1-meter and 3-meter board, finishing in ninth place.

Emerick and Martin were responsible for the Tiger women finishing at No. 16 as a team. Trinity amassed 59 points in the team standings.

The Tiger women won their sixth consecutive Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) team championship. Trinity won the meet with 865 points, outdistancing runner-up Centre College, with 789. The Tigers have captured nine team overall team titles.

Emerick was named SCAC Female Diver of the Year, for the second straight time. She set SCAC records in winning the 1-meter (489.95) and 3-meter (530.40) boards.

Lindsay Weigley, a swimmer from Clarksville, Md. (Mercersburg Academy, Pa.), became a CSCAA Women’s Honorable Mention Scholar All-American. Weigley, who completed her senior year, earned an NCAA provisional qualifying time in the 200-yard freestyle (1:55.99).

Andrew Battles of Colleyville, Texas (Keller), was named a CSCAA Men’s Scholar All-American. Battles, now a sophomore, placed 17^th in the NCAA 1,650-yard freestyle. He swam the event in 15 minutes, 57.63 seconds, and just missed earning Honorable Mention All-America honors by three seconds.  He established a SCAC record in the 1,650-yard freestyle (15:56.95).

Swimmer Zach Dielmann of Austin, Texas (Westwood); and diver Kevin Martin of Corpus Christi, Texas (Ray); were selected as CSCAA Men’s Honorable Mention Scholar All-Americans. Dielmann, now a sophomore, picked up an NCAA provisional qualifying time of 51.07 seconds, with a fifth-place SCAC finish in the 100-yard butterfly. Martin, a sophomore, was runner-up in the SCAC 3-meter board (424.20) and placed third in the 1-meter competition (435.70).

Trinity’s men finished as SCAC runners-up, with a score of 769.