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SCAC
SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS AT SOUTHLAKE, TX - FEBRUARY 13-16
Friday's action at the 2008 SCAC Swimming
& Diving Championships wrapped up with the same teams still holding onto
the lead. Trinity's women finished the day with a total of 613.5
points overall, while Depauw's men have tallied 622.5 points to lead in
that meet. In second pace for the women is DePauw with a score of
522.5, followed by Centre with 468 points and Rhodes with 355 points.
On the men's side, Trinity is second with 602 points, followed by
Centre's 522 points and Sewanee's 375 points.
In the morning prelims, DePauw's Katie
Doogan earned a provisional qualifying time for the NCAA Championships
in the 400 IM, finishing in 4:36.05 to win the race. Teammate
Amanda Stier also earned a qualifying time in the 100 butterfly, winning
the race by nearly a full second.
The men's 1-meter diving finals were
next, and Trinity's Ryan Cook completed his sweep of both diving events
by winning with a score of 519.30 on Friday afternoon. Cook won
the 3-meter event to open this year's championships on Wednesday night,
breaking the conference meet record. Centre's Hunter Hayes and
Trinity's Travis Mills finished second and third, respectively, just as
they both did on Wednesday.
The evening swimming finals opened with
the women's 200 medley relay, and Rhodes secured the winning time of
1:50.55, beating out Centre and Trinity. DePauw's team was leading
the event, but was disqualified for an early take-off. Trinity won
a highly competitive men's race that saw less than one second separate
the top four teams. Colorado College finished second, followed by
Sewanee and DePauw.
In the 400 IM, two swimmers earned
provisional qualifying times, and both were from DePauw. Katie
Doogan, who earned a qualifying time in the prelims, improved her time
by nearly three full seconds, missing the conference meet record by 0.07
seconds. Callie Boehme also made the NCAA B cut with a time of
4:36.27, shaving just over six seconds off of her time in the morning
prelims. Colorado College's Emily Stumhofer was third in the
women's race. Charlie Boehme won the men's race to give DePauw a
sweep for the event, followed by Centre's Brent Bowman and Pieter Smith
of Rhodes.
DePauw earned its third NCAA B cut time
of the finals in the 100 butterfly, as Amanda Stier improved on her
prelim time from the morning. Leigh-Anne Ladymon of Trinity was
second, followed by Centre's Liz Starr - the current record-holder in
this event. DePauw added its first men's provisional qualifying
time of the evening when Robert Alexander won the men's 100 fly in 50.35
seconds. Also making the NCAA B cut was Colorado College's Kurt
Adkins, beating out Centre's Hunter Owens for second place in this race.
Trinity's Leta Gatton bested her own
conference meet record to win the 200 freestyle on Friday, earning a
provisional qualifying time of 1:53.77. Gatton set the record in
the 2005 meet, and made up nearly five seconds from her prelim time.
Caroline Stephens of Centre was second, while Trinity's Lindsay Weigley
finished third in the race. Taylor Clark gave Trinity another NCAA
B cut in this event, winning in a time of 1:41.05 to best former Trinity
swimmer Dylan Stentiford's 2001 meet championship record. DePauw's
John Cook finished second, followed by Jimmy Tatgenhorst of Centre.
Two more teams earned themselves
provisional qualifiers in the 100 breaststroke, led by Sallye Hartman's
record-breaking time of 1:06.63 for Rhodes. Centre's Meredith
Angel finished second and also qualified with a time of 1:07.38 on
Friday. DePauw's Maddison Hamil finished third in the race.
Colorado College's Andrew Mullen missed the NCAA B cut by just 0.03
seconds in the men's race, winning in a time of 58.82 seconds.
Teammate Tom Grossinger was the runner-up, followed by Centre's Brad
Erickson.
DePauw and Southwestern battled it out
for the 100 backstroke title, with DePauw's Lindsay Riggs winning by
just 0.3 seconds over Southwestern's Bailey Thompson. Kristen
Griffin of Rhodes came in third in the event. Sewanee's Alec
Hogsette won the men's race in 54.09 seconds, followed by Asher Weinberg
of Colorado College, and Centre's Michael Henry. A grand total of
0.79 seconds separated the three All-SCAC swimmers.
The final event of the evening was the
800 freestyle relay, and Trinity finished the night with a pair of
victories. The Trinity women broke the SCAC Championship and SCAC
Open record in the event, winning in 7:53.66 and narrowly missing the
NCAA B cut. Trinity won by more than 13 seconds in the race, while
Rhodes came in just ahead of DePauw. Trinity's men and DePauw's
men were in a much tighter race, with just 0.10 seconds separating first
and second place. Centre's men came in third to round out the All-SCAC
performances.
Tomorrow is the final day of competition,
with swimming prelims kicking things off at 10:00 a.m. The women's
1-meter diving finals will follow that afternoon, followed by an
exciting finish with swimming finals at 6:00 p.m.