Towson Women, UNCW Men Retain CAA Leads

Two individual records fell on the second day of the 2008 CAA Swimming & Diving Championships. Towson leads the women’s championship with 268 points, followed by host George Mason with 200 and William & Mary with 182. On the men’s side, UNC Wilmington remains in first place with 264 points, ahead of George Mason with 217 points and Old Dominion with 193 points.

William & Mary sophomore Katie Radloff captured her seventh CAA title finishing the 50 freestlye in a conference championship record 22.61 seconds. Her time also broke a pool record and a league-best 22.75 set by Towson’s Jen Irby in 2005. Radloff’s finish was one-hundredth of a second under the NCAA automatic-qualifying standard.

Towson freshman Meredith Budner set a meet record in the 500 freestyle, posting a time of 4:50.72 in the preliminaries and winning the event with a pace of 4:49.15. The time was also an NCAA ‘B’ cut.

The championship continues Friday at 10 a.m. with trials in the 400 individual medley, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke and 100 backstroke. One-meter diving preliminaries begin at 1 p.m. with finals at 6 p.m.