NCAA Division II Day One Team Recaps
Bentley: Kaduboski Completes First Day of Competition at NCAA Championships
Bentley University sophomore Anne Kaduboski (Dedham, Mass./Dedham HS) competed in a pair of events Thursday during the NCAA Division II Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships at the University of Houston Campus Recreation and Wellness Center.
Kaduboski finished 46th of 51 in the 100 yard butterfly, with a time of 58.79 seconds, and 45th of 55 in the 200 freestyle, in 1:56.45.
The Falcon standout will compete in her best event on Friday, the 200 butterfly. Her qualifying time of 2:04.12 has her eighth of 37 on the psyche sheet.
Limestone: SWIMMING COMPLETES FIRST DAY AT NATIONALS
The Limestone College men’s and women’s teams competed in the first day of the NCAA DII National Swimming & Diving Championships on Wednesday. On the women’s side, Isabell Nystrom (Stockholm, Sweden) completed the 1000 freestyle, the only final of the day, in 12th place. The men had three top ten times in two prelim events.
Nystrom was the only Saint to compete, for the men or women, in the 1000 freestyle. The freshman, who has had strong showings in the distance, recorded a final time of 10:25.10.
Craig Jordens (Cape Town, South Africa) and Goran Majlat (Split, Croatia) finished in second and third in the 50 freestyle prelims. Jordens recorded a time of 19.81, narrowly holding off Majlat, who finished at 19.85.
The 200 medley relay team of Majlat, Matt Parsonage (Durban, South Africa), Anders Melin (Karlstad, Sweden), and Jordens turned in a fourth place time of 1:27.64.
Wayne State: Women's Swimming Leads After Day One At NCAA Championships
Ashley St. Andrew (Grand Rapids, Mich./Jenison) became the first individual national champion in the history of Wayne State women's swimming and diving, as the Warriors ended the first day of competition in first place at the 2009 NCAA Division II Championships.
St. Andrew, who broke her own school record in the 1000 freestyle by nearly 12 seconds (9:54.97), accounted for 20 of the 69 points WSU earned in the event on its way to a 114-82.5 lead over Drury, the 2007 national champion.
Catherine Leix (Flint, Mich./Southwestern) finished fourth (10:08.59) in the 1000 free, followed by Melissa Duff (Howell, Mich./Brighton) in fifth (10:09.63) and Natalia Buso (Sao Paulo, Brazil) in sixth (10:10.31). Stephanie Ekleberry (Rochester Hills, Mich./Avondale) came in 10th (10:18.28).
In the 200 individual medley, Elaina Hogle (Kentwood, Mich./East Kentwood) placed eighth (2:04.46), lowering her school record achieved in Wednesday's preliminary round.
Likewise, the second-place 200 medley relay quartet of Sara Franklin (Caro, Mich.), Courtney Roberts (Milan, Mich.), Agata Zalewska (Swietochlowice, Poland), and Julie Danaher (Allen Park, Mich.) also improved upon the school record set in prelims (1:42.62).
Wayne State: Men's Swimming & Diving In Second Place At NCAAs
After the first day of competition at the 2009 NCAA Division II Championships, the Wayne State men's swimming and diving team is in second place with 98.5 points, just 2.5 behind defending national champion Drury (101).
The Warriors set two school records in Wednesday's finals, beginning with Fernando Costa's (Porto, Portugal) fourth-place time of 9:09.32 in the 1000 freestyle. James Ekleberry (Rochester Hills, Mich./Avondale) came in 18th (9:27.99).
Duarte Mourao (Loures, Portugal), who set a new national record in the preliminary 200 individual medley, finished in fourth place in the finals (1:47.56) but had his record broken by Tampa's Aleksander Hetl (1:46.03). Swimming in the consolation final, Jimmy Lee (Windsor, Ont./Riverside) placed 16th (1:53.30).
In the 50 free, Cauli Bedran (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) finished 10th (20.26) and Jesper Akesson (Malmo, Sweden) tied for 14th (20.49).
Cayce Bolt (Sterling Hts., Mich./Warren Mott) and Mike Elliott (Washington, Mich./Romeo) placed sixth (423.25) and eighth (387.35), respectively, in the three-meter diving competition.
Closing out the first day was the 200 medley relay. Both Ouachita Baptist and Wayne State came in under the national record, but the WSU quartet of Sean Smith (Auburn, Mich./Bay City Western), Akesson, Mourao, and Bedran finished in second place (1:27.97), just .72 seconds behind the Tigers. The Warriors did set a new school record, however.
WINGATE BEGINS COMPETITION IN NCAA SWIM CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Wingate University men’s and women’s swimming teams have started competition in the 2009 NCAA Division II national championship meet. The University of Houston is hosting the swimming venue as part of the Division II National Championships Festival.
Wingate junior Mason Norman (Duluth, Ga.) adds another All-American honor to his trophy case Wednesday, as he finished fifth in the 50 Freestyle final with a school-record time of 19.90. Limestone College sophomore Goran Majlat won the event with a time of 19:63. Both Wingate and Limestone compete in the Blue Grass Mountain Conference.
Bulldog junior Gus Chagas (Recife, Brazil) received honorable mention All-American honors in the 50 Freestyle. The 2007 NCAA Division II national champion in the 200 Freestyle, Chagas placed 11th in the 50 Freestyle with a time of 20.31. Chagas will swim the 200 Free Thursday.
In the 200 Individual Medley, Wingate sophomore Marcello Machado (Recife, Brazil) earned honorable mention All-American distinction with his 10th place finish. In his first appearance at nationals, Machado posted a 200 IM time of 1:49.99 Wednesday.
The four Wingate women at the national meet gave a gutty performance to earn honorable mention All-American honors in the 200 Medley Relay Wednesday. Returning All-Americans junior Lara Golesorkhi (Stuttgart, Germany) and sophomore Nicole Moody (Grovetown, Ga.) paired with first-time national meet visitors sophomore Cheryl Vaccaro (Charlotte, N.C.) and freshman Sarah Lawless (Holland, Mich.) to take 16th place in the 200 Medley Relay with a time of 1:46.95.
In the preliminaries, the Wingate quartet set a school record with a time of 1:46.90. The Bulldogs edged the University of Tampa 200 Medley Relay team, as the Spartans posted a prelim time of 1:47.02. The Tampa foursome edged Wingate in the same event at the BGMC championships in February.
On the team charts, the Wingate men are 13th after the opening day. The Bulldogs have 27 points. Drury (Mo.) University leads the way with 101 points. The Bulldog women posted two points on Wednesday, earning a tie for 22nd place with the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Wayne State (Mich.) University tops the women’s charts with 114 points.
Competition from the 2009 Division II National Championships Festival March 11-14 in Houston will be streamed live on-line at NCAA.com. Coverage will include four days of swimming and diving competition and two days of both wrestling and track and field. Links to each day’s video coverage can be found here.
This is the first winter-sports version of the popular festival format that crowns multiple champions at one location. The festival launched in Orlando in spring 2005, followed by a fall-sports version in 2006 and another spring festival in 2008.
The Wingate University men’s and women’s swimming teams qualified 13 student-athletes for the 2009 NCAA Division II national championships. The swimming venue for the winter sports festival is the University of Houston.
