Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association Championships: Day Two

ATHENS, Georgia, February 18. FOLLOWING day two of the 2011 Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association (CCSA) swimming and diving championships, the Florida Gulf Coast women continue to leads 13 teams on Friday, February 18 at the Gabrielson Natatorium on the campus of University of Georgia.

Florida Gulf Coast leads with 586.50 points and has had someone place in every event, while winning six events. Davidson follows with 398 points, while Gardner-Webb is just behind in third with 314.50. Georgia Southern is fourth with 309 points and North Florida is in fifth with 193 points. Liberty is in sixth (184), College of Charleston in seventh (150) and Campbell in eighth (130). Rounding out the field is Radford (91), Howard (82), VMI (47) and North Carolina A&T (40).

Florida Gulf Coast continued to impress in the first event of the night, by winning the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:42.75. Davidson followed in second with a time of 1:43.67 and Gardner-Webb was third, 1:44.74.

The Eagles reigned in the 400 IM, with FGCU taking first and second and Georgia Southern took third. Victoria Cadge won the event with a time NCAA B standard of 4:21.80, while teammate Myriam Plante followed, 4:21.80. For GSU, Lindsay Goodman took third, clocking 4:26.66.

Davidson's Emily Castle broke her CCSA record set this morning in preliminaries in the 100 butterfly with a time of 54.47. Eagles' Alessandra Cianci (56.19) and Danielle Butler (56.68) took second and third, respectively in the event.

In the 200-yard freestyle, the Eagle's Leah Daniel upset Davidson's Lindsey Martin with a time of 1:48.70, an NCAA B standard. Martin followed also with a B cut time of 1:48.91 and FGCU's Jessie Porter took third with a time of 1:51.27.

FGCU continued their success in the 100-yard breastroke, with Dani Beaubrun beating out GWU's Kim Zachensky with an NCAA B cut time of 1:02.21. Zachensky also clocked an B standard time of 1:02.55 and in third was Georgia Southern's Courtney Harrison with a time of 1:04.52.

In the 100-yard backstroke the Eagles took first and second, with Viktoria Hyddmark winning with a time of 56.00 and Victoria Cadge taking second, clocking 56.02. In third place was Lindsay Goodman of Georgia Southern, finishing with a time of 56.47.

The Eagles ended the day by breaking the CCSA record in the 800-yard freestyle relay with an NCAA B standard time of 7:21.08, which they have won every year since the CCSA existence. Davidson took second place with a time of 7:31.94 and Gardner-Webb placed third, finishing 7:33.50.

In the preliminaries earlier in the day Castle of Davidson made NCAA B cut and broke her own CCSA record in the 100 butterfly with a time of 54.45. In the 100 breast stroke, there was a tie for first place with FGCU's Dani Beaubrun and Gardner-Webb's Kim Zachensky, swimming NCAA B standards of 1:02.36.

The final day of the CCSA Championships will begin Saturday, Feb. 19 at 10:00am, with the 200-yard backstroke trials. The finals will take start at 6:00pm with the 1,650 freestyle.

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