CRAWFORDSVILLE, Indiana, February 8. AT the conclusion of the first full day of the 2007 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Championships, the Trinity women and DePauw men have jumped out to the early lead. <\/p>\n
On the women's side, Trinity University is in front with 242.5 points. DePauw is second with 182.5, while Centre is third with 159. Sewanee is in fourth with 128 points followed by Rhodes (105), Colorado College (71), Southwestern ?(70), Austin (51) and Hendrix (42).<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Trinity's Lauren Walstad defended her 2005 one-meter diving title and broke the 2000 SCAC Championship record set by Caitlin McEatheron with a score of 437.65 points.<\/p>\n
Trinity's Lindsay Weigley repeated as the 500 free champion in 5:13.35, while DePauw's Katie Doogan won the 200 individual medley in a school and SCAC record time of 2:08.02. The time also was an NCAA provisional time.<\/p>\n
Meredith Angel of Centre won the 50 free in 24.17 seconds which was a provisional time as was Maddison Hamil's second-place showing in 24.37.<\/p>\n
DePauw's Lindsay Riggs, Hamil, Amanda Stier and Doogan closed the evening by winning the 400 medley relay in 4:00.91. The start of the 200-yard freestyle relay was disputed and the event will take place again on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
On the men's side, the DePauw men have taken the early lead with 333 points over Trinity's 254 and Centre's 218. Sewanee is fourth with 204, followed by Colorado College (173), Hendrix (100), Rhodes (80) and Austin (45).<\/p>\n
DePauw's 200-yard freestyle relay of John Cook, Kyle Kerrigan, Greg Nowak and Rob Alexander won in an NCAA provisional time of 1:24.28. Evan O'Dea of Trinity won the 500 free in 4:44.15, while DePauw's Brock Sishc won the 200 individual medley in 1:58.98.<\/p>\n
Alexander won the 50 free for the third straight year in 20.68 seconds which in an automatic qualifying time and established a DePauw school record. Cook finished second and notched a provisional time of 21.08 seconds, while Centre's Jimmy Tatgenhorst was third and swam a provisional time in the prelims.<\/p>\n
DePauw's Gib Wallace, Dan DeGeus, Michael Young and Cook concluded the evening by winning the 400 medley relay in 3:35.10. During the afternoon, Trinity's Ryan Cook won one-meter diving for the second time in three years with 441.95 points.<\/p>\n
Competition continues through Saturday evening at Crawfordsvillle High School with diving taking place at Wabash College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Indiana, February 8. AT the conclusion of the first full day of the 2007 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Championships, the Trinity women and DePauw men have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","category-zzzzzzzzz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n