2005 ACC Championship Team Honored Prior to Meet
10/27/2005 8:00:00 AM | Women's Swimming & Diving
Oct. 27, 2005
College Park, Md. - The women's swimming and diving team will be presented with their ACC rings prior to the start of the meet against Hopkins and Howard tomorrow. The Terps completed a perfect season in February, when they won the program's first-ever ACC championship at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center. The 12th-ranked Terps, who posted an 11-0 dual meet record, including 7-0 in the conference, led from day one and finished with 655 points, dethroning defending champion Virginia, who came in second with 590.5 points.
Recap of the 2005 ACC Championships
• Then-senior Chrissy Miller (Seaside Park, N.J.) was named 2005 Most Valuable Swimmer. She won the 100-yard freestyle in 49.67, which automatically qualified her for the NCAA Championships. Miller also won the 200-free and was a member of three winning relays at the conference meet.
• The Terps swept all five relays; the 400-free relay, which was a then-senior team of Megan Knepper (Williamsport, Md.), Cynthia Weir (Irwin, Pa.), Marina Mulyayeva (Almaty, Kazakhstan) and Miller won in school-record time of 3:20.55. Maryland also won the 200- and 800-free, as well as the 200- and 400-medley relays.
• Then-senior Elizabeth Lavell (Annapolis, Md.) finished second in the 1,650-free. Her time of 16:22.55 also automatically qualified her for the NCAA Championships. Knepper placed second in the 200-yard backstroke (1:58.75), and Weir came in third in the 100-free (50.72). Then-junior Krisztina Kovacs (Budapest, Hungary) placed second in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:14.94).
A number of Terps earned All-ACC honors, which were given to swimmers who finished in the top three in each event, as well as the members of each winning relay:
Chrissy Miller * - 100-free (1st), 200-free (1st), 500-free (2nd), 400-free relay, 800-free relay, 400-medley relay
Megan Knepper - 100-back (2nd), 200-back (2nd), 200-free relay, 400-free relay, 200-medley relay, 400-medley relay
Marina Mulyayeva - 200-IM (1st), 200-free relay, 400-free relay, 200-medley relay, 400-medley relay
Elizabeth Lavell - 400-IM (1st), 1,650-free (2nd), 500-free (3rd), 800-free relay
Cynthia Weir - 100-free (3rd), 200-free relay, 400-free relay, 200-medley relay
Gigi deToll - 100-fly (1st), 200-medley relay, 400-medley relay
Sasha Malanina - 400-IM (3rd), 800-free relay
Krisztina Kovacs - 200-breast (2nd)
Meghan Sackett - 800-free relay
Amber Walter - 200-free relay
*Most Valuable Swimmer
Final Standings 1. Maryland 655 2. Virginia 590.50 3. North Carolina 491 4. Florida State 433 5. Virginia Tech 357.50 6. Georgia Tech 286.50 7. Clemson 219 8. N.C. State 194.50 9. Duke 180 10. Miami 176
