March 17, 2005
Results
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -
The No. 12 Maryland women's swimming and diving team is in 22nd place with nine points after the first day of competition at the NCAA Championships. Georgia leads the 31-team field with 211 points, followed by Auburn (137) and Arizona (120).
Senior Elizabeth Lavell (Annapolis, Md.) placed 16th in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:48.98. Lavell broke the Maryland school record in the morning preliminaries, clocking in at 4:44.12, more than a tenth of a second better than Shandra Johnson's 2003 mark.
The Terps' 200-yard freestyle relay team of seniors Chrissy Miller (Seaside Park, N.J.), Cynthia Weir (Irwin, Pa.), Megan Knepper (Williamsport, Md.) and Marina Mulyayeva (Almaty, Kazakhstan) finished 13th with a time of 1:32.23.
At the morning preliminaries, Miller placed 20th in the 500-free (4:46.97), while sophomore Sasha Malanina (Volgograd, Russia) finished 37th (4:50.95) and freshman Meghan Sackett (Cockeysville, Md.) placed 59th (4:58.77). Mulyayeva came in 30th in the 200-yard individual medley (2:01.94), and Weir placed 53rd in the 50-free (23.50). In addition, the 400-medley relay team of Knepper, sophomore Gigi deToll (Culpeper, Va.), Mulyayeva and Miller finished 17th (3:43.03).
The NCAA Championships continue tomorrow, with preliminaries beginning at 11 a.m. Follow along at http://www.ncaasports.com/swimming/womens/championship-results/.
Team Standings
1) GEORGIA 211 17) HAWAII 20
2) AUBURN 137 18) NOTRE DAME 17
3) ARIZONA 120 19) IOWA 16
4) STANFORD 108 19) ALABAMA 16
5) FLORIDA 96 21) MIAMI 13
6) TEXAS 75 22) MARYLAND 9
7) S.M.U. 53 23) TENNESSEE 8
8) CALIFORNIA 49 23) UCLA 8
9) TEXAS A&M 41 25) FLORIDA STATE 7
10) MICHIGAN 39 26) SOUTH CAROLINA 6
11) INDIANA 38 27) CLEMSON 4
12) WISCONSIN 37 28) RICHMOND 3
13) PENN. STATE 30 29) KENTUCKY 2
14) PURDUE 25 29) NEW MEXICO 2
14) ARIZONA STATE 25 31) OHIO STATE 1
16) SOUTHERN CAL. 24
