Terps Finish 22nd At NCAA Championships
3/19/2005 7:00:00 AM | Women's Swimming & Diving
March 19, 2005
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The No. 12 Maryland women's swimming and diving team finished 22nd at the NCAA Championships with 40 points. The Terps were the highest-finishing ACC team. Georgia unseated three-time defending champion Auburn to take home the national title, scoring 609.5. Auburn was a distant second (492), followed by Arizona (440), Florida (355) and Stanford (313).
Maryland's 400-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) placed 16th in 3:23.01.
Senior Elizabeth Lavell (Annapolis, Md.) finished 18th in the 1,650-free (16:25.51), while sophomore Sasha Malanina (Volgograd, Russia) came in 39th (17:10.91). At the morning preliminaries, Knepper placed 22nd in the 200-yard backstroke (1:58.85), and junior Krisztina Kovacs (Budapest, Hungary) finished 27th in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:16.68). Miller and Weir placed 46th and 53rd, respectively, in the 100-free with times of 50.82 and 51.05.
Final Team Standings 1) GEORGIA 609.5 21) ALABAMA 44 2) AUBURN 492 22) MARYLAND 40 3) ARIZONA 440 23) IOWA 36 4) FLORIDA 355 24) TENNESSEE 32 5) STANFORD 313 24) NOTRE DAME 32 6) TEXAS 218 26) VIRGINIA 21 7) S.M.U. 170 27) MIAMI - FLORIDA 19 8) CALIFORNIA 149 28) RICHMOND 15.5 9) INDIANA 112 29) RUTGERS 13 10) SOUTHERN CAL. 108 30) VIRGINIA POLYTEC 12 11) WISCONSIN 107 31) FLORIDA STATE 11 12) ARIZONA STATE 90 32) OHIO STATE 10 13) PENN. STATE 87 33) CINCINNATI 9 14) TEXAS A&M 84 34) CLEMSON 6 14) MICHIGAN 84 34) SOUTH CAROLINA 6 16) HAWAII 68 36) HARVARD 4 17) PURDUE 59 36) NORTHWESTERN 4 18) UCLA 52 38) NEW MEXICO 2 18) KENTUCKY 52 39) ILLINOIS 1 20) HOUSTON 47
