From Emory University Athletics
Emory University took home its fifth-consecutive NCAA Division
III Women's Swimming and Diving Championship and the seventh
overall in the program's history in Indianapolis, Indiana on
Saturday night.
The Emory women won the four-day championship meet with a final
score of 595.5 points. Kenyon College placed second with
456.5 points, while Johns Hopkins University finished in third with
a team score of 387 points.
Emory has now claimed seven NCAA Division III Women's Swimming and
Diving Championships (2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014)
and 16 overall in the history of the Emory Athletics program.
Women's Tennis has recorded five team titles, while Men's Tennis
has won three, and Volleyball one.
The Eagles were paced on the final day by sophomore Elizabeth
Aronoff, who won the National Championship in the 200-yard
breaststroke with a time of 2:14.37, breaking the previous school
record of 2:14.62, set by former Eagle April Whitley at the 2011
NCAA Championships. It was the
26th individual National Championship by an Eagle
(to go along with 13 relay National Titles), and the first since
senior Sadie Nennig won the 200-yard backstroke in
2012. Aronoff joins Whitley (2011) and former Eagle Julie
Hogan (1985) as the only Emory women's swimmers to win the
event.
Aronoff had company on the podium from her teammates in the
200-yard breaststroke, as the Eagles swept the top-three spots in
the event. Junior Megan Beach claimed second with a
time of 2:14.73, followed by freshman Annelise
Kowalsky in third with a mark of 2:16.12. Adding a
sixth-place finish to claim an all-America honor in the event was
senior Kylie McKenzie with a time of 2:16.99.
Senior Courtney McDermott added a second-place finish in
the 1,650-yard freestyle with a time of 16:43.79 her second
individual all-America honor and third certificate overall of the
meet. Junior McKenna Newsum-Schoenberg claimed
sixth in the event for her third individual all-America honor,
while sophomore Carolyn Bonfieldclaimed an honorable mention,
finishing 11th with a time of 17:06.75.
Junior Nancy Larson claimed an all-America honor in the
100-yard freestyle, her individual certificate of the week,
finishing third with a time of 50.33 seconds. Nennig rounded
out Emory's individual swimming all-Americans with a fifth-place
finish in the 200-yard backstroke in a time of 1:59.90 in the
preliminaries, while sophomore Ellie Thompson won the
consolation heat with a time of 2:00.82, earning an honorable
mention.
Nennig finishes her Emory career with 17 all-America honors, tied
with former Eagles Liz Horvat and Hillary Lane for the third-most
in school history. In addition, she has now earned
all-America honors in the 200-yard backstroke all four years of her
career, in addition to claiming the honor all four years in the
200-yard individual medley, and joins Tess Pasternak, Ruth Westby,
Liz Horvat and Anne Culpepper as the only Eagles to accomplish the
feat in multiple events.
In the three-meter dive, senior Sarah Greene earned the
first all-America honor of her career, finishing eighth in the
event after registering a score of 452.8- during the
preliminaries.
Emory finished off the meet with a flourish, as the 400-yard
freestyle relay team of junior Dana Holt,
freshman Marissa Bergh, Newsum-Schoenberg, and Larson claimed
third place with a time of 3:22.84.
All together, the Emory women earned nine individual all-America
certificates, one relay all-America honor, and two honorable
mentions, finishing the meet with a total of 23 individual
all-America honors (including the National Championship from
Aronoff), 17 individual honorable mentions, and all-America
certificates in all five relays.