From Emory University Athletics
Emory University Women's Swimming and Diving extended its dynasty on Saturday night, claiming the team title at the 2015 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships in Shenandoah, Texas.
The championship is the sixth-straight for the Eagles, and the eighth overall in the program's history. It marked the 18th Division III Championship in the history of the Emory Athletics program, with women's swimming and diving claiming titles in 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, women's tennis winning championships in 1996, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2015, men's tennis earning NCAA Championships in 2003, 2006 and 2012, and volleyball winning the Division III Championship in 2008.
The Eagles finished the meet with 603 points to complete a dominant four-day stretch at the NCAA Championships. Denison University finished in second with 457 points, while Williams College placed third with 434 points.
Emory claimed six more individual all-America finishes on the final day of the meet. Three Eagles finished in the top-eight in the 200-yard breaststroke, led by junior Elizabeth Aronoff's second-place finish in a time of 2:15.71. Sophomore Annelise Kowalsky added a fourth-place finish with a time of 2:16.30, while senior Megan Beach placed fifth with a mark of 2:17.16.
In the 200-yard freestyle, both senior Nancy Larson and sophomore Marissa Bergh earned all-America honors, with the former finishing fifth in a time of 50.64 seconds, and the latter tying for sixth with a mark of 50.83 seconds. Junior Ellie Thompson added an All-America finish in the 200-yard backstroke, claiming fifth-place with a time of 2:00.27.
The Emory women also finished fourth in the 400-yard freestyle relay, with freshman Julia Wawer, sophomore Marcela Sanchez-Aizcorbe, Larson and Bergh swimming a time of 3:23.06 in the finals.
Adding all-America honorable mentions for the Emory women on the final day were senior McKenna Newsum-Schoenberg (ninth, 16:58.27) and junior Carolyn Bonfield (13th, 17:11.66) in the 1,650-yard freestyle, freshman Julia Wawer in the 100-yard freestyle (10th, 51.01 seconds), freshman Cindy Cheng in the 200-yard backstroke (10th, 2:00.84 in the preliminaries), and freshman Megan Campbell in the 200-yard breaststroke (13th, 2:13.45 in the preliminaries).
The Eagles finished the 2015 NCAA Championships with titles in both the 200-yard butterfly from Newsum-Schoenberg and in the 400-yard medley relay from Thompson, Aronoff, senior Nina Zook and Larson. Emory accumulated 26 individual and five relay all-America finishes, while totaling 14 individual all-America honorable mention certificates.