From Emory University Athletics
The Emory University Swimming and Diving Teams will head to Shenandoah, Texas for the 2015 NCAA Division III Swimming Championships from Wednesday, March 18ththrough Saturday, March 21st.
The meet, hosted by the City of Shenandoah and the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, will be held at the Conroe ISD Natatorium. Preliminaries of events are slated to begin each day at 10:00 am CT, with finals daily starting at 6:00 pm CT.
Fans unable to attend the meet in person can follow the action with live video and results. Links for the video will be posted daily at http://www.ncaa.com/liveschedule, while the results will be posted to http://www.collegeswimming.us/results/28723/. In addition, fans can follow the action on twitter at https://twitter.com/SCACSwimming and on Instagram at http://instagram.com/scacswimming/. Interviews with event winners will be posted to http://www.youtube.com/scacsports.
The Emory women, who will enter the meet ranked first in Division III, will be in search of their sixth-consecutive NCAA Division III Championship, and the program's eighth National Title overall. The Eagles will be represented by seniors Megan Beach, Dana Holt, Nancy Larson, McKenna Newsum-Schoenberg, Michelle York and Nina Zook, juniors Elizabeth Aronoff, Carolyn Bonfield, and Ellie Thompson, sophomores Marissa Bergh, Annelise Kowalsky, Claire Liu and Marcela Sanchez-Aizcorbe and freshmen Megan Campbell, Cindy Cheng, Ming Ong, Rebecca Upton and Julie Wawer.
The Emory men, currently ranked third in Division III, are coming off a third-place finish at last year's NCAA Championships, the team's 13th top-three finish at the meet over the last 15 years. Slated to compete for Emory at the meet are seniors Hayden Baker and Eric Ruggieri, juniors Jared Scheuer, Andrew Wilson, and Eagan Zettlemoyer, sophomores Christian Baker, Hayes Burdette-Sapp, and Mitchell Cooper and freshmen Henry Copses, Wes Duke, Alexander Hardwick, Chandler Lichtefeld, Oliver Smith and Cooper Tollen.
The meet will begin on Wednesday, with the 500-yard freestyle, 200-yard individual medley, 50-yard freestyle, and 200-yard medley relay all being contested on the first day.