The University Athletic Association has announced its 30th Anniversary Women's Swimming and Diving Team. Sixty-one student-athletes earned the honor with 31 coming from Emory University, which has won every Association championship since 1999 and has captured 10 NCAA Division III Women's Swimming and Diving Championships titles, including the past eight national championships.
UAA 30th Anniversary Women's Swimming and Diving Release
The team consists of each student-athlete who was named Swimmer of the Year, Diver of the Year, won an individual event at the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships, or won the same event at least three times at the UAA Swimming and Diving Championships.
Among those honored are Rachael LeClair of Emory, who earned UAA Swimmer of the Year honors in each of the first three UAA championships (1988-90) and Rebecca Fruehan of Carnegie Mellon University, who won three consecutive UAA Swimmer of the Year honors from 1994-96. Fruehan captured the 200-yard freestyle in four consecutive UAA championships from 1993-96.
Ruth Westby of Emory earned UAA Swimmer of the Year honors in 2008 and shared the award in 2010 with Liz Horvat, who repeated the honor in 2011. Horvat won both the 400-yard individual medley and the 500-yard freestyle UAA title in four consecutive years (2008-11). The Eagles have garnered the UAA Swimmer of the Year honor for each of the past eight championships with current student-athlete Cindy Cheng earning the award in each of the past two championships.
Three more Eagles won a UAA championship event four times. Megan Gibbons swept the 100- and 200-yard butterfly events from 1990 to 1993, Kendal Hansen finished first in the 100-yard breaststroke from 1991 to 1994, and Courtney Carter earned the UAA title in the 400-yard individual medley from 1992 to 1995. Meredith Nordbrook of Washington University earned the UAA title in the 200-yard individual medley each year from 2005 to 2008.
Alisha Alaimo of Emory (1995-97) and Mindi Finnegan of Carnegie Mellon (2002-04) were each named UAA Diver of the Year in three consecutive UAA championships. Rebecca Schmidt of University of Chicago also won the award three times (2010-11, 2013). Rebecca Hanking (1989-90), Nancy Weinsier (1998-99), and Priya Srikanth (2007-08) of Washington University earned back-to-back UAA Diver of the Year awards.
UAA 30th Anniversary Women's Swimming and Diving Team
Alisha Alaimo, Emory
Elizabeth Aronoff, Emory
Patricia Beck, NYU
Kristina Brewer, NYU
Austin Campitelli, NYU
Courtney Carter, Emory
Cindy Cheng, Emory
Kirsten Clark, Rochester
Jennifer Collins, Washington
Honore Collins, NYU
Christine Cook, Emory
Anne Culpepper, Emory
Kelly Dietz, NYU
Anna Dobben, Emory
Julia Durmer, Emory
Abby Erdmann, Chicago
Monica Farren, Rochester
Mindi Finnegan, Carnegie Mellon
Rebecca Fruehan, Carnegie Mellon
Megan Gibbons, Emory
Anna Girlich, Chicago
Sarah Greene, Emory
Rebecca Hanking, Washington
Kendal Hansen, Emory
Tracey Hendrickson, Washington
Holly Hinz, Emory
Lindsey Hoffner, Emory
Liz Horvat, Emory
Katie Hughes, Emory
Alicia Kendig, CWRU
Annelise Kowalsky, Emory
Lisa Kung, Emory
Nancy Larson, Emory
Rachael LeClair, Emory
Agnes Lo, Chicago
Julia Mavrodin, Emory
Susan Modesitt, Emory
Fiona Muir, Emory
Sadie Nennig, Emory
McKenna Newsom-Schoenberg, Emory
Meredith Nordbrook, Washington
Erika Norris, NYU
Lisa Parton, Emory
Julia Pavia, Carnegie Mellon
Melanie Peters, NYU
Margaret Pizer, Chicago
Lauren Preyss, CWRU
Carrie Register, Washington
Erin Rockwell, Carnegie Mellon
Rebecca Schmidt, Chicago
Jennifer Scott, Washington
Corinne Smith, Emory
Priya Srikanth, Washington
Amanda Stadermann, Washington
Liz Swartwout, Emory
Julia Wawer, Emory
Nancy Weinsier, Washington
Ruth Westby, Emory
Samantha White, Emory
April Whitley, Emory
Lindsay Wilkinson, Washington