Oct. 8, 2009

Carolina Opens Swimming Season With Pair Of Wins
The University of North Carolina men's and women's swimming and diving teams opened up their dual meet seasons Thursday night with impressive victories over East Carolina at Minges Aquatics Center. The UNC men beat the Pirates 187-105 while the UNC women triumph by a score of 183-105.

The Tar Heel women posted the top performance, including exhibition swims, in 15 of the 16 events in the meet. The Tar Heel men turned in top performances in 14 of 16 events.

On the women's side, sophomore Laura Moriarty had a big night in the season opener as she took a trio of individual first places, sweeping the 200 fly, 200 breast and 200 IM.

Boston College Men's Swimming Falls To Army 180-116, Tops Stony Brook 203-85

The Boston College men's swimming and diving team was defeated by Army 180-116 but managed to grab a win over Stony Brook, 203-85 during the first meet of the season on Oct. 10 in West Point, N.Y.

John Maloy finished the day with three second place finishes for the Eagles in the 1000 Yard Freestyle (9:51.89), the 500 Yard Freestyle (4:44.98) and the 200 Yard individual medley (1:56.45).

Timothy Corrigan grabbed a win for Boston College, finishing in 1:56.79 in the 200 Yard Butterfly.

Clemson Swimming and Diving Has Successful Day in Quad Meet

ATLANTA, GA - The Clemson men's and women's swimming and diving teams picked up four wins in the quad meet Saturday at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, GA. The men's team defeated Western Kentucky 155-143, but fell to Georgia Tech 165-135. The women's team came out undefeated as they took down Western Kentucky 164.5-135.5, Miami 162-124 and Georgia Tech 160-138.

Clemson's men move to 2-1 overall and 0-1 in the ACC, while the women improve to 4-0 overall and 2-0 in the ACC.

The Tiger women started the day off with a runner-up finish in the 200 medley relay with the group of Kelli Kyle, Katrina Obas, Maddie Tarantolo, and Meg Anderson. The Clemson men took third in the 200 medley relay as Georgia Tech finished in the top two spots.

Miami Swimmers Complete Season Opening Event in Atlanta

Atlanta, Ga. - The University of Miami swimming and diving team opened the season at Atlanta on Saturday, finishing the day with a 0-3 record in tight contests against Western Kentucky, Clemson and host Georgia Tech at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center. Overall, the Hurricanes won six events, and eight wins against ACC schools.

Miami (0-3, 0-2 ACC) was participating against good teams on Saturday, though taking to the pool with no divers in this weekend's meet. Therefore, valuable points were left off the final score sheet for the Hurricanes. The Hurricanes dropped their three contests to Western Kentucky (178-114), Clemson (162-124) and Georgia Tech (156-130).

Miami began the day with a solid fifth place showing in the 200 medley relay using Hannah Kling, Sofia Johansson, Deidre Novotny and Lauren Jacoby for a time of 1:47.56.

Swimming and Diving has Strong Showing in Parent's Weekend Meet

ATLANTA - The Georgia Tech swimming and diving teams picked up three wins in the team's annual Parent's Weekend meet on Saturday afternoon. The men's team had a clean sweep in their action, knocking off Clemson 165-135 and Western Kentucky 164-136, while the women's squad picked up one win over Miami, 156-130, battled Western Kentucky to a 150-150 draw and fell to Clemson, 160-138.

The first event of the day was the 200-medley relay, as both Tech team's registering top three finishes. On the men's side, the team of Way Joe Lee, Jeremy Jackson, Sullivan Lynch and Garrett Robberson picked up the first win of the day for the Yellow Jackets quickly fin a time of 1:31.89. For the women, the team of Heidi Hatteberg, Lisa Pucci, Christine Chuang and Agatha Kwasnik finished third in 1:46.93.

The women's 1,000-free saw Jing Li finish fourth in a time of 10:28.84, while for the men, Kevin Morgan was the Yellow Jackets' top finisher hitting the wall in 9:53.76 to place fifth.