Jan. 15, 2008

GREENSBORO, N.C. - North Carolina's Joe Kinderwater and Alison Clemens have been selected Atlantic Coast Conference Swimming and Diving Performers of the Week, making it the second week in a row a school claimed both weekly awards. The league honor is a first for both student-athletes this season.

Kinderwater, a freshman from Lancaster, Pa., became the second-fastest 1000-yard freestyle performer in Tar Heel swimming history as No. 15 North Carolina claimed a 168-132 conference victory over Clemson last Saturday. The distance swimmer was no match in the 1000-yard freestyle as he touched in with a league-leading time of 9:07.17 to finish 3.92 seconds ahead of any other competitor in the race. Kinderwater also won the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:28.88.

Clemens took first place in three individual events and swam the breaststroke leg of the winning 200 medley relay, as the 10th-ranked Tar Heels defeated Clemson 204-96 and Rutgers 173-131 over the weekend. The sophomore from Staten Island, N.Y., posted the fastest marks in her events this week, winning the 200-yard individual medley (2:04.74), the 100-yard breaststroke (1:04.16) and the 200-yard breaststroke (2:16.99). Her time in the 200 breast was also an NCAA "B" cut.

The Tar Heels are back in action this weekend, hosting conference foe Virginia on Sunday, January 20 at 1 p.m.