UVa Men's Swimming And Diving Wins Five Of Seven Finals At ACC Championships

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Feb. 25, 2000

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The ninth-ranked Virginia men’s swimming and divingteam continued its dominant performance in the second night of competitionof the 2000 ACC Men’s Swimming and Diving Championship by winning five ofseven finals at Maurice J. Koury Natatorium on the campus of the Universityof North Carolina. In the two events the Cavaliers did not win, theycaptured runnerup honors.

After 13 of 20 events, Virginia leads the 47th annual ACC Championship with520 points. The Cavaliers are 102.5 points ahead of second place NorthCarolina (417.50). Florida State and N.C. State are battling for thirdplace with the Seminoles holding a 338.50-311 edge. Maryland (269),Georgia Tech (184), Clemson (183), and Duke (94) round out the field.

Fourth-year Doak Finch (Southern Pines, N.C./O’Neal) was successful in hisbid to become the 14th individual win four successive ACC titles in thesame event as he won the 400 individual medley with a personal-best time of3:49.60. It is the second fastest 400 IM time in UVa school history andmissed the NCAA automatic qualifying standard by only 12 hundredths of asecond. Finch qualified for the finals by winning the prelims in a time of3:50.81. First-year Guy Yimsomruay (Bangkok, Thailand/Germantown) placedthird in the 400 IM finals with a time of 3:53.16.

Fourth-year Austin Ramirez (Brookfield, Wisc./Brookfield) won his secondindividual ACC title of the 2000 meet by winning the 200 freestyle in apersonal-best 1:37.12. Third-year Troy Johnson (St. George, Utah/Dixie)finished right behind Ramirez in second place with a career best time of1:37.49. In the 100 breaststroke, second-year Ed Moses (Burke, Va./Burke)won with a time of 52.82 after setting the conference, ACC Meet and schoolrecords in the prelims (52.60). First-year Jonathan Baird (Nashville,Tenn./Montgomery Bell Academy) placed fifth with a time of 55.83. Thefifth individual event winner for the ‘Hoos Friday evening was fourth-yearJared Felker (Yarmouth, Maine/Mercersburg Academy) in the 100 butterfly.Felker, who won the prelims in 48.52, bettered that mark with a winningeffort of 48.41 in the final. The Cavaliers also took the fifth and sixthspots in the 100 fly. First-year Evan Taylor (Issaquah, Wash./Issaquah)was fifth (48.68) and second-year Matt Lee (Munster, Ind./Munster) tooksixth place (48.96).

Virginia’s fifth win of the evening came in the 800 free relay as theCavaliers posted a winning time of 6:33.95. The Cavaliers won the event bymore than four seconds over UNC in posting an NCAA “B” qualifying time.Finch, first-year Chris Mousetis (Newport News, Va./Woodside), Johnson andRamirez swam legs on the relay that recorded the second fastest 800 freerelay time in school history. UVa also came in second in the 200 medleyrelay in a school record time of 1:28.16. Mousetis, Moses, Finch andFelker comprised the record-setting 200 medley relay. In addition toswimming on the two relays, Mousetis also finished second in the 100backstroke with a time of 49.13.

Other UVa competitors in consolation and bonus consolation finals on Fridayinclude:

The 2000 ACC Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships conclude on Saturdaywith preliminaries beginning at 11:00 a.m. and finals commencing at 7:00p.m. The entire results of the ACC meet can be obtained on UNC’s websiteat www.tarheelblue.com