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March 18, 2000
INDIANAPOLIS – University of Virginia first-year Cara Lane(Charlotte, N.C./Charlotte) won the 1500-meter freestyle title Saturdayevening at the 2000 NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships atIndiana University Natatorium Saturday evening to become the Cavaliersfirst women’s swimming national champion. As a team, Virginia scored 155points to tie with Texas for ninth place.
The ninth place tie is Virginia’s second highest finish at the NCAAChampionships. In 1988, UVa placed seventh for its highest showing. Lastyear, the Cavaliers took 10th place. Georgia won the team championshipwith 490.5 points.
Lane dominated the field in winning the 1500 freestyle in a time of16:03.59, nearly 11 seconds faster than runnerup Trina Jackson of Arizona(16:14.50). Lane also finished 14th in the 200-meter butterfly with a timeof 2:13.26 to earn honorable mention All-America honors in that event.
Lane’s classmate, Mirjana Bosevska (Skopje, Macedonia/Trinity Prep),finished fourth in the 1500-meter freestyle with a time of 16:14.79, justtwo one-hundredths of a second behind third-place finisher Asa Sandlund ofSouthern Cal.
Virginia finished 15th in the consolation finals of the 400-meter freestylerelay with a time of 3:47.46. Fourth-years Rebecca Cronk (Charlottesville,Va./Albemarle) and Kori Forster (New Orleans, La./Benjamin Franklin),third-year Megan Iffland (Wilmington, Del./St. Mark’s) and fourth-yearEmily Trakas (Herndon, Va./Herndon) each swam legs on the honorable mentionAll-American relay team. For Cronk, it marked the school record 19th timethat she earned All-American honors in her stellar career and fifth time ofthe 2000 NCAA Championships.
The Cavaliers had several individuals who competed in the preliminarysession in the afternoon that did not advance to the finals. Ifflandposted a time of 2:13.00 to place 21st in the 200-meter backstroke, whileCronk was 37th in the 100-meter backstroke with a time of 56.67. In the200-meter breaststroke, third-year Valerie Oswald (Charlottesville,Va./McLean) touched in 2:35.09 to finish 30th in that event.
The NCAA Championships were swum in meters for the first time. Completemeet results can be obtained on the NCAA’s home page at www.ncaa.org