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Feb. 11, 2004
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The University of Virginia will host the 2004 Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s and Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships at the UVa Aquatic and Fitness Center. The eight-team Women’s ACC Championships will be held Wednesday through Saturday, February 18-21 at the AFC, while the eight-team Men’s ACC Championships will be conducted Wednesday through Saturday, February 25-28. Admission to both championships is free of charge.
Preliminaries for both championships will be held Thursday through Saturday and will begin at 11:00 a.m. (there are no prelims on the Wednesday of each championship). Finals will commence at 7:00 p.m. daily. One-meter diving preliminaries will be held approximately 90 minutes after the conclusion of swimming prelims on the Thursday of both the women’s and men’s meets with finals the same evening. Three-meter diving prelims will take place approximately 90 minutes after Friday’s second day of swimming prelims with finals being held on the fourth and final night (Saturday) of the respective championships.
Virginia, currently ranked 18th in the January 29 College Swim Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Top 25 Poll, is the defending ACC women’s champion. The Cavaliers won the 2003 ACC Championships, held in Chapel Hill, N.C., with 710 points, while North Carolina was second with 609 points. The Tar Heels won the 2000, 2001, and 2002 ACC titles and are currently ranked 15th in the CSCAA Poll. Florida State is the 17th ranked team in the poll, while Maryland is 19th. Florida State and Maryland were third and fourth, respectively, in the 2003 ACC Championships.
The Virginia men are five-time defending ACC champions, having won every ACC team title since 1999. The Cavaliers are ranked ninth in the CSCAA Top 25 Poll. UVa won the 2003 ACC title in Chapel Hill, N.C. with 780 points, while Florida State was second with 557 points, just edging host North Carolina which was third with 555.5 points. The Tar Heels are currently ranked 24th in the CSCAA poll, while Clemson is 25th.
Virginia hosted the ACC Swimming and Diving Championships at the Aquatic and Fitness Center in 2001 and 1998 with the men’s team winning the conference title in 2001 and the women team taking the ACC crown in 1998.