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Feb. 21, 2004
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – The University of Virginia won the 2004 Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Swimming and Diving Championship, which was held in the Aquatic and Fitness Center on the grounds of the University of Virginia. This is the Cavaliers’ second consecutive ACC Championship title and fifth overall.
Virginia tallied 675 points in winning the Championship, while North Carolina scored 623.5 to finish second. Florida State finished the meet in third with 611 points, Maryland in fourth with 506 points, Clemson in fifth with 294.5 points, Georgia Tech in sixth with 282 points, Duke in seventh with 262 points and NC State in eighth with 229 points.
Virginia’s Kimi Kelly (Mount Vernon, N.Y./Ursuline School) placed first in the 1650-yard freestyle with an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 16:04.33. Close behind Kelly was teammate Rachael Burke (Bethesda, Md./Good Counsel), who touched the wall second with an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 16:04.46. She set the pool record with her 1000 split of 9:40.35. Maryland’s Elizabeth Lavell took third-place honors with her 16:06.46 performance. Also in the 1650 free, Katie McWilliams (Stratford, Conn./Bunnell) finished fifth (16:35.76), which meets the NCAA “B” or consideration standard. Kate Wrenshall (Pittsburgh, Pa./Bolles School) finished seventh with an NCAA “B” time of 16:40.58.
In the next event of the evening, the 200-yard backstroke, Virginia posted a one-two-three finish. Brielle White (Philadelphia, Pa./Bolles School) finished in first with an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 1:57.13, shattering the ACC, Meet and pool records. Rounding out the top three finishers were Corey Berg (Hyde Park, N.Y./F.D. Roosevelt) and Katie Gordon (Winter Park, Fla./Trinity Prep) with times of 1:59.99 and 2:01.09, respectively.
North Carolina’s Jessi Perruquet took first-place honors in the 100-yard freestyle, with a time of 49.99. Florida State’s Emily Breen placed second, with NC State’s Rebecca Perry claiming third-place honors. First-year Katy Bland (Raleigh, N.C./Leesville) was the Cavalier’s only finalist in the 100 freestyle with an eighth-place finish (51.83).
Florida State’s Emma Dutton won the 200-yard breaststroke with a pool record and NCAA automatic qualifying time of 2:12.76. North Carolina’s Lizzy Bruce and Becky Acker finished second and third, respectively. Jenny Steiner (Lawrenceville, N.J./Lawrenceville) was the top finisher for Virginia, earning fourth-place in a time of 2:16.92, which meets the NCAA consideration standard. In fifth-place for the UVa was Elaine Bennett (Richmond, Va./Douglas Freeman) who also swam an NCAA “B” time of 2:17.43. Bennett went on to swim in the finals of the 200 butterfly where she touched in seventh (2:03.13). Amy Baly (Atlanta, Ga./Marist School) finished eighth in the 200 breaststroke (2:19.15).
In the 18th event of the Championship, the 200-yard butterfly, North Carolina’s Kelly Weeks and Jessie Brosch, placed first and second, respectively. Florida State’s Lisa How touched the wall third. After winning the 1650 free, Kelly swam to a fourth-place finish in the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:01.93.
In three-meter diving, Florida State’s Tiffany Manning set a new pool record, when she scored 538.75 points to win the event. Teammates Brittany Lerew and Courtney McClow placed second and third, respectively.
In the final event of the Championship, Florida State’s Emily Breen, Rachel Dong, Lisa How and Emma Dutton won the 400-yard freestyle relay in a time of 3:21.86. UVa finished sixth in the final event of the championship, the 400 free relay with a time of 3:28.14.
Florida State’s Emma Dutton was named the 2004 Most Valuable Swimmer, after participating in all four of the Seminoles’ winning relays and winning all three individual events she swam in. Florida State’s Tiffany Manning was tabbed the 2004 Most Valuable Diver, having swept the one and three-meter diving events at this year’s Championship.
Amy Baly, Corey Berg, Rachael Burke, Katie Gordon, Kimi Kelly, Rory Schmidt, Brielle White all earned 2004 All-ACC honors by virtue of their top-three finishes at the ACC Championships.