Emory Swimming & Diving Aims to Make it 12-Straight at the 2010 UAA Championships
The Emory University swimming and diving teams will have an
opportunity to win their 12th-consecutive University
Athletic Association (UAA) Championships at home this week, as the
Eagles will host the conference championship meet from Wednesday,
February 17th through Saturday, February
20th.
The meet will be held in the Madeleine Jude Brown Aquatic Center at
the Woodruff Physical Education Center on the Emory University
campus. The diving events will begin on Wednesday with the
preliminaries of the women's 1-meter dive at 12:45 PM and the
finals at 5:30 PM, and continue daily through the next three days
of the meet. The swimming events will commence at 10:00 AM
daily on Thursday, Friday and Saturday with the preliminaries, and
the finals will start each day at 6:00 PM.
For more information on the meet, including parking directions,
psych sheets, live results and video webcast information, please
visit the
official website of the 2010 UAA Championships.
The Emory women won their 17th-overall title, and
11th-straight, at the UAA Championships in Chicago last
season. Emory scored 1,876.5 points, 422 points ahead of
second-place New York University. Returning individual UAA
champions for Emory include Liz Horvat (500 Free,
400 IM), Ruth Westby (200 Free), Jennifer
Aronoff (100 Breast) and Marie Kim (200
Breast). The Eagles also won the women's 400-yard medley
relay, 200-yard medley relay, 800-yard freestyle relay and 400-yard
freestyle relay in 2009.
The men scored 1,694.5 points to win last year's conference
championship, 161 points better than second-place Carnegie Mellon
University. The championship was the 11th-overall
for the Eagles' men's squad. Emory will be returning the 2009
UAA Rookie of the Year Paul Weinstein, in addition
to three-event champions Tom DiMarco (200 IM, 200
Free, 200 Fly). The Eagles also had the winning 200-yard
medley relay team last year.
Fans unable to attend the meet will be able to follow online
through live results for the swimming events, and a live webcast
available from the UAA Championship
website. Results and recaps from the meet will be posted
daily to EmoryAthletics.com.
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