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ACC Women's Championships Finals
Tar Heel Women Remain In Second After Day Two Of ACCs
February 18, 2010 | Swimming & Diving
Feb. 18, 2010
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Led by second-place finishes by Layne Brodie and Rebecca Kane and third-place finishes by Katura Harvey and the 200-yard freestyle relay, the North Carolina women's swimming and diving team remained in second place after the second day of the 2010 ACC Women's Swimming & Diving Championships at Koury Natatorium.
The Tar Heels finished the night in second place with a score of 225 behind Virginia who leads with a score of 300. Florida State resides in third with a score of 202.
In the finals of the 500-yard freestyle, the Tar Heels had two swimmers, junior teammates Ashley Miller and Katura Harvey. Miller had a career best time by four seconds with her prelim swim of 4:47.18, putting her in eighth going into finals. Harvey went into finals in fifth place after swimming a prelims time of 4:45.34. In the finals, Harvey led the pack at the 200, flipping at 1:50.49. Harvey finished in third for the Tar Heels going a time of 4:43.73, a NCAA "B" qualifying time. Miller finished the race in eighth with a time of 4:47.95, also a NCAA "B" qualifying time.
Freshman Stephanie Eisenring and senior Ashley Howard represented the UNC women in the consolation final. Eisenring touched in seventh with a career best time of 4:49.29 and Howard followed in eighth with a time of 4:49.77.
Sophomore Katelyn Martin swam the first race of the night for the Heels. Martin touched in a time of 4:52.42, three seconds faster than her prelims swim, which put her third in the bonus consolation final of the 500 free.
The UNC women raced well in the morning session of the 200-yard IM, putting four women in the championship final to race four Virginia swimmers. Sophomore Layne Brodie finished in second for the Heels, going a time of 1:58.77. Following Brodie was sophomore Sarah Tanner in sixth with a time of 2:00.57, senior Alison Clemens in seventh with her career best time of 2:00.67 and freshman Rebecca Brooks in eighth place, touching in a time of 2:00.84. All of those times are NCAA "B" qualifying times.
Junior Rebecca Kane was seeded second going into finals Thursday night in the 50 free with a time of 22.45. Kane placed second in finals with a time of 22.41, which equaled her previous career best time which she recorded a year ago at the ACC Championships. Kane was .01 off the UNC school record for the second year in a row. The record is 22.40 seconds and was set by Richelle Fox in 1998.
Senior Megan Steeves represented the Tar Heels in the consolation final of the 50 free, touching in first with a season best time of 22.82, a little over a tenth of a second off her career best time of 22.70.
The Tar Heels had two swimmers in the bonus heat of the 50-yard freestyle, freshman Katie Nolan and senior Eliza Butts. Nolan finished in fifth in a time of 23.32 and Butts in fourth with 23.23, both season best times.
On the one-meter diving board, freshman Chay Malvasio went into finals in fifth place after scoring 266.30 in the morning session. Malvasio finished in eighth place at finals with a score of 248.65. Sophomore Jenna Moore finished ninth in one-meter with a score of 252.00.
The UNC women went into the 200-yard freestyle relay seeded fourth and finished in third place with a time of 1:30.10, a new school record. Rebecca Kane led off with a 22.46, followed by Megan Steeves with a 22.41, then Eliza Butts going 22.68, and anchor Katie Nolan who went a time of 22.55. The top three teams, Virginia, Maryland and UNC all went under the previous pool record of 1:31.09 set in 2007 by Clemson.
"Tonight was a terrific session," said UNC head coach Rich DeSelm. "We had four girls in the 200 IM to match up with Virginia. Brodie's second place finish was fantastic and Rebecca Kane's 50 was great, only a hundredth off the school record for the second year."
"The 200-yard freestyle relay was a school record. It was very impressive that the girls could beat last year's record without the same fast suits," said DeSelm.
The meet will resume Friday morning at 11 a.m. for prelims of the 400-yard IM, 100-yard backstroke, 100-yard breaststroke, 100-yard butterfly and the 200-yard freestyle as well as three-meter diving.
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