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NCAA Women's Finals
Women's Swimmers Tied For 23rd At NCAA Championships
March 19, 2011 | Swimming & Diving
March 19, 2011
AUSTIN, TEXAS - The North Carolina women's swimming and diving team finished in a tie for 23rd place in the 2011 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships at the Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swim Center on the University of Texas campus. North Carolina finished the final day of competition with 40 points.
Several Tar Heels were in action Saturday with junior Laura Moriarty posting the highest finish of the day with a 17th-place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke.
Senior Rebecca Kane had an excellent swim in the 100-yard freestyle after setting a school record in the 50-yard freestyle on Thursday. Kane went 48.98 in the preliminaries on Saturday for a career best time. She had been 49.08 as a sophomore in 2009. Her time Saturday was only nine one-hundredths of a second off the school record set by Richelle Fox in 1998. Kane finished 21st in the event on Saturday.
In the 1650-yard freestyle, senior Ashley Miller led the Tar Heel contingent with a 30th-place finish at 16:21.56. Freshman Emily Kelly was 35th in 16:29.52, a time which was less than two seconds off her season best time of 16:27.85. Senior Katura Harvey finished 37th with a time of 16:38.19. Kelly's split at the 1000-yard mark of 9:57.94 was her best time of the season at that distance.
Sophomore Carly Smith, who earned first-team All-America honors Friday night in the 100-yard backstroke, did not fare as well in the 200-yard backstroke as she placed 20th in a time of 1:55.08.
In addition to Kane's outstanding performance in the 100 free, sophomore Stephanie Eisenring finished 56th in the event in 50.25. That time was just off Eisenring's career best of 49.80.
North Carolina had two competitors turn in excellent performances in the 200-yard breaststroke with both Laura Moriarty and Layne Brodie placing in the Top 20. Moriarty missed the consolation final by just three on-hundredths of a second, clocking a 2:11.16 for 17th place. Brodie was just two spots behind Moriarty as she finished 19th in 2:11.55.
Carolina's 400-yard freestyle relay finished 22nd in a time of 3:20.22. The relay consisted of Rebecca Kane (49.30), Stephanie Eisenring (50.07), Katie Nolan (50.28) and Stephanie Peacock (50.57).
