February 18, 2008
Contact: Leah Melichar
Limestone College Sports Information
Phone: 864-488-8219
lmelichar@limestone.edu

LIMESTONE SWIMMING RECORDS 32 ALL-CONFERENCE FINISHES AND 24 NCAA NATIONAL CUT TIMES AT BLUEGRASS MOUNTAIN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Limestone College men’s and women’s swim teams had 24 NCAA National cut times, set 20 new school records, and had 32 All-Conference finishes at the Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships on February 13-16.

In order to be named All-Conference, an individual swimmer must have finished in the top six of an event, and a relay team must have finished in the top three.

Swimmers earning All-Conference honors included Craig Jordens (Cape Town, South Africa), Chris Harrigan (Greenville, S.C.), Anders Melin (Karlstad, Sweden), Goran Majlat (Split Croatia), Chad McKenzie (Durban, South Africa), Ines Speranda (Split, Croatia), Molly Reichwald (Atlanta, Ga.), Marija Grubic (Split, Croatia), Jenna Arington (Pittsford, N.Y.), Ryan Mead (Lexington, S.C.), Zeljko Karaman (Split, Croatia), Jessi Sullivan (Lancaster, S.C.), Matt Parsonage (Durban, South Africa), Linvern Lim (Port Dixon, Malaysia), Carmen Adams (Conway, S.C.), and Donna Wickham (Tacarigua, Trinidad & Tobago).

Limestone athletes earning NCAA “A” cut times at the meet include Jordens, Harrigan, Melin, Majlat, Parsonage, Lim, McKenzie, and Wickham. The following swimmers earned “B” cut times: Harrigan, McKenzie, Lim, Melin, Majlat, Harrigan, Parsonage, Wickham, and Grubic.

Limestone heads to the NCAA Division II National Championships on March 12-15 in Columbia, Mo., at the Mizzou Aquatic Center .The University of Missouri, Rolla is the host for this year’s national championships.

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