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Mar 7, 2008

NEWMAC Student-Athletes to Compete at NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving National Championship

BABSON PARK, Mass. -- The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) will be represented by 12 student-athletes at the upcoming NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving National Championships.

Leading the way is 2008 NEWMAC Champion Springfield College, who will send two swimmers and three divers to the event.  MIT will be represented by three student-athletes while Wellesley will send two.  Rounding out the NEWMAC competitors, Smith and Coast Guard will each have a student-athlete at the championships.

For Springfield, Moira Price (Berkeley Heights, N.J.) goes into the competition as the number five seed in the 50-freestyle (23.69).  Price is the second seed in the 100-breaststroke (1:04.59) and is the top seed in the 200 breaststroke (2:19.32). Also swimming for Springfield, Kallie Pottle (Brewer, Maine) qualified to compete in the 200 backstroke with a seed-time of 2:07.39.

On the diving boards, Springfield will send a trio of divers in Erin White (Glastonbury, Conn.), Melissa Nelson (Wallingford, Conn.), and Michelle Reggio (Brooklyn, N.Y.).  Each has qualified on both the one- and three-meter boards and combine to give Springfield the distinction of being the only team at the event represented by three divers.

MIT diver Doria Holbrook (Yakima, Wash.) returns for her fourth-consecutive trip to the NCAA Championships.  The senior already has two national titles to her credit (3-meter: 2007, 2005) and owns a host of school and conference records.  Her score of 593.30 at the NEWMAC Championships was the highest by any Division III diver in the country this season.

In the pool for MIT, the Engineers will be represented by senior Sasha Brophy (Cupertino, Calif.) and first-year Amy Jacoby (Cranbury, N.J.).  Brophy, in her second trip to the Championships, will compete in the 100-yard, 200-yard and 500-yard freestyle events.  Jacoby will compete in the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly, where she's seeded 8th in with a time of 57.67.

For Wellesley, senior diver Kate Sorenson (Bolton, Mass.) makes her first NCAA National Championship appearance after a third-place finish in the three-meter event, and a fifth-place finish in the one-meter board at the NEWMAC Championships.  Also representing Wellesley, first-year Cathy Poon (McLean, Va.) will compete in the 50-freestyle where she is seeded 10th with a time of 24.00.

Smith is represented by senior diver Shanti Freitas (Evanston, Ill.), who finished second in both the one- and three-meter events at the NEWMAC Championships.   Making her third appearance at the NCAA Championships, Freitas took third place in the three-meter event in 2006.

Senior Joan Hunter (Warren, Pa.) will represent Coast Guard at the Championships.  Seeded eighth in the 50-free style with a time of 23.97, Hunter earned second-team All-Conference honors in the event at the NEWMAC Championships. 

The 2008 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships will be held from March 13-15 at Miami University's Corwin M. Nixon Aquatic Center in Oxford, Ohio.  The event is hosted by the College of Wooster.