SUWANEE, Ga. - The SCAC will be well represented at the NCAA Division III National Swimming and Diving Championship Meet which begins March 23rd on the campus of the University of Tennessee. Beloit College and the College of Wooster are serving as hosts of this year's championship meet. Official Psych Sheet
On the men's side, 2011 SCAC Swimmer of the Meet Jordan DeGayner of Colorado College and University of the South's Phillip Link will both compete in three individual events. As a sophomore last year, DeGayner earned honorable mention all-American honors in the 100-yard freestyle and will again compete in that event this year. He will also compete in the 50 and 200-yard freestyle. Link, a sophomore competing in his first NCAA national meet, will swim in 200-yard IM as well as the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke.
DePauw University - the 2011 SCAC men's champions – will be led by sophomore Matt Kukurugya who is the lone DU Tiger competing in an individual event. Kukurugya will swim in both the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke events. DePauw will also send relay teams to compete in the 200-yard medley relay as well as the 200, 400 and 800-yard freestyle relays.
For the women, Centre College, DePauw, Southwestern University and Trinity will all have individuals represented at the 2011 Swimming and Diving National Championships.
Centre will be led by 2011 SCAC Swimmer of the Meet, first-year Clark Weber. Weber will compete in three individual events including the 200, 500 and 1650-yard freestyle. Colleen Maggard, who earned honorable mention all-American honors as a freshman in 2009 as a member of the 200-yard medley relay team, joins teammate Weber in representing the Colonels at the NCAA National Meet. The junior will swim in three individual events at the 2011 national meet, including the 50-yard freestyle and the 100 and 200-yard backstroke.
DePauw sends three time all-American Catie Baker as its lone individual to represent the Indiana Tigers at the 2011 national meet. Baker will swim the 200-yard IM along with the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke.
Southwestern will be represented by Sarah Ayers who will swim a trio of individual events including the 50 and 100-yard freestyle as well as the 100-yard backstroke.
Trinity does not have any female swimmers, but does have two divers that will represent the school and the conference at the national meet. Hayley Emerick and Ruth Hahn will both compete in the 1 and 3-meter spring board events. Hahn was named the 2011 SCAC Diver of the Meet while Emerick enters as the defending 3-meter national champion.
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