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Florida rallied during the second day of the NCAA 2011 Women’s
Swimming and Diving Championships, improving from 10th to seventh
place.
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“I’m really proud of how well our women battled today,” head coach
Gregg Troy said. “We weren’t on all cylinders yesterday, but came
in to this morning and did a great job. We raced real tough, and I
could not have been more proud.”
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Freshman Elizabeth Beisel led the team with the highest finish,
placing second in the 400-yard individual medley. Her time of
4:00.87 was faster than the previous pool record and fell just
short of her Southeastern Conference record and personal-best time
of 4:00.83 she set at the 2011 SEC Championships.
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Junior Teresa Crippen placed seventh (4:05.36) the 400 IM finals,
taking her team-best eighth All-American honor.
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Crippen and Beisel, along with junior Shara Stafford and sophomore
Jamie Bohunicky, finished fifth (7:00.89) in the finals of the 800
free relay. The relay, which was the day’s last event, earned the
team the points needed to advance to seventh place.
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“We struggled a little bit with leadership, but we found some this
weekend,” Troy said. “These girls took control last night and they
made a commitment to come in today and get some things done.”
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Another leader for the women was senior Monica Dodson, who took
fifth place (350.85 points) in the three-meter diving competition.
This finish was her highest in any NCAA Championships event.
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“I’m so excited for Monica,” head diving coach Donnie Craine said.
“She’s never made the finals on any of the springboard events. She
came in after winning the SEC Championship in the three-meter and
made that her goal (to final). She did it and who knows what’s
going to happen tomorrow (on the platform).”
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Florida goes into the last day of competition with 149 points,
trailing leader California by 146 points. After Day 2 in last
year’s NCAA Championships, UF went on to win for the first time in
28 years after sitting in fifth with 236 points.
