Swimming and Diving Sweep America East Championships

The UMBC men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams became the first in the history of the conference to win back-to-back dual conference championships. The men’s team set a new championship meet record with 929 points and became the first team to ever win five straight conference titles, in addition to winning their 11th straight league title, while the women amassed a total of 741 points.

The women’s team entered the final day of competition 11 points behind meet leader Boston University and crowned three conference champions en route to their second straight conference championship. The men broke their own championship meet record of 920 points set in 2005 by scoring 929 points.

After earning his third second individual title of the weekend in the 200 butterfly, freshman Brad Reitz was named the Most Outstanding Male Rookie and senior Eric Skrabacz earned the Coaches’ Award for most points scored by a male senior over four years (142).

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Justin Bronson (this page) won gold medals in the 100 and 200-yard freestyles and as part of the 400 and 800-yard freestyle relays, silver in the 500-yard freestyle, and bronze as part of the 400-yard medley relay.  His time of 1:38.65 in the 200 freestyle was a school record and the relay of Bronson, freshmen Brad Reitz and Keilan Freeman and junior Freddie Reitz set a new school record and America East Championship meet record with their time of 6:42.44.

Tina Cantwell (homepage photo) won gold medals in the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke events and as part of the 400-yard medley relay and bronze as part of the 200 medley relay.  Her time of 1:03.58 was a school record and the relay of sophomore Tereza Kaplanova, Cantwell, junior Daniele Surkovich and senior Lindsey Engler set a new school record and America East Championship meet record with their time of 3:49.11.

(2/18/08)