Top 20 Moments - Women's Swimming & Diving

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #20
March 13-15, 2008
Rhodes College's junior Sallye Hartman places 15th in the 100 breaststroke, earning Honorable Mention All-America honors at the 2008 NCAA Division III Women's Swimming & Diving Championship meet in Oxford, Ohio. Hartman broke her own school record in the event with a finishing time of 1:06.59. The finish was worth two points for Rhodes in the team standings, giving the SCAC its sixth different women's swimming program to score at the national meet since the league began sponsoring a championship in the sport in 1999.

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #19
February 17-20, 2010
Trinity University sets new conference standards with its seventh straight and 10th overall SCAC Women's Swimming & Diving Championship at the 2010 conference meet. The Tigers hold off runner-up DePauw University by a score of 914-865.5 - the second closest finish in the history of the SCAC women's meet. Trinity junior diver Hayley Emerick becomes the first female diver to win three consecutive championships on each of the competition boards and earns Emerick SCAC Female Diver of the Meet honors in the process.

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #18
February 11-14, 2009
The Centre College women became just the second program to sweep all five relays at the SCAC championship meet, and in the process, set new conference records in four of the five wins. The 200 freestyle relay team of Meredith Angel, Lauren Gates, Colleen Maggard and Caroline Stephens set a new SCAC record with a time of 1:36.62 (since broken). The time was good enough for an NCAA "B" cut. The 400 medley relay team of Maggard, Angel, Lis Starr and Gates set a new SCAC record with a finishing time of 3:51.45 and another NCAA "B" cut. A night later, it was Angel, Maggard, Caitlin Rhodes and Starr that blazed to a new conference mark and another NCAA "B" cut in the women's 200 medley relay (1:46.17). Later that night, Amber Lyvens, Trinity Hochstetler, Sadie Allen and Gates won the 800 freestyle relay with a finishing time of 7:55.70. Although it was not a record swim, it was the second-fastest time in conference meet history. And in the final relay and event of the 2009 meet, Maggard, Starr, Allen and Angel swam a record time of 3:31.82 in the 400 freestyle relay - good for a NCAA "B" cut. Behind the strength of its relay teams and Meredith Angel, who earned SCAC Swimmer of the Meet honors, the Centre College women posted their highest team finish ever with a second-place showing behind SCAC champion Trinity University.

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #17
March 16-18, 2006
At the 2006 NCAA Division III Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships swam at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center, DePauw University posted a 29th-place team finish (26 points) on the strength of four all-America swims by the relay team of Katie Doogan, Amanda Stier, Megan Davenport and Maddison Hamil. The foursome finished 10th in the 200 free relay (1:37.64), 15th in the 400 free relay (3:36.74), 14th in the 200 medley relay (1:49.47) and 16th in the 400 medley relay (4:04.06).

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #16
March 19-21, 2010
Sophomore Catie Baker of DePauw University, the reigning SCAC Swimmer-of-the-Year, earns three all-America honors at the 2010 NCAA Division III Women's Swimming & Diving Championships at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center. Baker broke her own school record and finished 10th in the 200-yard breaststroke. Her time of 2:20.39 broke her previous mark of 2:20.66. With the 10th-place performance, Baker earned honorable mention all-America honors. Earlier in the Championships, after breaking her own school record in the prelims, she finished sixth in the 100 breast (1:05.01) and 13th in the 200 individual medley (2:06.68). DePauw totaled 26 points and finished 32nd in the final team standings.

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #15
February 20-22, 2003
DePauw University totals 944.5 points and holds off Trinity University which finished with 862.5 points to capture its first SCAC title at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss. In the process, the Tigers become the first team, male or female, to win every relay at the SCAC Championships. Additionally, each of the victories come in SCAC Championship record times. The 200 free relay of Denise Vidas, Lauren Rakes, Katie Payne and Megan Davenport finished in 1:38.29, while the 400 medley relay of Katie Reis, Julie Culbertson, Amy Beth Allen and Davenport won in 3:58.65. The Tigers' 200 medley relay of Reis, Culbertson, Allen and Payne took first in 1:49.93 and the 400 free relay of Vidas, Rakes, Davenport and Payne won in 3:36.35. All four of those relays were completed in NCAA Provisional qualifying time with the 400 free relay breaking an 18-year old DePauw record by just over two seconds. DePauw's 800 free relay of Reis, Rakes, Vidas and Davenport won in 7:56.60 and missed an NCAA provisional time by just .01 seconds. That relay also broke an 18-year old school record by over five seconds.

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #14
February 18-20, 1999
The University of the South-Sewanee women, swimming in their home pool, win the inaugural SCAC Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, out-pointing second-place Trinity University, 899-793. The Tigers are led by first-year swimmer Jane H. Chapman, who is named SCAC Swimmer-of-the-Year after earning wins in the 100 free (53.08), 100 fly (58.77) and 200 IM (2:09.96). Sewanee senior Mackenzie Johnson swept the 1- and 3-meter boards to earn SCAC Diver-of-the-Year honors and Tiger head coach Max Obermiller made it a clean sweep by earning SCAC Coach-of-the-Year.

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #13
February 12-14, 2004
The Trinity University women rolled to their fourth SCAC Swimming and Diving Championship in six years in competition held at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss. The Texas Tigers out-pointed Sewanee, 1,030 to 736, and accumulated the highest team point total as well as the largest margin of victory (294 points) in women’s conference meet history. Junior Lauren Clements (100 and 200 fly), seniors Stephanie Walla (100 and 200 back) and Christy Anderson (100 and 200 breaststroke) were all double winners for Trinity and the Tigers took first place in three of the five relays.

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #12
March 11-13, 2004
First-year Britney McCarthy of Hendrix College becomes the league’s first female diving all-American, finishing in 15th place on the 1-meter board at the 2004 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships held in St. Peters, Mo. McCarthy would go on to post four additional all-America finishes. In 2005, she finished seventh on the 3-meter board and eighth on the 1-meter board. In 2006, McCarthy capped her career with a 10th-place finish on the 1-meter board and a 15th-place finish on the 3-meter board.

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #11
March 19-21, 2009
Trinity University posts its highest-ever national team finish at the 2009 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center, coming in 16th place (59 points) out of 58 schools who scored. Highlighting the historic weekend were the All-American performances of sophomore Haley Emerick and junior Lindsay Martin. On the opening day of the championships, Emerick placed third in the women's 3-meter with a score of 467.80 and Martin placed fifth posting a score of 456.80. Two days later, the duo earned their second All-America honors of the weekend, finishing in the top eight in the 1-meter diving competition. Martin placed third with a score of 441.60 and Emerick placed sixth posting a score of 414.70.

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #10
February 16-19, 2005
Junior Jill Greshowak of Hendrix College captures her third consecutive SCAC Female Diver-of-the-Year award at the 2005 SCAC Women's Swimming & Diving Championships held at the Blossom Athletic Center in San Antonio, Texas – the first female diver in league history to accomplish that feat.

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #9
February 13-16, 2008
DePauw University senior Katie Doogan earns SCAC Swimmer-of-the-Year honors for the second consecutive year and third time for her career after taking first in the 200 backstroke, 200 individual medley and 400 individual medley at the 2008 SCAC Women's Swimming & Diving Championships at the Carroll ISD Natatorium in Southlake, Texas. Doogan becomes the third SCAC female to earn three Swimmer-of-the-Year honors and her 10 individual wins at the conference championship meet are tied for the second-most all-time.

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #8
February 12-14, 2004
Elizabeth Land of The University of the South-Sewanee earns her third consecutive SCAC Female Swimmer-of-the-Year honor – matching the accomplishment of former Sewanee swimmer Jane H. Chapman, who was SCAC Female Swimmer-of-the-Year in 1999, 2000 and 2001, at the 2004 SCAC Women's Swimming & Diving Championships held at Delta State University. Land ends her career with 10 career individual wins (the second-most all-time) - including victories in the 200, 500 and 1,650 freestyle at the 2004 conference meet.

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #7
March 13-15, 2003
Senior Katie Reis of DePauw University earns all-America honors for the fifth time as she placed seventh in the 200 back in 2:08.79. The program's all-time leading point scorer also finished 10th in the 100 back in 59.22 seconds and 21st in the 200 individual medley in 2:10.94 (that time established a school record). DePauw placed 27th at the 2003 NCAA Division III Championships at Emory University in Atlanta. The Tigers totaled 35.7 points for the three-day event. 

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #6
March 14-16, 2002
At the 2002 NCAA Division III Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships hosted by College of Wooster (Ohio), DePauw University finishes tied for 19th after final day All-America performances by Katie Reis - her fourth in two years - in the 200 back (eighth-place finish in 2:11.36) and Amy Beth Allen (12th place with a time of 2:07.64). Earlier in the meet, Reis earned All-America honors with a seventh place finish in the 100 back in 58.41 seconds. Allen earned honorable mention All-America with a ninth-place showing in the 100 fly in a school-record 57.53 seconds. The 200 medley relay of Reis, Julie Culbertson, Allen and Denise Vidas finished 11th in a school-record time of 1:49.24. At the time, it was the highest finish ever for a SCAC swimming team at the national championships.

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #5
February 14-16, 2002
Senior swimmer Jane H. Chapman of The University of the South-Sewanee wins two more individual titles at the 2002 SCAC Swimming and Diving Championships - placing first in the 100 free (53.63) and the 100 breaststroke (1:08.74). The two titles bring her career total to 11 - the most career individual wins in conference championship meet history. Chapman, who was the first swimmer (male or female) to earn SCAC Swimmer-of-the-Year honors three times (1999, 2000 and 2001) in a career, still owns SCAC open records in the 200 free (1:53.69) and 500 free (5:05.90).

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #4
March 8-10, 2001
DePauw University sophomore Katie Reis finishes fourth in 58.30 seconds in the 100 back and eighth in the 200 back in 2:12.26 at the 2001 NCAA Division III Championships in Buffalo, N.Y., and earns all-America honors in both events. The fourth-place finish in the 100 back is (and remains) the highest individual finish by any SCAC female swimmer at the national championship meet. Reis' performances lead the Tigers to a 28th-place team finish (26 points).

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #3
March 11-13, 1999
The University of the South-Sewanee freshman Jane H. Chapman becomes the SCAC's first-ever All-American female swimmer with a sixth-place finish in the 200 free (1:53.69) at the 1999 NCAA Division III Women's Swimming & Diving Championships at Miami (Ohio) University. Chapman also earned honorable mention All-American recognition for her 14th place finish in the 500 free (5:07.06). She led Sewanee to a 34th-place finish (16 points) - the program's highest finish (equaled the following year) at the national meet. First-year Christy Jayne and sophomore Shannon Clower - both of Trinity University - earned honorable mention All-American honors at the 1999 meet. Jayne finished 10th in the 400 IM (4:37.21) and Clower placed 12th in the 1,650 free (17:43.96).

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #2
March 13-15, 2008
The DePauw University women swim to a ninth-place finish (132 points) at the 2008 NCAA Division III Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships at Oxford, Ohio, on the campus of Miami University. The finish is the best by any SCAC swimming team – men’s or women’s – at the national meet. The relay team of Katie Doogan, Katie Massey, Amanda Stier and Maddison Hamil posted all-America finishes in the 200 free (1:36.62 – fifth place); 400 free (3:31.48 – 14th place), 200 medley (1:47.25 – fourth place) and 400 medley relays (3:55.91 – sixth place). The fourth-place finish by the 200 medley team is the best finish ever for a SCAC women's relay team at the national meet. Doogan earned individual all-America honors in the 200 individual medley (2:07.72 – 11th place) and 400 individual medley (4:28.79 – ninth place), Stier in the 100 butterfly (57.93 – 14th place) and 200 butterfly (2:06.95 – eighth place), Callie Boehme in the 1,650 freestyle (17:31.24 – 15th place) and 400 individual medley (4:34.60 – 16th place) and Hamil in the 50 free (24.26 – 15th place).

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING - MOMENT #1
March 19-20, 2010
On back to back days at the 2010 NCAA Division III Women's Swimming & Diving Championships at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center, Trinity University's Lindsay Martin and Hayley Emerick post national championship performances on the 1- and 3-meter boards respectively - producing the first individual national championships for both Trinity and the SCAC in women's swimming and diving history.

Martin captured 1-meter honors, registering a score of 472.25 and outdistancing second-place Sarah Ficarro of SUNY-Fredonia by nearly 15 points (457.30). Emerick posted a winning score of 514.15 in the 3-meter finals, after setting an NCAA record of 517.10 in the preliminaries. Martin finished second on the 3-meter board with a score of 490.90.

The duo led Trinity to a 16th-place team finish (71 points) - tying for the program's highest-ever finish at the national meet.

For more on the top SCAC Women's Swimming & Diving moment, including interviews with both Lindsay Martin and Hayley Emerick, click here.