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Hersey takes fifth in 200 individual medley at NCAA Championships
03.18.2010 | Women's Swimming and Diving
March 18, 2010
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Texas sophomore Kathleen Hersey took fifth place in the 200-yard individual medley to lead the Longhorns' contingent Thursday in day one of the 2010 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships.
The Longhorns ended day one in 10th place with 38 points. Stanford leads the meet with 142.5 points, and Georgia is in second with 134 points. California sits in third with 122 points.
Hersey finished in fifth place in the 200 IM with a mark of 1:56.42 and secured her fourth career individual All-America finish at the NCAA Championships. Stanford's Julia Smit claimed the event in 1:53.56.
Texas opened the evening with a sixth-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle relay consolation final with a time of 1:30.80. Sophomore Karlee Bispo led off in 22.68, and freshman Bethany Adams split 22.71 on the second leg. Freshman Kelsey Amundsen split 22.42 on the third leg, and sophomore Katie Riefenstahl anchored in 22.99.
Freshman diver Maren Taylor added six points for the Horns with a third-place finish in one-meter diving consolation round. Taylor placed 11th overall with 302.25 points. The Longhorns capped the night with a third-place finish in the 400 medley relay consolation final. Riefenstahl led off in 54.15 on the backstroke before freshman Laura Sogar split 59.72 on the breaststroke. Hersey split 52.51 on the butterfly before Bispo anchored in 48.48.
Day two of the NCAA Championships gets underway Friday at 10 a.m. Central. Live results and video links are available at NCAA.com.
2010 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships - Evening Finals
200 Freestyle Relay (Consolation Final)
6 Bispo (22.68), Adams (22.71), Amundsen (22.42), Riefenstahl (22.99) - 1:30.80
200 Individual Medley (Championship Final)
5. Kathleen Hersey - 1:56.42
One-Meter Diving (Consolation Final)
3. Maren Taylor - 302.25
400 Medley Relay (Consolation Final)
3 Riefenstahl (54.15), Sogar (59.72), Hersey (52.51), Bispo (48.48) - 3:34.86
Morning Preliminary Round
200 Freestyle Relay
13. Bispo (22.66), Adams (22.50), Powers (22.45), Riefenstahl (22.48) - 1:30.09
500 Freestyle
41. Leah Gingrich - 4:46.12
200 IM
4. Kathleen Hersey - 1:55.76
29. Laura Sogar - 1:59.77
50. Spindrift Beck - 2:01.29
50 Freestyle
22. Karlee Bispo - 22.55
44. Kelsey Amundsen - 23.02
45. Bethany Adams - 23.03
48. Brie Powers - 23.05
400 Medley Relay
10. Guro (53.89), Sogar (59.53), Hersey (52.16), Bispo (48.82) - 3:34.40
One-Meter Diving
14 Maren Taylor - 292.35
30. Diana Wilcox - 253.85
POST-MEET COMMENTS
Texas head coach Kim Brackin
"Laura Sogar had some nice (breaststroke) splits on the medley relay. You saw that she's very competitive. She did a great job of putting us in the race in the morning and at night. She's an aggressive racer, and I look forward to watching her tomorrow. Maren Taylor did a great job as a freshman to come in composed, dive consistently well and get in the meet the first day. I'm really proud of her, and Diana Wilcox as well. She did a great job of putting herself in a position to dive really well the next two days. I look forward to watching my whole team push through adversity and figure out a way to get better each session. We're obviously at a bump in the road right here, but they're not quitters. We're going to keep pushing."
