Eagles Finish Third At CCSA Championships

Wednesday, February 18

Athens, Ga.

All Day

Georgia Southern University

3rd

CCSA Championships

400 Free Relay Team Set A School Record In 3:23.08

2/21/2015 8:43:00 PM | Swimming and Diving

Over 10 School Records Set Over The 4 Day Meet

By: Erika Brennan

Athens, Ga. – The Georgia Southern Swimming and Diving team finished 3rd at the Coastal Carolina Swimming Association Conference Championships. Day Four featured preliminaries and finals in the 1650 Free, 200 Back, 100 Free, 200 Breast and 200 Fly.

Florida Gulf Coast was crowned conference champions as they finished with a team score of 1575. Liberty was 2nd with 1239. The Eagles finished with a team total of 1110. Gardner-Webb and Incarnate Word were 4th and 5th respectively with 1026 and 851 points.

"I thought we swam a great meet," said Head Coach Nate Kellogg. "On paper, coming in to the meet we were 5th, so to finish 3rd is just a testament to how hard these girls have worked all year. They are a great group of girls and are so easy to coach. We put ourselves in position to do well with how we swam in the preliminaries, and although we were a bit fatigued tonight, we got the job done."

In the 200 Back, Christina Moran set a school record during the preliminaries when she finished 5th with a time of 2:00.09. In the finals, Moran was 6th touching in 2:01.15. Teammate Sarah Schwartz finished 12th in 2:03.56

Elaina Lanson took 4th in the 100 Free with a time of 50.65. Kaylyn Thomas managed a 13th place showing in 52.60.

In the 200 Breast, Amber Cortazzo was 9th with a time of 2:19.56. Teammate Madison Lichtefeld finished 12th in 2:21.51.

Lauren Campbell set a school record during the preliminaries of the 200 Fly when she finished 5th with a time of 2:03.88. In the finals, Campbell finished 7th in 2:06.74, Megan Liebl was 8th in 2:10.34, Megan Heller finished 13th in 2:06.46 and Katlyn Jones was 15th in 2:10.87.

The 400 Free Relay team of Kylee Parsons, Moran, Thomas and Lanson finished 3rd to close the meet with a school record time of 3:23.08.

The CCSA is comprised of 11 schools on the women's side - Campbell, Florida Gulf Coast, Gardner-Webb, Georgia Southern, Howard, Incarnate Word, Liberty, North Carolina A&T, North Florida, UNC-Asheville and VMI.

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