St Lucia's top male and female swimmers make Splash at Collegiate Championships

St Lucia's top male and female swimmers make Splash at Collegiate Championships

 

St Lucias top male and female swimmers, Danielle Beaubrun and Jordan Augier starred in their respective Conferences in USA as one concludes and the other initiates their NCAA career.

 

 At the 2013 Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association (CCSA) Championship at the Gabrielson Natatorium on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, Beaubrun concluded an impressive meet, winning two Gold and two Silver medals and making two NCAA “B” cuts.

 

It was a gutsy performance over the weekend 21st to 23rd  February by the Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) Engineering Senior Beaubrun who won the Silver  medal in the 100 yd breaststroke event and Gold in the 200 and 400 yd medley relays and Silver in the 200 yd free Relay. Her splits for both relays were the fastest for the meet enabling their first place finishes

 

The FGCU Swimming and Diving team took home three of a possible seven first-place finishes on the final day to clinch its fifth-straight Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association (CCSA) Conference Championship

 

FGCU finished first with 712 points, followed by Liberty (609), Georgia Southern (482.5), College of Charleston (353.5) and Gardner-Webb (349) to round out the top five teams.

 

 “It’s great to win our fifth title. It was an up and down day with two disqualifications and it turned out the relay was legal,” said four-time Coach of the Year Neal Studd. “We did not let it spoil our day, I want to thank my team and awesome coaches for a spectacular year.”

 

Studd was named Coach of the Year for the fourth time while first-year diving coach David Boyko received Diving Coach of the Year.

 

The Eagles will now prepare for the NCAA Diving Zones and NCAA Championships next month. The NCAA Diving Zones will take place March 11-13 while the NCAA Championships will be March 21-23.

 

 

 

As Beaubrun concluded her NCAA career on a high note, Jordan Augier began his sojourn with an impressive relay Bronze

 

Freshmans Augiers team the Tampa Men's Swim Team competed at the Sunshine State Conference Championships, in which they placed 3rd overall to 2nd place Nova South Eastern, the two time defending champs, and New Conference Champions Florida Southern.

 

Jordan Augier had an outstanding meet and was a major contributor towards his teams success. He swam 3 Individual events and 1 Relay, finishing with 3 personal best times as well as a personal best split on the 400 Free Relay which also happened to be the fastest split on his team, (44.92 sec.). His results over the weekend were as follows:

50 yard Free 8th place - 20.96 - Division 2 B standard time (DIIB)
100 yard Back: 9th place - 51.46 (winner of consolation final)
100 yard Free: 5th place - 45.53  - Division 2 B standard time (DIIB) - (top finisher for his school in this event)
400 yard Free Relay - 3rd place - 3:01.12 - Division 2 B standard (DIIB)

 

Further north at the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Championships. Freshman Jon L Innocent Dolor scored valuable points for his Rose Hulman Mens Team in the 100 yard breaststroke, swimming in the consolation final, placing 14th with a time of 1:02.75 sec., a personal best performance for the season. He also swam the 200 yard Individual Medley (IM) finishing in 21st place with another personal best time of 2:12.08 sec.

 

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT) completed the best team swimming weekend in school history with 20 school records, 15 NCAA Division III automatic or provisional qualification swims, 14 all-conference awards, five event victories and two NCAA Division III national qualifiers at the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Championships.

 

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