UA Swim and Dive Sixth After Day One of MAC Championships

Thursday, February 23

University of Akron

6th/8 -- 95 Points

MAC Championships

UA Swim and Dive Sixth After Day One of MAC Championships

February 23 | Women's Swimming & Diving

AKRON, Ohio – The University of Akron swimming and diving team stands sixth after day one of the 2012 Mid-American Conference Swimming and Diving Championships at Ocasek Natatorium.

UA compiled 95 points on the first day of competition. Ohio leads the meet with 239 points.

Senior Leeanna Hoover was the top UA finisher of Friday's finals session, claiming sixth in the 1-meter springboard. Hoover finished with a six-dive total of 287.70. Carla McNamara took ninth in the event with a score of 288.80 after qualifying into the consolation finals in this afternoon's prelims.

Becca Zimmer was Akron's top individual finisher in the swimming events, taking fifth in the 500-yard freestyle in 4:56.30. Claire Liechty of Toledo won the event in an Ocasek Natatorium record time of 4:44.62.

Jessica Ickes took 12th in the 50-yard freestyle in a final time of 23.42, lowering the career-best she recorded in the morning prelims by .02. Buffalo's Mallory Morrell took first in an Ocasek record time of 22.59.

Rachel Szymkowiak and Kelsea Cross took 13th and 15th in the 200-yard individual medley. Szymkowiak lowered her prelim time by over a second, finishing in a career-best time of 2:03.53. Her time was just .01 off Kendall Karchner's UA record in the event. Cross finished in 2:05.20. Brittany Kuras of Buffalo won the event with a pool record of 1:59.84.

UA's 200-yard freestyle relay took seventh in the night's opening event. The squad of Ickes, Taylor Hart, Molly Raspopovich, and Meg Finnerty swam the third-fastest time in school history, finishing in 1:34.42. The 400-yard medley relay of Cross, Kendra Colby, Cat Carr, and Ickes also took seventh. Their time of 3:45.48 was also the third-fastest mark in UA history.

The 2012 MAC Swimming and Diving Championships continue tomorrow with prelims at 11 a.m. and finals at 7 p.m. at Ocasek Natatorium. Fans not in attendance are encouraged to follow all the action via live stats and live streaming video.