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8 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 9 10 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 11 12 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 13 Athens, Greece (2004) Jorge Oliver Puerto Rico 200 IM Leo Salinas Mexico 400 free, 800 free relay Vesna Stojanovska Macedonia 200 free, 400 free, 200 fly Onur Uras Turkey 100 fly Shilo Sydney, (2000) Ayalon Vesna Stojanovska Macedonia 200 free, 400 free

World Championships Barcelona, Spain [LCM] (2003) Shilo Ayalon Israel 200 free, 400 free, 1500 free Vesna Stojanovska Macedonia 200 free, 400 free, 200 fly Chris Fukuoka, Japan [LCM] (2001) Ewald Shilo Ayalon Israel 200 free, 400 free, 800 free, 1500 free Leo Salinas Mexico 400 free, 800 free, 800 free, 800 free relay Hong Kong, China [SCM] (1999) Vesna Stojanovska Macedonia 200 free, 400 free

Pan American Games , Domincan Republic (2001) Jorge Leo Salinas Mexico 400 free, 1500 free, 800 free relay Oliver

World University Games Beijing, China (2001) Leo Salinas Mexico 400 free, 800 free, 800 free relay

European Championships Leo Budapest, Hungary [LCM] (2006) Salinas Vesna Stojanovska Macedonia 200 free, 400 free, 200 fly Madrid, Spain [LCM] (2004) Shilo Ayalon Israel 400 free, 1500 free Vesna Stojanovska Macedonia 400 free, 200 fly Onur Uras Turkey 50 fly, 100 fly, 200 fly Dublin, Ireland [SCM] (2003) Vesna Stojanovska Macedonia 200 free, 400 free, 200 fly Berlin, Germany [LCM] (2002) Vesna Shilo Ayalon Israel 400 free, 400 IM, 1500 free Stojanovska Helsinki, Finland [LCM] (2000) Shilo Ayalon Israel 400 free, 400 IM, 1500 free

U.S. National Junior Team Brisbane, Australia (2004) Chris Ewald 200 free, 400 free, 1500 free, 200 fly, 400 IM Onur Uras

14 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Fred Lanuoe Athletic Achievement Award The most prestigous award handed out by the team, the Fred Lanuoe Award is given to the student-athlete who brings the highest recognition to the Institute, through their outstanding athletic achievements. Evan Stephanie Stowers Shilo Ayalon Most Valuable Athlete Award This award is presented in recognition to the student-athlete that performed consistently, throughout the season, at the highest level of athletic achievement and contributed to the overall success of the Georgia Tech swimming and diving team. Ryan Stephanie Bishop England Chapman/Hiles Most Improved Athlete Award Named after John Chapman and Johnny Hiles, this award is given to the student-athlete with the greatest athletic improvements throughout the year of competition.

Tommy Towles Scholar-Athlete Award This is award is presented to the student-athlete who possesses the highest Noah Ryann Kopacka level of performance, scholarship and leadership in making Georgia Tech a Copeland better Institute and swimming and diving program. Ofer Finkler J. Herb McAuley Freshman Unity Award Named after longtime coach J. Herb McAuley, this award is given to the student-athlete who exemplifies the standards of leadership and team unity through their personal actions in and out of the swimming and diving pool.

Will Agatha Georgia Tech Hall of Fame Woodworth Kwasnik It is the intent of the Georgia Tech Hall of Fame selection committee to select only those athletes, coaches, managers and trainers whose performances, while at Tech, would be considered outstanding. Tech Swimming and Diving Inductees: Richard Bates Gibby Fraser Richard McKinstry Haskew Brantley Steve Halleck Harry Stover Larry Caghan Johnny Hiles Paul Thompson John B. Chapman Red Hollerman Tommy Towles Thomas K. Cureton, Jr. Fred Lanuoe (coach) Ish Williams Howard Duncan J. Herb McAuley Dave Young Charles Flowers Georgia Tech Hall of Fame The Georgia Tech AquaJackets Booster Club has been created to increase the awareness and interest in Georgia Tech swimming and diving. The Booster Club also provides a forum for those people who may want to be a little more involved than the average fan. In 2003-04, the Georgia Tech swimming and diving team began a capital campaign to raise funds to furnish the newly-renovated Georgia Tech Aquatic Center locker rooms, team lounge and computer lab. This was made possible through a generous gift from: THE DASH FAMILY FOUNDATION Additional gifts were provided by: Russ and Sian Ashenden (1987) Mario DeLaGuardia (1953) Irv Hoffman (1960) Dave Barrales (1972) Barry Folsom (1970) G. Paul Jones, Jr. (1952) Alan Bomar (1984) Larry Garner (1963) Alfred Martin (1979) William Brock (1947) Bryan Graves (1994) Gus Ramirez (1968) David Codelli (1991) R. Page Griffin (1950) Jack Rogers (1957) Gordon Coleman (1948) David Hoadley (1976) A. Chester Skinner (1943) GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 15 Quick Facts/Contents NCAA Championships ...... Men T-37th; Women-N/A Letterwinners Returning ...... Men 20/4; Women 14/4 All-Americans ...... Evan Stowers (Platform/15th) ACC Champions ...... N/A

2007-08 TEAM INFORMATION Newcomers ...... Men 14; Women 10 Returning All-Americans...... Evan Stowers Returning ACC Champions ......

Key Returnees MEN Noah Copeland,Fayetteville, Ga., Freestyle Evan Stowers, Independence, Ky., Diving THE INSTITUTE Onur Uras, Istanbul, Turkey, Fly/IM/Free Official Name ...... Georgia Institute of Technology WOMEN Enrollment ...... 16,000 Stephanie England, Titusville, Fla., Diving Location ...... Atlanta, Ga. Elizabeth Stowe, Lawrenceville, Ga., Distance Free Founded ...... 1885 Agatha Kwasnik, Lake Bluff, Ill., Mid. Distance Free Nicknames ...... Rambling Wreck, Yellow Jackets Key Newcomers Mascots ...... Buzz, 1930 Model “A” Ford MEN Colors ...... Old Gold and White Mickey Malul, Rishun Le-Zion, Israel, 100,200 Breast/Sprint free Institute Website ...... www.gatech.edu Garrett Roberson, Edmond, Okla., Sprint Free/Back Athletic Website ...... www.ramblinwreck.com Travis Wagner, Canton, Ohio, Sprint Free/Fly Facility ...... Georgia Tech Aquatic Center (1,900) WOMEN Conference ...... Atlantic Coast Katie Bond, Alpharetta, Ga., 200 Back/Mid-Distance President ...... Dr. G. Wayne Clough (Georgia Tech, 1964) Christine Chuang, Clarksburg, Md., 100, 200 Fly/Sprint Free Director of Athletics ...... Dan Radakovich (IU of Pa., 1980) Thea Kromer, Arlington, Va., Sprint Free/Fly Senior Women’s Admin...... Theresa Wenzel (Marquette, 1991) CREDITS SPORTS INFORMATION The 2007-08 Georgia Tech swimming and Director ...... Dean Buchan (UNC-Wilmington,1987) diving media guide was written and edited by Dan Goldberger, with assistance from Associate Director ...... Mike Stamus (Virginia Tech, 1982) Erica Littles. Head shots and team Assistant Directors ...... Cheryl Watts (Georgia Tech, 2002) photos taken by Stanley Leary. Action ...... Dan Goldberger (Suny New Paltz, 2003) photos taken by Mitch Guttenplan, Sam Graduate Asst...... Erica Littles (Georgia Southern, 2003) Morgan and Rob Skinner. Outside covers Swimming Contact ...... Seth Gerard (UMass, 2002) designed by Summit Athletics. Printed Office Phone ...... (404) 894-5467 by EBSCO Media of Birmingham, Ala. Cell Phone ...... (774) 279-4461 E-Mail ...... [email protected] SID Fax ...... (404) 894-1248 TABLE OF CONTENTS SWIMMING AND DIVING INFORMATION Page 16 ...... Quick Facts/Table of Contents Head Coach ...... Stu Wilson (Georgia, 1989) Page 18 ...... Men’s Roster Office Phone ...... (404) 385-0521 Pages 19-29 ...... Men’s Profiles E-Mail ...... [email protected] Page 30 ...... NCAA Qualifying Standards Year at Tech ...... Sixth (Third as Head Coach) Page 32 ...... Women’s Roster Overall Record ...... 7-11 (men); 8-12(women) Pages 33-39 ...... Women’s Profiles Assistant Coach ...... Marty Hamburger (Iowa, 1991) Page 40 ...... Head Coach Stu Wilson Year at Tech ...... Third Page 41 ...... Coaching Staff Office Phone ...... (404) 894-1734 Page 42 ...... Tech Administration E-Mail ...... [email protected] Page 43 ...... Support Staff Assistant Coach ...... Hart (Georgia, 2005) Pages 44-45 ...... 2006-07 Season Review Office Phone ...... (404) 894-9736 Pages 46-47 ...... Season Outlook Year at Tech ...... First Page 48 ...... The Atlantic Coast Conference Diving Coach ...... John Ames (Ohio, 1993) Page 49 ...... 2007 ACC Championships Year at Tech ...... Seventh Page 50 ...... Men’s Records Office Phone ...... (404) 385-1293 Page 51 ...... Women’s Records E-Mail ...... [email protected] Pages 52-53 ...... Men’s Honor Roll Student Assistants ...... Ryan Bishop, Tony Burkhardt Page 53 ...... Women’s Honor Roll Manager ...... Courtney Dennis Page 54 ...... All-Time Record vs. Opponents Volunteer Assistants ...... Andy Griffin Page 55 ...... Year-by-Year Results Pages 56-57 ...... Men’s Top Performances 2006-07 TEAM INFORMATION Pages 58-59 ...... Women’s Top Performances Overall Record ...... Men (3-5, 1-3 ACC) Pages 60-61 ...... History ...... Women (4-7, 1-4 ACC) Pages 62-63 ...... All-Time Letterwinners ACC Championships ...... Men-6th; Women-9th Page 64 ...... Georgia Tech Aquatic Center 16 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Men’sMen’s ProfilesProfiles

GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 17 2006-072007-08 Men’sMen’s RosterRoster

Back Row (L-R): Diving Coach John Ames, Michael Vallecoccia, Josh Andrews, Drew Showalter, Michael Bennett, Jacob Tzegaegbe, Peter Doblar, Ralph Long, Greg Tunning, Chris Lee, Jason Bourgeois, Evan Stowers, Trainer Jake Anderson and Head Coach Stu Wilson. Middle Row (L-R): Assistant Coach Marty Hamburger, Alex Roan, Matt Tang, Kevin Morgan, Kelsey Duffy, Andy Miller, Jeremy Jackson, Way Joe Lee, Mickey Malul, Chris Ewald, Sullivan Lynch, Mauricio Sousa and Student Assistant Ryan Bishop. Front Row (L-R): Volunteer Coach Andy Griffin, Sam Bendziewicz, Will Woodworth, Travis Wagner, Kevin Skenes, Jacob Kwasnik, Jeff Burton, Jeffrey Phillips, Max Randolph, Noah Copeland, Garrett Robberson, Kyle Diedrich, Onur Uras and Assistant Coach Courtney Hart Shealy.

Name Cl. Ht. Events Hometown/High School/Club Team Josh Andrews Fr. 6-0 IM Evans, Ga./Evans/Aiken-Augusta Swim League Sam Bendziewicz Fr. 6-2 IM/Breast Chapin, S.C./Chapin/Palmetto Aquatics Michael Bennett Sr. 5-8 Diving Lilburn, Ga./Parkview/Atlanta Diving Jason Bourgeois* Sr. 5-9 Fly/Free River Ridge, La./Jesuit/Elmwood Sharks Jeff Burton Sr. 6-5 Free/IM Federal Way, Wash./John F. Kennedy/King Aquatic Club Noah Copeland Jr. 6-3 Free Fayetteville, Ga./Stars Mill/Southern Crescent Aquatic Team Peter Doblar Sr. 5-8 Diving Woodinville, Wash./Woodinville/Pacific Northwest Diving Kelsey Duffy So. 5-10 Fly Sugar Land, Texas/Austin/First Colony Swim Team Chris Ewald Jr.-R 6-0 Free/Fly Alpharetta, Ga./South Forsyth/Dynamo Swim Johnny Hagaman So. 6-2 Back Black Mountain, N.C./Charles D. Owen/YMCA of Western N.C. Jeremy Jackson So. 6-1 Breast Dalton, Ga./Dalton/Carpet Capital Aquatic Jacob Kwasnik Sr. 6-5 Sprint Free Lake Bluff, Ill./Lake Forest/Scout Aquatics Chris Lee Jr. 5-8 Sprint Free/Fly Peachtree City, Ga./McIntosh/Southern Crescent Aquatic Way Joe Lee So. 6-1 IM/Breast/Back Georgetown, Penang (Malaysia)/The Bolles School/Bolles Club Ralph Long Fr. 5-8 IM/Butterfly Hillsboro, Tenn./St. Andrews Sewanee School/ Excel Aquatics Sullivan Lynch Fr. 5-11 Butterfly Lutz, Fla./Jesuit/Carrollwood Village Swim Team Mickey Malul Jr. 6-0 Breast/Free Hof ha Sharon Shaim/ M.K. Bialik Andy Miller Jr. 6-1 Breast/IM Alpharetta, Ga./Chattahoochee/Dynamo Swim Kevin Morgan Fr. 5-11 IM Orlando, Fla./Olympia/Team Orlando Jeffery Phillips Fr. 6-5 Sprint Free , Miss./Lafayette/Shock Wave Max Randolf Fr. 6-3 IM Atlanta, Ga./Lakeside/Dynamo Swim Alex Roan So. 6-0 Distance Free Wareham, Mass./Bishop Stang/Cape Cod Swim Garrett Robberson Fr. 6-1 Back/Sprint Free Edmond, Okla./Edmond North/Kerr MaGee Swim Club Drew Showalter So. 5-11 IM/Breast Knoxville, Tenn./Knoxville Catholic/Pilot-Knoxville Kevin Skenes Jr. 6-5 Breast Augusta, Ga./Lakeside/Greater Augusta Swimming Mauricio Sousa Jr. 5-11 Free/Back/IM Madison, Wis./James Madison Memorial/Badger Aquatics Evan Stowers Sr. 5-11 Diving Independence, Ky./Simon Kenton/Tri-State Diving Matt Tang Fr. 5-11 Back/Sprint Free Durham, N.C./Charles E. Jordan/Tar Heel Aquatic Team Greg Tunning Jr. 5-10 Fly Lawrenceville, Ga./Collins Hill/Swim Atlanta Jacob Tzegaegbe Fr. 5-8 Diving Lilburn, Ga./Shiloh/Atlanta Diving Onur Uras* Sr. 6-1 Fly/IM/Free Istanbul, Turkey/German/Galatasaray Swimming Michael Vallecoccia Fr. 5-10 Distance Free Acworth, Ga./Harrison/Stingrays Swimming Travis Wagner Fr. 6-2 Sprint Free/Fly Canton, Ohio/Glen Oak/North Canton YMCA Will Woodworth Fr. 6-1 Middle Distance Atlanta, Ga./Lakeside/Dynamo Swim * - Team Captain Head Coach: Stu Wilson (Georgia, 1989), 3rd season, 6th overall Assistant Coaches: Marty Hamburger (Iowa, 1991), 3rd season, Courtney Shealy Hart (Georgia, 2003), 1st Season Diving Coach: John Ames (Ohio University, 1993), 7th season 18 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Men’s Profiles Josh Andrews Won the Gwinnett County Diving Championship meet Freshman • IM in back-to-back seasons (2002, Evans, Ga. '03) ... Named team's Most Evans HS Valuable Diver in all four seasons ... Elected team High School: Lettered in swimming for four seasons under captain as a senior ... Posted Coach Lane Schuekers ... Team captain for one year ... Ten time school records on the three- Georgia all-star ... Top 16 in the four-meter at the age of 14 and meter springboard in the six 16... Former state record holder in zoom breast ... Two-time and 11 dive events. Georgia culinary art state champion ... Vice-President of National Personal: Born Michael Honor Society ... Beta Club member. Bruce Bennett on June 28, Personal: Born Joshua Langford Andrews on July 20, 1989, in 1986, in Atlanta ... Parents are Evans, Ga. ... Parents are Roy and Jeannette Andrews ... Has one Bruce and Charlene Bennett older brother, Roy, and a twin sister, Jamie ... Hobbies include ... Has one younger brother, fishing, hunting and video games ... Nuclear & radiological Will ... Majoring in manage- engineering major. ment.

Sam Bendziewicz Bennett’s Career Top Marks Freshman • IM/Breast 1-Meter 295.73 Chapin, S.C. 3-Meter 323.55 Chapin HS Jason Bourgeois • Captain High School: Lettered in swimming for four seasons under Senior • Free/Fly coach Heath Edwards ... Team captain during junior season ... River Ridge, La. Won 200-meter as a junior ... Won 400 medley and freestyle Jesuit HS relay as a junior and senior ... Earned all-area for four seasons ... Swimmer of the Year as a sophomore and junior ... Academic As a Junior (2006-07): Clocked a team-best time of 49.12 in All-American as a junior and senior ... Member of all-Area the 100 fly at the prelims of the ACC Championship, finishing leadership team. 12th ... Tallied another team-best time of 49.23 in the prelims of Personal: Born Samuel Joseph Bendziewicz on January 6, the 100 , placing sixth at the ACC meet ... Member of 1989, in Baltimore, Md. ... Parents are Stephen and Mary the 200 free relay team that posted a Georgia Tech school record, Bendziewicz ... Has one younger brother, Stephen (13), and NCAA 'B' standard time of 1:20.35 at the ACC competition, sister, Catherine (9) ... Hobbies include jet skiing and water finishing fourth overall ... Part of the 200- and 400-medley relay skiing ... Polymer textile & fiber engineering major. teams that finished eigth and sixth at the ACC meet with team- Michael Bennett best times of 1:30.85 and 3:21.80 ... Competed on the 400 free relay team at the ACC Championship producing a team-best time of Senior • Diving 3:00.50, finishing fifth ... Finished season on Tech's All-Time Top Lilburn, Ga. 10 list in the 50 free (third), 100 free (ninth), 100 back (second), 100 Parkview HS butterfly (third), 200 free relay (first and sixth), 400 free relay (third), 200 medley relay (fifth) and 400 medley relay (eighth and ninth). As a Junior (2006-07): Finished 18th on the three-meter As a Sophomore (2005-06): Clocked a personal-record time of springboards with a score of 250.20 at the ACC Championships ... 50.09 in the prelims of the 100 backstroke at the ACC Champion- Placed 22nd in the one-meter boards competition with a score of ships to advance to the 227.30 at the ACC meet ... Posted a season-best score of 267.35 in consolation finals, finishing the one-meter springboards at Virginia Tech (1/20) ... Had a in 16th place ... Swam a season-best score of 282.22 in the three-meter boards against season-best time of 20.96 in Florida Atlantic and UNO (1/13). the prelims of the 50 free at As a Sophomore (2005-06): Qualified for the NCAA Zone B the ACC meet ... Posted a Diving Championships on both the one- and three-meter season-best time of 48.37 in springboards with personal-record scores of 295.73 and 323.55 the 100 free against Clemson against Emory (1/28) ... Tallied a pair of 17th-place finishes at (1/21) ... Tallied a second the ACC Championships on the one- (235.10) and three-meter lifetime-best time at the (239.05) boards. conference championship in As a Freshman (2004-05): Finished 18th on the one-meter the prelims of the 100 springboard at the ACC Championships with a score of 245.80 ... butterfly with a mark of Posted a score of 399.30 in 11 dives on the three-meter board to 50.19 ... Led off both the finish in 19th place at the ACC meet ... Recorded a season-high medley relay teams that score of 276 points in six dives on the one-meter board against posted season-best times of Emory (1/29). 1:30.62 and 3:18.90 at the High School: Four-year letterwinner under coach Rick Creed ... ACC meet ... Held Tech's

GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 19 Men’s Profiles fastest time for the season in the 100 back ... Recipient of team's of 9:43.45 ... Clocked a lifetime-best Chapman/Hines Most Improved Athlete. time of 4:02.80 in the prelims of the As a Freshman (2004-05): Set lifetime-best times in the 100 400 IM at ACC's ... ACC Academic and 200 butterfly events at the ACC Championships with times of Honor Roll. 50.31 and 1:50.99, respectively ... Won the bonus finals heat of the High School: Four-year 200 fly, finishing in 17th place, and finished 18th in the 100 fly at letterwinner under coach Mark the conference championship ... Ranked second on the Tech Stock ... Elected team captain in squad in the 200 fly and third in the 100 fly for the season. junior and senior seasons ... Tabbed High School: Four-year letterwinner under coaches Bret Most Valuable Swimmer in 2003 Haneman and Wesley Harris ... Helped guide high school team to and '04 ... Earned first team all- its 17th consecutive state championship in Division I by winning league honors from 2002-04 ... individual state crowns in the 200 freestyle and 100 butterfly ... Seamont League champion and Also swam a leg of the winning 200 medley relay team at the state record holder in 200 individual medley ... Captured league titles meet ... NISCA All-American, all-state, all-district and all-metro in in 200 IM and 100 in senior season ... Won three his junior and senior seasons ... Tabbed Male Swimmer of the straight league championships in the 500 freestyle (2002-04) ... Meet at the 2003 New Orleans Metro High School Championship League meet record holder in 500 free ... Swam part of a leg of the after setting a new record in the 100 fly ... Selected as the Male 400 medley relay team that set a school record ... U.S.A Swim- Swimmer of the Year in senior season by the New Orleans Times ming Scholastic All-American ... National Honor Society and Picayune ... Earned most valuable swimmer honors for his team Spanish National Honor Society ... President's Education Award in senior season ... Swimming instructor and group leader for Jo and Washington State Honor Award recipient. Jo's Hope for underprivileged children ... Graduated Cum Laude Personal: Born Jeffrey Michael Burton on April 17, 1986, in from high school and was a National Merit semifinalist for the Tacoma, Wash. ... Parents are Patrick and Carole Burton ... Sister, 2003-04 academic calendar. Tricia, swam at Whitworth College in Spokane, Wash. ... Enjoys Personal: Born Jason Keshav Bourgeois on June 27, 1986, in New scuba diving, mountain biking and RC car racing ... Majoring in Orleans, La. ... Parents are Warren R. Bourgeois, II, and Usha mechanical engineering. Ramadhyani ... His grandfather, Warren R. Bourgeois, Jr., played professional baseball in the Boston Red Sox organization from Burton’s Career Top Times 1951-54 ... Has one sister, Camille ... Enjoys scuba diving and 500 Free 4:35.49 fishing ... Majoring in bio-medical engineering. 1000 Free 9:38.22 1650 Free 15:56.35 Bourgeois’ 400 IM 3:56.31 Career Top Times 100 Fly 49.12 Noah Copeland 200 Fly 1:50.99 Junior • Free 100 Free 45.92 Fayetteville, Ga. 200 Free 1:43.03 100 Back 49.23 Stars Mill HS

Jeff Burton As a Sophomore (2006-07): Clocked a team-best, lifetime- Senior • Free/IM best, NCAA 'B' standard time of 4:25.36 in the 500 free at the ACC Federal Way, Wash. Championships, finishing 11th overall ... Set a school record at the ACC meet in the 200 free with a split-time of 1:36.92 in the 800 John F. Kennedy HS free relay ... Finished ninth at the ACC Championships by posting a lifetime-best time of 45.01 in the 100 free event ... Member of the As a Junior (2006-07): Swam a lifetime-best time of 4:35.49 in 400 free, 800 free, and 400 medley relay teams that set team-best the prelims of the 500 free at the ACC Championships ... Finished times at the ACC competition ... Held team-best time honors for 10th in the 400 IM at the ACC meet with a second lifetime-best three individual events and three relay events for the season ... time of 3:56.31 ... Finished 23rd at the conference meet in the 1650 After only two years of competition, holds positions on the All- free by clocking a season-best time of 15:59.23 ... Produced a third Time Top 10 in the 100 free (third), 200 free (first), 500 free (fifth), lifetime-best time of 9:38.22 against Emory in the 1000 free 400 free relay (third) and 400 medley relay (eighth and ninth) ... competition (1/14) ... Ended the season on Tech's All-Time Top 10 2007 Academic All-America honorable mention selection ... list in the 1000 freestyle (ninth) and 400 IM (fifth) events. Honored by the Tech team with the Chapman/Hiles Most As a Sophomore (2005-06): Swam a lifetime-best time of Improved Athlete award for the season. 15:56.35 in the 1650 freestyle at the ACC Championships ... Tallied As a Freshman (2005-06): Emerged as one of Tech's top sprint a second personal-best time of 4:37.24 in the 500 free at the ACC freestylers ... Clocked a NCAA 'B' standard and lifetime-best time meet ... Finished the 400 IM race at the conference championship of 1:38.09 in the prelims of the 200 freestyle to qualify for the with a lifetime-best time of 4:00.72 ... ACC Academic Honor Roll. championship finals at the ACC Championships, finishing in As a Freshman (2004-05): Tallied lifetime-best times in the eighth place ... Finished 15th in the 500 free with a lifetime-best distance freestyle events for the Yellow Jackets ... Swam in the time of 4:29.70 at the ACC meet ... Led off the 800 free relay team prelims of the 500 freestyle at the ACC Championships and that finished fifth at the conference championship with a NCAA finished with a time of 4:41.52 ... Posted a 21st-place finish in the 'B' cut time of 6:37.09 ... Swam a season-best time of 46.29 in the finals of the 1650 free with a time of 16:04.27 ... Posted a per- prelims of the 100 free at the ACC meet ... Held Tech's top time for sonal-best time in the 1000 free at the ACC meet with split mark the season in the 200 free ... ACC Academic Honor Roll. 20 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Men’s Profiles High School: Lettered in four seasons under head coach J.B. Emory (1/28) ... Finished 25th on Campbell ... Won the 200 freestyle at Junior Nationals in 2005 ... the three-meter board and 26th on Helped guide high school team to four consecutive county the one-meter board at the NCAA championships ... Earned USA Swimming and Academic All- Zone meet ... Posted a 13th-place America honors in '05 ... Won eight county titles and broke eight finish on the three-meter board at school records during his career ... Elected team captain as a the ACC Championships with a senior ... Beta club member and graduated with honors. score of 273 ... Finished 19th on the Personal: Born Noah Reid Copeland on April 1, 1987, in Omaha, one-meter board at the ACC meet Neb. ... Parents are Robert and Cathy Copeland ... Has a younger with a score of 229.30 ... ACC sister, Megan ... Undecided major in the College of Engineering. Academic Honor Roll. As a Freshman (2004-05): Copeland’s Career Top Times Posted a season-high score of 262.65 100 Free 45.01 on the one-meter springboard 200 Free 1:36.92 against Emory (1/29) ... Scored a 500 Free 4:25.36 season-best 418.05 points on the three-meter board in 11 dives at the ACC Championships ... Recipient of team's Chapman/Hiles Most Improved Athlete Award. High School: Four-year letterwinner under coach John Harmeling ... Elected team captain in senior season ... NISCA All- American ... Won district championship in diving in 2004 ... Holds school record on the one-meter springboard for both six and 11 dives, set in 2003-04 ... Lettered in track and field for three seasons ... National Honor Society. Personal: Born Peter Anthony Doblar on May 20, 1986, in Fairfax, Va. ... Parents are Randy and Debbie Doblar ... Has one younger brother, Zach ... Hobbies include sky diving, mountain Kyle Diedrich climbing and scuba diving ... Majoring in mechanical engineer- Freshman • Free/Backstroke ing. lawrenceville, Ga. Doblar’s Career Top Marks Brookwood HS 1-Meter 335.18 3-Meter 333.14 High School: Four-year letterwinner under Coach Greg Pucket ... NISCA All-American in 2005-06 ... USS Swimming Scholastic Kelsey Duffy All-American in 2006-07...GHSCA All State (2004-07) ... Gwinnett Sophomore • Fly Daily Post "Swimmer of the Year" 2006 ... Brookwood Coach's Award 2004...Brookwood MVP 2006...County Champion 100 back Sugar Land, Texas 2005-07... State Runner-up 100 back (2005-06) ... State runner-up Austin HS 200 free 2006 ... Holds 100 back record ... Spring Nationals As a Freshman (2006-07): Clocked a season-best time of Qualifier 100 back... Former USS Swimming National LCM 200 4:58.66 in the 500 free at the Georgia Fall Invitational (12/1) ... backstroke record holder ... Received academic letter and scholar Tallied a season-best time of 52.15 in the 100 fly at the ACC athlete awards four seasons ... Nominated as "Outstanding Senior" Championships ... Swam a season-best time of 1:55.76 in the 200 ... Beta club ... MENSA member ... Graduated with 4.0 GPA. fly at the Georgia Fall Invitational (12/1) ... Member of 400 free Personal: Born Kyle Alexander Diedrich on October 31, 1989 in relay team. Woodbury, N.J. ... Parents are Ken and Debbie Diedrich ... Has one High School: Lettered in four seasons in swimming under older brother, Ryan ... Hobbies include ultimate Frisbee and coach Jennifer Collins ... Elected team captain ... Won the Region running ... Majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering. 5 100 butterfly event as a senior ... Was a district champion in the Peter Doblar 100 fly as a junior ... Garnered all-state accolades in junior and senior seasons ... Academic All-American for junior and senior Junior • Diving seasons ... Named team's most valuable swimmer as a senior ... Woodinville, Wash. Earned Rookie of the Year honors as a freshman ... Holds school Woodinville HS record in 100 backstroke ... National Honor Society and Mu Alpha Theta member. As a Junior (2006-07):Finished 21st in the one-meter and Personal: Born Kelsey Tristan Duffy on March 3, 1988, in three-meter springboards competition at the ACC Championships Lafayette, La. ... Parents are Robert and Elizabeth Duffy ... Sister, with scores of 230.15 and 234.65 ... Tallied a season-best score of Katie, swam at Tech from 2001-03 ... Has an older brother, Rob ... 284.40 in the one-meter boards against Emory (1/14) ... Had a Enjoys soccer, football and computers ... Plans to major in season-best score of 333.14 in the three-meter boards against mechanical engineering. Florida Atlantic and UNO. As a Sophomore (2005-06): Qualified for the NCAA Zone B Duffy’s Career Top Times Diving Championships on both the one- and three-meter spring- 100 Fly 51.70 boards with personal-record scores of 335.18 and 332.93 against 200 Fly 1:55.07 GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 21 Men’s Profiles Chris Ewald Johnny Hagaman Redshirt Junior • Free/Fly Sophomore • Back Alpharetta, Ga. Black Mountain, N.C. South Forsyth HS Charles D. Owen HS As a Sophomore (2006-07): Team captain ... Clocked a As a Freshman (2006-07): Swam a season-best time of 46.58 in lifetime-best time of 1:39.92 in the 200 free at the ACC Champion- the 100 free at the ACC Championships, finishing in the 21st ships ... Produced a second lifetime-best time of 1:50.38 at the ACC overall position ... Produced a season-best time of 24.61 against meet in the 200 fly competition ... Clocked a time of 1:52.33 in the ACC foes Clemson and Boston College in the 50 back competition 200 IM at the conference championship ... Third on the team in (10/14) ... Set a personal-best time of 51.11 in the 100 back at the the 200 free, 200 fly, and 200 IM events ... Ends the season on Georgia Fall Invitational (12/1) ... Clocked a second lifetime-best Tech's All-Time Top 10 list in the 200 butterfly (ninth) and 200 IM time of 1:53.10 in the 200 back at the Georgia Fall Invitational (12/ (seventh). 1) ... Also competed on the 200 free, 400 free, 200 medley and 400 As a Freshman (2005-06): Clocked a personal-best and NCAA medley teams throughout the season ... Sits in the sixth position 'B' standard time of 4:27.15 in the prelims of the 500 freestyle at on Tech's All-Time Top 10 list in the 100 backstroke. the ACC Championships to qualify for the consolation finals, High School: Lettered four seasons in swimming ... Won the finishing in 12th place ... Swam the third leg of the 800 free relay North Carolina A/AA state titles in the 100 backstroke and 100 team that touched the wall in fifth place with a NCAA 'B' cut time freestyle with meet record times of 52.78 and 47.57, respectively of 6:37.09 at the ACC meet ... Posted a lifetime-best time of 1:40.00 ... Was a three-time state champion in the 100 back (2004-06) ... in the prelims of the 200 free at the conference championship to Won the 50 free at the state meet ... Tabbed All-American advance to the bonus finals, finishing in 18th place ... Tallied a in 2006 ... Won the 100-meter back at the YMCA long course second 18th-place finish at the ACC Championships with a nationals. personal-best time of 1:51.27 in the 200 butterfly ... Swam a season- Personal: Born Steven John Hagaman on June 8, 1988, in best time of 48.87 in the 100 free against Savannah College (1/7) ... Asheville, N.C. ... Parents are Steve and Penny Hagaman ... Has an Finished the year third on the Tech squad in the 500 free and 200 older sibling, Jessie ... Enjoys snow boarding and basketball ... fly, and fourth in the 200 free. Undecided major in the College of Engineering. In 2004-05: Missed the entire season due to an injury ... Was redshirted. Hagaman’s Career Top Times High School: Four-year letterwinner under coach Kris Hunt ... 100 Back 51.11 Member of the U.S. National Junior Team ... Named NISCA All- 200 Back 1:53.10 American in the 200 and 500 freestyle events as a junior and senior ... Scholastic All-American in sophomore, junior and Jeremy Jackson senior seasons ... Named 4A Swimmer of the Year in 2003 and Sophomore • Breast '04 ... Earned all-state honors in each season, honorable mention as a freshman, second team as a sophomore and first team as a Dalton, Ga. junior and senior ... Won state crowns in the 200 and 500 free Dalton HS events in three consecutive seasons (2002-04) ... Anchored the 200 and 400 free relay teams to state titles in junior and senior As a Freshman (2006-07): Produced a time of 48.01 in the 100 seasons ... Tabbed All-American in the 800-meter freestyle for free at the ACC Championships ... Set a season-best time of 59.39 U.S.A Swimming ... Holds Georgia state record in 500 free at the conference championship in the 100 breaststroke competi- (4:28.18) and 400-meter free (3:59.51) ... National Honor Society tion ... Competed on the 200 free, 400 free, 200 medley, and 400 and graduated with honors, carrying a perfect 4.0 G.P.A. medley relay teams throughout the season. Personal: Born Christopher Robert Ewald on Jan. 8, 1986, in High School: Four-year letterwinner in swimming ... Helped Houston, Texas ... Parents are Stephen and Laura Ewald ... lead 400 medley relay team to three state championships (2004- Majoring in civil engineering. 06) ... Garnered all-state honors in final three seasons ... Earned All-America honors in the 200 medley relay in sophomore and Ewald’s Career Top Times senior seasons ... Two-time junior national qualifier in the 100 200 Free 1:39.92 breaststroke ... Holds the school record in the 100 breast and 200 medley relay ... Summa Cum Laude, Latin club, Environmental 500 Free 4:27.15 club president and honor roll member. 1000 Free 9:17.30 Personal: Born Jeremy Alton Jackson on June 16, 1988, in 200 Fly 1:50.38 Ocala, Fla. ... Parents are David and Joyce Jackson ... Has an older brother, Jacob ... Enjoys fishing, hunting, camping and hiking ... Plans to major in management.

Jackson’s Career Top Times 100 Breast 59.25 200 Breast 2:14.22

22 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Men’s Profiles Jacob Kwasnik High School: Lettered in swimming for four seasons under head coach Tommy Stockdale ... Elected team captain during Senior • Sprint Free junior and senior seasons ... Holds the school record in the 50 Lake Bluff, Ill. freestyle ... Earned all-county honors in the 50 free and 100 Lake Forest HS breaststroke ... Named Academic All-American ... National Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society and Beta club member. As a Junior (2006-07): Swam the second leg of the 200 free Personal: Born William Christopher Lee on Sept. 19, 1986, in relay team that clocked a team-best, NCAA 'B' standard time of Satelite Beach, Fla. ... Parents are Tony and Nina Lee ... Has a 1:20.35 at the ACC Championship ... Posted a lifetime-best time of younger brother, Matt, and sister, Annie ... Majoring in polymer 20.64 in the prelims of the 50 free at the ACC championship textile engineering. competition ... Placed 22nd in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 59.27 at the ACC meet ... Clocked a personal-best time of 46.78 in Lee’s Career Top Times the 100 free at the conference championship ... Ranked eighth on 50 Free 21.62 Tech's All-Time Top 10 list in the 50 free event. As a Sophomore (2005-06): Clocked lifetime-best times in the 100 Free 48.23 prelims of the 50 freestyle (21.08) and 100 freestyle (46.88) at the 100 Fly 51.33 ACC Championships ... Swam a season-best time of 1:51.10 in the 200 free against Savannah College ... ACC Academic Honor Roll. As a Freshman (2004-05): Swam a lifetime-best time of 21.46 in the prelims of the 50 freestyle at the ACC Championships ... Clocked a personal-record time of 47.47 in the 100 free at the ACC meet ... Recipi- ent of team's J. Herb McAuley Freshman Unity Award ... ACC Academic Honor Roll. High School: Four-year letterwinner under coaches Lea and Erik Maurer ... Elected team captain in senior season ... Led team to a state title in 2003 and a runner- up finish in '02 ... Tabbed most improved athlete as a senior ... Way Joe Lee Named to the All-Academic teams in junior and senior seasons ... Sophomore • IM/Breast/Back Young Republicans club member. Personal: Born Jacob Matthew Kwasnik ... Parents are Richard Georgetown, Malaysia and Joanna Kwasnik ... Younger sister, Agatha, is a freshman at The Bolles School Tech ... Enjoys building remote control airplanes ... Majoring in aerospace engineering. High School: Lettered for two seasons in swimming under coach Jeff Poppell ... Won the 100 breaststroke at the Florida State Kwasnik’s Career Top Times Championships with a time of 58.35 ... Finished runner-up at the 50 Free 20.64 state meet in the 200 IM with a time of 1:54.08 ... Helped lead team to 18th consecutive state championship during his senior 100 Free 46.78 season ... Elected team captain as a senior ... Swam a leg of state champion 200 medley relay team ... Won seven Gold medals in Chris Lee seven different events at the Malaysian nationals. Junior • Sprint Free/Fly Personal: Born Way Joe Lee on Nov. 2, 1988, in Georgetown, Peachtree City, Ga. Penang ... Parents are Eng Sia Lee and Lee Hian Tan ... Has two older brothers, Ee Joe Lee and Nian Joe Lee ... Hobbies include McIntosh HS water polo, mountain biking and reading ... Undecided major in As a Sophomore (2006-07): Swam a personal-record time of the College of Engineering. 21.62 in the 50 free event at the ACC Championships ... Clocked a second lifetime-best time of 51.33 in the 100 fly at the conference Lee’s Career Top Times championship ... Swam season-best times of 1:01.84 and 2:17.77 in 100 Back 52.16 the 100 and 200 breaststroke events at the Georgia Fall Invitational 200 Back 1:53.20 (12/1)... Swam on 200 free, 400 free, 200 medley and 400 medley 100 Breast 58.19 relay teams throughout the season. 200 Breast 2:07.10 As a Freshman (2005-06): Clocked a lifetime-best time of 200 IM 1:53.80 52.61 in the 100 butterfly against Emory (1/28) ... Swam a season- 400 IM 4:02.60 best time of 22.10 in the 50 freestyle against Emory ... Posted a season-best time of 50.50 in the 100 free against NC State (11/5) ... Recipient of team's J. Herb McAuley Freshman Unity Award ... ACC Academic Honor Roll. GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 23 Men’s Profiles Ralph Long and 400 IM competitions at the Georgia Fall Invitational (12/1) ... Freshman • IM/Butterfly Sits in the 10th position on Tech's Hillsboro, Tenn. All-Time Top 10 list in the 100 and St. Andrews Sewanee School 200 breaststroke events. As a Freshman (2005-06): High School: Five-year letterwinner in swimming and diving ... Tallied season-best times in the Elected team captain for a season ... Earned MVP 2003 - 2007 ... 100 breaststroke, 200 breaststroke All-American 2005 for the 500 Free ... FCA. and 200 IM events against Emory Personal: Born Ralph E Long on May 18, 1988 in Winchester, (1/28) ... Clocked a time of 1:00.23 Tenn. ... Parents are Jim and Nan Long ... Hobbies include in the 100 breast, 2:09.18 in the 200 ultimate Frisbee ... Nuclear & Radiological Engineering major. breast and 1:56.53 in the 200 IM ... Posted a season-best time of 4:19.01 Sullivan Lynch in the 400 IM at the ACC Quad Freshman • Butterfly Meet (10/21) ... ACC Academic Honor Roll. Lutz, Fla. High School: Lettered in four seasons under coach Sharon Jesuit HS Evans ... Elected team captain as a senior ... Helped lead team to a North Fulton Championship in senior year ... Garnered All- High School: Four-year letterwinner under coach Bill Shaffer ... America honors in sophomore, junior and senior seasons. Elected team captain ... USA swimming Academic All-American Personal: Born Andrew Todd Miller on July 11, 1987, in as a sophomore and junior ... NISCA All-American relays and 200 Westlake, Ohio ... Parents are Mark Miller and Sharon Evans ... medley as a sophomore and junior, 200 free as a freshman, junior, Brother Rob is currently a swimmer on the Tech squad ... Mother and senior, 400 free as a sophomore, junior, senior ... Individual Sharon coached both Andy and Rob in high school ... Hobbies 100 fly as a senior ... 200 IM as a senior ... All-County swim team include golf and paintball ... Majoring in civil engineering. in 2006 - 07 ... Club swim team records: SCY 200 fly and 100 and 200 bk, lcm 200 im and 100 and 200 bk ... National Honor Society Miller’s Career Top Times ... Mu Alpha Theta ... Hillsborough county youth volunteer of the 100 Breast 58.06 year ... National Spanish Honor Society. 200 Breast 2:06.57 Personal: Born Sullivan Michael Lynch on July 22, 1989, in Tampa, Fla. ... Parents are Cornelius and Carol Lynch ... Has two 200 IM 1:54.19 brothers, Morgan (26) and Adam (23), and one sister, Meredith (22) 400 IM 4:03.65 ... Hobbies include video games, basketball, other sports and movies ... Majoring in biology. Kevin Morgan Freshman • IM Mickey Malul Orlando, Fla. Junior • Breast/Free Olympia HS Rishun Le-Zion, Israel Hof ha Sharon Shaim High School: Three-year letterwinner under Coach Chuck Burgess ... One-year letterwinner under coach Russ Marsh ... High School/International: Three-time Hof ha Sharon Shaim Elected team captain for two years ... Won team district champi- high school championship ... Athlete of the Year by Maariv onship in 2004 - 06 ... Won individual district championship in Newspaper in 2007 ... National championship MVP in 2006 ... 2004 for the 100 back, in 2005 for the 500 free and 200 im, and in Holds the Israeli record for five years ... Fourth in European 2006 for the 100 free and 200 im ... Metro Conference Champion in Championship in 2006 from Helsinki ... Sixth in the World 2005 for the 100 and 200 free and in 2006 for the 100 and 200 free ... Championship in 2007 from . Three-time MVP ... Two-time all-Conference first team ... Two- Personal: Born Michael Malul on July 13, 1985, in Holon, time All-American consideration ... Holds high school records in Israel ... Parents are Izhuq and Eona Malul ... Has two younger 100, 200, and 500 free, 100 bk, 200 im, 200 medley relay, 200 and brothers age 19 and 13, one younger sister age 12, and twin 400 free relay ... Three-time Principal's Honor Roll receiving a 4.0 siblings age 7 ... Hobbies include soccer ... Majoring in manage- or better each semester. ment. Personal: Born Kevin James Morgan on April 28, 1989, in Glenwood Springs, Colo. ... Andy Miller Parents are James and Shelly Sophomore • Breast/IM Morgan ... Has one older sister, Kyle (24) ... Hobbies include Alpharetta, Ga. ultimate Frisbee, listening to Chattahoochee HS music, eating contests and sleeping ... Majoring in indus- As a Sophomore (2006-07): Clocked a lifetime-best time of trial engineering. 2:06.57 in the prelims of the 200 breast earning a spot in the bonus consolation finals at the ACC Championships, finishing 20th in the event ... Swam a second personal-best time of 58.06 in the prelims of the 100 breast competition, placing 21st at the ACC meet ... Posted season-best times of 1:54.35 and 4:05.65 in the 200 24 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Men’s Profiles Jeffrey Phillips Personal: Born Alexander Gerald Roan on March 7, 1988, in New Bedford, Mass. ... Parents are Jerry and Marianne Roan ... Freshman • Sprint Free Has a younger brother, Chris ... Enjoys web design, racing cars Okford, Miss. and music ... Plans to major in mechanical engineering. Lafayette HS Roan’s Career Top Times High School: Three-year letterwinner under coach Rebecca 500 Free 4:31.50 Von Ooslendorp and coach Kay Pruitt ... Four-year letterwinner in 1000 Free 9:14.53 basketball under coach Charles Beene ... One-year letterwinner in 1650 Free 15:33.35 football under coach Sampson ... Won state championship in 50 and 100-yard free ... All-Area and All-District in basketball during Garrett Robberson senior year ... First African American to hold Mississippi high Freshman • Back/Sprint Free school record ... Senior and junior class president ... National Honor Society ... Beta Club ... Drum major in high school band, Edmond, Okla. SADD club, mu alpha theta, hall of fame honors for high school, Edmond North HS student council president, graduated with special honors. Personal: Born Jeffrey DeWayne Phillips on July 27, 1989, in High School: Four-year letterwinner under coach Steve Riggs ... Oxford, Miss. ... Parents are Willie and Clarise Phillips ... Has Won Oklahoma state championship in 2005 - 06 ... Oklahoma state three sisters, Clarrissa Childress, Kimberly Jones and Moesha runner-up in 2004 & 2007 ... Individual state champion in 500 free and one older brother, Jamie ... Majoring in bio-medical engineer- in 2005, in 100 back in 2006, and in 50 free and 100 back in 2007 ... All-State in 2007 by OCA ... Three-time Individual All-American Max Randolph in 2007 by NISCA ... One relay All-American in 2007 by NISCA ... Freshman • IM Academic All-American in 2007 NISCA with GPA of 3.8 ... Four Atlanta, Ga. time all-City and Swimmer of the Year in 2007 by the Daily Oklahoma ... Set all-State record in 50 free ... East West Games Lakeside HS junior national 2006 - 07 ... U.S. Open qualifier 2006. Personal: Born Garret Michael Robberson on April 9, 1989, in ing.High School: Four-year varsity letterwinner ... Team captain Norman, OKLA. ... Parents are D. Mike and Kim Robberson ... Has and recipient of highest school award for academic and athletic one older sister, Morgan (20) ... Hobbies include computers, long excellence senior year (Viking Award) ... MVP freshman and boarding, fishing, golf, disc golf and volleyball ... Majoring in junior year ... DeKalb County backstroke champion 2004-07 ... chemical and bio-molecular engineering. Lead off on school-record 200-medley relay team ... Ten-year member and age group team record holder for nationally ranked Drew Showalter USS Dynamo Swim Club ... Two-time Junior National Qualifier ... Four-year letterwinner in cross county ... MVP freshman, junior Sophomore • Breast/IM and senior year ... Top-10 state finisher senior year ... Voted Mr. Knoxville, Tenn. Most Spirited by entire senior class. Knoxville Catholic HS Personal: Born Maxwell James Randolph on June 29, 1989, in Atlanta ... Parents are Randy and Chrys Randolph ... Has two As a Freshman (2006-07): Tallied a lifetime-best time of sisters, Brit (22) and Jamie (20) ... Hobbies include running, 4:07.66 in the 400 IM at the ACC Championships ... Swam a season- cycling and Frisbee ... Majoring in management. best time of 1:01.16 in the 100 fly at the Georgia Fall Invitational (12/1) ... Posted a time of 1:56.44 in the 200 Fly at the Georgia Fall Alex Roan Invitational ... Clocked a second personal-record time of 1:56.79 in Sophomore • Distance Free the 200 IM event at the Georgia Fall Invitational ... Swam in the 400 free relay and 200 medley relay. East Wareham, Mass. High School: Four-year letterwinner in swimming under coach Bishop Stang HS Anita Diowiddie ... 2006 Academic All-American Swimmer by As a Freshman (2006-07): Posted season-best times at the ACC NISCA ... Garnered All-America honors in the 100 breaststroke in Championships with times of 1:44.96 and 4:38.14 in the 200 and 2005 ... Helped lead team to Southeastern Championships in 2003 500 free ... Swam a season-best time of 9:35.15 in the 1000 free and '04 ... Tallied multiple top-eight finishes at the Tennessee against Emory (1/14) ... Clocked a time of 16:06.70 in the 1650 free State Championships in '05 ... School record holder in the 100 event in the prelims of the ACC meet ... Seventh on Tech's All- breast ... National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, Multiple First Time Top 10 list in the 1000 freestyle event. Honors, National Merit commended scholar and AP scholar. Club: Won New England Swimming's Distance High Point Award as a sophomore ... Won state titles in the 400- meter free, 800m free and 1500m free at the 2004 LCM ... Holds personal-record times of 4:31.50 (500 free), 9:14.53 (1000 free) and 15:33.35 (1650 free).

GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 25 Men’s Profiles Personal: Born John Drew Showalter on Dec. 10, 1987, in Colby, Mauricio Sousa Kan. ... Parents are John and Tammy Showalter ... Sister Ashley was a diver at the from 2002-03 ... Uncle Junior • Free/Back/IM Ted Hall is a TV anchor for WXIA (NBC affiliate) in Atlanta ... Madison, Wis. Enjoys all water sports and snowboarding ... Plans to major in James Madison Memorial HS aerospace engineering. As of Sophomore (2006-07): Swam Tech's final leg of the 200 Showalter’s Career Top Times medley relay team that had a team-best time of 1:30.85 at the ACC 100 Breast 59.89 Championships, finishing eighth ... Swam a lifetime-best time of 200 Breast 2:11.20 20.54 in the prelims of the 50 free event earning a spot in the 200 IM 1:56.79 consolation finals at the conference championship, finishing 12th ... Swam the final leg of the 200 free relay that finished fourth and 400 IM 4:07.66 posted a Tech school record and NCAA 'B' standard time of 1:20.35 Kevin Skenes at the ACC meet ... Swam the third leg of the 800 free relay team Junior • Breast that placed fifth at the ACC competition with a team-best time of 3:00.50 ... Posted a personal-best time of 46.16 in the 100 free at the Augusta, Ga. ACC meet ... Finished second on the team in the 50 free and Lakeside HS fourth in the 100 free ... Stands in a tie for fourth place on Tech's All-Time Top 10 list in the 50 freestyle event. As a Sophomore (2006-07): Clocked two lifetime-best times As a Freshman (2005-06): Held Tech's top time for the season of 1:00.63 and 2:07.67 in the 100 and 200 breast events at the ACC in the 200 backstroke ... Clocked lifetime-best times in the 50 Championships ... Swam a season-best time of 2:03.27 in the 200 freestyle, 100 back and 200 back events ... Qualified for the IM at the ACC meet ... Swam legs on Tech's 200 and 400 free relay bonus finals of the 200 back with a time of 1:53.15 at the ACC teams. Championships, finishing 20th in the finals ... Tallied a pair of As a Freshman (2005-06): Walked on to the team during the 24th-place finishes at the ACC meet in the 100 back (52.60) and fall ... Clocked a season-best time of 1:01.45 in the 100 breaststroke 200 IM (1:53.49) ... Clocked a personal-best time of 21.36 in the at the NCAA Last Chance Meet (3/4) ... Posted a season-best time 50 free at the NCAA Last Chance Meet (3/4) ... Finished second of 2:14.61 in the 200 breast against Emory (1/28) ... Swam a on the team in the 100 back and third in the 200 IM ... ACC season-best time of 2:14.86 in the prelims of the 200 IM at the Academic Honor Roll. Georgia Tech Invitational (11/18) ... Finished the season fourth on High School: Lettered in four seasons under coach Gary Kolpin the Tech squad in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke events ... ACC ... Helped guide team to a state title as a senior ... Won state titles Academic Honor Roll. in the 200 medley relay and 400 free relay, breaking the state High School: Lettered in swimming for four seasons under record in both events ... Swam a leg of the winning 200 and 400 coach Jessica Hales ... Helped guide team to CSRA Champion- free relay teams at the USA Swimming Junior Championships in ships in 2002 and '05 ... Elected team captain as a senior ... 2005 ... Holds three school and conference records ... Elected Named NISCA Academic All-America during senior season ... team captain as a senior ... Garnered all-state honors during all Broke school record in the 100 breaststroke and swam a leg of the four years and earned All-American honors in final three record setting 200 medley relay team at the 2005 Georgia State seasons ... Tabbed team's Most Valuable Swimmer as a junior. Championships ... National Merit Finalist, Honor Council Personal: Born Mauricio Sousa on Oct. 14, 1897, in Lima, Peru Chairman, Spanish Honor Society, School Vice President, Debate ... Parents are Jose Sousa and Gaby Castellanos ... Has a younger team co-captain. brother, Sebastian Sousa ... Enjoys playing the guitar and soccer Personal: Born Kevin Lilley Skenes on Sept. 22, 1986, in ... Majoring in chemical engineering. Augusta, Ga. ... Parents are Ronald and Linda Skenes ... Has a younger sister, Carol ... Enjoys playing the guitar, cars, reading Sousa’s Career Top Times and ultimate frisbee ... Majoring in mechanical engineering. 50 Free 20.54 100 Free 46.16 Skenes’ Career Top Times 100 Back 52.60 100 Breast 1:00.63 200 Back 1:53.15 200 Breast 2:07.67 200 IM 1:53.41

26 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Men’s Profiles Evan Stowers Fellowship of Christian Athletics (FCA), Student Leaders and Spanish clubs ... Graduated in the Top 20 of his class ... Dean's List Senior • Diving in all four years ... Spanish Honor Society and National Honor Independence, Ky. Society. Simon Kenton HS Personal: Born Evan Tyler Stowers on Feb. 20, 1986, in Covington, Ky. ... Parents are Jeff and Mary Stowers ... Father As of Junior (2006-07): Garnered All-America honors on the (1972-76) and three brothers, Keith Green, Brenden (1999-2003) platform for the second consecutive year with a score of 289.25 at and Jordan (2001-present) all played basketball at Northern the NCAA Championships, placing 15th ... Recipient of the Fred Kentucky (NCAA Div. II) ... Father is the 10th leading scorer all- Lanoue Athletic Achievement Award, the teams most prestigous time at NKU with 1,410 points ... Brenden was a 2003 All-American award ... Placed 22nd and 25th in the one-meter and three-meter and ranks seventh in career free throw percentage (.822) and competitions at the NCAA Championships ... Finished sixth in the eighth in assists (344) ... Majoring in international affairs. one-meter, fourth in the three-meter, and seventh in the platform competitions at the 2007 NCAA Zone B Championships ... Stowers’ Career Top Marks Captured fourth place at the ACC Championships in the one- 1-Meter 359.30 meter diving event by posting a score of 332.10 in the prelims and 3-Meter 395.35 333.65 in the finals ... Posted an NCAA Zone qualifying, team-best mark of 359.80 in the platform at the ACC meet, finishing fourth Platform 359.80 ... Scored another team-best Zone qualifying mark of 351.00 in the one-meter diving event at Virginia Tech (1/20) ... Posted a third Matt Tang team-best Zone qualifying score of 395.35 in the three-meter Freshman • Back/Sprint Free diving event against Florida Atlantic (1/13). As a Sophomore (2005-06): Became Tech's first diver in Durham, N.C. program history to qualify for the NCAA Championships ... Made Charles E. Jordan HS the most of his first opportunity, finishing sixth in the finals of the platform diving event with a score of 310.70 to earn All- High School: Lettered in swimming at Charles E. Jordan High America honors ... Became just the second Tech diver to win an School ... National Honor Society ... National Spanish Honor ACC title, capturing the three-meter springboard with a score of Society ... North Carolina academic scholar. 373.05 ... Garnered his second All-ACC honor of the ACC meet Personal: Born Matthew Willy Tang on January 24, 1989, in with a third-place finish on the one-meter board (335.95) ... Durham, NC ... Parents are Yau Yang Tang and Sujing Yang ... Has Advanced to the NCAA meet by finishing sixth on the platform at one older sister, Mindy (21) ... Hobbies include volleyball, the NCAA Zone Diving Championships with a score of 630.50 ... watching college basketball, tennis and traveling ... Majoring in Tallied a pair of 25th-place finishes at the NCAA Championships management. on the one-meter board (272.80) and three-meter board (269.40). Greg Tunning As a Freshman (2004-05): Quickly became one of Tech's top two divers ... Came within five points of qualifying for the NCAA Sophomore • Fly Championships with a score of 424.65 on the platform at the Lawrenceville, Ga. NCAA Zone B Diving Championships ... Made the finals of the three-meter springboard and finished in 13th place with a score of Collins Hill HS 513.40 at the Zone meet ... Broke the school record on the three- As a Sophomore (2006-07): Swam a season-best time of meter board at the ACC Championships, finishing with a score of 4:50.67 in the 500 free at the ACC Championships ... Posted season- 537.20 in 11 dives, finishing in fourth place ... Tallied a 16th-place best times of 53.24 and 1:54.80 in the 100 and 200 fly events at the finish on the one-meter board (246.10) at the ACC meet. Georgia Fall Invitational (12/1). High School: A four-year letterwinner at under coach Allyson As a Freshman (2005-06): Mainly swam the butterfly events Heger ... Team captain in from for the Jackets ... Clocked a personal-best time of 52.16 in the 2002-04 ... Finaled at East Nation- prelims of the 100 fly at the ACC Championships ... Posted a als on the one- and three-meter lifetime-best time of 1:52.61 in the 200 fly against Emory (1/28) ... springboards ... Competed at U.S. Ranked fourth on the team for the season in the 200 fly and sixth Jr. Nationals on the three-meter in the 100 fly ... ACC Academic Honor Roll. board and platform ... Earned all- High School: Lettered in swimming under coach Jennifer region and all-state honors as a Weaver in four seasons ... Helped lead team to consecutive state senior ... Tallied all-region and titles in junior and senior seasons ... Won the 100 butterfly at the second team all-state honors in county championship meet as a senior ... Named Academic All- junior season ... 2003 NISCA All- American in final three seasons ... Earned all-county honors as a American and ranked in the Top sophomore, junior and senior ... Broke the school record in the 100 40 on the one-meter springboard ... fly in junior campaign ... National Honor Society and Spanish Broke school and pool record with Honor Society member ... Graduated with a perfect 4.0 grade a score of 569.6 on Feb. 7, 2004 ... point average. Lettered in basketball for four seasons as a point guard ... Elected team captain in final season and was named to the first team all- district squad ... Member of the

GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 27 Men’s Profiles Personal: Born Gregory Alan Tunning on March 18, 1987, in 49.56 ... Held the team's top time in the 200 fly and ranked second Snellville, Ga. ... Parents are Jeff and Kathy Tunning ... Has one in the 100 fly. older brother, Chris ... Enjoys running and playing tennis ... As a Freshman (2004-05): Clocked a lifetime-best time of Majoring in international affairs. 1:50.01 in the 200 butterfly to win the consolation heat at the ACC Championships, finishing in ninth place ... Tallied a 15th-place Tunning’s Career Top Times finish in the 100 fly at the ACC meet with a personal-best time of 100 Fly 52.16 49.76 ... Swam the second fastest time of the season for Tech in the 200 Fly 1:52.61 200 IM (1:54.28) in the prelims at the conference championship ... Held the fastest time on the team in the 200 fly, and ranked second in the 100 fly. Athens Olympics: Finished 49th in 100 butterfly with a time of 56.37. Club: Swam for 12 seasons for Galatasaray Swimming Club under coach Yilmaz Ozuak ... Is a four-time Turkish National Champion (2000-04) ... Won the 200-meter fly at the `04 Grand Prix Meet in Belgium ... Cij Lux meet champion in `02 and '03 ... Earned a No. 1 national ranking in the 100 fly ... Set Turkish national junior records in the 100m fly (55.37), 200 fly (2:02.78), 100 IM (58.49) and 200IM (2:06.75) [SCM]. Personal: Born Onur Uras on Jan. 1, 1985, in Istanbul, Turkey ... Parents are Fatih and Aysun Uras ... Father played football from 1969-74 for Bursa Demirtas-1st Feneryolu Spor Club ... Uncle, Tuncay Ismar, played basketball in 1988 for Besiktas club ... Aunt, Tangul Ismar, played basketball for one season (1980) for Jacob Tzegaegbe Fenerbahce-Tofois-Sas Spor Club ... Uncle Alper Atamturk earned a PhD in industrial engineering from Tech in 1997 and Aunt Freshman • Diving Nilgun Atamturk earned a master's degree in public policy in Snellville, Ga. 1997 from Tech ... Enjoys playing the guitar, computers and Shiloh HS playing chess ... Majoring in industrial engineering. High School: Four-year letterwinner in diving under coach Uras’ Career Top Times Bettie Hudson ... Three-year letterwinner in swimming under 100 Free 47.03 coach Paul Callis ... Elected captain of diving for a season ... Won Gwinnett County Championship in diving as a senior ... Athletic 100 Fly 49.56 Director's scholar athlete award ... Holds six and 11 dive records 200 Fly 1:49.15 for school ... Set six-dive county record ... National Honor Society 200 IM 1:54.28 ... President of Mu Alpha Theta, ... Honors graduate. Personal: Born Jacob Yaacov Tzegaegbe on January 28, 1989, in Atlanta ... Parents are Chris and Esther Tzegaegbe ... Has one older sister, Lital (23), one younger brother, David (16) and twin younger sisters, Dina and Dana (14) ... Hobbies include playing football, lacrosse, baseball, swimming and basketball ... Majoring in civil engineering. Onur Uras • Captain Senior • Fly Istanbul, Turkey German As a Junior (2006-07): Placed 24th overall in the 50 free with a time of 20.74 in the prelims and 22.03 in the finals at the ACC Michael Vallecoccia Championships ... Swam the third leg of the 400 medley relay team that placed sixth at the ACC meet with a team-best time of Freshman • Distance Free 3:21.80 ... Posted a team-best, lifetime-best time of 1:49.15 in the Acworth, Ga. 200 fly finishing 11th at the conference championship ... Member Harrison HS of the 200 free, 400 free, and 400 medley relay teams ... 10th on Tech's All-Time Top 10 list in the 50 freestyle event, fourth in the High School: Four-year letterwinner under coach Abby Dunk ... 100 and 200 butterfly events. Elected captain for two seasons ... Four year honor roll recipient, As a Sophomore (2005-06): Was Tech's top sprint butterfly Beta Club Vice President, national honors society. competitor during the season ... Advanced to the consolation Personal: Born Michael Joseph Vallecoccia on August 12, 1989, finals of the 200 fly at the ACC Championships, finishing 10th in Bridgeport, Conn. ... Parents are Michael and Josephine with a personal-record time of 1:49.34 ... Tallied a 13th-place Vallecoccia ... Has one younger brother, Daniel (16) ... Hobbies finish in the 100 fly at the ACC meet with a lifetime-best time of include reading ... Majoring in aerospace engineering. 28 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Men’s Profiles Travis Wagner three seasons and track for two ... Earned JV MVP honors for cross country and track (2002-03) ... National Honor Roll. Freshman • Sprint Free/Fly Personal: Born William Preston Woodworth on Sept. 25, 1987, in Canton, Ohio Atlanta, Ga. ... Parents are Mark and Mary Kay Woodworth ... Glen Oak HS Older brother Harry is a senior at Tech and is a former student manager for the baseball team ... Has two younger siblings, Sam High School: Four-year letterwinner in swimming and diving and Savannah ... Uncle Peter Stephens played on the Tech and water polo under coach Jeff Burrows Elected captain for a baseball team from 1983-86 ... Enjoys playing the drums, listening season in swimming ... Elected captain for two seasons in water to music and running ... Majoring in management. polo ... Won NEAC, federal league, and sectional champion for the 100 fly and 200 free in 2007... State runner-up in 200 free in 2007 ... Woodworth’s Career Top Times NEAC and sectional champion in 100 fly and 100 back in 2006 .... 100 Free 47.93 Federal league champions in 2006 ... NEAC champion in 100 fly in 200 Free 1:44.20 2005 ... Sectional champion in 200 free in 2005 ... NEAC champi- 500 Free 4:41.51 ons in 2004 ... NEAC champion in 100 fly and sectional champion in 500 free in 2004 ... Five-time NISCA All American ... Four-time 100 Fly 53.69 all-Ohio ... YMCA All-American ... GCAA all-Stark County ... Greater Canton Aquatic Association Male Swimmer of the Year ... Greater Canton Aquatics Association outstanding performance award ... NEAC Male Performer of the Year ... NEAC Male Swimmer of the Meet ... Federal league Swimmer of the Year ... Akron Beacon Journal male swimmer of the year ... First-team Federal League ... NEAC All-Star ... Federal League Athletic Association Sam Dibalasi Commissioner's Award outstanding male scholar athlete ... Team MVP ... Akron Beacon Journal Stark County Male Scholar Athlete ... Federal League Athletic Associa- tion Sam Dibalasi Commissioner's Award outstanding male scholar ... Outstanding Spanish student, honor student, U.S.A Reserve National scholar council award. Personal: Born Glenn Travis Wagner on May 27, 1989, in Canton, Ohio ... Parents are Theodore and Pamela Wagner ... Has three older brothers, Tod (35), Cliff (32), and Kyle (25), two older sisters Michelle (30) and Tara (20) and one younger brother, Troy (15) ... Hobbies include biking, reading, and spending time with friends ... Majoring in bio-medical engineering. Will Woodworth Sophomore • Free Atlanta, Ga. Lakeside HS As a Freshman (2006-07): Clocked a lifetime-best time of 47.93 in the 100 free at the ACC Championships ... Tallied a second lifetime-best mark in the 200 free with a time of 1:44.20 at the conference championship ... Swam a season-best time of 4:41.51 in the 500 free at the Georgia Fall Invitational (12/1) ... Posted a season-best time of 2:00.51 in the 200 IM at the Georgia Fall Invitational ... Honored by receiving the J. Herb McAuley Freshman Unity Award for the year. High School: Four-year letterwinner in swimming under coach James Perrotta ... Won the 200 freestyle county and region championships as a senior ... Helped lead team to county titles in sophomore, junior and senior seasons ... Named team's most valuable performer as a junior and senior ... Scholastic All- American from 2004-06 ... Swam a leg of the school record-setting 200 medley relay team (1:40.50) ... Lettered in cross country for

GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 29 NCAA Qualifying Standards 2008 Men’s NCAA Qualifying Standards 25-Yard 25-Meter 50-Meter ‘A’ Cut ‘B’ Cut ‘A’ Cut ‘B’ Cut ‘A’ Cut ‘B’ Cut 50 Free 19.60 20.18 21.88 22.53 22.80 23.47 100 Free 43.19 44.48 48.21 49.65 50.05 51.55 200 Free 1:35.09 1:37.94 1:46.13 1:49.31 1:49.94 1:53.23 500 Free 4:19.49 4:27.27 3:47.03 3:53.84 3:54.84 4:01.88 1650 Free 15:05.87 15:33.04 15:03.17 15:30.25 15:38.73 16:06.89 100 Back 47.43 48.85 52.94 54.53 56.81 58.51 200 Back 1:43.60 1:46.70 1:55.63 1:59.09 2:02.03 2:05.68 100 Breast 53.60 55.20 59.83 1:01.61 1:02.62 1:04.49 200 Breast 1:57.09 2:00.60 2:10.69 2:14.60 2:16.47 2:20.57 100 Fly 47.09 48.50 52.56 54.14 54.26 55.88 200 Fly 1:44.93 1:48.07 1:57.11 2:00.62 2:01.17 2:04.80 200 IM 1:46.09 1:49.27 1:58.41 2:01.96 2:03.80 2:07.51 400 IM 3:47.89 3:54.72 4:14.35 4:21.97 4:23.46 4:31.36 200 Free Relay 1:18.47 1:20.82 1:27.58 1:30.21 1:31.25 1:33.99 400 Free Relay 2:54.21 2:59.43 3:14.44 3:20.26 3:21.87 3:27.92 800 Free Relay 6:26.08 6:37.66 7:10.90 7:23.82 7:25.31 7:38.67 200 Medley Relay 1:26.52 1:29.11 1:36.57 1:39.46 1:40.85 1:43.86 400 Medley Relay 3:11.65 3:17.39 3:33.90 3:40.31 3:43.90 3:50.60 1-Meter Diving – 290/300* 3-Meter Diving – 310/320* Platform Diving – 290/300* * = qualifying point total when using six optional dives with standard D.D.

2008 Women’s NCAA Qualifying Standards 25-Yard 25-Meter 50-Meter ‘A’ Cut ‘B’ Cut ‘A’ Cut ‘B’ Cut ‘A’ Cut ‘B’ Cut 50 Free 22.62 23.29 25.25 26.00 25.98 26.75 100 Free 49.42 50.90 55.16 56.81 56.55 58.24 200 Free 1:47.09 1:50.30 1:59.53 2:03.11 2:02.54 2:06.21 500 Free 4:45.46 4:54.02 4:09.75 4:17.24 4:16.71 4:24.41 1650 Free 16:23.54 16:53.04 16:20.60 16:50.01 16:48.76 17:19.02 100 Back 54.38 56.01 1:00.70 1:02.52 1:03.76 1:05.67 200 Back 1:57.32 2:00.83 2:10.94 2:14.86 2:16.90 2:21.00 100 Breast 1:01.85 1:03.70 1:09.03 1:11.10 1:11.10 1:13.22 200 Breast 2:14.19 2:18.21 2:29.77 2:34.26 2:32.23 2:37.42 100 Fly 53.75 55.36 59.99 1:01.79 1:01.29 1:03.13 200 Fly 1:58.99 2:02.55 2:12.81 2:16.78 2:15.07 2:19.11 200 IM 2:00.34 2:03.95 2:14.31 2:18.34 2:18.81 2:22.97 400 IM 4:15.63 4:23.29 4:45.31 4:53.86 4:51.82 5:00.57 200 Free Relay 1:31.01 1:33.74 1:41.58 1:44.63 1:44.49 1:47.63 400 Free Relay 3:18.39 3:24.34 3:41.42 3:48.06 3:47.00 3:53.80 800 Free Relay 7:10.49 7:23.40 8:00.46 8:14.87 8:12.56 8:27.33 200 Medley Relay 1:39.49 1:42.47 1:51.04 1:54.37 1:54.49 1:57.92 400 Medley Relay 3:38.02 3:44.56 4:03.33 4:10.63 4:11.18 4:18.72 1-Meter Diving – 255/265* 3-Meter Diving – 270/280* Platform Diving – 260/225# * = qualifying point total when using six optional dives with standard D.D. # = qualifying point total when using five optional dives with standard D.D.

30 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Women’sWomen’s ProfilesProfiles

GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 31 2006-072007-08 Women’sWomen’s RosterRoster

Front Row (L-R): Assistant Coach Marty Hamburger, Diving Coach John Ames, Amanda Gannon, Vida Jemec, Christine Chuang, Elizabeth Stowe, Alyssa Walter, Caiti Lewis, Stephanie England, Jing Li, Katherine Locker, Michele Bertolino, Sarah Schoeff, Lisa Pucci, Trainer Jack Anderson and Head Coach Stu Wilson. Back Row (L-R): Megan Campbell, Volunteer Coach Andy Griffin, Hannah Krimm, April Dickerson, Katie Bond, Thea Kromer, Dalton Hedberg, Lauren Rhea, Ryann Kopacka, Taylor Flynn, Agatha Kwasnik, Caroline Jones, Lauren Barnes, Katie Wright, Assistant Coach Courtney Hart Shealy and Student Assistant Ryan Bishop.

Name Cl. Ht. Events Hometown/High School/Club Team Lauren Barnes So. 5-8 Sprint Free Suwanee, Ga./North Gwinnett High/Swim Atlanta Michele Bertolino Fr. 5-2 Diving Boca Raton, Fla./Saint Andrew’s/Coral Springs Diving Team Katie Bond Fr. 5-9 Free/Back Alpharetta, Ga./Chattahoochee/Swim Atlanta Megan Campbell Sr. 5-6 Fly/IM Lawrenceville, Ga./Providence Christian/Swim Atlanta Christine Chuang Fr. 5-5 Fly/Sprint Free Clarksburg, Md./Poolesville/Rockville Montgomery Swim Team April Dickerson Fr. 5-7 IM/Breast Carrollton, Ga./Carrollton/Carrollton Bluefins Stephanie England Sr. 5-0 Diving Titusville, Fla./Astronaut/Team Orlando Diving Taylor Flynn So. 5-8 Free/Fly Memphis, Tenn./Briarcrest Christian School/Memphis Tiger Swimming Amanda Gannon Sr. 5-7 Free/Fly/IM Evans City, Pa./Oakland Catholic/Team Pittsburgh Dalton Hedberg So. 5-10 Back Mobile, Ala./St. Paul's Episcopal/City of Mobile Swim Association Vida Jemec Fr. 5-6 IM/Breast Greer, S.C./Riverside/Middle Tyger YMCA Caroline Jones Jr. 5-8 Back/IM/Free St. Simmons, Ga./Glynn Academy/Brunswick Swim Team Ryann Kopacka So. 5-8 Back Alpharetta, Ga./Blessed Trinity/Swim Atlanta Hannah Krimm So. 5-5 Diving Upper Arlington, Ohio/Upper Arlington/U.S. Elite Diving Thea Kromer Fr. 5-10 Fly/Sprint Free Arlington, Va./Yorktown/Machine Aquatics Agatha Kwasnik* So. 5-8 Middle Distance Lake Bluff, Ill./Lake Forest/Scout Aquatics Caiti Lewis Fr. 5-4 Dist. IM Brookeville, Md./Sherwood/Rockville-Montgomery Swim Club Jing Li So. 5-1 Dist. Free/Fly Chapel Hill, N.C./Chapel Hill/Tar Heel Aquatic Katherine Locker Fr. 5-4 Fly/Back Decatur, Ga./Marist/Swim Atlanta Lisa Pucci So. 5-5 Sprint Free/Breast Raleigh, N.C./Cardinal Gibbons/YMCA Triangle Area Swim Team Sarah Schoeff Fr. 5-6 Sprint Free/Breast Kennesaw, Ga./Marietta/Tidal Wave Swimming Elizabeth Stowe* Sr. 5-4 Distance Free Lawrenceville, Ga./Dacula/Swim Atlanta Alyssa Walter Fr. 5-5 Sprint Free/Breast Diamondhead, Miss./Our Lady Academy/Nu Wave Katie Wright Sr. 5-8 Free Macon, Ga./Mount de Sales Academy/Swim Macon

* - Team Captain

Head Coach: Stu Wilson (Georgia, 1989), 3rd season, 6th overall Assistant Coaches: Marty Hamburger (Iowa, 1991), 3rd season, Courtney Shealy Hart (Georgia, 2005), 1st season Diving Coach: John Ames (Ohio University, 1993), 7th season

32 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Women’s Profiles Lauren Barnes Megan Campbell Sophomore • Sprint Free Senior • Fly/IM Suwanee, Ga. Lawrenceville, Ga. North Gwinnett High Providence Christian HS

As a Freshman (2006-07): Swam a season-best time of 25.37 in As a Junior (2006-07): Swam the third leg of Tech's 200 and 400 the 50 free event at the ACC Championships ... Posted a season-best medley relay teams that set team-best times of 1:47.52 and 3:54.00 at time of 54.24 at the Georgia Fall Invitational in the 100 free competi- the Georgia Fall Invitational (12/1) ... Tallied a season-best time of tion (12/1) ... Posted a time of 1:57.32 in the 200 free at the ACC 59.52 in the 100 fly against Florida Atlantic and UNO (1/13) ... Posted meet ... Competed in the 200 free, 400 free, 200 medley and 400 a time of 2:13.93 in the 200 IM at the meet against Emory and North medley relay events throughout the season. Florida (1/14) ... Finished the season 3rd on the team in the 100 fly High School: Four-year letterwinner in swimming under coach and 4th in the 200 IM. Debbie Carey ... Two-time captain ... Garnered all-state honors en As a Sophomore (2005-06): Clocked a season-best time of 59.55 route to earning team MVP honors as a senior ... Holds school record in the 100 butterfly at the Georgia Tech Invitational (11/19) ... Posted in the 100 free ... Earned varsity letters in tennis and cross country ... a season-best time of 2:14.67 in the preliminaries of the 200 fly at the Member of the National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, Beta club GT Invite ... Swam a season-best time of 2:13.14 in the 200 IM at the and Who's Who Among American High School students. ACC Quad Meet (10/21) ... Swam in the prelims of the 100 fly, 200 fly Personal: Born Lauren Ashley Barnes on Sept. 30, 1988, in Marietta, and 200 IM at the ACC Championships. Ga. ... Parents are Jeff and Marcia Barnes ... Has two younger siblings, As a Freshman (2004-05): Posted a season-best time of 59.47 in the Kenny and Anna ... Enjoys reading, painting, drawing, shopping and prelims of the 100 butterfly at the Georgia Tech Invitational (11/19) ... watching football ... Plans to major in psychology. Finished 18th in the 200 fly with a season-best time of 2:10.42 at the GT Invite ... Clocked a season-best time of 2:11.80 in the prelims of the 200 Barnes’ Career Top Times IM at the ACC Championships. 50 Free 25.06 High School: Four-year letterwinner under coach Katie Landis ... 100 Free 53.66 Elected team captain as a senior ... School record holder in the 100 freestyle (55.84), 200 individual medley (2:08.90) and swam a leg of the Michele Bertolino record-setting 200, 400 free relay and 200 medley relay teams ... Earned all-state honorable mention honors in 2002-03 and second team honors Freshman • in 2001-02 ... Member of the school Newspaper and French clubs ... Boca Raton, Fla. National Honor Society and National Beta club. Personal: Born Megan Katherine Campbell on Dec. 16, 1985, in Atlanta Saint Andrew’s High ... Parents are Darrell and Debbie Campbell ... Grandfather, Paran Chase, High School: Six-year letterwinner in diving under Coach Duff Tyler won the Bronze Medal of Honor in World War II ... Enjoys music, water ... Two-year letterwinner in water polo under Coach Adam Gafrey ... skiing and dancing ... Majoring in management. Elected captain in diving for two seasons ... Elected captain in water polo for a season ... Won Palm Beach Counties, Districts, and Campbell’s Career Top Times Regionals in 2005 ... Third at Florida State IA in 2005 - 06 ... Two All- 100 Fly 57.34 American honors in diving ... Three NISCA top 40 for diving ... Most 200 Fly 2:07.60 Improved Player ... Four MVPs ... Two Pinch a Penny All-Area Team 200 IM 2:07.20 selection ... Two-time All-American consideration ... Two-time Palm 400 IM 4:25.70 Beach Post and Sun Sentinel All-County first team ... Four-time Sun Sentinel and Palm Beach Post All-County honerable mention ... Most Improved Player in water polo ... All-District honorable mention in water polo ... AP Scholars, Bausch and Lomb Honorary Science Award, National Science League Physics Award, academic excellence in honors Physics Award ... Dean's List ... Headmasters List. Personal: Born Michele Elizabeth Bertolino on January 19, 1989 in Boynton Beach, Fla. ... Parents are Richard and LynnAnn Bertolino ... Hobbies include photography, painting, drawing, boating, ice skating, and baking ... Majoring in Bio-medical Engineering. Katie Bond Freshman • Mid. Dist. Free/Back Christine Chuang Alpharetta, Ga. Freshman • Fly/Sprint Free Chattahoochee High Clarksburg, Md. High School: Four-year letterwinner under Coach Sharon Evans Providence Christian Academy and Dale Faukins Duff Tyler ... GCC5 State Runner-up ... Most Improved in 2004 ... Holds high school record for 500 free ... State High School: Three-year letterwinner under Coach Jon Leong ... Champion in the 200 back in 2007 ... Honor roll. Elected captain for one season ... Won Junior National Championship Personal: Born Katharine Fitzpatrick Bond on September 14, 1989 in ... Won high school division Championship in 2005 ... Won spring zone Wallingford, Conn. ... Parents are Christopher and Stephanie Bond ... in 100 yd butterfly ... MVP 2003 - 07 ... Scholastic All-American (2004 - Has three younger brothers, Matthew (14), Andrew (11), and Michael 07) ... DVS Scholar Athlete Award (2003 - 07) ... Holds RMSC record in (4), and one younger sister, Elizabeth (10) ... Hobbies include tennis 50 yd and 200 yd butterfly ... Honor roll. and softball ... Majoring in Industrial Engineering. Personal: Born Christine Shirley Chuang on April 10, 1989 in Peoria, Ill. ... Parents are Paul and Julie Chuang ... Has one younger sister, Cara (15) and one younger brother, Matthew (9) ... Hobbies include volleyball ... Majoring in Engineering. GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 33 Women’s Profiles April Dickerson Has two older brothers, Eric Eggers and Evan Eggers ... Enjoys rollerblading and going to the beach ... Majoring in chemical engi- Freshman • IM/Breast neering. Carrollton, Ga. England’s Career Top Marks Carrollton HS 1-Meter 278.55 High School: Four-year letterwinner under Coach David Weeks ... 3-Meter 328.30 Won GRPA State IM and breast 2005-06 ... All-American as a junior Platform 373.20 and senior ... Holds nine short course and three long courses team records ... Honor roll ... National Honors Society ... National Spanish Honors Society ... National Art Honors Society ... FCA. Taylor Flynn Personal: Born April Suzan Dickerson on May 5, 1989 in Carrollton, Ga. ... Parents are Tracy and Kim... Has one older brother, Andrew... Sophomore • Free/Fly Majoring in Management. Memphis, Tenn. Stephanie England Briarcrest Christian School Senior • Diving As a Freshman (2006-07): A strong freshman campaign ... Titusville, Fla. Member of the 400 and 800 free relay squads that clocked team-best times of 3:29.57 and 7:35.08 at the Georgia Fall Invitational (12/1) ... Astronaut HS Swam the final leg of Tech's 200 free relay team that tallied a team- best time of 1:36.68 at the ACC Championships, finishing 11th ... As a Junior (2006-07): An All-ACC performer in the three-meter Earned a spot in the bonus consolation finals of the 200 free boards with her final mark of 293.25 ... Finished 12th at the 2007 finishing 21st overall in the competition at the ACC meet with a Zone B Diving Championships in the three-meter dive posting a score lifetime-best time of 1:52.65 ... Clocked a season-best time of 5:04.05 of 531.40 ... Placed ninth on the platform at the Zone B Champion- at the Georgia Fall Invitational in the 500 free (12/1) ... Posted a ships with a mark of 494.90 ... Tallied a team-best, NCAA Zone diving season-best time of 2:07.28 in the 200 fly at the Tri Meet against qualifying score of 273.95 placing fourth overall on the platform at Georgia and USC (10/19) ... Finshed the season second on the team the ACC Championships ... Scored a 309.95 in the prelims of the in the 200 free and 200 fly while finishing third in the 500 free ... three-meter event while finishing third overall in the competition at Completed inaugural season at Tech on the All-Time Top 10 list in the the ACC meet ... Placed sixth in the one- 200 freestyle (fifth) and 200 butterfly (seventh). meter diving at the conference champion- High School: Four-year letterwinner under coach Christi Whaley ... ship with a mark of 265.85 ... Tallied a Two-time team captain ... Two-time U.S. Swimming Scholastic All- second team-best, NCAA Zone qualifying American ... Five-time All-American ... U.S. Open and JR Nationals score of 319.80 against Florida Atlantic and qualifier in the 200 butterfly and 400 freestyle ... Eight-time state finalist New Orleans (1/13) ... Recipient of the ... Southern Zone meet champion ... National Honor Society. Fred Lanoue Athletic Achievement Award Personal: Born Taylor Bianca Flynn on June 22, 1988, in Memphis, and Shilo Ayalon Most Valuable Athlete Tenn. ... Parents are Kevin and Nancy Flynn ... Enjoys traveling ... Award for the 06-07 season. Majoring in Civil Engineering. As a Sophomore (2005-06): Posted a sixth-place finish on the platform at the Flynn’s Career Top Times NCAA Zone B Diving Championships with a score of 477.80, the highest finish ever 100 Free 52.92 by a women's diver ... Finaled on the 200 Free 1:52.65 three-meter springboard at the ACC 500 Free 4:59.62 Championships, tallying a sixth-place 1000 Free 10:12.49 finish with a score of 295.25 ... Finished 100 Fly 57.96 13th on the one-meter board with a point 200 Fly 2:04.70 total of 235.90 at the ACC meet ... Set new personal-best marks on the one- and three-meter boards at the Georgia Tech Invitational (11/ Amanda Gannon 18-20) ... Tallied a pair of third-place finishes with scores of 278.55 (1- M) and 328.30 (3-M), respectively ... Finished 16th on the three-meter Senior • Free/Fly/IM board at the NCAA Zone diving meet ... Recipient of the team's Shilo Evans City, Pa. Ayalon Most Valuable Athlete Award ... ACC Academic Honor Roll ... Academic All-ACC Team. Oakland Catholic HS As a Freshman (2004-05): Qualified for the NCAA Zone B Diving As a Junior (2006-07): Tallied a season-best time of 2:15.34 in the Championships ... Finished 11th on the platform at the Zone Diving 200 fly at the ACC Championships ... Posted a time of 2:20.83 in the meet with a score of 353.05 ... Advanced to the finals on the three- 200 IM at the Georgia Fall Invitational (12/1) ... Clocked a season- meter board at the ACC Championships with a season-high score of best time of 5:20.30 at the ACC meet in the 500 free competition ... 434.30, finishing in eighth place ... Tallied a 16th-place finish on the Top 1000 free time came at the meet against Emory and North Florida one-meter board at the ACC meet ... Recipient of team's J. Herb (1/14) with a mark of 10:58.57. McAuley Freshman Unity Award. As a Sophomore (2005-06): Swam a season-best time of 17:44.96 High School: Three-year letterwinner in diving under coach Tracey in the 1650 freestyle at the ACC Championships to finish in 24th Pendina ... Two-time team captain ... Qualified for the America Cup, place ... Posted a top 500 free time of 5:12.22 in the prelims at the advancing to the semifinals on the platform ... Participated in the Georgia Tech Invitational (11/18) ... Clocked a season-best time of platform diving event at U.S. Jr. Nationals ... Won district champion- 2:10.53 in the 200 butterfly ... Top 400 IM time came at the ACC Quad ship in three consecutive seasons (2001-03) ... Pool record holder at Meet with a time of 4:37.92. Satellite High School ... Particpated in the 2004 East Nationals, Senior As a Freshman (2004-05): Clocked a lifetime-best time of 5:01.82 Zones, Regionals and East Zone Championships ... Ranked No. 3 in in the prelims of the 500 freestyle at the ACC Championships ... Tied her class ... National Honor Society, Chemistry Honor Society, a personal-best time of 17:04.15 in the 1650 free at the ACC meet, German Honor Society and Mu Alpha Theta member. finishing in 20th place ... Qualified for the bonus finals of the 200 Personal: Born Stephanie Danielle England on June 12, 1986, in San butterfly at the conference championship with a lifetime-best time of Antonio, Texas ... Parents are Gordon England and Susan Eggers ... 34 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Women’s Profiles 2:07.93, finishing in 24th place ... Caroline Jones Tallied a season-best time of 4:39.19 in the 400 IM at the Georgia Tech Junior • Back/Free Invitational (11/19) ... Ranked second St. Simmons, Ga. on the Tech squad for the season in the 1000 free (10:20.34) and 1650 free. Glynn Academy HS Club Team: Helped lead Team As a Sophomore (2006-07): Placed 20th in the 200 back competi- Pittsburgh to an Eastern Zone, Section tion at the ACC Championships with a team-best time of 2:05.58 in II, championship in the Spring of 2003 the prelims ... Swam the first leg of the 200 medley relay team that ... Eastern Zone record holder in 1650 placed ninth at the ACC meet with a time of 1:47.77 ... Swam a freestyle (17:04.15). season-best time of 25.29 in the 50 free at the Georgia Fall Invita- High School: Three-time Scholastic All-American (2002-04) ... Four- tional (12/1) ... Posted times of 1:54.72 and 5:10.95 in the 200 and year member of the Student Council ... Member of school newspaper 500 free events against Emory and North Florida (1/14) ... Swam a in sophomore and junior years ... National Honor Society as a junior season-best time of 28.01 in the 50 back at the ACC meet ... Clocked a and senior. time of 59.67 in the 100 back at the Georgia Fall Invitational (12/1) ... Personal: Born Amanda Lynn Gannon on May 22, 1986, in Suffern, Finished the season ranked fifth on the team in the 100, 200, and N.Y. ... Parents are Peter and Rebecca Gannon ... Sister, Caitlin, swam 500 freestyle events and third in the 50 and 100 back events. at the University of Maryland (2001-05) ... Enjoys music, dancing and As a Freshman (2005-06): Quickly became one of Tech's top playing badminton ... Majoring in bio-medical engineering. competitors in the sprint freestyle and backstroke events ... Clocked a lifetime-best time of 2:03.15 in the 200 back at the ACC Quad Meet (10/ Gannon’s Career Top Times 22) ... Swam a season-best time of 1:50.60, just missing the NCAA 'B' 500 Free 5:03.20 standard of 1:50.30, in the prelims of the 200 free at the ACC Champion- 1000 Free 10:18.43 ships, finishing 15th in the consolation finals ... Qualified for the bonus 1650 Free 17:04.15 finals of the 200 back and finished 20th at the ACC meet ... Swam a 200 Fly 2:07.93 season-best time of 5:02.82 in the 500 free at the conference champion- 400 IM 4:35.63 ship ... Posted a season-best time of 59.25 in the 100 back at the ACC Quad Meet ... Swam legs of the top 400 free and 800 free relay teams at the ACC meet ... Ranked second on the Tech squad for the season Dalton Hedberg in the 200 free, 100 back and 200 back Sophomore • Back ... Recipient of team's J. Herb McAuley Freshman Unity Award ... ACC Mobile, Ala. Academic Honor Roll. St. Paul’s Episcopal High School: Lettered in four seasons under head coach Al Otte ... As a Freshman (2006-07): Clocked a personal-best time of 1:01.78 Captured state titles in the 200 in the 100 back competition at the ACC Championships ... Tallied a freestyle, 100 backstroke and 400 second lifetime-best time of 2:11.09 in the 200 back event at the freestyle relay ... Tabbed Georgia State meet against Emory and North Florida (1/14) ... Swam a season-best Female Swimmer of the Year as a time of 2:17.82 in the 200 IM at the conference championship ... senior ... All-American in 200 free, 100 Member of a 400 medley relay team that posted a season-best time back, 400 free relay and 200 medley relay ... Earned one varsity letter of 4:11.10 against conference opponents Maryland and Virginia Tech in cross country ... National Honor Society, Beta club, Secretary for (1/20). Student Council, Latin club and psychology club member. High School: Four-year letterwinner in swimming under coach Bill Personal: Born Caroline Marie Jones on August 19, 1987, in Quina ... Garnered all-state and all-county honors in all four seasons in Brunswick, Ga. ... Parents are Jeff and Celeste Jones ... Has two the 100 backstroke, 200 IM and 200 medley relay ... Helped lead team to younger brothers, Patrick and Logan ... Majoring in industrial and Alabama 1A-6A state titles in 2003 and '04 ... Student Government systems engineering. Association and Headmaster's List. Personal: Born Emily Dalton Hedberg on May 17, 1988, in Mobile, Ala. Jones’ Career Top Times ... Parents are Robert and Virginia Hedberg ... Has two younger 100 Back 57.43 siblings, John and Lillie ... Enjoys playing tennis and going to the 200 Back 2:03.15 beach ... Plans to major in polymer textile fiber engineering. 200 Free 1:50.53 Hedberg’s Career Top Times 500 Free 5:00.28 100 Back 1:01.78 Ryann Kopacka 200 Back 2:11.09 Sophomore • Back Vida Jemec Alpharetta, Ga. Freshman • IM/Breast Blessed Trinity HS Greer, S.C. As a Freshman (2006-07): Swam the first leg of the 400 medley Riverside HS relay team that set a team-best time of 3:54.00 at the Georgia Fall High School: Six-year letterwinner under Coach Eddie Hughes ... Invitational (12/1) ... Posted a personal-best time of 59.12 in the 100 Won 100 fly as sophomore, junior, and senior and 100 breast as back at the Georgia Fall Invitational (12/1) ... Set her second lifetime- sophomore ... Received MVP, All-State and all-Region honors four best time on the season with a time of 2:07.84 in the 200 back seasons ... Holds the RHS record in 100 fly and 200 im ... National competition at the Georgia Fall Invitational ... Swam a time of 28.00 Honors Society ... National French Honors Society ... Key club ... Beta in the 50 back at the Georgia Invite ... Clocked a time of 2:11.88 at the club, yearbook ... Graduated top 5 percent in class. ACC meet in the 200 IM competition ... Finished the season second Personal: Born Vida Jemec on December 2, 1988 in Slovenia ... on the team in the 50 back, 100 back, 200 back, and 200 IM events ... Parents are Marjan and Nika Jemec ... Has two older siblings, Awarded the Chapman/Hiles Most Improved Athlete Award ... Sebastijan and Ana and a younger brother, Domen ... Majoring in Finishes first season at Tech on the All-Time Top 10 list in the 100 Polymer Fiber Engineering. GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 35 Women’s Profiles backstroke (sixth) and 200 backstroke (eighth). Thea Kromer High School: Four-year letterwinner in swimming ... Named team captain ... Two-time all-state honorable mention ... Finished in third Freshman • Fly/Sprint Free place in the 100 backstroke at the state meet as a senior ... Helped lead 200 medley relay team to a third-place finish at state champion- Arlington Va. ships ... Team won the North Region Championship and she won the Yorktown HS 100 back as a senior ... North Fulton Prep Club Academic Athlete of the Year ... Holds four school records in the 50 freestyle, 100 back, 200 High School: Four-year letterwinner under Coach Lassiter ... Won free relay and 200 medley relay ... Became the first ever athlete at 2006-07 AAA VA State Championships ... Four-time All-American Blessed Trinity to qualify in every event at the state championships (2006-07) ... All-District from 2004-07... Holds National record in 200 ... Named school's Valedictorian ... Wendy's High School Heisman. medleys and free relay (LCM) ... Holds YHS record in 200 relay and Personal: Born Ryann Margaret Kopacka on June 24, 1988, in state record in 200 free and medley ...Holds regional record in relay ... Roswell, Ga. ... Parents are Gary and Jeanne Kopacka ... Has an older Honor roll. sister, Taylor, and a younger brother, Ben ... Father ran cross country Personal: Born Thea Devin Kromer on August 31, 1989 in Washing- and track at the Air Force Academy (1974, 75-77) ... Enjoys ultimate ton, D.C. ... Parents are Lawrence Kromer and Tanya Sandros ... Has frisbee, wake boarding, biking, camping, traveling and taking pictures one older brother, Aaron ... Hobbies include black and white photog- ... Plans to major in aerospace engineering. raphy ... Majoring in Biology.

Kopacka’s Career Top Times Agatha Kwasnik • Captain 100 Back 59.12 Sophomore • Sprint Free 200 Back 2:07.84 Lake Bluff, Ill. Lake Forest HS As a Freshman: Had an astonishing freshman season to begin Tech career ... Set four team-best times and swam the first leg on four relay teams that held team-best times this season ... Swam a team- best, lifetime-best time of 23.93 in the 50 free at the Georgia Fall Invitational (12/1) ... Set a personal-best time and new Tech school record in the 100 free event at the Georgia Invite, clocking a split time of 51.48 ... Posted her third personal-best time of 1:51.46 in the 200 free competition at the Georgia Invite ... Tallied a team-best time of 58.51 in the 100 back ... Swam the first leg of the 200 free relay Hannah Krimm team that posted a team-best time of 1:36.68 at the ACC Champion- Sophomore • Diving ships, finishing 11th ... Member of the 400 free, 800 free, and 200 medley relay teams that set team-best times at the Georgia Fall Upper Arlington, Ohio Invitational (12/1) ... Concludes the season holding positions on Upper Arlington HS Tech's All-Time Top 10 list in the 50 freestyle (fourth), 100 freestyle (first), 200 freestyle (third) and 100 backstroke (fifth) ... Awarded the As a Freshman (2006-07): Tallied a J. Herb McAuley Freshman Unity Award for the 2006-07 season. mark of 264.80 in the prelims of the one- High School: Earned four letters in swimming ... Named team's meter diving competition at the ACC most valuable performer as a senior and elected team captain ... Championships, finishing eighth overall Garnered All-America honors as a junior ... Finished fifth at the state ... Set a team-best score of 288.15 in the championships in the 100 freestyle (51.94) and sixth in the 200 free one-meter diving event against Emory (1:53.02) in her senior season ... Helped team to a third-place finish and North Florida (1/14) ... Posted a score during her junior season ... Swam on the state champion 200 free of 309.75 in the prelims of the three- and 400 free relay teams during freshman and sophomore seasons meter boards earning a spot in the finals and helped team win the state championship during that span ... of ACC Championships, finished eighth National Honor Roll. overall ... Qualified for NCAA Zone Diving Personal: Born Agatha Anna Kwasnik on July 19, 1988 ... Parents meet. are Richard and Joanna Kwasnik ... Brother Jacob is a senior on High School: Lettered in four seasons Tech's swim team ... Enjoys photography and graphic design ... Plans in diving under coach Kelly King ... to major biomedical engineering. Elected team captain for one season ... Helped guide team to high school state Kwasnik’s Career Top Times titles in freshman, junior and senior 50 Free 23.93 seasons ... NISCA All-American in 2005 100 Free 51.48 and '06 ... Named All-Ohio in sophomore, 200 Free 1:51.46 junior and senior seasons ... U.S. Junior 100 Back 57.85 National qualifier on the one-meter board ... Four-time U.S. Region National qualifier on the one- and three- meter boards ... Named as the team's most valuable diver as a senior and elected as the team's most dedicated diver in sophomore and junior seasons ... National Honor Society member and National Honor Merit Commended Scholar. Personal: Born Hannah Marie Krimm on April 28, 1988, in Colum- bus, Ohio ... Parents are John and Ann Krimm ... Has three brothers, Gus, Gabe and Noah ... Father played football at Notre Dame (1978- 81) and for the NFL New Orleans Saints (1982-83) ... Brother Gus plays football at Cornell ... Hobbies include reading ... Majoring in science, technology and culture.

36 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Women’s Profiles Caiti Lewis Katherine Locker Freshman • Distance IM Freshman • Fly/Back Brookeville, Md. Decatur, Ga. Sherwood HS Marist HS

High School: Four-year letterwinner under Coach Bill Schectman ... High School: Four-year letterwinner under Coach Terry Blish ... Helped team win divisional and county championships in 2003-04 ... Served as team captain during her senior year ... Won 200 freestyle Montgomery County record holder in girls 250m graduated freestyle relay in 2004-05 ... Won 400 freestyle relay in 2006-07 ... Girls State relay 2003 ... Four year Honor Roll student and scholar athlete. Championships A-AAAA 2007 ... All-American (2004-05 & 2007) ... All- Personal: Born Caitlin Iris Lewis in Bethseda, Md. ... Parents are State (2004-05) ... Holds school records in 200 and 400 freestyle ... Neil and Caroline Lewis ... Has younger brother, Ted ... Hobbies Honor roll, FCA officer, retreat leader, and Eucharistic minister. include traveling ... Majoring in Biology. Personal: Born Katherine Mary Locker on June 2, 1989 in Atlanta, Ga. ... Parents are Doug and Beth Locker ... Have two younger siblings, John and Anne ... Hobbies include listening to music, Jing Li spending time with friends and family and going to the beach ... Sophomore • Distance Free/Fly Undecided major. Chapel Hill, N.C. Chapel Hill HS Lisa Pucci As a Freshman (2006-07): A stellar freshman campaign ... Sophomore • Sprint Free/Breast Clocked a time of 4:59.49 earning a spot in the bonus consolation final of the 500 free event at the ACC Championships, finishing 21st Raleigh, N.C. ... Posted a team-best time of 58.68 in the 100 fly against Florida Cardinal Gibbons HS Atlantic and UNO (1/13) ... Tallied a team-best, lifetime-best time of 2:03.78 in the 200 fly against As a Freshman (2006-07): Swam a time of 1:06.77 in the prelims conference opponent Virginia (11/4) of the 100 breast event earning a spot in the bonus consolation ... Swam another team-best time finals, finishing 20th ... Swam the final leg on Tech's 400 free and 200 against Virginia by clocking a time of medley relay teams that posted team-best times of 3:29.57 and 4:32.52 in the 400 IM event ... Swam 1:47.52 at the Georgia Fall Invitational (12/1) ... Tied personal-best the second leg of the Tech 400 free time of 24.21 in the 50 free at the Georgia Fall Invitational ... Posted a relay team that set a team-best time season-best time of 52.90 in the 100 free at the Invitational ... Top 200 for the season at the Georgia Fall breast time came at the ACC Championships with a time of 2:27.08 ... Invitational by clocking a time of Finished season ranked second on the team in the 50 free, 100 free, 3:29.57 ... Finished the season ranked 100 breast and 200 breast ... Concludes the year on Tech's All-Time second on the team in the 500 free, Top 10 list in the 50 freestyle (seventh), 100 breaststroke (sixth) and 1000 free and 1650 free ... Concluded 200 breaststroke (sixth). strong freshman year ranked on High School: Earned four varsity letters in swimming under coach Tech's All-Time Top 10 list in the 200 freestyle (sixth), 500 freestyle Jonah Turner ... Helped lead team to four consecutive Georgia state (fourth), 1000 freestyle (third), 1650 freestyle (fifth), 100 butterfly titles and three conference championships ... Garnered All-America (eighth), 200 butterfly (fifth) and 400 IM (seventh). honors in sprint freestyle relays ... National Honor Society. High School: One-year letterwinner at Chapel Hill High School Personal: Born Lisa Elizabeth Pucci on June 5, 1988, in Waddsworth, (2006) and three-year letterwinner at Horizon High School in Ohio ... Parents are Mike and Barb Pucci ... Has an older sister, Mallory swimming (2003-05) ... Won the 4A North Carolina state title in the ... Enjoys water skiing, wake boarding and making jewelry ... Plans to 200 freestyle as a senior ... Swam legs of the North Carolina state major in management. champion 200 medley and 400 free relay teams ... Three-time All- American ... Named team MVP in two consecutive seasons at HHS ... Pucci’s Career Top Times Chapel High School school record holder in 200 free and Horizon High School record holder in 500 free ... President of Society of 50 Free 24.21 Women Scholars and National Honor Society member ... Graduated 100 Free 52.15 with a class rank of three out of 428 students. 100 Breast 1:06.68 Personal: Born Jing Li on Aug. 6, 1988, in Tucson, Ariz. ... Parents 200 Breast 2:24.12 are Philip and Yvonne Li ... Has one younger sister, Celina ... Enjoys playing the violin and paintball ... Plans to major in electrical engineering.

Li’s Career Top Times 500 Free 4:54.84 1000 Free 10:08.55 1650 Free 16:54.82 100 Fly 57.18 200 Fly 2:03.78 200 IM 2:03.78 400 IM 4:24.67

GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 37 Women’s Profiles Sarah Schoeff holder in the 100, 200 and 500 free ... Was part of the 200 and 400 free relay teams that broke school records in senior season ... Tabbed Freshman • Sprint Free/Back most valuable swimmer from 2001-04 ... Garnered all-state honors as Kennesaw, Ga. a senior and earned all-county honors for final three seasons ... Beta and Latin club member ... National Honor Society and National Latin Marietta HS Honor Society. Personal: Born Nancy Elizabeth Stowe on Aug. 19, 1986, in High School: Four-year letterwinner under Coach Belinda Smith ... Lawrenceville, Ga. ... Parents are Gary and Nancy Stowe ... Has two Elected as team captain during junior and senior seasons ... Academic older brothers, Neil (24) and Josh (22) ... Neil lettered in swimming at All-American for two years ... Georgia All-Star for four years ... Cobb Georgia Southern (1999) and Delta State University (2000-02) ... County first-team sophomore, junior and senior seasons ... Received Undecided College of Sciences major. MVP (2005-07) ... Holds team records in 50 free, 100 free, and 100 back ... Graduated with honors Stowe’s Career Top Times Personal: Born Sarah Nicole Schoeff on August 26, 1989 in Marietta, 200 Free 1:52.24 Ga. ... Parents are Timothy and Elise Schoeff ... Has younger brother 500 Free 4:50.52 Jake ... Hobbies include music and photography ... Majoring in science, technology, and culture. 1000 Free 10:00.92 1650 Free 16:28.08 Elizabeth Stowe • Captain Senior • Distance Free Lawrenceville, Ga. Dacula HS

As a Junior (2006-07): Finished 17th in the 500 free at the ACC Championships with a team-best time of 4:54.61 ... Set a team-best, NCAA 'B' qualifying mark of 16:34.94 in the 1650 free at the ACC meet, finishing fourth ... Set a team-best mark of 10:06.60 in the 1000 free against Florida Atlantic and UNO (1/13) ... Swam the second leg on Tech's 800 free relay team that set a team-best time of 7:35.08 at the Georgia Fall Invitational (12/1) ... Posted a season-best time of 4:36.29 in the 400 IM at the Invitational ... Recipient of the Tommy Towles Scholar-Athlete Award for the 2006-07 season. As a Sophomore (2005-06): Clocked a NCAA 'B' standard and season-best time of 16:50.33 in the 1650 freestyle to finish eighth at the ACC Championships ... Swam a season-best time of 4:56.48 in the 500 free to finish in 20th place at the Alyssa Walter ACC meet ... Tallied an 11th-place finish in the 200 free at the Georgia Freshman • Sprint Free/Breast Tech Invitational (11/19) with a Diamondhead, Miss. season-best time of 1:54.56 ... Held Tech's top time in the 1000 free, 1650 Our Lady Academy free, and ranked second in the 500 High School: Six-year letterwinner under Coach Nancy Loftus ... free ... ACC Academic Honor Roll. Three-year letterwinner in track under Coach Harry Hull ... Won 200 As a Freshman (2004-05): IM 2004-07 and 100 breaststroke 2004-06 ... Received MVP award 7th- Became Tech's top distance freestyler 12th grades ... All-American in 2006-07 ... All-State 2005-07... Holds as a rookie ... Set school records in the 200 IM State record ... Holds relay records from La. State ... National 1000- and 1650-yard freestyle events Junior Honor Society ... Honor Society ... Latin Honor Society ...... Garnered All-ACC honors at the Honor Roll. ACC Championships with a third-place Personal: Born Alyssa Marie Walter on October 2, 1988 in Gulfport, finish in the mile, shaving almost 32 Miss. ... Parents are Don and Madonna ... Has older brother, Christian seconds off her personal-best time to ... Hobbies include running and going to the beach ... Majoring in log a school record mark of 16:28.08 ... Qualified for the NCAA Management. Championships in the 500 and 1650 freestyle events ... Tallied a 35th- place finish in the mile (16:48.26) and 58th-place finish in the 500 free (4:58.74) ... Posted a second school record at the ACC meet with a 1000 free split time of 10:00.90 during the 1650 free ... Finished the 500 free in ninth place with her second NCAA 'B' standard time of the meet, finishing with a personal-best mark of 4:50.52 ... Swam the third leg of the Tech 800 freestyle relay team that tallied a NCAA 'B' cut time of 7:24.06 en route to setting a new school record ... Swam a lifetime-best time of 1:52.24 in the prelims of the 200 free at the ACC meet, finishing in 18th place ... Ranked third in the ACC in the mile and seventh in the 500 free and 1000 free ... Recipient of team's Shilo Ayalon Most Valuable Athlete and Chapman/Hiles Most Improved Athlete Awards ... ACC Honor Roll. High School: Four-year letterwinner under coach Erik Spoto ... Won the state crown in the 500-yard freestyle in senior season ... As a junior, won the 500 free at the country championship ... School record

38 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Women’s Profiles Katie Wright Senior • Distance Free Macon, Ga. Mount de Sales Academy

As a Junior (2006-07): Swam a lifetime-best time of 1:57.27 in the 200 free at the ACC Championships ... Clocked a season-best time of 5:14.39 at the Georgia Fall Invitational (12/1) in the 500 free competition ... Swam a season-best time of 2:13.16 in the 200 fly at the ACC meet ... Swam a time of 1:02.05 at the Georgia Fall Invita- tional in the 100 fly ... Competed on Tech's 400 free and 400 medley relays teams throughout the season. As a Sophomore (2005-06): Clocked a season-best time of 17:56.96 in the 1650 freestyle to finish 26th at the ACC Champion- ships ... Swam a season-best time of 1:59.67 in the prelims of the 200 free at the ACC meet ... Posted a season-best time of 5:10.63 in the prelims of the 500 free at the conference championship ... Finished with a season-best time of 10:36.69 in the 1000 free at the ACC Quad Meet (10/21). As a Freshman (2004-05): Posted a season-best time of 10:44.08 in the 1000 freestyle against archrival Georgia (10/23) ... Clocked a season- best time of 1:58.80 in the prelims of the 200 free at the ACC Champion- ships. High School: Five-year letterwinner under coaches Dr. Lee Stockslager and Mary Pat Dadisman ... Helped lead team to five straight state championships (2000-04) ... As a senior, won the individual state title in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle events ... Won the 200 and 500 free events at the 2003 state meet and swam a leg of the championship 200 free relay team in junior season ... Captured the 200 free crown at the state meet in sophomore season ... Earned all-state honors from 2000-04 ... U.S.A Swimming Scholastic All-American in '02 and '03 ... Georgia All- Star from 2000-04 ... Recipient of Swim Macon Award ... Was part of the state record holding 200 freestyle relay team ... Lettered in cross country for one season ... National Honor Society. Personal: Born Katherine Elizabeth Wright on Dec. 22, 1985, in Macon, Ga. ... Parents are John and Lisa Wright ... Has an older brother, Kevin ... Enjoys reading, arts and crafts and camping/hiking ... Majoring in international affairs and management.

Wright’s Career Top Times 200 Free 1:57.27 500 Free 5:09.73 1000 Free 10:32.95 1650 Free 17:41.76

GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 39 Head Coach Stu Wilson Stu Wilson by Georgia Tech. THE WILSON FILE Head Coach Tech sent four swimmers to the • Full Name: Stuart Wilson 3rd Season 2005 NCAA Championships, the • Birthdate: Sept. 10, 1963 • Education: Georgia, 1989 - B.A. in Georgia, 1989 second most in school history, and five of the seven All-America honors Economics Stu Wilson was named men's and earned by Yellow Jackets have come Coaching Background women's swimming and diving head during Wilson's tenure. coach on June 8, 2005. He enters his 2005-present: Head Swim Coach at Former Tech standout Shilo Georgia Tech third season as head coach and sixth Ayalon and Morgan both garnered 2001-04: Assistant Swim Coach at overall with the program. All-America honors under Wilson's Georgia Tech In his five years with the Tech tutelage. Ayalon holds four school 1998-2001: Head Swim Atlanta program, Wilson has guided four Senior Coach records and was named ACC Most 1990-2001: Swim Atlanta swimmers to the NCAA Champion- Valuable Performer at the 2003 ACC ships and tutored two Atlantic Coast Championships. Athletic Background Conference champions in the dis- In 2006, Rob Miller, Morgan and University of Georgia (84-88): tance events. Elizabeth Stowe all qualified for the Reached finals of the 200- and 500-yard Sam Morgan ended his career as a NCAA Championships under Wilson's freestyle events at the SEC Champion- ships in each of his last three seasons; two-time All-American in the 1650- guidance. Morgan won his first ACC yard freestyle and became the first Qualified for the NCAA Championships title in the men's 1650-yard freestyle in 400 free relay; Six-time U.S. Nationals Yellow Jacket to qualify for the NCAA and Miller finished fifth. Stowe posted qualifier. Championship meet in four consecu- a third-place finish in the women's tive seasons under Wilson's guidance. 1650 free to earn All-ACC honors. All arrangements, public relations and In his first season as head coach three clocked lifetime-best times in record-keeping. He worked as a head in 2005-06, Wilson led the Jackets to their respective events for Yellow age group coach with Swim Atlanta their fourth straight top-five finish in Jackets. from 1990-98. the ACC, tallying a fourth-place finish Prior to joining the Yellow Jacket Wilson coached several successful at the 2006 ACC Championships, in staff in 2002, Wilson spent 11 years swimmers at Swim Atlanta, including College Park, Md. Tech boasted one with nationally-prominent club team 2004 U.S. Olympian , ACC champion and Morgan garnered Swim Atlanta from 1990-2001, serving who set national age-group records all-conference honors in the mile for as the team's Head Senior Coach for (11-12 and 13-14) in the 50 free. the second straight season. his last four seasons there. In this Additionally, he mentored swimmers Wilson helped the Yellow Jacket position, he planned and imple- that posted more than 50 national top- men to four consecutive top-35 mented strength and conditioning 16 age-group performances. finishes at the NCAA Championships, programs for swimmers age 13-and- As an athlete, Wilson competed at posting a 33rd-place finish at the 2006 over. He also handled administrative the University of Georgia from 1984- Men's NCAA Championships, hosted duties, including fundraising, travel 88, reaching the finals of the SEC Championships in the 200 and 500 free in each of his last three seasons. He was an NCAA qualifier in the 400 free relay and held the school record in the 200 free at one time. Wilson also qualified for U.S. Nationals in his final six seasons of competitive swimming. A native of Atlanta, Wilson, 42, graduated from Georgia with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1989.

40 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Assistant Coaches John Ames tier Atlantic 10 Conference finishes, with prior to coming to Tech. both the men's and women's teams finishing Hamburger, a native of Fort Dodge, Iowa, Diving Coach as high as second. He also coached several graduated from the University of Iowa with a 7th Season NCAA Zone Diving Championships qualifi- Bachelor of Arts degree in 1991. He resides in ers. Decatur with his wife, Amanda Johnson and two Ohio, 1993 Prior to his stint with Montomery and sons: three-year old Ellis, and newborn Reese. George Washington, Ames served as an John Ames is in his seventh season as Courtney Shealy Hart assistant coach with the Northern Virginia diving coach for the Yellow Jacket swimming Dive Club. He also worked as a graduate Assistant Coach and diving program. assistant and diving coach at Western Illinois Under his tutelage, Evan Stowers 1st Season University. became the first Tech diver to qualify for the Ames graduated from Ohio University in Georgia, 2005 NCAA Championships in 2006. In the 1993 with a bachelor's degree in psychology Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, Stowers again Courtney Shealy Hart, a two-time after completing his collegiate diving career made history by finishing seventh on the Olympic gold medalist, enters her first with the Bobcats. He earned a Master of men's platform, becoming the first Tech diver season as assistant coach at Georgia Tech. Science degree in sport administration while to garner All-America honors. Hart spent one season as an assistant coach at Western Illinois. In 2007, Stowers returned to the NCAA at North Florida. There she helped guide the Championships, earning All-America honors team to a fifth-place finish at the Pacific for the second consecutive season Marty Hamburger Coast Swimming Conference Championships At the 2006 ACC Championships, Assistant Coach and led nine individuals to top 16 finishes at Stowers became just the second GT diver, the meet. Hart guided one athlete to a top first under Ames, to win an ACC champion- 3rd Season eight finish in the conference championship. ship, capturing the men's three-meter Iowa, 1991 Before heading into the coaching scene, springboard. He also became the first diver to Hart participated in the 2000 Summer earn All-ACC honors on both springboards. Marty Hamburger enters his third season as Olympic Games for the United States. She Sophomore Stephanie England finaled assistant coach at Georgia Tech. Hamburger serves took home a pair of gold medals in Sydney, on the women's three-meter board for the as the men's recruiting coordinator for the Yellow Australia, in the 400-meter medley and 400- second consecutive season, finishing in sixth Jackets, along with working primarily with the meter freestyle relays for the U.S. place for the Jackets. She went on to finish sprint group. Hart has also competed on the sixth on the platform at the NCAA Zone Last season, Hamburger helped freshman international scene in the Pan-American Agatha Kwasnik to one of the best seasons ever by diving meet. Games (1999, 2003), Pan Pacific (2002) and a Tech women. Besides Stowers, two other Tech divers the United States World Cup Teams (2000- Kwasnik broke the school record in the 100 have garnered all-conference honors under 04). freestyle and holds a position in the top five of the Ames' guidance. Former men's diving At the University of Georgia, Hart led the 50 free, 200 free and 100 backstroke. standout Paul McCarty (2001-04) earned All- Bulldogs to NCAA Team Championships in Under Hamburger’s tutelage, Noah Copeland ACC honors on the one-meter springboard in 1999 and 2000 as well as being named the broke the school record in the 200 freestyle. He 2002, while current diver Tony Burkhardt 2000 NCAA Female Swimmer of the Year also helped Ryan Bishop to an All-ACC finish and after capturing individual national titles in accomplished that same feat at the '05 ACC an NCAA ‘B’ cut in the 400 IM. the 50m free, 100m free and 100m Championships. During his first season, Hamburger guided backstroke. She also captured NCAA titles as Another piece of history was made for Bishop and Alex Williams to NCAA 'B' qualifying the Yellow Jackets in 2006. A total of six standards. a member of the 400m free relay and 400m divers qualified for the NCAA Zone Diving Bishop clocked NCAA 'B' cut times in the 200 medley relay teams. She finished her NCAA Championships; Michael Bennett, Burkhardt, IM and 400 IM events for the Jackets. He also career with 26 All-America honors, plus two Peter Doblar, England, Laurissa Prystaj and qualified for the championship finals of the 200 more honorable mention honors, tops in Stowers. IM, 400 IM and 200 breaststroke for Tech at the UGA history. In 2005, the women's diving program ACC Championships. She also won nine individual took its next step at the ACC Championships, Williams posted a personal-best and first ever titles, 10 SEC relay as Junior Laurissa Prystaj and England both NCAA 'B' standard in the 100 breast at the ACC crowns and set five conference records. Hart finaled on the three-meter board, making it meet, finishing a career-best fifth in the finals. was named SEC Female Swimmer of the Year the highest scoring event for Tech in Hamburger worked with the Dynamo Swim in 2000. women's diving history. Club from 1999-2004, charged with all aspects of Along with competing in swimming, Along with his coaching duties at Tech, daily operations, administration and marketing for Hart also played volleyball for the Bulldogs Ames also mentors the Atlanta Diving the Masters program. While at Dynamo, Ham- and lettered from 1997-99. She was named Association, which has quickly become the burger produced over 100 nationally-ranked, team’s most valuable player in 1998 and was top United States Diving program in Atlanta, national champion and All-America swimmers, the first NCAA Division I female student- as well as one of the top programs in the four World record holders and five American athlete to compete in two sports on the same state of Georgia. record holders. day, accomplishing that feat three times at Hired in August 2001, Ames came to Hamburger's Dynamo Masters led the Georgia Georgia. Tech from George Washington University and Masters team to a National Championship in 2000. After graduating from the University of the Montgomery Dive Club, one of the Along with working with the Dynamo Swim Georgia in 2001 cum laude with a degree in largest diving programs in the nation. Club, Hamburger also assisted with three-time sports studies/communications, Hart worked With Montgomery, Ames served as the defending NCAA men's national champion Auburn as a motivational speaker for the NCAA, team's associate head coach. He coached and its Tiger Masters Swim Camp from 2000-04. Coca-Cola, Healthsouth and Arby’s, and multiple Junior and Senior National qualifi- He was part of the development of Master served as the director of the Golden West ers, as well as a number of Junior World swimmers, covering topics of race strategy and Swim Lessons Program in Huntington Championship qualifiers. His duties with developing a successful lifestyle as a competitive Beach, Calif., before heading to North team included selection of team members, athlete. Florida. designing workouts and coaching and Hamburger has also worked with U.S. Hart earned her master’s degree from preparing the team for competition. Olympic coaches and UGA in sports management in 2005. A In his six season at George Washington, at the Texas Longhorn Swim Camps in Austin, native of Columbia, S.C., Hart, and her he guided the Colonials to numerous upper- husband Justin, reside in Atlanta. GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 41 Tech Administration Dr. Wayne Clough Dan Radakovich President Director of Athletics

The chief engineer of Georgia Tech’s effort to Now entering his second year as Georgia Tech’s Director of Athletics, Dan Radakovich has leverage the opportunities inherent in economic, brought a new vision for excellence to the Yellow Jackets’ storied cultural, social and technological transitions, Dr. G. Wayne Clough athletics tradition. is the Institute’s tenth president and the first alumnus to serve as His first year at Tech has seen many successes by the Yellow president. Jackets’ teams. Tech’s women’s tennis team captured the Institute’s first-ever NCAA championship in 2007 and its third straight Atlantic Dr. Clough received a bachelor of science degree in civil Coast Conference title. The football team won the ACC Coastal Division engineering in 1964 and then added a master of science in civil and went to its 10th straight bowl game, the men’s basketball team engineering from the Institute in 1965. He later earned his Ph.D. in earned its third NCAA Tournament bid in the last four years, the women’s basketball team posted its finest season ever with 21 wins 1969 from the University of California at Berkeley. and a berth in the NCAA Tournament, and the golf team won a share His leadership continues to make undergraduate education of the ACC title for the second straight year. more dynamic. After implementing a required computer initiative Outside the competition venues, many projects are underway, including an overhaul of the annual giving and donation structure for for all students, he oversaw the revision of the curriculum to Tech athletics, anchored by the new TECH Fund, which establishes include Web-based enhancements. The next step was a broad minimum giving levels tied to season tickets in various seating areas initiative to engage students more fully with faculty in the classroom of Bobby Dodd Stadium and Alexander Memorial Coliseum. Also in and research lab, expand study abroad programs, and create more the planning stages are a new stadium for Tech’s softball team, which will be located next to the O’Keefe building and open in 2009, as well student leadership opportunities. The positive impact is reflected as a transformation of Tech’s former football locker room on the ground in higher quality students and higher retention rates. floor of the Edge Athletics Center into a new Technology Center facility Clough’s skills as a civil engineer are evident as the campus is to benefit academic support services for Yellow Jacket student-athletes. Named Georgia Tech’s Director of Athletics on February 22, 2006, reshaped to meet the needs of Tech’s world-class programs and Radakovich possessess nearly two decades of experience in collegiate students. He has overseen an ambitious $1 billion building program, athletics management positions. He came to Georgia Tech after five with the construction of more than a dozen academic and research years as senior associate athletics director at Louisiana State (2001- 06), and he previously served as the athletics director at American buildings. University in Washington, D.C., in 2000-01. That followed stints as Sponsored research has also increased every year since Clough associate athletics director at South Carolina (1994-2000) and Long became president. In the past seven years, research expenditures Beach State (1989-94) as well as two years as the athletics business have increased significantly, doubling over the past decade to $425 manager at Miami (1983-85). Just the seventh Director of Athletics in Tech history, Radakovich million in the past year, as Tech moves into exciting interdisciplinary was named by Institute President Dr. Wayne Clough to succeed Dave fields like bioengineering, sustainable technology, and nanoscience. Braine, who retired after nearly nine years in the post. Radakovich Outside of the Tech campus, Clough is also recognized as a also follows in the footsteps of storied names such as John Heisman, Bobby Dodd and Homer Rice. leader. He gives Georgia Tech a voice in Washington, D.C., as the “Dan Radakovich brings a unique combination of enthusiasm for only person to serve on both the National Science Board and the sports, concern for student athletes, experience in athletic President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). administration, business experience and communication skills that are needed in today’s complex world of intercollegiate athletics,” said He is also vice chairman of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness and Dr. Clough. chaired the National Academy of Engineering’s Engineer of 2020 In his position at LSU, Radakovich was responsible for the day-to- initiative. Since September of 2001, he has represented the Atlantic day operation of an athletics program with an annual budget of more Coast Conference (ACC) on the National Collegiate Athletic than $50 million, encompassing 20 sports and more than 450 student- athletes. He directly supervised LSU’s men’s basketball and baseball Association (NCAA) Division I Board of Directors. programs. Clough was provost and vice president for academic affairs at Early in his tenure, Radakovich was instrumental in developing the University of Washington in Seattle when he answered the call LSU’s football ticket donation program which resulted in more than $9 million in new annual revenue. He also participated with the Tiger to return to his alma mater as president in September of 1994. Prior Athletic Foundation in the most ambitious capital improvement to that, he had spent a decade at Virginia Tech as head of the initiative in school history, including a $90 million renovation of the Department of Civil Engineering, then as dean of the College of Tigers’ historic football stadium. LSU athletics reached unparalleled heights during his tenure, Engineering. He also served on the faculties of Duke and Stanford highlighted by the 2003 national championship in football and the universities. basketball team’s berth in the 2006 NCAA Final Four, as well as national Among his many national awards for teaching and research, titles in men’s and women’s track and field and top five national Clough holds eight from the American Society of Civil Engineers rankings in baseball, women’s basketball, softball and gymnastics. As associate athletics director at South Carolina, Radakovich directed and is one of a select few to have twice been awarded the Norman financial operations for a $30 million athletics budget. Medal, civil engineering’s oldest honor. In 2001, he received the At Long Beach State, where he served as senior associate athletics National Engineering Award from the American Association of director from 1989-94, Radakovich managed a $5 million budget and supervised the men’s basketball and baseball programs. Engineering Societies, and he recently received the American Radakovich began his career in athletics administration as the Society of Civil Engineers’ 2004 Outstanding Projects and Leaders athletics business manager at Miami from 1983-85. He then worked (OPAL) lifetime award for his contributions to education. He has in the private sector for four years before moving to Long Beach State in 1989. been a member of the National Academy of Engineering for fifteen A graduate of Center High School near Aliquippa, Pa., and a member years. of its Alumni Hall of Fame, Radakovich, 49, became a football A native of Douglas, Ga., Dr. Clough has been married to Anne letterwinner and student coach at Indiana University of , Robinson Clough for more than 30 years, and the couple has two where he graduated in 1980 with a bachelor of science degree in finance. He added a master’s degree in business administration from grown children. Miami in 1982. He also completed the Sports Management Institute’s executive education program in 1992. He is married to the former Marcie McDonald, and the couple has two children, Christian, 17, and Grant, 13.

42 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Support Staff Theresa Wenzel Andy Griffin Jake Anderson Asst. AD Volunteer Sports Medicine

SWA Assistant Coach Jake Anderson begins his first season with Georgia Tech as the ath- This is Andy’s first year with letic trainer for the swimming and Theresa Wenzel enters her second season as an Georgia Tech. Andy is an Atlanta native who started diving teams. swimming at age 15 for the Tara Tarpons, a local club Assistant Director of Athletics and the Senior Woman Prior to Tech, Anderson worked as a student team. Andy was a 4 year Varsity letterman at the trainer at the University of Central Florida. He also Administrator at Georgia Tech. Wenzel was named University of Georgia. During his time at Georgia he helped craft his skills in the athletics department at to these posts on July 6, 2006. She oversees women’s was a 2 time SEC finalist, 2 time NCAA ‘B’ cut the Trinity Prepatory School. basketball, volleyball, softball, golf, men’s and qualifier, 8 time Senior National qualifier, and 1996 Anderson earned his bachlors degree in Health women’s tennis, men’s and women’s track & field, Olympic Trials qualifier. Sciences and Athletic Training from Central Florida in men’s and women’s cross country and the men’s While in college Andy was a volunteer coach May, 2007. He is currently pursuing his masters in Sports Medicine from Georgia State University and is and women’s swimming & diving teams in her role. with the Bulldog Swim camp as well as volunteer scheduled to graduate in May, 2009. Wenzel is the Athletic department non- head coach for Clarke Central High School. Andy was a counselor for the Jack Nelson Swim Camp where he academic liason to the Office of Student Affairs. was head stroke technician for the camp. From 2001 She also is a member of various committees to 2005 Andy was a consultant to the head coach for including the Georgia Tech Women’s Resource the Tara Tarpon Swim team in Atlanta. In 2005, Andy Ethan Shapiro Center Advisory Board, the Title IX Compliance took over as head coach for the club. During his time Committee, the GTAA Compliance and Equity as the Tarpon’s coach, he produced national qualifiers, Director of Committee, the NCAA Athletic Certification a Scholastic All-American, and a 7 time Paralympics Steering Committee, the ACC Student Athlete World and American Record holder. Operations Welfare Committee and the ACC Women’s Basketball Committee. Seth Gerard Ehtan Shapiro enters his sixth year at Georgia Wenzel possesses a wide range of experience in Tech and his fourth as Director of Operations for the athletic administration and coaching. She joined Assistant Director men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams. the Georgia Tech Athletic Association staff in of Sports Info. Prior to working at this position, Shapiro was a October of 2005 after an eight-year stint at Siena graduate assistant for the men’s basketball team from 2002-04. He earned a master’s degree in sports ad- College, where she served as Assistant and then Seth Gerard has been named ministration from Georgia State Univesity in ‘04. Associate Athletics Director of business operations the assistant sports information director at Georgia A native of Newton, Mass., Shapiro earned a while also coaching the women’s golf team. Tech and will serve as the primary contact for soft- bachelor of science degree in management from Geor- Wenzel originally went to Siena in 1997 and ball and swimming & diving while assisting with gia Tech in ‘01 and was a manager for the men’s bas- ketball team for two-plus seasons. spent one year as the school’s intramural director football and the entire 17-sport program. and assistant facilities director. She was named He and his wife, the former Carrie Haskin, re- Gerard comes to Georgia Tech after serving as cently had a newborn son, Cameron, on Oct. 4, 2006. Assistant Athletic Director for business operations the assistant sports information director at the Uni- and head women’s golf coach in 1998. In seven versity of Massachusetts for three years. He served seasons as head golf coach, Wenzel led the Saints as the primary media liaison for the Minutewoman to five consecutive Metro Atlantic Athletic softball, women's basketball, field hockey and ten- Leah Moore Thomas Conference titles from 2001-2005. She nis teams. During his tenure at UMass, Gerard held relinquished her coaching duties following the the title of media coordinator for the 2006 & 2007 Sports Nutritionist 2005 season, when she was promoted to Associate NCAA Softball Amherst Regional as well as the 2003 Leah Thomas is in her Athletics Director. NCAA Field Hockey National Championship. fifth year as the sports Wenzel spent three years (1994-97) as an Prior to being named assistant director of sports dietitian for the Georgia Tech assistant women’s basketball coach at Canisus information at UMass, Gerard worked two years as Athletic Association. Thomas is responsible College in Buffalo, N.Y., and she also served an the media relations assistant. He served time as the for counseling all Georgia Tech student- internship with the National Invitational primary contact for the women's basketball, soft- athletes about nutrition and performance. Tournament. ball, women's soccer and field hockey teams. In addition, she conducts various fitness A basketball letterwinner at Marquette Gerard, a resident of Smyrna, Ga., received tests, including body composition assess- University, Wenzel earned a Bachelor of Science his bachelor's degree from UMass in sport manage- ments and resting metabolic rate measure- degree in business administration from Marquette ment in 2002. in 1991. She added a master’s degree in sport ments. administration from Canisius in 2000. Thomas works closely with the Georgia Courtney Dennis Tech Total Person Program, developing pro- Team Manager grams for student-athletes to promote per- Eddie Lee Ivery sonal growth and development outside of ath- Strength Coach Courtney Dennis enters her first letics. As the staff advisor for the Student- season as team manager for the Athlete Advisory Board, she also helps orga- Eddie Lee Ivery is in his men’s and women’s swimming and nize and promote community outreach sixth season as strength coach diving teams. projects with student-athletes. at Georgia Tech. Ivery prima- Dennis, a native of Spartunburg, S.C., was a After graduating in 1999 with an under- rily works with swimming and diving and member of her the Dorman High School swim team, graduate degree in nutrition from the Univer- men’s tennis. as well as team captain her senior season. She also sity of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she Ivery was a four-year letterwinner for the swam for the YSSC for ll years. This past summer, was also a top cross-country and track com- Tech football team from 1974-78. He contin- Dennis coached a Spartanburg summer league swim ues to hold the record for most rushing yards team. petitor, Thomas earned her graduate degree in a game (356) and season (1,562) and earned Born on April 29, 1989, the Georgia Tech fresh- in exercise science from Georgia State in 2003. All-America honors in 1978. He currently man intends to major in polymer and fiber engineer- In 2006, she became a board-certified special- stands third on the all-time rushing list at Tech ing. ist in Sports Dietetics by the American Dietetic and was a first round draft pick (15th overall) by the Green Bay Packers in 1979, playing 10 Association. seasons in the NFL. A 2004 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trails quali- Ivery returned to Tech and received his fier, the former Leah Moore is married to degree in 1992. Dwight Thomas and resides in Atlanta. Ivery’s son, Eddie Jr., participated on the Yellow Jacket football team. GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 43 2005-062006-07 ReviewReview MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING ACC: 6th (267.50 points) • NCAA: T-33rd (12 points) Record: 3-5 Overall, 1-3 ACC • Sophomore Noah Copeland broke the school record in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:36.92. He also swam the fifth-fastest time in Tech history in the 500 free (4:25.36). • The group of Jason Bourgeois, Jacob Kwasnik, Ofer Finkler and Mauricio Sousa set a new Tech record in the 200 Freestyle relay with a time of 1:20.35. • Senior Ryan Bishop placed third in the 400 IM with a time of 3:53.11 to earn All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors. • Junior Evan Stowers qualified for his second-consecutive NCAA Championships, then earned all-America honors once again with a 15th place finish on the platform. • Ofer Finkler, an Academic All-ACC honoree and an honorable mention Academic All-America, he was awarded an Atlantic Coast Conference Postgraduate Scholarship. • Finkler was also named to CoSida Academic All-America second team. ALL-AMERICA: Evan Stowers (platform diving, 15th) All-ACC: Ryan Bishop (400 IM, 3rd) Academic All-District: Ofer Finkler (1st) Academic All-ACC: Jeff Burton, Noah Copeland, Ofer Finkler, Alex Roan Academic All-America: Ofer Finkler (2nd)

WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING ACC: 9th (138 points) Record: 4-7 Overall, 1-4 ACC • Freshman Agatha Kwasnik set four team-best times in her first season on The Flats. She concluded the season holding positions on the Tech’s All-Time Top 10 list in the 50 freestyle (fourth), 100 freestyle (first), 200 freestyle (third) and 100 backstroke (fifth). • Another freshman, Jing Li, showed the future of the Tech women’s program is truely bright. Li finished her first season on Tech’s All-Time Top 10 list in the 200 freestyle (sixth), 500 freestyle (fourth), 1000 freestyle (third), 1650 freestyle (fifth), 100 butterfly (eighth), 200 butterfly (fifth) and 400 IM (seventh). • Seven different relay teams cracked Tech All-Time Top 10 lists this past season. • Diver Stephanie England became the first female diver in school history to garner All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors, finishing third on the three-meter springboard with a score of 293.25 • Fourteen women were named to the ACC Honor Roll, registering a grade point average of 3.0 or better for the full academic year. Three of these women were also named to the Academic All-ACC team. NCAA ZONE DIVING CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIERS: Stephanie England, Hannah Krimm All-ACC: Stephanie England Academic All-ACC: Stephanie England, Hannah Krimm, Elizabeth Stowe

2006-07 MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING RESULTS

10/14 BOSTON COLLEGE (W) W, 157-115 1/14 EMORY W. 144-89; W, 141-100 CLEMSON L, 164-134; L, 171.5-94 NORTH FLORIDA (W) W, 185-58 10/19 at #9/5 Georgia L, 187-53; L, 146-87 1/20 at Virginia Tech L, 160-83; L, 154-88 vs. South Carolina L, 140-100; L, 145.5.-95.5 vs. Maryland L, 186-52; L, 136-94 11/4 at #15/18 Virginia L, 136-95; L, 125-109 2/14-17 at ACC Championships 12/1-3 at Georgia Invitational Men-6th (267.5 pts.); Women-9th (138 pts.) Men-5th of 6 (447.5 pts.); Women-6th of 6 (138 pts.) * - Men ranking and result listed first 1/13 FLORIDA ATLANTIC W, 179-106; L, 179-119 NEW ORLEANS (W) W, 211-70

44 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS 2006-072005-06 SeasonSeason Top Times Season Best Times (25-yard short course) Event Performer (Meet) Time/Score 50 Free Jason Bourgeois (ACC Championships) 20.46 100 Free Noah Copeland (ACC Championships) 45.01 200 Free Noah Copeland (ACC Championships) 1:36.92^#$ 500 Free Noah Copeland (ACC Championships) 4:25.36^ 1000 Free Ryan Crete (Emory) 9:16.53 1650 Free Rob Miller (ACC Championships) 15:26.39^ 100 Back Jason Bourgeois (ACC Championships) 49.23 200 Back Ryan Bishop (Emory) 1:53.07 100 Fly Jason Bourgeois (ACC Championships) 49.12 200 Fly Onur Uras (ACC Championships) 1:49.15 100 Breast Alex Williams (ACC Championships) 56.04 200 Breast Ryan Bishop (ACC Championships) 2:01.87 200 IM Ryan Bishop (ACC Championships) 1:48.74^ 400 IM Ryan Bishop (ACC Championships) 3:51.92^ 200 Free Relay Bourgeois, Kwasnik, Finkler, Sousa (ACC Championships) 1:20.35^$ 400 Free Relay Finkler, Bourgeois, Sousa, Copeland (ACC Championships) 3:00.50 800 Free Relay Copeland, Miller, Sousa, Crete (Georgia Invitational) 6:48.81 200 Medley Relay Bourgeois, Williams, Finkler, Sousa (ACC Championships) 1:30.85 400 Medley Relay Bourgeois, Williams, Uras, Copeland (ACC Championships) 3:21.80 1-Meter Diving Evan Stowers (Virginia Tech) 351.00% 3-Meter Diving Evan Stowers (FAU) 395.25% Platform Diving Evan Stowers (ACC Championships) 359.80%

$—School Record; @—NCAA Automatic Qualifying Mark; ^—NCAA “B” Qualifying Mark; %—NCAA Zone Diving Qualifying Mark; ! - Pool Record; # - Split.

Season Best Times (25-yard short course) Event Performer (Meet) Time/Score 50 Free Agatha Kwasnik (Georgia Invitational) 23.93 100 Free Agatha Kwasnik (Georgia Invitational) 51.48$# 200 Free Agatha Kwasnik (Georgia Invitational) 1:51.46 500 Free Elizabeth Stowe (ACC Championships) 4:54.61 1000 Free Elizabeth Stowe (FAU/UNO) 10:06.60 1650 Free Elizabeth Stowe (ACC Championships) 16:34.94^ 100 Back Agatha Kwasnik (Georgia Invitational) 58.51 200 Back Caroline Jones (ACC Championships) 2:05.58 100 Fly Jing Li (FAU/UNO) 58.68 200 Fly Jing Li (Virginia) 2:03.78 100 Breast Alison Walker (FAU/UNO) 1:03.78 200 Breast Alison Walker (Virginia Tech/Maryland) 2:23.69 200 IM Heather Matz (ACC Championships) 2:10.68 400 IM Jing Li (Virginia) 4:32.52 200 Free Relay Kwasnik, Walker, McLeod, Flynn (ACC Championships) 1:36.68 400 Free Relay Kwasnik, Li, Flynn, Pucci (Georgia Invitational) 3:29.57 800 Free Relay Kwasnik, Stowe, Jones, Flynn (Georgia Invitational) 7:35.08 200 Medley Relay Kwasnik, Walker, Campbell, Pucci (Georgia Invitational) 1:47.52 400 Medley Relay Kopacka, Walker, Campbell, Kwasnik (Georgia Invitational) 3:54.00 1-Meter Diving Hannah Krimm (Emory/N. Florida) 288.15% 3-Meter Diving Stephanie England (FAU/UNO) 319.80% Platform Diving Stephanie England (ACC Championships) 273.95%

$—School Record; @—NCAA Automatic Qualifying Mark; ^—NCAA “B” Qualifying Mark; %—NCAA Zone Diving Qualifying Mark; ! - Pool Record; # - Split.

GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 45 Outlook With another season capable of being a top behind it, Georgia Tech distance swimer in the ACC swimming and diving head and also making the NCAA coach Stu Wilson and his staff Championships as well this have witnessed continued upcoming year. Agatha growth in the men’s and Kwasnik is young but she women’s programs over the has shown tremendous past year. upside.”

There is nothing that says The men expect even 2007-08 will be any different better seasons from junior Mickey Malul for the two teams. The men Noah Copeland and senior return 20 members including Evan Stowers. An senior captains Jason Independence, Ky. native, “Our team received a Bourgeois and Onur Uras, Stowers is the programs only boost with the transfer of while the women will have returning All-American and Mickey Malul, who is 14 returnees on the roster, an athlete who can make it seventh in the world in the led by captains senior back to the NCAA breaststroke. He should help Elizabeth Stowe and Championships. The us in the relays with his sophomore Agatha Kwasnik. women’s team also gets a tremendous skills,” added boost with the return of All- Wilson. “He will lead a great “On the men’s side, I ACC diver Stephanie England, group of young guys that would have to say Jason who has a chance to make it have a lot of talent, but just Bourgeois should really take to the NCAA’s. lack collegiate experience.” a step forward for us,” Wilson said. “He is a senior and is The Jackets are not just a “The women’s team has 10 really stepping up in multiple team with tremendous newcomers including events, especially the experience on the roster. The Christine Chuang and Thea backstroke events and relays. coaches will welcome 14 new Kromer, who will definitely Onur Uras should also have a student-athletes on the men’s help the women’s team right great senior season for us. squad and 10 on the women’s away. Michele Bertolino will team. be a great addition to our “Elizabeth Stowe will be diving program.” the leader on the women’s side. She has had a Last season, the great summer and will Jackets watched be going to the Open Noah numerous men’s and Water World Copeland women’s records fall, Championship in led by Copeland on October. She was just men’s team, who broke outside of being All- the 200 freestyle Atlantic Coast record with a time of Conference last season, 1:36.92. The men also and I believe she is 46 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Outlook watched the 200 free relay the ACC schools, Tech team come away with a new will also host Georgia, school record in a time of Alabama and 1:20.35. On the women’s side, Vanderbilt from the Kwasnik made a name for Southeastern herself by entering the record Conference along with books in numerous events Western Kentucky including a school-best time Stephanie England Emory and Florida of 51.48 in the 100 freestyle. Atlantic.

Now the coaches hope to Courtney Shealy Hart, a two- “I think it will be a big see these kinds of results at time Olympic gold medalist, home advantage when we the national level. Wilson’s dream looks like it host the ACC Championships could become a reality. Hart in our pool,” Wilson “My coaching staff and I has begun to bring a new acknowledged. “We know the are focusing on what we can attitude to the athletes different nuances that come do to get as many student- surrounding the program. with this pool and it could athletes to the NCAA help us out. It is just an Championships,” Wilson “From the first day that honor to host this event in continued. “During the she (Hart) started at Tech, front of all our fans. I know season, I just want to get you could tell the the other teams are excited to these athletes to swim fast. I environment has changed,” come in here and swim. It is just want them to be Wilson said. “Her experience just going to be a great year mentally up to the challenges just really helps this program at the Georgia Tech Aquatic that lie ahead. The biggest understand what it takes to Center.” goal is to just get as many to become a champion. She has the NCAA’s and have a top-30 really helped the women’s score.” side, just opening those athletes’ eyes. They can see With the off-season that she got there because addition of assistant coach she works real hard. Courtney has just brought a real fire to this program.”

The Jackets will get plenty of chances to show off their new look this season. The team is scheduled to host six meets at the Georgia Tech Assistant Coach Aquatic Center including both Courtney Shealy Hart the 2008 Men’s and Women’s ACC Swimming and Diving Evan Stowers Championships. Besides all Evan Stowers

GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 47 The Atlantic Coast Conference The Tradition Women’s sports were initiated in 1977 morning of May 8, 1953, during the Consistency. It is the mark of true with the first championship meet being Southern Conference’s annual spring excellence in any endeavor. held in tennis at Wake Forest University. meeting. On June 14, 1953, the seven However, in today’s intercollegiate Championships for women are currently members met in Raleigh, N.C., where a set athletics, competition has become so conducted in cross country, field hockey, of bylaws was adopted and the name balanced and so competitive that it is soccer, basketball, swimming, indoor and became officially the Atlantic Coast virtually impossible to maintain a high level outdoor track, tennis, golf, lacrosse, softball Conference. of consistency. and rowing. Suggestions from fans for the name of Yet the Atlantic Coast Conference has the new conference appeared in the defied the odds. Now in its 55th year of A History region’s newspapers prior to the meeting in competition, the ACC has long enjoyed the The Atlantic Coast Conference was Raleigh. Some of the names suggested reputation as one of the strongest and most founded on May 8, 1953, at the Sedgefield were: Dixie, Mid South, Mid Atlantic, East competitive intercollegiate conferences in Inn near Greensboro, N.C., with seven Coast, Seaboard, Colonial, Tobacco, Blue- the nation. And that is not mere charter members - Clemson, Duke, Gray, Piedmont, Southern Seven and the conjecture, the numbers support it. Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina Shoreline. Since the league’s inception in 1953, ACC State, South Carolina and Wake Forest - Duke’s Eddie Cameron recommended schools have captured 105 national drawing up the conference by-laws. that the name of the conference be the championships, including 56 in women’s The withdrawal of seven schools from the Atlantic Coast Conference, and the motion competition and 49 in men’s. In addition, Southern Conference came early on the was passed unanimously. The meeting NCAA individual titles have gone to ACC concluded with each member institution student-athletes 139 times in men’s assessed $200.00 to pay for conference competition and 86 times in women’s BOSTON COLLEGE — Charter member of the expenses. action. Big East Conference in 1979; joined the ACC in On December 4, 1953, conference officials July, 2005. met again at Sedgefield and officially 2006-07 in Review CLEMSON — Charter member of the Southern admitted the University of Virginia as the The 2006-07 academic year concluded Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1894, a league’s eighth member. The first, and with league teams capturing five national charter member of the Southern Conference in only, withdrawal of a school from the ACC team titles and 24 individual NCAA crowns. 1921, a charter member of the Atlantic Coast came on June 30, 1971, when the In all, the ACC has won 39 national team Conference (ACC) in 1953. University of South Carolina tendered its titles over the last 11 years. The ACC has DUKE — Joined the Southern Conference in resignation. won two or more NCAA titles in 25 of the December, 1928; charter member of the ACC in The ACC operated with seven members past 27 years. 1953. until April 3, 1978, when the Georgia A total of 137 ACC teams placed in NCAA FLORIDA STATE — Charter member of the Institute of Technology was admitted. The post-season competition in 2006-07. League Dixie Conference in 1948; joined the Metro Atlanta school had withdrawn from the teams compiled a 109-70-7 (.605) mark Conference in July, 1976; joined the ACC July, Southeastern Conference in January of against non-conference opponents in NCAA 1991. 1964. championship competition. In addition, the GEORGIA TECH — Charter member of the The ACC expanded to nine members on ACC had 181 student-athletes earn first Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association in July 1, 1991, with the addition of Florida team All-America honors this past year. 1894, charter member of Southern Conference State University. Overall, the league had 250 first, second or in 1921, charter member of the SEC in 1932, The conference expanded to 11 members third team All-Americans. In addition, the joined the ACC in April, 1978. on July 1, 2004, with the addition of the ACC produced nine national Player of the MARYLAND — Charter member of the University of Miami and Virginia Year and six national Coach of the Year Southern Conference in 1921, charter member Polytechnic Institute and State University. honorees. of the ACC in 1953. On October 17, 2003, Boston College MIAMI — Charter member of the Big East accepted an invitation to become the 2006-07 National Championships Football Conference in 1991; joined the ACC in league’s 12th member starting July 1, 2005. Field Hockey Maryland July, 2004. Women’s Soccer North Carolina NORTH CAROLINA — Charter member of the Women’s Tennis Georgia Tech Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association in Women’s Golf Duke 1894, charter member of the Southern Men’s Track & Field Florida State Conference in 1921, charter member of the ACC in 1953. The Championships NC STATE — Charter member of the Southern The conference will conduct Conference in 1921; charter member of the ACC in 1953. championship competition in 24 sports VIRGINIA — Charter member of the Southern during the 2007-08 academic year - 12 for Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1894, men and 12 for women. charter member of the Southern Conference in The first ACC championship was held in 1921, resigned from Southern Conference in swimming on February 25, 1954. The December 1936, joined the ACC in December, conference did not conduct championships 1953. in cross country, wrestling or tennis during VIRGINIA TECH — Charter member of the the first year. Southern Conference in 1921; withdrew from The 12 sports for men include football, the Southern Conference in June, 1965; became cross country, soccer, basketball, swimming, a charter member of the Big East Football indoor and outdoor track, wrestling, Conference in Feb. 5, 1991; joined the ACC in baseball, tennis, golf and lacrosse. Fencing, July, 2004. which was started in 1971, was WAKE FOREST – Joined the Southern discontinued in 1981. Conference in February, 1936; charter member of the ACC in 1953.

48 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS 20072006 AtlanticAtlantic CoastCoast ConferenceConference Championships • College Park, Md. Women’s Final Standings 11. Georgia Tech ...... 1:36.68 Men’s Final Standings 100 Butterfly 1. North Carolina ...... 737 pts. Kwasnik, Walker, McLeod, Flynn 1. Flordia State ...... 714 pts. 1. Scott Beard, VT ...... 47.40 2. Florida State ...... 642.5 pts. 2. Virginia ...... 616.5 pts. 12. Jason Bourgeois, GT ...... 49.19 3. Virginia ...... 475 pts. 400 Freestyle Relay 3. North Carolina ...... 532.5 pts. 20. Ofer Finkler, GT ...... 49.85 4. Virginia Tech...... 393.5 pts. 1. North Carolina ...... 3:19.44 4. Virginia Tech...... 388 pts. 5. Clemson ...... 357.5 pts. Butts, Steeves, Biegel, Morrissy 5. Clemson ...... 323.5 pts. 200 Butterfly 6. Maryland ...... 332 pts. 11. Georgia Tech ...... 3:29.23 6. Georgia Tech ...... 267.5 pts. 1. Stefan Hirniak, VA...... 1:45.36 7. Miami ...... 299 pts. Kwasnik, Flynn, McLeod, Li 7. NC State ...... 258 pts. 11. Onur Uras, GT ...... 1:49.66 8. Duke ...... 150pts. 8. Maryland ...... 253pts. 16. Conrad Aach, GT ...... 1:50.94 9. Georgia Tech ...... 138 pts. 800 Freestyle Relay 9. Duke ...... 128 pts. 10. NC State ...... 123.5 pts. 1. North Carolina ...... 7:14.38 10. Miami ...... 73 pts. 200 IM 11. Boston College ...... 77 pts. Howard, Butts, Morrissy, Sprague 11. Boston College ...... 68 pts. 1. Pat Mellors, VA ...... 1:45.77 10. Georgia Tech ...... 7:38.52 5. Ryan Bishop, GT ...... 1:48.80 50 Freestyle Li, Stowe, Jones, Flynn 50 Freestyle 19. Conrad Aach, GT ...... 1:51.74 1. Christie Raleigh, FS ...... 22.67 1. Alex Kennon, FS ...... 19.84 200 Medley Relay 11. Ofer Finkler, GT ...... 20.57 400 IM 100 Freestyle 1. Florida State ...... 1:39.20 12. Mauricio Sousa, GT ...... 20.70 1. Pat Mellors, VA ...... 3:49.09 1. Christie Raleigh, FS ...... 49.56 Raleigh, Brick, Sparg, King 13. Jacob Kwasnik, GT ...... 20.76 3. Ryan Bishop, GT ...... 3:53.11 9. Georgia Tech ...... 1:47.77 24. Onur Uras, GT ...... 22.03 10. Conrad Aach, GT ...... 3:57.53 200 Freestyle Jones, Walker, McLeod, Pucci 100 Freestyle 11. Jeff Burton, GT ...... 3:57.76 1. Jess Lewis, VA ...... 1:48.06 1. Ed Denton, FS ...... 44.09 24. Andy Miller, GT ...... 4:07.68 21. Taylor Flynn, GT ...... 1:52.65 400 Medley Relay 9. Noah Copeland, GT ...... 45.01 1. Florida State ...... 3:39.15 21. Johnny Hagaman, GT ...... 46.58 200 Freestyle Relay 500 Freestyle Altmann, Brick, Sparg, Raleigh 23. Jacob Kwasnik, GT ...... 46.78 1. Virginia Tech ...... 1:19.47 1. Whitney Sprague, NC ...... 4:45.35 10. Georgia Tech ...... 3:55.70 Tayla, Bova, deToll, Beard 17. Elizabeth Stowe, GT ...... 4:54.61 Kopacka, Walker, Li, Kwasnik 200 Freestyle 4. Georgia Tech ...... 1:20.35 21. Jing Li, GT ...... 4:59.71 1. Hank Browning, NC ...... 1:36.43 Bourgeois, Kwasnik, Finkler, Sousa 1-Meter Diving 8. Noah Copeland, GT ...... 1:38.89 1650 Freestyle 1. Jenna Dreyer,UM ...... 336.00 17. Rob Miller, GT ...... 1:39.48 400 Freestyle Relay 1. Whitney Sprague, NC ...... 16:10.02 6. Stephanie England,GT ...... 265.85 1. Virginia Tech ...... 2:56.67 4. Elizabeth Stowe, GT ...... 16:34.94 8. Hannah Krimm, GT ...... 246.00 500 Freestyle Tayla, Bova, Czaplicki, Beard 22. Lauren Rhea, GT ...... 17:40.94 1. Kyle Young, FS ...... 4:19.16 5. Georgia Tech ...... 3:00.50 3-Meter Diving 11. Noah Copeland, GT ...... 4:25.36 Finkler, Bourgeois, Sousa, 100 Backstroke 1. Jenna Dreyer, UM ...... 364.15 13. Rob Miller, GT ...... 4:27.11 Copeland 1. Romy Altmann, FS ...... 55.14 3. Stephanie England,GT ...... 293.25 18. Ryan Crete, GT ...... 4:28.46 8. Hannah Krimm, GT ...... 258.55 23. Jeff Burton, GT ...... 4:36.93 800 Freestyle Relay 200 Backstroke 1. Virginia ...... 6:27.08 1. Romy Altmann, FS ...... 1:57.08 Platform Diving 1650 Freestyle Mellors, Hutton, Hirniak, Millen 20. Caroline Jones, GT ...... 2:05.83 1. Heather Bounds, UM ...... 340.00 1. Kyle Young, FS ...... 15:02.36 4. Stephanie England,GT ...... 273.95 10. Rob Miller, GT ...... 15:26.39 200 Medley Relay 100 Breaststroke $ = School Record; ^ = ACC 11. Ryan Crete, GT ...... 15:28.15 1. Florida State ...... 1:27.71 1. Lauren Brick, FS ...... 1:00.57 Championship Meet Record; * = 23. Jeff Burton, GT ...... 15:59.23 Powell, Jamerson, Swanson, Botha 15. Alison Walker, GT ...... 1:05.89 ACC Conference Record. 8. Georgia Tech ...... 1:30.85 20. Lisa Pucci, GT ...... 1:06.96 100 Backstroke Bourgeois, Williams, Finkler, Sousa 1. Jarryd Botha, FS ...... 48.26 200 Breaststroke 6. Jason Bourgeois, GT ...... 49.42 400 Medley Relay 1. Jessica Botzum, VT ...... 2:14.06 1. Florida State ...... 3:14.25 200 Backstroke Botha, Jamerson, Kennon, Denton 100 Butterfly 1. Jarryd Botha, FS ...... 1:45.44 6. Georgia Tech ...... 3:21.80 1. Christie Raleigh, FS ...... 53.00 Bourgeois, Williams, Uras, Copeland 100 Breaststroke 200 Butterfly 1. Vanja Rogulj, VA...... 53.14 1-Meter Diving 1. Lindsey Marck, NC ...... 1:59.86 11. Alex Williams, GT ...... 56.38 1. Ruben Ross,UM ...... 387.30 200 IM 20. Andy Miller, GT ...... 58.66 6. Evan Stowers, GT ...... 333.65 1. Jessica Botzum, VT ...... 2:00.53 22. Jacob Kwasnik, GT ...... 59.27 200 Breaststroke 3-Meter Diving 400 IM 1. Vanja Rogulj, VA...... 1:56.57 1. Ruben Ross,UM ...... 439.15 1. Erin Corgan, VA ...... 4:17.31 Stephanie England 9. Ryan Bishop, GT ...... 2:01.87 10. Evan Stowers, GT ...... 318.80 17. Alex Williams, GT ...... 2:03.68 200 Freestyle Relay 20. Andy Miller, GT ...... 2:06.74 Platform Diving 1. Clemson ...... 1:31.09 1. Ruben Ross,UM ...... 398.95 Regone, Sindall, Parkhurst, Deters 4. Evan Stowers, GT ...... 359.80

GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 49 Men’s Records

GEORGIA TECH ACC GEORGIA TECH EVENT AQUATIC CENTER ACC RECORDS CHAMPIONSHIP NCAA RECORDS SCHOOL RECORDS 25-yd. RECORDS MEET RECORDS 50-yd. FREE Teemu Kettunen, 2006 , NC State Cullen Jones, NC State Cullen Jones, NC State Fred Bousquet, Auburn 20.35 19.18 (2006) 19.07 (2006) 19.07 (2006) 18.74 (2005)

100-yd. FREE Josh Hersko, 2003 Garrett Weber-Gale, Texas , Brendon Dedekind, , California 44.29 42.11 (2006) Florida State, 42.96 (1999) Florida State, 42.96 (1999) 41.49 (2005)

200-yd. FREE Noah Copeland, 2007 Simon Burnett, Arizona John Davis, John Davis, Simon Burnett, Arizona 1:36.92 1:31.20 (2006) North Carolina North Carolina 1:31.20 (2006) 1:35.59 (1990) 1:35.59 (1990) 500-yd. FREE Shilo Ayalon, 2003 , Ian Prichard, Virginia Ian Prichard, Virginia Peter Vanderkaay, 4:19.31 Michigan 4:16.32 (2001) 4:16.32 (2001) Michigan 4:08.60 (2006) 4:08.60 (2006) 1,000-yd. FREE Shilo Ayalon, 2003 Sebastien Rouault, Fran Crippen, Virginia No Record , Michigan 9:02.69 Georgia 8:54.56 (2003) 8:45.27 (1995) 8:48.03 (2006) 1,650-yd. FREE Shilo Ayalon, 2003 Sebastien Rouault, Fran Crippen, Virginia Shilo Ayalon, , 14:47.31 Georgia 14:46.05 (2003) Georgia Tech Michigan 14:29.43 (2006) 14:47.31 (2003) 14:26.62 (2001) 100-yd. BACK Jeremy Raines, 2004 , Florida Stephen Perry, Rob Braknis, Florida State Ryan Lochte, Florida 48.72 44.60 (2006) Florida State (1995); Ted Brisson, North 44.60 (2006) 47.72 (1999) Carolina (1998), 48.10 200-yd. BACK James Salazar, 2002 Ryan Lochte, Florida Luke Wagner, Virginia Luke Wagner, Virginia Ryan Lochte, Florida 1:45.53 1:37.58 (2006) 1:42.67 (2001) 1:43.00 (2004) 1:37.58 (2006)

100-yd. BREAST Tomonori Tsuji, 2002 , , Virginia Ed Moses, Virginia , Tennessee 54.85 California 52.60 (2000) 52.60 (2000) 51.86 (1997) 52.52 (2006) 200-yd. BREAST Tomonori Tsuji, 2001 Henrique Barbosa, Ed Moses, Virginia Gary Marshall, Virginia , Texas 1:58.37 California 1:53.99 (2000) 1:54.79 (2002) 1:52.62 (2003) 1:53.97 (2006) 100-yd. FLY David Laitala, 2002 , Arizona Tucker Shade, North Scott Beard, Virginia Tech , Texas 47.68 45.89 (2006) Carolina 47.05 (2006) 44.72 (2004) 46.86 (1998) 200-yd. FLY Tim Halligan, 1989 , Michigan Michael Raab, Virginia Doak Finch, Virginia , 1:47.09 1:41.84 (2006) 1:42.84 (2003) 1:43.54 (2000) Tennessee 1:41.78 (1991) 200-yd. IM David Laitala, 2002 Ryan Lochte, Florida Pat Mellors, Virginia Pat Mellors, Virginia Ryan Lochte, Florida 1:47.95 1:40.55 (2006) 1:46.07 (2005) 1:46.17 (2007) 1:40.55 (2006)

400-yd. IM Shilo Ayalon, 2003 Ryan Lochte, Florida Bo Greenwood, Virginia Bo Greenwood, Virginia Ryan Lochte, Florida 3:48.31 3:38.15 (2006) 3:44.99 (2002) 3:44.99 (2002) 3:38.15 (2006)

200-yd. FREE RELAY Bourgeois, Kwasnik, Auburn, 1:16.15 Florida State, 1:18.75 Florida State, 1:18.75 California, 1:15.78 Finkler, Sousa, 1:20.35 Cielo, Targett, Lundquist, Santos, Flanagan, Santos, Flanagan, Draganja, Gimbutis, Tilly, (2007) Bovell (2006) McVittie, Dedekind (1998) McVittie, Dedekind (1998) Cavic (2005)

400-yd. FREE RELAY Howard, Huff, Finkler, Arizona, 2:48.39 Florida State, 2:55.22 Florida State, 2:55.22 California, 2:47.70 Kettunen, 2:59.52 (2006) Burnett, Ferns, Subirats, Dedekind, Coelho, Dedekind, Coelho, Draganja, Cavic, Tilly, Ritter (2006) McVittie, Braknis (1997) McVittie, Braknis (1997) Gimbutis (2005)

800-yd. FREE RELAY Figh, Finkler, Morgan, Arizona, 6:16.67 North Carolina, 6:26.71 Virginia, 6:27.08 Florida, 6:16.25 Howard, 6:34.45 (2005) Burnett, Ferns, Deberry, Monasterio, Hamrick, Mellors, Hutton, Hirniak, Lochte, Townsend, Ritter (2006) Summerlin, deFabrique (1993) Millen (2007) Hartley, Sioui (2005) Arizona, 1:23.88 Arizona, 1:23.88 200-yd. MEDLEY Raines, Foster, Kettunen, NC State, 1:26.88 NC State, 1:26.88 Subirats, Rollins, Ferns, Subirats, Rollins, Ferns, RELAY Riebesell, 1:29.90 (2003) Velleca, Velez, Cowling, Velleca, Velez, Cowling, Burnett (2006) Jones (2006) Jones (2006) Burnett (2006)

400-yd. MEDLEY Salazar, Tsuji, Laitala, Arizona, 3:06.08 Virginia, 3:11.60 Virginia, 3:11.60 (2000) Texas, 3:04.47 (2003) RELAY Hersko (2002), 3:16.44 Thoman, Barns, Subirats, Mousetis, Moses, Finch, Mousetis, Moses, Finch, Piersol, Hansen, Crocker, Ritter (2006) Johnson (2000) Johnson Kemp 1-Meter DIVING Tony Burkhardt, 2006 — — Miguel Velazquez, Miami — 374.50 365.40

3-Meter DIVING (6) Tony Burkhardt, 2006 ——Evan Stowers, — 387.95 Georgia Tech 373.05 3-Meter DIVING (11) Evan Stowers, 2005 ——Louis Gagnet, Florida State — 537.20 621.05 (2003)

Platform DIVING Evan Stowers, 2005 ——No Record — 489.70

50 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Women’s Records

GEORGIA TECH ACC GEORGIA TECH EVENT AQUATIC CENTER ACC RECORDS CHAMPIONSHIP NCAA RECORDS SCHOOL RECORDS 25-yd. RECORDS MEET RECORDS 50-yd. FREE Natanya Harper, 2005 Mason Walsh, Richelle Fox, Christy Watkins, , Georgia 23.68 Virginia Tech North Carolina North Carolina 21.63 (2006) 22.61 (2005) 22.40 (1998) 22.45 (2002) 100-yd. FREE Agatha Kwasnik, 2007, Chrissy Miller, Maryland Mitzi Cremer, Clemson Richelle Fox, , 51.48 49.67 (2005) 48.84 (1989) North Carolina California 49.35 (1998) 47.00 (2003) 200-yd. FREE Vesna Stojanovska, 2005 Chrissy Miller, Maryland Mitzi Cremer, Clemson Jessi Perruquet, Natalie Coughlin, 1:47.67 1:47.56 (2005) 1:44.78 (1989) North Carolina California 1:46.36 (2004) 1:42.65 (2002) 500-yd. FREE Vesna Stojanovska, 2005 Kim Routh, Clemson Mitzi Cremer, Clemson Cara Lane, Virginia , Stanford 4:47.36 4:44.47 (2005) 4:39.18 (1989) 4:42.35 (2002) 4:34.39 (1990)

1,000-yd. FREE Elizabeth Stowe, 2005 Meghan Sackett, Maryland Cara Lane, Virginia No Record Janet Evans, Stanford 10:00.90 9:54.69 (2004) 9:36.35 (2001) 9:29.49 (1990)

1,650-yd. FREE Elizabeth Stowe, 2005 Kim Routh, Clemson Cara Lane, Virginia Cara Lane, Virginia Janet Evans, Stanford 16:28.08 16:18.26 (2005) 15:53.49 (2003) 15:58.64 (2001) 15:39.14 (1990)

100-yd. BACK Ashley Kracke, 2003 Brielle White, Virginia Brielle White, Virginia Brielle White, Virginia Natalie Coughlin, 56.00 53.44 (2005) 53.12 (2004) 53.12 (2004) California 49.97 (2002) 200-yd. BACK Ashley Kracke, 2003 Brielle White, Virginia Brielle White, Virginia Brielle White, Virginia Natalie Coughlin, 1:59.76 1:57.67 (2005) 1:55.83 (2006) 1:55.83 (2006) California 1:49.52 (2002) 100-yd. BREAST Alison Walker, 2005 Lauren Brick, Dana Wizniuk, Virginia Danica Wizniuk, Virginia , Stanford 1:03.47 Florida State 1:00.45 (1999) 1:00.52 (1999) 58.41 (2003) 1:02.35 (2005) 200-yd. BREAST Cara DeVinny, 2002 Lizzy Bruce, Katie Hathaway, Danica Wizniuk, Virginia Tara Kirk, Stanford 2:18.70 North Carolina North Carolina 2:11.82 (1999) 2:07.36 (1999) 2:14.73 (2005) 2:11.12 (2002) 100-yd. FLY Liz Foster, 2004 Gigi DeToll, Maryland Richelle Depold, Richelle Fox, Natalie Coughlin, 55.47 53.77 (2005) North Carolina North Carolina California 52.34 (1997) 53.45 (1998) 50.01 (2002) Vesna Stojanovska, 200-yd. FLY Vesna Stojanovska, 2005 Kelly Weeks, Melanie Buddemeyer, Natalie Coughlin, 1:59.27 Georgia Tech, 1:59.27 North Carolina North Carolina, 1:58.41 California (2005) 1:57.66 (2003) (1985) 1:51.91 (2002) 200-yd. IM Lisa Hancock, 2003 Marina Mulyayeva, Mirjana Bosevska, Virginia Mirjana Bosevska, Virginia Maggie Bowen, Auburn 2:03.89 Maryland 1:59.31 (2002) 1:59.31 (2002) 1:53.91 (2002) 2:00.78 (2005) 400-yd. IM Cara DeVinny, 2002 Liz Lavell, Maryland Mirjana Bosevska, Virginia Mirjana Bosevska, Virginia , Stanford 4:16.60 4:14.33 (2005) 4:09.75 (2002) 4:11.76 (2002) 4:02.28 (1992)

200-yd. FREE RELAY Keys, Wallis, Foster, Maryland, 1:31.84 Virginia, 1:30.98 Maryland, 1:31.34 (2001) Arizona, 1:27.98 Harper, 1:34.25 (2004) Knepper, Weir, Walter, Georoff, Ellis, Crane, Novotny, Catterson, Cashion, Gresdal, Turner, Mulyayeva (2005) Roesch (2002) Adamkova, Bowman Kelly (2006) 400-yd. FREE RELAY Harper, Foster, Wallis, Maryland, 3:20.55 Virginia, 3:19.81 North Carolina, 3:20.45 Arizona, 3:12.77 Stojanovska, 3:26.47 Knepper, Weir, Roesch, Ellis, Georoff, Watkins, Hathaway, Cashion, Gresdal, Myers, (2005) Mulyayeva, Miller (2005) Dykehouse (2002) Perruquet, Acuff (2001) Nymeyer (2006) 800-yd. FREE RELAY Stojanovska, Foster, Stowe, Maryland, 7:13.29 Maryland, 7:13.29 Maryland, 7:13.29 Florida, 7:00.25 DeVinney, 7:24.06 (2005) Lavell, Miller, Sackett, Lavell, Miller, Sackett, Lavell, Miller, Sackett, Farrell, Burckle, Uhle, Malanina (2005) Malanina (2006) Malanina (2006) Retrum (2005) 200-yd. MEDLEY Saum, Walker, DeVinney, Maryland, 1:40.98 Florida State, 1:39.20 Florida State, 1:38.59 Auburn, 1:36.69 RELAY Harper, 1:44.95 (2004) Knepper, Mulyayeva, Raleigh, Brick, Sparg, King Raleigh, Brick, Sparg, Ellis Anderson, Swander, DeToll, Weir (2005) (2007) (2006) Hoelzer, Short (2003) 400-yd. MEDLEY Kracke, Walker, Foster, Maryland, 3:40.13 Virginia, 3:39.28 Virginia, 3:39.28 Auburn, 3:31.45 RELAY Stojanovska, 3:48.63 Knepper, Mulyayeva, Iffland, Wizniuk, Iffland, Wizniuk, Coventry, Bowen, Hoelzer, (2005) DeToll, Miller (2005) McCubbins, Cronk (1999) McCubbins, Cronk (1999) Short (2003) 1-Meter DIVING Laurissa Prystaj, 2006 — — Jenna Dreyer, Miami — 305.95 320.75 (2005)

3-Meter DIVING (6) Laurissa Prystaj, 2006 ——Melanie Rinaldi, Miami — 351.60 324.35 (2006)

3-Meter DIVING (11) Laurissa Prystaj, 2005 ——Tiffany Manning, — 488.70 Florida State 538.75 (2004) Platform DIVING Stephanie England, 2005 ——No Record — 373.20

GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 51 Men’s Honor Roll National Champions 1949 John Hiles 440 free 1927 Dave Young 150 Back Tommy Towles 200 breast 1950 Tommy Towles 200 breast NCAA All-Americans John Hiles 100 back 1952 Frank Strickland 200 back 2001 Shilo Ayalon (HM) 1650 free (11th) 1953 Frank Strickland 100 back Tomonori Tsuji (HM) 200 breast (13th) 1957 Bob Browne 100 breast 2002 Shilo Ayalon 1650 free (8th) 1964 Larry Kaghan 200 free 2003 Shilo Ayalon 1650 free (4th) 2004 Sam Morgan (HM) 1500 free (15th) Coaching History 2005 Sam Morgan (HM) 1650 free (14th) 2006 Evan Stowers Platform (7th) 1930-31 Raymond Eaton 2007 Evan Stowers (HM) Platform (15th) 1932-35 Kenneth Thrash, Sr. 1936-37 Professor Hartzell NCAA Qualifiers 1936-64 Fred Lanoue 1965-87 Herb McAuley 1989 Tim Halligan 200 fly 1989-91 Brad Lehman 2001 Shilo Ayalon 500 free, 1650 free, 400 IM 1992-97 Bill Humber 2002 Shilo Ayalon 500 free, 1650 free, 400 IM 1998-2004 Seth Baron David Laitala 100 fly, 200 IM 2005-present Stu Wilson James Salazar 200 back Tomonori Tsuji 100 breast Year-by-Year Captains 2003 Shilo Ayalon 500 free, 1650 free, 400 IM 1919 ...... G.R. Fraser ...... Benny Barralles Sam Morgan 500 free, 1650 free 1920 ...... Unknown 1973 ...... Jim Shelander 2004 Sam Morgan 400 free, 1500 free 1921 ...... G.R. Fraser 1974 ...... Dick Bergman 2005 Rob Miller 500 free, 1650 free 1922 ...... Unknown ...... Jim Hellmann, Bob Pahr Sam Morgan 500 free, 1650 free, 400 IM 1923 ...... C.W. Saussy 1975 ...... Dick Bergman 2006 Sam Morgan 500 free, 1650 free, 400 IM 1924 ...... J.R. Armstrong ...... Screven Farmer, Bill Shelander Evan Stowers 1-Meter, 3-Meter, Platform 1925 ...... J.R. Armstrong 1976 ...... Tim Redgrave 2007 Evan Stowers 1-Meter, 3-Meter, Platform 1926 ...... J.B. Glover ...... Carl “Bubby” Flinn, Terry D. Brown 1927 ...... S. Hollingsworth 1977 ...... Keenan Carter 1928 ...... W.B. Brown ...... Paul Thompson Conference Championships 1929 ...... McKinstry 1978 ...... Paul Thompson 1942 Southeastern Conference 1930 ...... C.Y. House 1979 ...... Alfred Martin 1948 Southeastern Conference 1931 ...... F. Cooper 1980 ...... Jan Fridrichsen, Will Wells 1949 Southeastern Conference 1932 ...... Ed Fain 1981 ...... Dick Odum 1933 ...... Harry Stover 1950 Southeastern Conference 1982 ...... John Wise 1934 ...... Vemon Brown 1983 ...... Jack Oltman 1935 ...... Gordon Catts 1984 ...... Doug Thomason ACC Champions 1936 ...... Unknown ...... John Hensley 1994 Brandon Lumm 3-Meter 1937 ...... Henry Plage 1985 ...... Bruce Elgin 2002 David Laitala 100 fly 1938 ...... Unknown 1986 ...... Mike Wise 2003 Shilo Ayalon 1650 free 1939 ...... Herbert Hillenmeyer 1987 ...... Russ Ashenden 1940 ...... Dick Bates 1988 ...... No Team Jeremy Raines 100 back 1941 ...... Dunn Ward 1989 ...... Christopher Gay 2005 Sam Morgan 1650 free 1942 ...... G. Stradtman ...... Andrew Geiszley, Tim Halligan 2006 Evan Stowers 3-Meter 1943 ...... Herb McAuley 1990 ...... Andy Gale 1944 ...... George Backus 1991 ...... David Codelli All-ACC 1945 ...... George Hiles ...... Brandt Engstrom 1989 Tim Halligan 200 fly 1946 ...... Rial Rolfe 1992 ...... Blake Patton, Duane Shippy 1947 ...... Herb McAuley 1993 ...... Blake Patton, Brian Jones 1994 Brandon Lumm 3-Meter 1948 ...... Charlie Flowers 1994 ...... Karl Greenbaum 1996 Brandon Lumm 3-Meter 1949 ...... Johnny Hiles ...... Bryan Graves 2000 David Laitala 100 fly 1950 ...... Johnny Hiles 1995 ...... Andrew Old 2001 Shilo Ayalon 1650 free 1951 ...... Ed Teson ...... Chris Seeton, Matt Hendrey David Laitala 100 fly 1952 ...... Jim Thrasher, Oscar Crouch 1996 ...... Mark Champney Scott Lenyk 200 back 1953 ...... Cab Childress ...... Brandon Lumm, Chuck Marmor Tomonori Tsuji 100 breast, 200 breast 1954 ...... Sammy Van Leer 1997 ...... Grant Mussman 1955 ...... Sammy Van Leer ...... Ryan Ouderkirk, Alex McGillivary 2002 Shilo Ayalon 500 free, 1650 free, 400 IM ...... Bob Browne, Joey Walker 1998 ...... Christer Rundlof Josh Hersko 100 free 1956 ...... Joey Walker ...... Jeff Quinlivan David Laitala 100 fly, 200 IM 1957 ...... Unknown 1999 ...... Kevin Brooks Paul McCarty 1-Meter 1958 ...... Charlie Wiggins, Bob Dudley ...... Glenn Goldstein James Salazar 200 back 1959 ...... Bob Dudley ...... Jason Williams 2003 Shilo Ayalon 500 free, 1650 free, 400 IM 1960 ...... Bob Dudley 2000 ...... James Nozar Jeremy Raines 100 back 1961 ...... Charles LeMoyne 2001 ...... David Laitala 2004 Ryan Bishop 400 IM 1962 ...... Steve Halleck ...... James Nozar 1963 ...... Bob Popp 2002 ...... David Laitala 2005 Tony Burkhardt 1-Meter 1964 ...... Larry Caghan ...... Carl Nylander Sam Morgan 500 free, 1650 free ...... Marty Kater 2003 ...... Shilo Ayalon 2006 Sam Morgan 1650 free 1965 ...... Dave Kirby ...... James Salazar Evan Stowers 1-Meter, 3-Meter 1966 ...... Edward Coopat 2004 ...... Itai Eden 2007 Ryan Bishop 400 IM 1967 ...... George Fauerbach ...... Eduardo Oliver 1968 ...... Geroge Fauerbach 2005 ...... Matt Figh SEC Champions ...... John Burrows ...... Ryan Riebesell 1969 ...... John Burrows, David Burrows 2006 ...... Teemu Kettunen 1937 Howard Duncan 1-Meter 1970 ...... John Savage, Bill Hardin ...... Ryan Riebesell 1940 Howard Duncan 1-Meter 1971 ...... Don Karanovich 2007 ...... Chris Ewald, Alex Williams 1941 Dick Bates 50 free ...... Steve Heck, Allan Spreen 2008 ...... Jason Bourgeois, Onur Uras 1942 Herb McAuley 220 free, 440 free 1972 ...... Steve Heck, John Gripp

52 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Men’s Honor Roll Women’s Honor Roll CoSida Academic All-American NCAA All-Americans 2003 Shilo Ayalon (1st team) 2004 Vesna Stojanovska (HM)200 fly (10th) 2007 Ofer Finkler (2nd team) NCAA Qualifiers CoSida/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III 2002 Cara DeVinny 200 fly, 200 IM, 400 IM 2003 Shilo Ayalon (1st team) 2004 Vesna Stojanovska 200 free, 400 free, 200 fly 2006 Jason Howard (2nd team) 2005 Vesna Stojanovska 200 free, 500 free, 200 fly 2007 Ofer Finkler (1st team) Elizabeth Stowe 500 free, 1650 free

CSCAA Academic All-American ACC Champions 2001 Shilo Ayalon 2005 Vesna Stojanovska 200 fly Leo Salinas (HM) 2002 Shilo Ayalon All-ACC David Laitala 2002 Anna Saum 100 back Itai Eden (HM) 2005 Vesna Stojanovska 200 free, 200 fly Eduardo Oliver (HM) Elizabeth Stowe 1650 free Leo Salinas (HM) 2003 Shilo Ayalon Year-by-Year Captains Yonatan Cohen (HM) 2002 Ashley Skala Matt Figh (HM) 2003 Lisa Hancock 2004 Matt Figh (HM) Ashley Skala Jason Howard (HM) 2004 Lisa Hancock 2005 Matt Figh (HM) Jill Vukmanic Jason Howard (HM) 2005 Lisa Hancock 2006 Noah Copeland (HM) Michelle Maguire Ofer Finkler (HM) 2006 Liz Foster Jason Howard (HM) Ashley Kracke Teemu Kettunen (HM) 2007 Alison Walker Sam Morgan Dana West 2008 Agatha Kwasnik All-ACC Academic Team Elizabeth Stowe 2006 Noah Copeland Peter Doblar Ofer Finkler Jason Howard CoSida/ESPN Academic All-District III Teemu Kettunen Rob Miller 2002 Jennifer Christenson Alex Williams 2006 Ashley Kracke (2nd team) 2007 Jeff Burton Noah Copeland Ofer Finkler Alex Roan CSCAA Academic All-American 2002 Cara DeVinny ACC Post-Graduate Scholarship 2003 Cara DeVinny (HM) 2003 Shilo Ayalon Lisa Hancock (HM) 2007 Ofer Finkler Ashley Kracke (HM) 2004 Ashley Kracke (HM) NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship Award 2005 Ashley Kracke (HM) 2003 Shilo Ayalon 2006 Stephanie England (HM) Ashley Kracke (HM) 2006 ACC Academic Honor Roll Thirty-four swimming and diving athletes were named to the All-ACC Academic Team Atlantic Coast Conference Honor Roll. 2006 Stephanie England Ashley Kracke The ACC Academic Honor Roll, now in its 50th year, is comprised Elizabeth Stowe of all ACC student-athletes who participated in a varsity-level sport and 2007 Stephanie England Hannah Krimm registered a grade point average of 3.0 or better for the full academic Elizabeth Stowe year. Men Women Ryan Bishop 2 Stephanie England 3 Jeff Burton 3 Taylor Flynn 1 Noah Copeland 2 Amanda Gannon 1 Peter Doblar 3 Caroline Jones 2 Kelsey Duffy 1 Ryann Kopacka 1 Chris Ewald 2 Hannah Krimm 1 Ofer Finkler 2 Agatha Kwasnik 1 Steve Hagaman 1 Jing Li 1 Jacob Kwasnik 3 Heather Matz 3 Andy Miller 2 Lisa Pucci 1 Alex Roan 1 Alison Skala 2 John Showalter 1 Alison Walker 4 Kevin Skenes 2 Dana West 3 Mauricio Sousa 2 Katie Wright 1 Greg Tunning 2 (Years on ACC Honor Roll) Alex Williams 3 William Woodworth 1 GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 53 All-Time Record Against Opponents MEN (1919-2007) Muskingum...... 1-0 Washington & Lee ...... 1-0 Air Force ...... 0-3 Navy ...... 0-2 West Georgia ...... 8-0 Alabama ...... 2-8 Nebraska ...... 1-0 Western Kentucky ...... 3-9 American ...... 1-0 N.E. Louisana ...... 1-1 Wisconsin-Stevens Point ...... 1-0 Appalachian ...... 1-0 North Carolina ...... 1-19 William & Mary ...... 1-1 Arkansas ...... 0-1 UNC Ashville ...... 4-0 Xavier ...... 1-1 Arkansas-Little Rock ...... 1-0 Charlotte ...... 4-1 Yale ...... 0-1 Atlanta YMCA ...... 5-0 UNC Wilmington ...... 1-5 Auburn ...... 13-3 NC State ...... 6-12 WON ...... 486 Augusta ...... 14-2 Ohio State ...... 0-1 LOST ...... 403 Belmont Abbey ...... 1-0 Pennsylvania ...... 1-0 TIED ...... 3 Birmingham Southern ...... 3-0 Pittsburgh...... 1-1 Bowling Green State ...... 1-0 Princeton ...... 0-1 WOMEN (2001-2007) Boys High ...... 1-0 Purdue ...... 0-2 Alabama ...... 0-3 Brooklyn YMCA ...... 0-1 Rhodes College ...... 1-0 American ...... 1-0 Campbellville College...... 1-0 Rice ...... 1-0 Boston College ...... 1-0 Cincinnati ...... 1-0 Rutgers ...... 0-1 Cincinnati ...... 1-0 Citadel ...... 12-9-1 Savannah College ...... 2-0 Clemson ...... 1-5 Clemson ...... 29-36 Sewanee Duke ...... 1-0 Coll. of Charleston ...... 11-7-1 (Univ. of South) ...... 27-9 Emory ...... 6-0 Davidson College ...... 14-8 Shippenburg State ...... 1-0 Florida Atlantic ...... 1-1 Delta State ...... 1-0 South Carolina ...... 2-8 Florida State ...... 0-5 Dillard ...... 2-0 South Florida ...... 1-7 Georgia ...... 0-4 Duke ...... 20-25 SE Missouri ...... 1-1-1 Georgia Southern ...... 1-0 Eastern Kentucky ...... 1-2 SW Missouri ...... 1-0 Kentucky ...... 0-1 Edward Waters ...... 1-0 SMU ...... 0-1 Maryland ...... 0-6 Emory ...... 79-4 Southern Mississippi ...... 1-1 New Orleans ...... 2-0 Florida ...... 17-24 Springfield ...... 0-1 North Carolina ...... 0-1 Florida Atlantic ...... 3-2 Tampa ...... 5-0 NC State ...... 2-3 Florida A&M ...... 14-0 Tennessee ...... 10-5 North Florida ...... 4-0 Florida State ...... 1-28 Tennessee State ...... 14-0 Purdue ...... 1-1 Furman ...... 4-9 Texas A&M ...... 1-2 Rice ...... 0-1 Georgia ...... 25-57 Tulane ...... 5-15 Savannah College ...... 1-0 Georgia Preflight ...... 2-2 Tulane (club) ...... 1-0 South Carolina ...... 0-1 Georgia Southern ...... 9-9 Union (KY)...... 2-0 Virginia ...... 0-3 Georgia State (club) ...... 1-0 Vanderbilt ...... 17-11 Virginia Tech ...... 0-3 Georgia State ...... 13-4 VMI ...... 2-0 Western Kentucky ...... 1-0 Henderson State ...... 1-0 Virginia ...... 0-3 Howard...... 2-0 Virginia Commonwealth ...... 0-1 WON ...... 24 Illinois ...... 0-1 Virginia Tech ...... 4-2 LOST ...... 38 Indiana (PA)...... 1-1 Wake Forest...... 0-2 James Madison ...... 1-0 Kentucky ...... 15-15 Knoxville YMCA ...... 2-0 Lamar ...... 1-0 Lee ...... 1-0 Louisville ...... 2-1 LSU ...... 1-4 Marshall ...... 0-1 Maryland ...... 6-1 Maryville...... 2-0 Mercer ...... 1-0 Miami (OH) ...... 2-6 Minnesota ...... 0-1 Morehead State (KY) ...... 1-0 Morehouse ...... 8-1

54 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Year-by-Year Results Men’s Swimming Year-by-Year Results (1919-2007) 1939 Lanoue 1-6 0-4 5th-SEC — 1938 Lanoue 3-4 1-4 3rd-SEC — Dual Conf. Conf. NCAA 1937 Lanoue 4-3 2-2 2nd-SEC — Year Coach Meet Meet Champ. Champ. 1936 Hartzell 6-2 — Southern Conf. Champs 2007 Wilson 3-5 1-3 6th-ACC T-37th 1935 Thrash 6-1 — Southern Conf. Champs 2006 Wilson 4-6 2-3 4th-ACC 33rd 1934 Thrash 7-0 — Southern Conf. Champs 2005 Baron 5-4 4-2 3rd-ACC T-32nd 1933 Thrash 6-0 — Southern Conf. Champs 2004 Baron 4-7 2-3 5th-ACC T-35th 1932 Thrash 5-0 — Southern Conf. Champs 2003 Baron 4-7 2-4 4th-ACC T-28th 1931 Eaton 6-0 — Southern Conf. Champs 2002 Baron 6-3 3-1 2nd-ACC 27th 1930 Eaton 6-1 — Southern Conf. Champs 2001 Baron 11-3 1-2 3rd-ACC 29th 1929 Unknown 7-2 — Southern Conf. Champs 2000 Baron 5-6 0-3 6th-ACC — 1928 Gray 7-2 — Southern Conf. Champs 1999 Baron 6-7 1-1 7th-ACC — 1927 Unknown 2-2 — Southern Conf. Champs 1998 Baron 4-7 0-2 7th-ACC — 1926 Unknown 5-0 — Southern Conf. Champs 1997 Humber 7-8 0-3 8th-ACC — 1925 Unknown 1-0 — — 1996 Humber 4-7 0-2 8th-ACC — 1924 Unknown 4-0 — — 1995 Humber 6-8 1-2 8th-ACC — 1923 Bulloch 2-2 — — 1994 Humber 6-8 0-4 7th-ACC — 1922 Unknown — — — 1993 Humber 8-8 0-4 6th-ACC — 1921 Strum 2-0 — — 1992 Humber 7-6 0-3 8th-ACC — 1920 Alexander 2-0 — — 1991 Lehman 11-1 0-1 7th-ACC — 1919 Owens 1-0 — — 1990 Lehman 3-6 0-2 7th-ACC — 1989 Lehman 5-6 0-2 7th-ACC DNS 1988 No Team Women’s Swimming Year-by-Year Results (2001-2007) 1987 McAuley 7-4 0-1 7th-ACC — Dual Conf. Conf. NCAA 1986 McAuley 8-6 0-2 7th-ACC — Year Coach Meet Meet Champ. Champ. 1985 McAuley 6-3 0-1 7th-ACC — 2007 Wilson 4-7 1-4 9th-ACC --- 1984 McAuley 7-3 0-1 7th-ACC — 2006 Wilson 4-5 1-4 9th-ACC --- 1983 McAuley 8-4 0-1 7th-ACC — 2005 Baron 3-6 1-5 6th-ACC DNS 1982 McAuley 6-6-1 0-1 7th-ACC — 2004 Baron 4-7 1-4 6th-ACC 33rd 1981 McAuley 4-9 0-1 7th-ACC — 2003 Baron 4-7 1-5 6th-ACC DNS 1980 McAuley 7-8 0-2 8th-ACC — 2002 Baron 5-6 0-4 8th-ACC DNS 1979 McAuley 5-9-1 0-2 DNP — 1978 McAuley 9-5 — 3rd-Metro — DNS = Qualified swimmers for the NCAA meet, but did not score any points. 1977 McAuley 6-6 — 2nd-Metro — 1976 McAuley 9-6 — 2nd-NIC — Tech Men at the ACC Championships 1975 McAuley 10-8 — 10th-NIC — 1974 McAuley 10-5 — 9th-NIC — Year Place Points 1973 McAuley 10-4 — 7th-SIC — 2007 6th 267.5 2006 4th 371 1972 McAuley 10-7 — 6th-SIC — 2005 3rd 429 1971 McAuley 9-8 — 5th-SIC — 2004 5th 392 1970 McAuley 7-8 — 4th-SIC — 2003 4th 471 1969 McAuley 7-8 — 4th-SIC — 2002 2nd 580.5 1968 McAuley 8-7 — — SIC — 2001 3rd 434.5 1967 McAuley — — — SEC — 2000 6th 289 1966 McAuley — — — SEC — 1999 7th 192.5 1965 McAuley 4-10 — — SEC — 1998 7th 156.5 1964 Lanoue 4-9 0-4 5th-SEC — 1997 8th 147 1963 Lanoue 8-7-1 2-4 5th-SEC — 1996 8th 158 1962 Lanoue — — — SEC — 1995 8th 149 1961 Lanoue — — — SEC — 1994 7th 166 1960 Lanoue — — — SEC — 1993 6th 198 1959 Lanoue — — — SEC — 1992 8th 135 1958 Lanoue — — — SEC — 1991 7th 125 1990 7th 125 1957 Lanoue — — — SEC — 1989 7th 36 1956 Lanoue — — 3rd-SEC — 1988 No Team 1955 Lanoue 4-3 2-2 3rd-SEC — 1987 7th 0 1954 Lanoue — — 2nd-SEC — 1986 7th 0 1953 Lanoue 3-6 1-2 3rd-SEC — 1985 7th 83 1952 Lanoue — — 3rd-SEC — 1984 7th 42 1951 Lanoue — — 3rd-SEC — 1983 7th 47 1950 Lanoue — — 1st-SEC Champs 1982 7th 42 1949 Lanoue — — 1st-SEC Champs 1981 7th 44 1948 Lanoue — — 1st-SEC Champs 1980 8th 23 1947 Lanoue — — — SEC — Tech Women at the ACC Championships 1946 Lanoue 2-2 — — SEC — Year Place Points 1945 Lanoue 2-4 — — SEC — 2007 9th 138 1944 Lanoue 0-1 — — SEC — 2006 9th 189 1943 Lanoue 3-0 — — SEC — 2005 6th 286.5 1942 Lanoue 7-0 — 1st-SEC Champs 2004 6th 282 1941 Lanoue 4-3 3-2 2nd-SEC — 2003 6th 259 2002 8th 220 1940 Lanoue 3-6 2-4 4th-SEC — GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 55 Men’s Top Times 50 Freestyle 1000 Freestyle 200 Backstroke Teemu Kettunen Shilo Ayalon James Salazar 2006 2003 2002

1. 20.35 Teemu Kettunen 2006 1. 9:02.69 Shilo Ayalon 2003 1. 1:45.53 James Salazar 2002 2. 20.36 Jason Howard 2006 2. 9:03.01 Sam Morgan 2005 2. 1:47.77 Jeremy Raines 2004 3. 20.46 Jason Bourgeois 2007 3. 9:16.03 Eduardo Oliver 2003 3. 1:47.93 Scott Lenyk 2001 4. 20.54 Ofer Finkler 2007 4. 9:16.53 Ryan Crete 2007 4. 1:48.08 Matt Figh 2002 4. 20.54 Mauricio Sousa 2007 5. 9:17.11 Rob Miller 2005 5. 1:49.90 David Laitala 2002 6. 20.58 Josh Hersko 2003 6. 9:17.94 Matt Figh 2005 6. 1:50.42 Jorge Oliver 2003 7. 20.62 Ryan Riebesell 2004 7. 9:22.65 Leo Salinas 2000 7. 1:51.31 Carl Nylander 2001 8. 20.64 Jacob Kwasnik 2007 8. 9:35.15 Alex Roan 2007 8. 1:52.07 Conrad Aach 2004 9. 20.73 Mike Comer 2002 9. 9:38.22 Jeff Burton 2007 9. 1:52.92 Ryan Shanteau 1999 10. 20.74 Onur Uras 2007 10. 9:38.32 Hank Longmire 2001 10. 1:53.07 Ryan Bishop 2007 100 Freestyle 1650 Freestyle 100 Breaststroke Josh Hersko Shilo Ayalon Tomonori Tsuji 2003 2003 2002

1. 44.29 Josh Hersko 2003 1. 14:47.31 Shilo Ayalon 2003 1. 54.85 Tomonori Tsuji 2002 2. 44.57 Jason Howard 2005 2. 14:54.71 Sam Morgan 2005 2. 55.49 Robbie Foster 2002 3. 45.01 Noah Copeland 2007 3. 15:16.10 Rob Miller 2005 3. 55.55 Alex Williams 2007 4. 45.15 Teemu Kettunen 2005 4. 15:18.32 Eduardo Oliver 2003 4. 56.20 Theral Mackey 1999 5. 45.55 David Laitala 2001 5. 15:22.84 Matt Figh 2005 5. 56.56 Yonatan Cohen 2003 6. 45.60 Ofer Finkler 2007 6. 15:24.70 Leo Salinas 2001 6. 56.67 Travis McQuinn 2000 7. 45.75 Jorge Oliver 2002 7. 15:28.15 Ryan Crete 2007 7. 56.76 Ryan Bishop 2007 8. 45.78 Ryan Riebesell 2004 8. 15:56.35 Jeff Burton 2006 8. 57.14 Ross Dye 2000 9. 45.92 Jason Bourgeois 2007 9. 16:06.70 Alex Roan 2007 9. 57.37 Gerry Hale 1992 10. 46.03 Marc Maier 2005 10. 16:11.01 Hank Longmire 2001 10. 58.06 Andy Miller 2007 200 Freestyle 100 Backstroke 200 Breaststroke Noah Copeland Jeremy Raines Tomonori Tsuji 2007 2003 2001

1. 1:36.92 Noah Copeland 2007 1. 48.72 Jeremy Raines 2003 1. 1:58.37 Tomonori Tsuji 2001 2. 1:37.70 Shilo Ayalon 2003 2. 49.23 Jason Bourgeois 2007 2. 2:01.25 Ryan Bishop 2005 2. 1:37.70 Matt Figh 2004 3. 49.57 David Laitala 2001 2. 2:01.25 Robbie Foster 2002 3. 1:37.75 Jason Howard 2005 4. 49.58 James Salazar 2002 4. 2:02.48 Alex Williams 2005 4. 1:37.94 Josh Hersko 2003 5. 50.51 Jorge Oliver 2002 5. 2:02.71 Chris Biedrzycki 2002 5. 1:39.26 Itai Eden 2002 6. 51.11 Johnny Hagaman 2007 6. 2:04.52 Gerry Hale 1992 6. 1:39.30 Leo Salinas 2002 7. 51.83 Scott Lenyk 2000 7. 2:05.36 Travis McQuin 2000 7. 1:39.48 Rob Miller 2007 8. 52.32 James Nozar 1998 8. 2:05.92 Ross Dye 2000 8. 1:39.69 Ofer Finkler 2006 9. 52.60 Mauricio Sousa 2006 9. 2:06.38 Theral Mackey 1999 9. 1:39.97 David Laitala 2002 9. 52.60 Matt Figh 2004 10. 2:06.57 Andy Miller 2007 500 Freestyle 100 Butterfly Shilo Ayalon Noah Copeland David Laitala 2003 2002

1. 4:19.31 Shilo Ayalon 2003 1. 47.68 David Laitala 2002 2. 4:21.49 Sam Morgan 2005 2. 48.55 Teemu Kettunen 2006 3. 4:24.01 Matt Figh 2004 3. 49.12 Jason Bourgeois 2007 4. 4:24.09 Leo Salinas 2002 4. 49.51 Onur Uras 2007 5. 4:25.36 Noah Copeland 2007 5. 49.55 Jorge Oliver 2002 6. 4:27.11 Rob Miller 2007 6. 49.69 Tim Halligan 1989 7. 4:27.15 Chris Ewald 2006 7. 49.85 Ofer Finkler 2007 8. 4:28.40 Eduardo Oliver 2003 8. 50.01 Itai Eden 2001 9. 4:28.46 Ryan Crete 2007 9. 50.13 Brady Skaggs 2002 10. 4:29.08 Itai Eden 2002 10. 50.35 James Nozar 1999

56 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Men’s Top Times 200 Butterfly 200 FREESTYLE RELAY Tim Halligan 1. 1:20.35 ..... Bourgeois, Kwasnik, Finkler, Sousa ...... 2007 2. 1:20.81 ...... Kettunen, Maier, Riebesell, Howard ...... 2005 1989 3. 1:21.15 ...... Kettunen, Huff, Finkler, Howard ...... 2006 4. 1:21.46 ...... Riebesell, Howard, Huff, Kettunen ...... 2004 1. 1:47.09 Tim Halligan 1989 5. 1:21.56 ...... Hersko, Kettunen, Raines, Riebesell...... 2003 2. 1:48.25 David Laitala 2002 6. 1:21.96 ..... Finkler, Bourgeois, Hagaman, Sousa...... 2007 3. 1:49.04 Itai Eden 2002 7. 1:22.62 ...... Howard, Riebesell, Sousa, Kettunen ...... 2006 4. 1:49.15 Onur Uras 2007 8. 1:22.74 ...... Hersko, Laitala, Comer, Forbes ...... 2002 5. 1:49.18 Matt Figh 2004 9. 1:22.78 ...... Forbes, J. Oliver, Laitala, Hersko ...... 2001 6. 1:49.66 Brady Skaggs 2002 10. 1:23.96 ...... Brinkman, Williams, Reed, Cerceo ...... 1999 7. 1:49.95 Conrad Aach 2007 8. 1:49.99 James Salazar 2002 400 FREESTYLE RELAY 9. 1:50.38 Chris Ewald 2007 1. 2:59.52 ...... Howard, Huff, Finkler, Kettunen ...... 2006 10. 1:50.85 David Rifkin 2007 2. 2:59.82 ...... Kettunen, Maier, Riebesell, Howard ...... 2005 3. 3:00.50 ..... Finkler, Bourgeois, Sousa, Copeland ...... 2007 4. 3:01.64 ...... Kettunen, Riebesell, Huff, Howard ...... 2004 5. 3:01.73 ...... Hersko, Laitala, J. Oliver, Salinas ...... 2002 6. 3:01.98 ...... Laitala, J. Oliver, Forbes, Hersko ...... 2001 7. 3:03.21 ...... Hersko, Howard, J. Oliver, Riebesell ...... 2003 8. 3:04.09 ...... Howard, McGinley, Maier, Kettunen ...... 2005 9. 3:04.35 ...... Kettunen, Copeland, Huff, Howard ...... 2006 10. 3:04.84 ...... Laitala, Cerceo, Williams, Brinkman ...... 1999

800 FREESTYLE RELAY 1. 6:34.45 ...... Figh, Finkler, Morgan, Howard ...... 2005 Shilo Ayalon 2. 6:36.12 ...... Ayalon, Hersko, Morgan, Figh ...... 2003 3. 6:36.39 ...... Hersko, Ayalon, Salinas, Figh ...... 2002 4. 6:37.09 ...... Copeland, Finkler, Eward, Howard ...... 2006 5. 6:37.49 ...... Finkler, Ewald, Miller, Copeland ...... 2006 200 IM 6. 6:37.93 ...... Figh, Huff, Eden, Howard ...... 2004 David Laitala 7. 6:38.98 ...... Salinas, Hersko, Eden, Ayalon ...... 2001 2002 8. 6:41.58 ...... Ayalon, Laitala, Salinas, Hersko ...... 2000 9. 6:46.02 ...... Hersko, Eden, Salinas, Rauch ...... 2001 10. 6:46.65 ...... Laitala, Ayalon, Tsuji, Salazar ...... 2002 1. 1:47.95 David Laitala 2002 2. 1:48.74 Ryan Bishop 2007 200 MEDLEY RELAY 3. 1:49.45 Chris Biedrzycki 2002 1. 1:29.90 ...... Raines, Foster, Kettunen, Riebesell ...... 2003 4. 1:49.86 Yonatan Cohen 2003 2. 1:30.49 ...... Raines, Foster, Laitala, Comer...... 2002 5. 1:51.74 Conrad Aach 2007 6. 1:52.21 Carl Nylander 2000 3. 1:30.62 ...... Bourgeois, Williams, Kettunen, Riebesell ...... 2006 7. 1:52.33 Chris Ewald 2007 4. 1:30.93 ...... Raines, Williams, Kettunen, Riebesell ...... 2005 8. 1:53.11 Travis McQuinn 2000 5. 1:30.85 ..... Bourgeois, Williams, Finkler, Sousa ...... 2007 9. 1:53.38 Jorge Oliver 2001 6. 1:32.43 ...... Laitala, Tsuji, Nozar, J. Oliver ...... 2000 10. 1:53.49 Mauricio Sousa 2006 7. 1:32.47 ...... Laitala, Foster, Forbes, J. Oliver ...... 2001 8. 1:32.72 ...... Raines, Foster, Kettunen, Comer ...... 2003 400 IM 9. 1:32.82 ...... Laitala, Mackey, Nozar, Cerceo ...... 1999 Shilo Ayalon 10. 1:33.04 ...... Bourgeois, Williams, Kettunen, Sousa ...... 2006 2003 400 MEDLEY RELAY 1. 3:16.44 ...... Salazar, Tsuji, Laitala, Hersko ...... 2002 1. 3:48.31 Shilo Ayalon 2003 2. 3:16.55 ...... Raines, Foster, Kettunen, Hersko ...... 2003 2. 3:51.92 Ryan Bishop 2007 3. 3:52.31 Sam Morgan 2005 3. 3:18.90 ...... Bourgeois, Williams, Kettunen, Howard ...... 2006 4. 3:54.46 Chris Biedrzycki 2002 4. 3:18.75 ...... Oliver, Tsuji, Laitala, Hersko ...... 2001 5. 3:56.31 Jeff Burton 2007 5. 3:19.70...... Salazar, Tsuji, Laitala, Ayalon ...... 2002 6. 3:57.49 Conrad Aach 2007 6. 3:20.23 ...... Raines, Williams, Kettunen, Howard ...... 2004 7. 3:57.57 Carl Nylander 2002 7. 3:21.74 ...... Raines, Foster, Laitala, Hersko ...... 2002 8. 3:59.01 Jacob Wilson 2003 8. 3:21.80 ..... Bourgeois, Williams, Uras, Copeland ...... 2007 9. 4:00.45 James Salazar 2001 9. 3:22.22 ..... Hagaman, Williams, Bourgeois, Copeland ...... 2007 10. 4:02.70 Hank Longmire 2001 10. 3:22.93 ...... Laitala, Mackey, Nozar, Cerceo ...... 1999

GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 57 Women’s Top Times 50 Freestyle 1000 Freestyle 200 Backstroke Natanya Harper Elizabeth Stowe Ashley Kracke 2005 2005 2003

1. 23.68 Natanya Harper 2005 1. 10:00.90 Elizabeth Stowe 2005 1. 1:59.76 Ashley Kracke 2003 2. 23.74 Moeko Wallis 2004 2. 10:11.58 Vesna Stojanovska 2004 2. 2:01.22 Anna Saum 2003 3. 23.77 Jaclyn Keys 2004 3. 10:13.74 Jing Li 2007 3. 2:03.15 Caroline Jones 2006 4. 23.93 Agatha Kwasnik 2007 4. 10:20.34 Amanda Gannon 2005 4. 2:05.00 Michelle Maguire 2003 4. 23.93 Anna Saum 2002 5. 10:22.55 Michelle Maguire 2003 5. 2:05.79 Amanda Korell 2005 5. 24.16 Katie McGraw 2005 6. 10:22.84 Ann Battle 2004 6. 2:05.82 Katie Duffy 2002 6. 24.19 Jill Vukmanic 2005 7. 10:26.04 Lisa Hancock 2003 7. 2:06.49 Lisa Hancock 2002 7. 24.21 Lisa Pucci 2007 8. 10:26.99 Caroline Jones 2006 8. 2:07.84 Ryann Kopacka 2007 8. 24.22 Meghan DeVinney 2003 9. 10:28.57 Lauren Rhea 2007 9. 2:10.23 Cara DeVinny 2002 9. 24.32 Sara Gilli 2002 10. 10:36.69 Katie Wright 2006 10. 2:10.64 Melissa Vander Wood 2002 100 Freestyle 1650 Freestyle 100 Breaststroke Agatha Kwasnik Elizabeth Stowe Alison Walker 2007 2005 2005

1. 51.48 Agatha Kwasnik 2007 1. 16:28.08 Elizabeth Stowe 2005 1. 1:03.47 Alison Walker 2005 2. 51.49 Liz Foster 2004 2. 17:04.15 Amanda Gannon 2005 2. 1:04.97 Laura Heiser 2003 3. 51.79 Vesna Stojanovska 2006 3. 17:05.06 Ann Battle 2004 3. 1:05.19 Jenny Lentz 2002 4. 51.92 Natanya Harper 2005 4. 17:11.66 Michelle Maguire 2002 4. 1:05.44 Katie McGraw 2005 5. 51.98 Moeko Wallis 2002 5. 17:21.13 Jing Li 2007 5. 1:06.63 Sara Gilli 2003 6. 52.49 Jaclyn Keys 2004 6. 17:39.82 Kathy Wood 2003 6. 1:06.77 Lisa Pucci 2007 7. 52.57 Sara Gilli 2002 7. 1:07.35 Cara DeVinny 2002 8. 52.46 Jen Christenson 2002 8. 1:07.40 Natanya Harper 2005 9. 52.71 Mari McLeod 2006 9. 1:10.91 Alison Skala 2007 10. 52.81 Jenny Lentz 2002 10. 1:11.29 Ashley Skala 2003 200 Freestyle 200 Breaststroke Vesna Stojanovska Cara DeVinny 2005 2003

1. 1:47.67 Vesna Stojanovska 2005 1. 2:18.70 Cara DeVinny 2003 2. 1:50.60 Caroline Jones 2006 2. 2:19.66 Alison Walker 2004 3. 1:51.46 Agatha Kwasnik 2007 3. 2:23.04 Katie McGraw 2005 4. 1:52.24 Elizabeth Stowe 2005 4. 2:23.67 Laura Heiser 2003 5. 1:52.65 Taylor Flynn 2007 5. 2:23.69 Alison Walker 2007 6. 1:52.80 Jing Li 2007 6. 2:27.08 Lisa Pucci 2007 7. 1:52.88 Ashley Kracke 2004 7. 2:29.17 Ashley Skala 2003 8. 1:53.75 Dana West 2004 Elizabeth Stowe 8. 1:53.75 Moeko Wallis 2004 9. 1:54.16 Jen Christenson 2002 500 Freestyle 100 Backstroke 100 Butterfly Vesna Stojanovska Ashley Kracke Liz Foster 2005 2003 2004

1. 4:47.36 Vesna Stojanovska 2005 1. 56.00 Ashley Kracke 2003 1. 55.47 Liz Foster 2004 2. 4:50.52 Elizabeth Stowe 2005 2. 56.19 Anna Saum 2003 2. 56.14 Meghan DeVinney 2003 3. 4:57.68 Michelle Maguire 2002 3. 57.53 Jaclyn Keys 2005 3. 56.41 Anna Saum 2003 4. 4:57.75 Jing Li 2007 4. 58.38 Jenny Lentz 2002 4. 57.12 Jill Vukmanic 2004 5. 4:58.28 Ashley Kracke 2003 5. 58.51 Agatha Kwasnik 2007 5. 57.40 Natanya Harper 2004 6. 4:59.42 Heather Matz 2004 6. 59.12 Ryann Kopacka 2007 6. 57.36 Jen Christenson 2003 7. 5:00.33 Ann Battle 2004 7. 59.14 Melissa Vander Wood 2002 7. 58.58 Meghan Martinez 2006 8. 5:01.82 Amanda Gannon 2005 8. 59.25 Caroline Jones 2006 8. 58.68 Jing Li 2007 9. 5:02.82 Caroline Jones 2006 9. 59.46 Katie Duffy 2002 9. 58.90 Cara DeVinny 2002 10. 5:04.02 Lisa Hancock 2004 10. 59.73 Dana West 2004 10. 59.19 Mari McLeod 2007

58 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS Women’s Top Times 200 Butterfly 200 FREESTYLE RELAY 1. 1:34.25 ...... Keys, Wallis, Foster, Harper ...... 2004 Vesna Stojanovska 2. 1:35.40 ...... Saum, Lentz, Wallis, Gilli ...... 2002 2005 3. 1:35.89 ...... Saum, Wallis, Keys, Foster...... 2003 4. 1:36.17 ...... DeVinney, Foster, Saum, Wallis ...... 2003 5. 1:36.31 ...... McLeod, Harper, Foster, McGraw ...... 2006 1. 1:59.27 Vesna Stojanovska 2005 6. 1:36.68 ..... Kwasnik, Walker, McLeod, Flynn ...... 2007 2. 2:02.22 Cara DeVinny 2002 3. 2:02.28 Meghan DeVinney 2003 7. 1:36.72 ...... Wallis, Keys, Lentz, Saum ...... 2002 4. 2:02.34 Lisa Hancock 2003 8. 1:36.74 ...... Keys, Vukmanic, Christenson, Wallis ...... 2005 5. 2:03.78 Jing Li 2007 9. 1:36.81 ...... Keys, Wallis, Vukmanic, Harper ...... 2005 6. 2:06.13 Jill Vukmanic 2005 10. 1:36.89 ...... DeVinney, McGraw, Foster, Harper ...... 2005 7. 2:07.18 Meghan Martinez 2006 8. 2:07.28 Taylor Flynn 2007 400 FREESTYLE RELAY 9. 2:07.93 Amanda Gannon 2005 1. 3:26.47 ...... Harper, Foster, Wallis, Stojanovska ...... 2005 10. 2:09.03 Ashley Skala 2003 2. 3:27.35 ...... Harper, Foster, Wallis, Keys ...... 2004 3. 3:28.20 ...... Gilli, Saum, Wallis, Christenson ...... 2002 200 IM 4. 3:29.23 ...... Stojanovska, Jones, McLeod, Foster ...... 2006 Lisa Hancock 5. 3:29.57 ..... Kwasnik, Li, Flynn, Pucci ...... 2007 2003 6. 3:29.86 ...... Stojanovska, Foster, Christenson, Harper...... 2005 7. 3:30.57 ...... Wallis, Saum, Foster, DeVinney ...... 2003 8. 3:30.78 ...... Wallis, Foster, West, Harper ...... 2004 1. 2:03.89 Lisa Hancock 2003 9. 3:30.85 ..... Kwasnik, Flynn, McLeod, Li ...... 2007 2. 2:04.11 Cara DeVinny 2002 10. 3:31.17 ...... Harper, McLeod, Foster, Stojanovska ...... 2006 3. 2:05.39 Liz Foster 2004 4. 2:08.42 Vesna Stojanovska 2004 5. 2:08.54 Anna Saum 2002 800 FREESTYLE RELAY 6. 2:09.08 Heather Matz 2004 1. 7:24.06 ...... Stojanovska, Foster, Stowe, DeVinney ...... 2005 7. 2:09.14 Ashley Skala 2002 2. 7:29.38 ...... Stojanovska, Matz, Kracke, DeVinney ...... 2004 8. 2:09.32 Jill Vukmanic 2004 3. 7:32.39 ...... Stojanovska, MaGuire, Wallis, West ...... 2004 9. 2:09.52 Alison Walker 2004 4. 7:33.25 ...... Stojanovska, Stowe, McLeod, Jones ...... 2006 10. 2:09.66 Amanda Korell 2005 5. 7:33.75 ...... Kracke, Christenson, Hancock, DeVinney ...... 2003 6. 7:35.08 ..... Kwasnik, Stowe, Jones, Flynn...... 2007 7. 7:37.16 ...... Wallis, Hancock, Maguire, Christenson ...... 2002 8. 7:38.52 ..... Li, Stowe, Jones, Flynn...... 2007 9. 7:39.24 ...... Stojanovska, Stowe, Jones, DeVinney ...... 2006 10. 7:42.39 ...... Stojanovska, DeVinney, West, Hancock ...... 2004

200 MEDLEY RELAY 1. 1:44.95 ...... Saum, Walker, DeVinney, Harper ...... 2004 2. 1:45.24 ...... Saum, Gilli, Lentz, Wallis ...... 2002 3. 1:45.33 ...... Kracke, Walker, DeVinney Harper ...... 2006 4. 1:45.89 ...... Saum, Heiser, Foster, Wallis ...... 2003 5. 1:46.00 ...... Saum, Heiser, DeVinney, Wallis ...... 2003 6. 1:47.52 ..... Kwasnik, Walker, Campbell, Pucci ...... 2007 7. 1:47.77 ..... Jones, Walker, McLeod, Pucci...... 2007 Lisa Hancock 8. 1:47.61 ...... Saum, Walker, DeVinney, Wallis ...... 2004 9. 1:47.67 ...... Kracke, Heiser, DeVinney, Harper ...... 2005 400 IM 10. 1:48.22 ...... Saum, Heiser, DeVinney, Harper ...... 2005 Cara DeVinny 2002 400 MEDLEY RELAY 1. 3:48.63 ...... Kracke, Walker, Foster, Stojanovska ...... 2005 2. 3:49.39 ...... Kracke, Walker, Foster, Wallis ...... 2004 1. 4:16.60 Cara DeVinny 2002 3. 3:49.55 ...... Saum, Heiser, DeVinney, Wallis ...... 2003 2. 4:27.08 Lisa Hancock 2003 4. 3:51.00 ...... Saum, Lentz, DeVinny, Wallis ...... 2002 3. 4:27.14 Vesna Stojanovska 2004 5. 3:52.42 ...... Kracke, Walker, DeVinney, Harper...... 2006 4. 4:28.93 Michelle Maguire 2002 6. 3:53.63 ...... Kracke, Heiser, DeVinney, Harper ...... 2005 5. 4:30.74 Amanda Korell 2005 7. 3:53.84 ...... Saum, Walker, DeVinney, Harper ...... 2004 6. 4:30.90 Heather Matz 2005 8. 3:53.87 ...... Saum, Heiser, Foster, Wallis ...... 2004 7. 4:32.52 Jing Li 2007 9. 3:54.00 ..... Kopacka, Walker, Campbell, Kwasnik ...... 2007 7. 4:35.89 Ashley Skala 2002 10. 3:54.09 ...... Saum, Walker, DeVinney, Wallis ...... 2004 9. 4:36.02 Elizabeth Stowe 2005 10. 4:39.05 Kathy Wood 2003

GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 59 History EARLY YEARS KENNETH THRASH, Championships meet in 1980. The Georgia Tech first fielded a swim SR. (1932-35) program took a one-year hiatus upon team in 1918-19, when the first tryout After playing football at McAuley’s retirement in 1987, which was held at the city Y.M.C.A. and about Tech, Kenneth Thrash, Sr., signaled the end of a 40-year stint on the 60 men came out. According to the took over the swimming Tech coaching staff. Blueprint, the fledgling squad featured reigns and led the Jackets “some of the fastest water splashers that to four straight Southern Conference BRAD LEHMAN the South has ever turned out and one Championships from 1932-35. (1989-91) that would make any Eastern college Almost as impressive as five The swimming program hustle to beat.” The team was captained consecutive conference titles, Thrash resumed under Brad by G.R. Fraser, described as the best only tasted defeat once in dual meets, Lehman in 1988-89. In swimmer in the South and holder of the finishing with an astonishing record of Lehman’s first year, senior Southern record in both the 220-yard 24-1. His winning percentage of .960 Tim Halligan earned All-Atlantic Coast swim and the 50-yard swim. is the best all-time in school history. Conference honors following his second- Tech’s first swim meet was on the As a former football player for the place finish in the 200 butterfly. Halligan road against the Clemson Tigers. In Rambling Wreck (1926-28), Thrash helped qualified for the NCAA Championships in addition to Fraser, the first Tech team the Yellow Jackets win two conference the event, finishing 21st. included Weiss, Scott, Carson, Evans and titles (1927-28) and a national Lehman coached the team for three Owens, who returned with a 50 to 19 championship in 1928. seasons, amassing an overall record of victory. Fraser swam the 220 yards in 19-13. 2:50.00, cutting four seconds off his own FRED LANOUE Southern record. (1936-64) BILL HUMBER The program enjoyed success against Fred Lanoue, a (1992-97) Southern competition throughout the graduate of Springfield 1920s. In 1927, Tech defeated all Bill Humber took over College and former New the Tech program in 1991- Southern opposition and made a good England diving champion, showing against two strong eastern 92. In 1993, he guided the began working with the Tech swimmers Jackets to their then-best teams. The Jackets broke into in prominence by forcing the famous showing at the ACC Championships 1936 and became the Yellow Jackets’ with a sixth-place finish and a then Brooklyn Y team to the limit, but fell 46 full-time head coach in 1938 when the to 16. Two days later, Yale handed the school-record point total of 198. Tech pool was completed. In 1994, diver Brandon Lumm won Jackets the short end of a 46 to 16 score. Under Lanoue’s guidance, Tech won In 2003-04, the Yellow Jackets gave the first ACC championship in the four Southeastern Conference program’s history with his victory in the birth to a brand new renovated Georgia championships in nine years, the first in Tech Aquatic Center. Tech opened the three-meter event. He earned All-ACC 1942 and then three in a row in 1948, recognition that year and qualified for enclosed Olympic pool by hosting NC 1949 and 1950. Lanoue coached the State on Oct. 25, 2003. Bill Humber tallied a dual meet record of Jackets for 27 years, stepping down after 38-45 during his six-year tenure at With the home fans cheering them the 1964 season. on, the Rambling Wreck swam past the Georgia Tech. visiting Wolpack, 132-107 (men) and 152- HERB MCAULEY 91 (women). SETH BARON (1965-87) (1998-2005) EARLY CHAMPIONS The star of the 1942 In August 1997, Tech The Yellow Jacket tankmen, despite SEC championship squad hired Seth Baron to take the the lack of an on-campus facility, won 10- was Herb McAuley, who helm of the men’s straight unofficial Southern won the SEC 220 and 440 swimming and diving championships from 1926-35. freestyle championships that year. program. The Jackets’ women’s program In 1927, Dave Young tied the McAuley had his schooling debuted in 2001-02, and Baron now pilots national intercollegiate record in the 150- interrupted the combined program. Baron, formerly yard backstroke in 1:43.20. by World War II, serving in the Army an assistant coach at South Carolina and Representing Tech in the national Signal Corps before graduating from Tech Auburn, also previously worked with the intercollegiate, Young set a new record of with a degree in electrical engineering in U.S. National Swim Team and was the 1:46.10 seconds and in the finals 1947. Upon graduation he joined the head coach for the U.S. squad at the 1997 established a new record of 1:44.00, Yellow Jacket staff as assistant coach and 2001 World Maccabiah Games in Tel finishing four seconds ahead of Spindle of under Lanoue, a position he held for 17 Aviv, Israel. Michigan to win Tech’s only national years. Under Baron’s direction, the Tech championship in swimming. He also McAuley succeeded Lanoue as head men finished in the top five at the ACC earned All-America honors with a coach for the 1965 season. He coached Championships in five consecutive second-place finish in the 220-yard free the Jackets for 23 seasons, compiling a seasons, including a third-place finish in style. record of 169-144-1. He was inducted into his final season as head coach in 2005. the Georgia Tech Hall of Fame in 1982. Tech finsihed 32nd at the 2005 NCAA Under McAuley, Championships, cracking the Top 35 for Tech competed in its first ACC the fifth striaght year.

60 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS History placed third at the ACC Championships, and Morgan both garnered All-America scoring 434.50 points. Four swimmers honors under Wilson's tutelage. Ayalon earned All-ACC accolades: Ayalon, David holds four school records and was named Laitala, Scott Lenyk and Tomonori Tsuji. ACC Most Valuable Performer at the 2003 Tech also scored its first points in ACC Championships. NCAA competition in 2001. Ayalon In 2006, Rob Miller, Morgan and placed 11th in the 1650 free, while Tsuji Elizabeth Stowe all qualified for the finished 13th in the 200 breast to become NCAA Championships under Wilson's the program’s first All-Americans. guidance. Morgan won his first ACC title The Jackets went 11-3 in dual-meet in the men's 1650-yard freestyle and competition, and 16 school records were Miller finished fifth. Stowe posted a third- established, led by Ayalon’s four marks. place finish in the women's 1650 free to Matt Figh Seth Baron In 2000, Baron and the Yellow earn All-ACC honors. All three clocked Jackets finished the regular season with a lifetime-best times in their respective In just four seasons of existence, the 5-6 dual-meet record. Laitala became the events for Yellow Jackets. women’s program tallied a 33rd-place first Yellow Jacket swimmer in 11 years Prior to joining the Yellow Jacket finish at the 2004 NCAA Championships to earn All-ACC recognition, placing staff in 2002, Wilson spent 11 years with and crowned its first All-American in second in the 100 butterfly at the ACC nationally-prominent club team Swim Vesna Stojanovska. The Jackets posted Championships. In his first season at Atlanta from 1990-2001, serving as the three consecutive sixth-place finishes at Tech, Baron guided the team to a 4-7 team's Head Senior Coach for his last the ACC meet, tallying a program-best dual-meet record and a seventh-place four seasons there. In this position, he 286.5 points last season. The Jackets also finish in the ACC Championships. planned and implemented strength and qualified two swimmers for the 2005 As an athlete, Baron also competed conditioning programs for swimmers age NCAA Championships for the first time for the U.S. National Team, winning 10 13-and-over. He also handled in program history; Stojanovska and gold medals in international administrative duties, including freshman Elizabeth Stowe competitions, including the 1985 World fundraising, travel arrangements, public Junior Sam Morgan qualified for his Maccabiah Games and the 1983 Pan Am relations and record-keeping. He worked third consecutive NCAA meet after Maccabiah Games in Sao Paulo, . as a head age group coach with Swim winning his first ACC title in the mile at He participated in the Atlanta from 1990-98. the 2006 ACC meet, hosted in the Georgia U.S. Olympic Trials in 1984 and qualified Wilson coached several successful Tech Aquatic Center. Morgan garnered for the 1988 Trials. swimmers at Swim Atlanta, including his second straight All-America honors, 2004 U.S. Olympian Amanda Weir, who finishing 14th in the mile. STU WILSON set national age-group records (11-12 and Stojanovska advanced to her second (2005-PRESENT) 13-14) in the 50 free. Additionally, he straight NCAA meet in 2005, after Stu Wilson became the mentored swimmers that posted more becoming the first women’s athlete to 14th head coach in than 50 national top-16 age-group win an ACC title, doing so in the 200 fly. swimming and diving performances. Stowe garnered All-ACC honors in the history in 2005 and helped As an athlete, Wilson competed at mile, making her and Stojanovska the lead the Yellow Jackets to their sixth the University of Georgia from 1984-88, first all-conference tandem at a consecutive top-35 finish at the Men’s reaching the finals of the SEC conference championship. NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in the 200 and 500 free in Along with collegiate Championships. The Jackets hosted the each of his last three seasons. He was an accomplishments, the Tech combined national championship event in the NCAA qualifier in the 400 free relay and program witnessed its first two Georgia Tech Aquatic Center. held the school record in the 200 free at Olympians in 2004 as Stojanovska The men finished fourth at the 2005 one time. Wilson also qualified for U.S. (Macedonia) and incoming freshman ACC Championships, tallying a top-five Nationals in his final six seasons of Onur Uras (Turkey) competed at the finish for the sixth straight season. competitive swimming. Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Wilson led Sam Morgan to his fourth Joining them in Athens were former straight NCAA Championship in the men’s swimming standouts Leo Salinas distance events for Tech. (Mexico) and volunteer assistant coach In his three years as an assistant Jorge Oliver (Puerto Rico). coach with the Tech program, Wilson has Tech recorded its most successful guided four swimmers to the NCAA season to date in 2001-02. Tech’s men Championships and tutored two Atlantic tallied 580.5 points to finish a program- Coast Conference champions in the best second at the ACC Championships, distance events. as a record five Jackets earned All-ACC Tech sent four swimmers to the 2005 honors. Tech also placed 27th at the NCAA Championships, the second most NCAA Championships, led by Shilo in school history, and four of the six All- Ayalon’s eighth-place finish in the 1650 America honors earned by Yellow Jackets free. He earned All-America accolades have come during Wilson's tenure. for th esecond consecutive season. Former Tech standout Shilo Ayalon In 2000-01, the Yellow Jackets Sam Morgan Stu Wilson

GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 61 All-Time Letterwinners Notes: Records begin in 1946. Thanks Fauerbach, John ...... 1970-72 Jeppe, Arthur ...... 1961-62 to Georgia Tech swimming and diving Fennessy, John ...... 1998-2001 Johnson, Mark ...... 1984-85 alumni for assistance. Please submit Figh, Matt ...... 2002-04 Jones, Brian ...... 1990-93 additions and/or corrections to Scott Finelli, Daniel ...... 1978-81 Justice, Steve ...... 1977-80 MacDonald in the Georgia Tech Sports Finkler, Ofer ...... 2005-07 Information Office (404) 894-5445. Fish, Russ ...... 1971-74 KK Fitzgerald, Sean ...... 1984-85 Kamat, Sulush ...... 1991 MEN’S LETTERWINNERS Flinn, Carl ...... 1973-76 Karanovich, Donald ...... 1969-71 AA Flowers, Charles ...... 1949 Karkus, James ...... 1954 Aach, Conrad ...... 2004-07 Forbes, Brendan ...... 2001-02 Kater, Martin ...... 1962-64 Abadi, Richard ...... 1981 Foster, Brian ...... 1974 Kendrick, Mike ...... 1984 Abraham, Scott ...... 1998 Foster, Jimmy ...... 1987 Kenehan, Ed ...... 1972 Aikenhead, Malcolm ...... 1967 Matt Figh Foster, Robbie ...... 2000-03 Kennedy, Craig ...... 1974 Arundel, Casey ...... 2004 Foust, Greg ...... 1991 Kettunen, Teemu ...... 2003-06 Aloisio, Charles ...... 1987 Frank, V.R...... 1946 Kiehle, Andy ...... 1995 Anderson, Matthew ...... 2003 Castellow, Kevin ...... 1994-96, 98 Frederick, Jarvis ...... 1991-93 Kirby, David ...... 1963-65 Andruzzi, Anthony ...... 1993 Champagne, Casey ...... 1998 Fridrichsen, Jan ...... 1980 Kirk, George ...... 1949 Armbruster, Bob ...... 1989-92 Champney, Mark ...... 1993-96 Fuller, Christopher ...... 1992-94 Kisling, Scott ...... 1985 Ashenden, Russell ...... 1986-87 Center, Landrum ...... 1995 Knauff, Erik ...... 1993 Ashley, Scott ...... 1990-91 Cerceo, Jay ...... 1999 GG Knutsen, Pete ...... 1971 Audleman, Alfred ...... 1965 Champney, Mark ...... 1993-95 Gale, Andrew ...... 1987, 89-90 Korengel, Jeffrey ...... 1985-87 Avery, Richard ...... 1947-50 Chang, Michael ...... 1984-87 Gallaher, Mike ...... 1976 Kossenko, George ...... 1992-95 Ayalon, Shilo ...... 2000-03 Chang, Tony ...... 1990-91 Gaw, Kevin ...... 1987 Kwasnik, Jacob ...... 2005-07 Chapman, John ...... 1947-50 Gay, Christopher ...... 1987, 89 BB Charles, Michael ...... 1954-57 Geiszler, Andrew ...... 1987, 89-90 LL Baker, Fred ...... 1972 Chen, Timothy ...... 1968 Genet, Richard ...... 1989 Laitala, David ...... 1999-2002 Ballard, Robert ...... 1954-57 Childress, Guion ...... 1952-54 Gersbach, Charlie ...... 1999-2001 Lang, Barry ...... 1981 Ballentine, Thomas ...... 1966-68 Chilton, Hugh ...... 1972 Gissendanner, Tom ...... 1970 Langley, Robert ...... 1957-59 Barr, Todd ...... 1970-72 Chislett, Jack ...... 1976 Goettsche, Dennis ...... 1963 Laube, David ...... 1998 Barrales, Benny ...... 1972 Codelli, David ...... 1989-91 Goldcamp, Thomas ...... 1980-81 Lee, Chris ...... 2006-07 Bashar, Chris ...... 1995-98 Cohen, Yonatan ...... 2003 Goldstein, Glenn ...... 1996-99 Lee, Norman ...... 1955-57 Baskin, Leland ...... 1971 Cole, Greg ...... 1982 Graham, Tyler ...... 1993 Lee, Way Joe ...... 2007 Baumgardner, Carl ...... 1954-57 Collins, James ...... 1948-49 Graves, Bryan ...... 1991-94 Lehman, Bradley ...... 1985-87 Belcher, John ...... 1966 Comer, Mike ...... 2002-03 Greenbaum, Carl ...... 1991-94 LeMoyne, Irve ...... 1959-61 Bennett, Michael ...... 2005-07 Cook, Joseph ...... 1966 Greenlee, R.K...... 1946 Lenyk, Scott ...... 2000-01 Benton, Louis ...... 1962 Coopat, Edward ...... 1965-66 Gresham, Tom ...... 1971 Lindsey, Warren ...... 1967 Benton, William ...... 1964-65 Copeland, Noah ...... 2006 Griffin, Randolph ...... 1947-50 Lionberger, Mike ...... 1993 Bergmark, George ...... 1970, 73 Corbett, Peter ...... 1987 Griffin, Sean ...... 1984 Livingston, John ...... 1977-80 Bergmark, Richard ...... 1972-75 Cormican, Robert ...... 1993 Gripp, Jon ...... 1969-72 Lofblad, Robert ...... 1956-58 Berry, Brian ...... 1986-87 Cranford, Drew ...... 2005-07 Longmire, Hank ...... 1999-2002 Best, John ...... 1946-47 Crouch, Julian ...... 1948-49, 51-52 HH Lowe, Jonathan ...... 1984 Bitencourt, Jean Paul ...... 1993 Crutcher, William ...... 1947-49 Hagaman, Johnny ...... 2007 Ludwig, Nena ...... 1977-78 Biedrzycki, Chris ...... 2001-02 Curlin, Fred ...... 1947-48 Hagar, Robert ...... 1960 Lumm, Brandon ...... 1993-96 Biegel, Alex ...... 1997-98 Hale, Gerry ...... 1992-93 Bishop, Ryan ...... 2004-07 DD Halligan, Tim ...... 1985-87, 89 MM Blanton, James ...... 1950-51 Daly, James ...... 1986-87 Halleck, Stephen ...... 1960-62 MacLean, James ...... 1965-67 Bloomberg, Coe ...... 1966 Dannelly, William ...... 1981 Hannon, Charlie ...... 1976-78 Mackey, Theral ...... 1996-99 Boddy, Scott ...... 1970 Danneman, Ben ...... 2000 Hannon, Gerard ...... 1973-75 Maier, Marc ...... 2002-04 Bomar, Alan ...... 1981-82 Daves, Joe ...... 1970-72 Hardin, William ...... 1969-70 Malarkey, Chris ...... 1975 Bourgeois, Jason ...... 2005-07 Davis, Jesse ...... 1950 Harp, Robert ...... 1949-51 Maletto, Rich ...... 1998 Brannon, Derek ...... 1992-95 Davis, Richard ...... 1954-55 Harris, Paul ...... 1961-63 Mangin, Albert ...... 1966-67 Brantley, Haskew ...... 1947-48 De La Guardia, Mario ...... 1952 Harrell, David ...... 1958 Marmor, Charles Sr...... 1970-73 Brier, Judith ...... 1979 Derrick, Jack ...... 1967-69 Harrison, Charles ...... 1950-51 Marmor, Charles Jr...... 1993-96 Brinkman, Ed ...... 1996-99 Dewald, Charles ...... 1947-48 Hawkins, Holmes ...... 1986, 89 Marsden, Frankie ...... 1989-92 Brock, W.J...... 1946 Doblar, Peter ...... 2005-07 Heapy, Gary ...... 1985-86 Martin, Alfred ...... 1976-79 Brooks, Kevin ...... 1996-99 Dudley, Robert ...... 1957-60 Heck, Steve ...... 1970-72 Mathes, Daniel ...... 1950-51 Brown, Bob ...... 1972 Duffy, Kelsey ...... 2007 Hellmann, Jim ...... 1970-71, 73-74 Matthews, W.C...... 1946 Brown, Hubert ...... 1961 Dunbar, Jeffrey ...... 1966-67 Hendry, Matthew ...... 1992-95 McAuley, James H...... 1947 Brown, John ...... 1954 Dye, Ross ...... 2000 Hensley, John ...... 1981-82, 84 McCabe, John ...... 1989 Brown, Joseph ...... 1947-48 Hernandez, Francis ...... 1980-81 McCanless, Edgar ...... 1977-78 Brown, Terry ...... 1975-76 EE Herrera, Guillermo ...... 1953-54 McCanless, Henry ...... 1969, 71-72 Browne, Robert ...... 1953-55, 57 Eastin, Robert ...... 1968 Hersko, Josh ...... 2000-03 McCarty, Kevin ...... 1984 Browning, Brian ...... 2003 Eddy, Peter ...... 1987 Hiles, Gordon ...... 1954 McCarty, Paul ...... 2001-04 Bruninga, Robert ...... 1968-69 Edelson, Bert ...... 1947-51 Hiles, John ...... 1947-50 McCoy, Reagan ...... 1967 Bueker, Kermit ...... 1967 Eden, Itai ...... 2001-04 Hirschel, Adam ...... 1997-98 Bullock, Cullen ...... 1962-63 Eidson, Randall ...... 1966 Hirshberg, William ...... 1947-49 Buran, Wally ...... 1972 Einersson, Sarkis ...... 1998 Hirth, Roy ...... 1975-78 Burkhardt, Tony ...... 2004-07 Eley, Nathan ...... 1998 Hoadley, David ...... 1973-74 Burrows, David ...... 1967-69 Elgin, Bruce ...... 1982, 84-85 Honan, Matt ...... 1989-92 Burrows, John ...... 1967-69 Ellars, Otto ...... 1964 Hornbuckle, William ...... 1985 Burton, Jeff ...... 2005-07 Emkin, Leroy ...... 1963-64 Howard, Jason ...... 2003-06 Enderica, Jorge ...... 1961 Hubner, Robert ...... 1960 CC Engstrom, Brandt ...... 1990-91 Huff, Brian ...... 2003-06 Caghan, Lawrence ...... 1962, 64 Ewald, Chris ...... 2006-07 Hungerford, Edward ...... 1958 Caldwell, Roland ...... 1985-87 Campbell, W.J...... 1946 FF JJ Candela, Alex ...... 1990-92 Farmer, Screven ...... 1972-75 Jackson, Robert ...... 1995-98 Carter, Keenan ...... 1974-77 Fauerbach, George ...... 1966-68 Jann, Bill ...... 1972 Jason Howard

62 GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS All-Time Letterwinners Pickering, Frank ...... 1966 Taylor, Robert ...... 1992 WOMEN’S LETTERWINNERS Player, Bryan ...... 1985-87, 89 Ternlund, Paul ...... 1965 BB Pohly, Daniel ...... 1980-82 TeStrake, Todd ...... 1990-93 Barnes, Lauren ...... 2007 Popp, Robert ...... 1961-63 Thigpen, Josh ...... 1998-99 Battle, Ann ...... 2002-05 Potts, Rich ...... 1971 Thomas, J.R...... 1946 Pritchett, Gary ...... 1976-78 Thomas, Robert ...... 1961-62 CC Thomason, Douglas ...... 1981-82, 84 Campbell, Megan ...... 2005-07 QQ Thompson, Paul ...... 1975-78 Christenson, Jennifer ...... 2002-05 Quinlivan, Jeff ...... 1995-98 Thorn, Dustin ...... 1998-2001 Thrasher, James ...... 1951-52 DD RR Tieslau, Timothy ...... 1966-68 DeVinney, Meghan ...... 2003-06 Rafajko, Ron ...... 1975-76 Titterton, George ...... 1982, 84 DeVinny, Cara ...... 2002-03 Raines, Jeremy ...... 2002-04 Topp, Julio ...... 1946-49 Duffy, Katie ...... 2002-04 Laurissa Prystaj Rauch, Ricky ...... 2001 Towles, Tommy ...... 1948-50 Redgrave, Timothy ...... 1973-76 Toy, James ...... 1967-69 EE McEachron, Jim ...... 1976-77 Reed, Matt ...... 1999 Tribble, James ...... 1970 England, Stephanie ...... 2005-07 McGahey, Craig ...... 1972 Reeves, Hazard ...... 1956-57 Tsuji, Tomonori ...... 2000-03 McGillivray, Alex ...... 1994-97 Richards, Clifton ...... 1996-97 Tunning, Greg ...... 2006-07 FF McGillivray, David ...... 1969 Ricketts, Rodney ...... 1965 Tyler, David ...... 1993 Flynn, Taylor ...... 2007 McGillivray, Ross ...... 1964, 67 Riebesell, Ryan ...... 2003-06 Foster, Liz ...... 2003-06 McGinley, Matt ...... 2004-05 Rifkin, David ...... 2006-07 UU McKay, Mark ...... 1974-77 Roan, Alex ...... 2007 Uras, Onur ...... 2005-07 GG McKenry, Robert ...... 1977-78 Robertson, Eric ...... 1993 Urda, Martin ...... 1998 Gannon, Amanda ...... 2005-07 McKenzie, James ...... 1951 Rodriquez, Elias ...... 1993-94 Gilli, Sara ...... 2002-03 McKeown, Patrick ...... 1963, 65 Roecker, Steven ...... 1973 VV McLellan, Bill ...... 1970 Rolfe, Rial ...... 1946-47 Van Lear, Samuel ...... 1953-57 HH McQuinn, Travis ...... 2000 Rubel, Jon ...... 1975-79 VanPelt, Andy ...... 2002-05 Hancock, Lisa ...... 2002-05 Michaelis, Milton ...... 1948 Rundlof, Christer ...... 1995-98 Van Voorhis, Kenneth ...... 1964-65 Harper, Natanya ...... 2004-06 Miller, Rob ...... 2005-07 Ruskin, Mike ...... 1970 Vieira, Raymond ...... 1978 Hedberg, Dalton ...... 2007 Miller, Andy ...... 2006-07 Von Gontard, Percy ...... 1969 Heiser, Laura ...... 2003-06 Minor, Lewis ...... 1962 SS Moan, Jim ...... 1989 Salazar, James ...... 2000-03 WW JJ Montalvo, Mario (Mgr. 06) ...... 2004-06 Salinas, Leo ...... 1999-2002 Wahler, Edwin ...... 1968 Jones, Caroline ...... 2006-07 Moore, David A...... 1956 Sanks, Eric ...... 1994 Walker, Joseph ...... 1953-56 Jopek, Jessica ...... 2002-03 Moore, David F...... 1956-57 Satterfield, Rick ...... 1976-77 Walton, Jay ...... 1953 Morch, J.B...... 1989 Savage, John ...... 1968-70 Washburn, Thomas ...... 1969-71 KK Morgan, Sam ...... 2003-06 Scarlett, Gordon ...... 1984 Watson, James ...... 1951 Keys, Jaclyn ...... 2002-05 Morrison, John ...... 1948 Scheuer, Hugo ...... 1946-48 Ways, George ...... 1969 Kopacka, Ryann ...... 2007 Moss, William ...... 1954 Schilling, Mark ...... 1998-99 Weigle, James ...... 1951 Korell, Amanda ...... 2004-07 Moter, Cassius ...... 1969-70 Schultz, Larry ...... 1964-65 Weir, Edward ...... 1966-67 Kracke, Ashley ...... 2003-06 Mujica, Gerardo ...... 1989 Sebestyen, Joseph ...... 1993 Wells, William ...... 1977-80 Krimm, Hannah ...... 2007 Mulherin, Matthew ...... 1950 Seeton, Chris ...... 1992-95 Whidden, Charles ...... 1961-62 Kwasnik, Agatha ...... 2007 Munn, Scott ...... 1991 Shanteau, Ryan ...... 1999 Whitaker, Kenneth ...... 1969 Mussman, Grant ...... 1994-97 Sherris, Scott ...... 1995 Wiggin, Charles ...... 1957-59 LL Shippy, Duane ...... 1989-92 Wilson, Jacob ...... 2003-04 Lentz, Jenny ...... 2002 NN Shippy, Timothy ...... 1991-92 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GEORGIA TECH SWIMMING & DIVING 63 Georgia Tech Aquatic Center The home of the Yellow Jacket of-the-art facility.” the main pool. swimming and diving program is the The Jackets opened the newly- The original $21 million facility Georgia Tech Aquatic Center (GTAC), enclosed GTAC in 2003-04, as they was funded entirely by the Atlanta located on the west side of campus as hosted NC State on Oct. 25, 2003. Committee for the Olympic Games the foundation of the Campus Recre- Tech went on to host 11 meets in the (ACOG). Construction on the facility ation Center (CRC). top-of-the-line facility during the 2004- began in July 1994 and was com- The facility was the site of all 05 season, including the ACC Cham- pleted in time to host the VIIth swimming, diving and synchronized pionships and NCAA Zone Diving Synchronized Swimming World Cup swimming competition as well as the Championships. in August 1995. The newly-renovated swimming portion of the modern In 2005-06, Tech welcomed 23 enclosure of the GTAC is part of an pentathlon during the Centennial teams in the GTAC, before the men’s over $45 million expansion to the Olympic Games in the summer of national championship meet. CRC. 1996. The GTAA provides the Yellow Other test events held at the Along with hosting the '96 Olym- Jackets with a world-class venue for facility included the Nations Bank Pan pics, the GTAC played host to the 2005 aquatic sports and serves as an Pacific Swimming Championships, Men's and Women's Atlantic Coast important element of the physical the IXth Diving World Cup and the Conference Swimming and Diving legacy of the Games, enhancing the IXth Water Polo World Cup. Championships, Feb. 16-19, and Feb. activities Georgia Tech can offer its Georgia Tech continues to reap 23-26, and 2005 NCAA Zone Diving students for years to come. the benefits of a world-class aquatic Championships. The 1,900-seat main stadium facility for use by the Rambling Wreck Tech will once again play host to contains a competition pool and dive swimming and diving program as both the men’s and women’s ACC pool. well as the student body. Tech held its Championships in 2008. The competition pool is 50 meters first meet in the aquatic center on The Jackets posted a third-place by 10 lanes, with two movable bulk- Oct. 5, 1995, hosting Emory. finish during the men’s ACC meet, heads so that courses can be set up “The Georgia Tech Aquatic Center marking the second highest finish in for 25 yards, 25 meters or 30 meters is a beautiful facility, which I think is program history, falling behind the for water polo. It also features a one of the best in the country,” said second-place finish in 2001. movable floor which can be set from Wilson. “It gives our athletes an The Yellow Jackets served as the zero depth to seven feet, eight inches. opportunity to train in an Olympic host of the 2006 Men’s NCAA Swim- The dive pool features one- and pool on a regular basis and state-of- ming and Diving Championships, three-meter springboards plus one-, the-art equipment. March 23-25. The GTAC set a modern three-, five-, seven-and-a half- and 10- “Swimmers have their own day record for attendance, bringing in meter platforms, as well as a Spargar lockers, team room, computer lab and more than 10,000 fans to watch the system that sends a mass of bubbles entertainment center where they can spectacle. from the bottom of the tank to ease watch their swims from previous In front of the home crowd, Tech’s entry into the water. swim meets or just relax. Evan Stowers tallied the highest diver During the Olympic Games, the “Our athletes have all the re- finish in school history, tallying a GTAC also included a temporary water sources needed to be successful, in seventh-place finish on the platform polo pool with a seating capacity of and out of the classroom here at to garner All-America honors. 4,000. It was used for all competition Georgia Tech.” The meet also witnessed five except the finals, which were held in NCAA and U.S. Open records fall and three American records go down. Florida’s Ryan Lochte set two Ameri- can and three NCAA records en route to being named NCAA Swimmer of the Year. “It was a great opportunity for the city of Atlanta to see how fast of a meet that is,” said head coach Stu Wilson. “It was great for exposure for Georgia Tech and was a tremendous way to showcase how fine of a facility we have. It no doubt will help with recruiting and the more exposure Georgia Tech and our program gets, the more student-athletes will see how great it is to train in such a state-

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