Swimming and Diving Finishes Second at CAA Championships

Saturday, March 1

College Park, Md.

All Day

James Madison University

Day Four

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Swimming and Diving Finishes Second at CAA Championships

3/2/2014 3:51:00 AM | Swimming & Diving

Complete Results
Top 20 Scorers

COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 1, 2014 – James Madison set a program and meet record in the 400-yard freestyle relay to highlight day four of the Colonial Athletic Association Championships at Eppley Recreation Center in College Park, Md., Saturday.

JMU finished with nine event wins, including four of the five relays, to finish second at the CAA Championships with 653 points. Towson won its second-straight conference title and its sixth in the last seven years with 858 points. William & Mary claimed third with 462 points followed by UNCW in fourth (408.5), Delaware in fifth (329), Northeastern in sixth (325.5), College of Charleston (269) in seventh and Drexel rounding out the field in eighth (189).

Redshirt freshman diver Taryn McLaughlin (Hudson, Ohio/Hudson) was named the Most Outstanding Diver of the meet after finishing first in both diving events. She is the third JMU diver in the last three years to win the honor, joining Kimberly Helfrich (2009-13) and Nicole Jotso (2008-12) who earned it in 2013 and 2012, respectively.

The Dukes quartet of seniors Kelsey Holmgaard (Roanoke, Va./George Mason) and Shannon Dubay (South Windsor, Conn./South Windsor), junior Susanne Gingher (Boalsburg, Pa./State College Area) and sophomore Carli Molano (Centreville, Va./Westfield) combined to complete the 400 freestyle relay in a time of 3:20.65 to break the CAA Championships meet record. They shattered the previous school record by over half a second.

Dubay and Holmgaard tied with William & Mary's Megan Howard for the second-highest scoring performance of the week with 54. Towson's Kaitlin Burke earned Most Outstanding Swimmer of the meet with 60 individual points.

Three other Dukes placed among the top-20 scorers of the CAA Championships led by McLaughlin in 14th with 40 points. Sophomore Camilla Czulada (Sinking Spring, Pa./Wilson) finished with 36 points, the 19th-highest scoring performance while junior Aimee Hooper (Clifton Park, N.Y./Shenendehowa) tied for 20th with 35 points.

Dubay highlighted the individual performances for JMU by placing second in the 200-yard breaststroke. She completed the trek in a career-best time of 2:12.75 to turn in an NCAA "B" cut time.

Molano claimed fifth in the 100-yard freestyle with the fourth-fastest time in school history, touching the wall at 50.62 seconds. Sophomore Cameron Martin (Holly Spring, N.C./Holly Spring) came in sixth in the 200 butterfly with a career-best time of 2:02.95 while Hooper was eighth in the 1,650 freestyle with a time of 16:58.14.

The diving Dukes are back in action March 10-12 at the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships in Christiansburg, Va., while the JMU swimmers await word on invites to the NCAA Championships. The NCAA Championships take place in Minneapolis, Minn., March 20-22.