2012 Swimming & Diving Media Guide by Alabama Crimson Tide

INTRODUCTION Head Coach: Eric McIlquham Alma Mater, Year: Oakland, 1992 Master’s Degree: Alabama, 1996 Year at Alabama: *Ninth Year as Head Coach: 13th Overall Record (Years): Men — 65-54 (12 years) Women — 55-70-1 (12 years) Office Phone: (205) 348-3912 E-Mail Address: emcilquham@ia.ua.edu * as head coach, 13th on UA staff Associate Head Coach: Sonya Porter Alma Mater, Year: Alabama 1994 Year at Alabama: *Ninth Office Phone: (205) 348-9919 E-Mail Address: sporter@ia.ua.edu * as associate head coach, 11th on UA staff Assistant Coach: James Barber Alma Mater, Year: Auburn at Montgomery, 1996 Master’s Degree: South Alabama, 1998 Year at Alabama: Fifth Office Phone: (205) 348-3914 E-Mail Address: jbarber@ia.ua.edu Assistant Coach: Stefan Gherghel Alma Mater, Year: Alabama, 2006 Year at Alabama: Sixth E-Mail Address: sgherghel@ia.ua.edu Diving Coach: Pat Greenwell Alma Mater, Year: Pittsburgh, 1980 Master’s Degree: Clemson, 1981 Year at Alabama: 25th Office Phone: (205) 348-3915 E-Mail Address: pgreenwell@ia.ua.edu

UNIVERSITY INFORMATION Location: Tuscaloosa, Ala. Enrollment: 31,747 Founded: April 12, 1831 Conference: Southeastern (SEC) Colors: Crimson & White Nickname: Crimson Tide President: Dr. Robert E. Witt NCAA Faculty Representative: Dr. Kevin Whitaker Athletics Director: Mal Moore Senior Associate Athletics Directors: Dr. Finus Gaston and Milton Overton Associate Athletics Director/ Senior Woman Administrator: Marie Robbins Associate Athletics Directors: Kevin Almond, Jon Gilbert, Carol Park, Jeff Purinton, Ronny Robertson, Doug Walker, Mike Ward Assistant Athletics Directors: Chris Besanceney, Jon Dever Swimming & Diving Academics: Stephanie Godfrey Associate A.D./Media Relations: Doug Walker Associate Media Relations Directors: Josh, Maxson, Ty Patton Roots Woodruff (S/D Contact) Assistant Media Relations Directors: Rich Davi, Jessica Paré, Skip Powers Athletic Department Photographer: Kent Gidley S & D Media Relations Director: Roots Woodruff Office Phone: (205) 348-2088 E-Mail Address: rwoodruff@ia.ua.edu

Administrative Assistant: Nancy Perry Office Phone: (205) 348-0977 E-Mail Address: nperry@ia.ua.edu Graduate Assistant Coach: Jessica Livingston Assistant Athletic Trainer: Monica Decker Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer: Aaron Doss Swimming and Diving Mailing Address: Alabama Swimming and Diving P.O. Box 870387 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Swimming & Diving Overnight Address: Alabama Swimming and Diving 415 Bryant Drive Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Facebook - www.facebook.com/AlabamaSwimDive Twitter - @AlabamaSwimDive

Credits: The 2012 Alabama Swimming and Diving Media Guide is a product of the Crimson Tide’s athletic media relations department. It was written and edited by Roots Woodruff. Photo credits are due the Alabama Athletics Photography Department and the Athletic Media Relations archives. Photos from the 2009 SEC Championships provided by Todd Van Emst. Cover photos by Kent Gidley. Covers by Brent Hollingsworth and Hannah Brinks. Copyright 2011 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama. “Roll Tide”, “Crimson Tide”, “Bama” and the primary and secondary logos are registered trademarks of The University of Alabama.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Quick Facts ...................................................................................... 1 The University of Alabama .................................................... 2-3 Athletics Director Mal Moore..................................................... 4 Alabama President Dr. Robert E. Witt.................................... 5 Swimming & Diving Staff Head Coach Eric McIlquham................................................. 6-7 Associate Head Coach Sonya Porter ........................................ 8 Diving Coach Pat Greenwell....................................................... 9 Assistant Coach James Barber ..................................................10 Assistant Coach Stefan Gherghel ............................................11 Graduate Assistant Jessica Livingston ....................................12 Swimming & Diving Support Staff ........................................12 Strength and Conditioning Program.......................................13 The Men Roster/Outlook.......................................................................14-16 Bios .............................................................................................17-25 Review ........................................................................................26-28 Alabama on the National Scene ........................................29-32 Alabama in the SEC...............................................................33-35 Brief History of UA Swimming & Diving ..........................36 Year-by-Year Results/Coaching Records ............................37 All-Time Roster ......................................................................38-39 All-Time Top 10/Records ..................................................40-41 The Women Roster/Outlook.......................................................................42-44 Bios .............................................................................................45-51 Review ........................................................................................52-54 Alabama on the National Scene ........................................55-58 Alabama & the SEC...............................................................59-61 Brief History of UA Swimming & Diving ..........................62 Year-by-Year Results/Coaching Records ............................63 All-Time Roster ......................................................................64-65 All-Time Top 10/Records ..................................................66-67 The Crimson Tide Crimson Tide Academics ....................................................68-72 UA Swimming & Diving Hall of Fame .........................73-75 Alabama in the Olympics .....................................................76-77 Alabama’s National Champions.........................................78-79 The Alabama Aquatic Center ..................................................80

MEDIA NOTES ALABAMA MEDIA RELATIONS: The Alabama Media Relations Office is located on the ground level of Coleman Coliseum. FACILITIES: The Alabama swimming and diving teams compete and practice in the Don Gambril Olympic Pool at the Alabama Aquatic Center (capacity 1,000) located on the corner of Paul W. Bryant Drive and Hackberry Lane. The swimming and diving offices are located in the Aquatic Center. INTERVIEWS: The coaching staff is available for interviews in person or by telephone by prior arrangement. Athletes may not be interviewed on meet day until post-meet interviews are granted. Interviews with Alabama swimmers and divers must be arranged through Roots Woodruff of the athletic media relations office at (205) 348-6084. The best times for athlete interviews are either before or after practice at the Alabama Aquatic Center. Interview requests should be made at least 24 hours in advance. UA VIDEO FEEDS/TELEVISION: The University of Alabama, through the Crimson Tide Sports Network

(CTSN), offers an FTP site that provide up-to-date interviews with coaches and athletes, taped video highlights and narrated video packages from September through May. On occasion, the swimming and diving program is featured in this package. Please call the Media Relations Office for more details at 205-3486084. During the fall, the swimming and diving team’s progress will be covered on “Crimson Tide This Week,” a 30-minute weekly regional sports show. SEC VIDEO FEEDS/TELEVISION: Participating news affiliates can also select individual clips to insert directly into online stories. Television stations also have access to an FTP account to run content on-air. The SEC Affiliate Network is managed through XOS Digital. To join, please request a participation form from the program’s director, Anna Marie Neri, at aneri@xosdigital.com or at 407-670-5049. INTERNET: Information about University of Alabama athletics can be found at www.rolltide.com, the official internet site of the Crimson Tide athletics department. For information about the University of Alabama, go to www.ua.edu.

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Life on The University of Alabama campus is defined by opportunities. If you want to get involved, join one of more than 300 student organizations, help plan concerts and speaker series, participate in intramural teams or run for student government. If you enjoy the arts, you can take advantage of a rich and varied schedule of musical, dance and theatre performances, art galleries and exhibitions, lectures and readings by writers, poets and experts on every topic imaginable. You can enrich your knowledge of the state and University’s history by visiting one of UA’s fine museums, which house countless historical artifacts and offer hands-on exploration opportunities. From the architecture on campus to the landscaping, The University of Alabama campus is one of the most beautiful places in the state of Alabama. The Ferguson Center, completed in 1973, was named for Hill Ferguson, a member of the Board of Trustees. Plans at the time called for the building to be constructed over Woods Hall, but it was built just to the north thanks to a student campaign to save the art building. The Ferguson Center Game Room located on the first floor is the perfect place to unwind, test your skill at a video game, play a friendly game of pool or ping-pong, or enter a campus tournament. With seven pool tables, video games, a ping-pong table, computer gaming and televisions, the Game Room offers a fun escape to the daily pressures of college life. The University of Alabama offers a complete educational, cultural and social experience. Whatever your interests, you’ll find a group, an organization, an activity or a program that will appeal to you at UA. The newly expanded Student Recreation Center offers first-class recreation facilities to students, faculty and staff. It includes two multi-use gyms, nine multi-purpose courts, weight machines, 1/8-mile jogging track, extensive cardio area, locker rooms, indoor swimming pool, dry and steam saunas, 12 lighted tennis courts, four aerobics rooms, eight racquetball courts and a squash court— together encompassing more than 200,000 square feet. The facility’s outdoor aquatic area, which opened in the summer of 2003, features a lazy river, lap swim, large water-park-type slide and lots of deck space.

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Ranked among the top 50 public universities in the nation in U.S. News and World Report’s annual college rankings for more than a decade, UA ranked 31st among public universities, its highest ranking ever, in the 2012 rankings. UA’s latest college rankings include: • The School of Law is ranked 35th among all law schools in the nation, spring 2011. • The Manderson Graduate School of Business ranks 32nd among public universities and 63rd among all universities, spring 2011. • The School of Library and Information Studies is ranked 22nd nationally, spring 2009. Enrollment at The University of Alabama reached a record high of 31,747 for fall 2011. The entering freshman class, at 5,772 students, is the largest in UA history and includes 1,614 students who had a 4.0 or higher high school grade point average. The University of Alabama’s fall 2010 freshman class ranked 6th in the nation among public universities in the enrollment of National Merit Scholars. While rankings for the 2011 freshman class are not yet available, 182 National Merit Scholars are enrolled in this fall’s freshman class, up by more than 50 over last year’s 128. The University of Alabama has produced a total of 15 Rhodes Scholars. And, in the past 25 years, UA has produced 34 Goldwater Scholars, 21 Hollings Scholars and seven Truman Scholars. UA scored a perfect four out of four with Goldwater Scholars in 2011 as all four UA students who applied were named recipients of the elite academic award.

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The University of Alabama led the nation with a record 10 students named to USA Today’s 2010 All-USA College Academic Team. UA has had great success in placing students on this national team that honors the “best of the best” undergraduate academic all-stars from across the nation, having placed 46 students on the team since 2003. In addition to this year, UA also had the most students on the list in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009 and tied for the top spot in 2007. PRWeek Magazine has recognized the public relations program in The University of Alabama’s College of Communication and Information Sciences as one of the top five programs in the nation each of the last three years. University of Alabama students are committed to community service: In the 2009-2010 academic year, some 15,100 UA students completed more than 710,000 hours of community service with more than 120 community partners. Additionally, 120 UA faculty members offered service-learning courses, and an estimated 5,300 students participated in them. The University of Alabama has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service learning and civic engagement.

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The University of Alabama’s Director of Athletics since 1999, Mal Moore has made an indelible mark on one of the nation’s most storied athletic programs, leading a department that has enjoyed tremendous success athletically and academically while enjoying an unprecedented period of growth during his tenure.

His leadership has been crucial in helping guide Alabama through a period that has been, at times, extremely challenging. His guidance and effort helped Alabama athletics weather the storm, while continuing to move in a positive direction toward a future that holds great promise. Moore’s dedication to, and love of, the University of Alabama was recognized on March 28, 2007, when as a permanent tribute to his lifelong contributions to The University of Alabama, the Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama System officially dedicated the facility formerly known as The Football Building as the Mal M. Moore Athletic Facility.

Through his guidance, Alabama’s athletic department remains focused on his vision of having all Crimson Tide athletic teams and student-athletes competitive at the highest level nationally while continuing to elevate athletic facilities at the Capstone to premier status nationally for all sports. During his tenure as Director of Athletics, Moore has overseen more than $200 million of capital improvements to University of Alabama athletic facilities. Those projects have encompassed the entire scope of all Crimson Tide athletic programs and have benefitted every Alabama student-athlete, coach, and administrator. Throughout his multi-faceted career, Moore has worked with a diversified field of constituents, from fellow coaches and former players, to fans and the business community. All of those experiences and relationships - in addition to his ability to unify those many constituents - have made him the ideal person to lead Alabama athletics in the 21st century.

Under Moore’s direction, Alabama’s athletic teams have produced three national championships – the 2009 football title and the 2002 and 2011 NCAA gymnastics championships – as well as several Southeastern Conference championships, winning titles in football, gymnastics, men’s basketball, women’s golf, men’s golf, men’s cross country, baseball and softball; taking SEC tournament titles in both baseball and softball. Alabama athletes have earned some of the highest honors the SEC and NCAA have to offer, including SEC Athlete of the Year, SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year, NCAA Top VIII, NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships and NCAA Sportsperson of the Year. These honors are over and above the individual conference and national titles that Alabama athletes continue to bring home to the Capstone on a regular basis. In addition to making his mark on Alabama, Moore has also had a national impact as a key member of several prestigious NCAA and college football committees. Moore has served on the NCAA Division I Football Issues Committee, the SEC Athletic Directors Bowl Advisory Committee and the Big Six Conferences Minority Coaches Forum. Moore’s distinguished record of service to UA began more than 50 years ago when he joined the Crimson Tide football squad as a scholarship player for Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant from 1958-62. Moore has the distinction of being a part of eight national championship teams (1961, 1964, 1965, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1992 and 2009) with the first coming as a player, the next six during his coaching career and the most recent during his tenure as director of athletics. As a player and coach, he was also part of 14 SEC championships and 27 bowl trips. He is the only individual connected with the Alabama program to be a part of eight national championships. During a coaching career that spanned 31 years, Moore spent 22 of those at Alabama with stops at Montana State, Notre Dame and the NFL’s St. Louis/Phoenix Cardinals. At Alabama, Moore started as a graduate assistant under Coach Bryant in 1964, then as defensive backfield coach for six seasons (1965-70) before becoming quarterbacks coach from 1971-82, serving as the Tide’s first offensive coordinator starting in 1975. He would go on to coordinate all of the offensive plays for several of Alabama’s national championship football teams. A 1963 graduate of The University of Alabama, Moore holds both an undergraduate degree in sociology and a 1964 Master’s degree in secondary education from the Capstone. Moore was born December 19, 1939, in Dozier, Ala. He and the late Mrs. Charlotte Moore have one daughter, Mrs. Steve (Heather) Cook of Scottsdale, Ariz., a granddaughter, Anna Lee, and a grandson, Charles Cannon.

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CAROL PARK

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RONNIE ROBERTSON ASSOCIATE A.D. DEVELOPMENT

JON DEVER ASSISTANT A.D. STUDENT SERVICES

JON GILBERT ASSOCIATE A.D. EXTERNAL OPERATIONS

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As president of The University of Alabama, Dr. Robert E. Witt has committed the University to an ambitious plan for academic growth and achievement. His goals include increasing enrollment by recruiting academically talented students from Alabama and across the country, stimulating significant growth in research and strongly supporting the state’s economic development efforts. Under his leadership, enrollment has reached record levels and now numbers more than 30,000. Academic quality and scholarship opportunities for deserving students have increased significantly. The University ranks 6th nationally among public universities in the enrollment of National Merit Scholars and leads the nation in the number of students named to USA Today’s All-USA College Academic Teams. Since its inception in 2003, the University’s Honors College has grown exponentially, and currently enrolls more than 1,300 freshmen each year. UA’s loyal alumni and friends continue to provide a high level of support to the University, with private giving having an important impact on the University’s ability to fund scholarships, faculty support and construction projects. Prior to joining The University of Alabama in 2003, Dr. Witt spent 35 years as a faculty member and administrator in the University of Texas System. He received his B.A. in economics from Bates College, his M.B.A. from Tuck School at Dartmouth College, and his Ph.D. from Penn State University. He serves on the boards of directors of the West Alabama Chamber of Commerce, the Black Warrior Council Boy Scouts of America, and the American Cast Iron Pipe Company. He is a member of the Tuscaloosa County Industrial Development Authority. Dr. Witt and his wife, Sandee, have five grandchildren.

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Eric McIlquham is in his ninth season as the Crimson Tide’s head coach and 13th overall as part of Alabama’s coaching staff.

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Eric MCILQUHAM Oakland, 1992 Success in all facets of the collegiate athletics experience has been a constant for Alabama under Eric McIlquham, now in his ninth season as the Crimson Tide’s head coach. Under his direction, Alabama has posted seven top-25 finishes including successive top-15 finishes for the men in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Falling records have been a hallmark of McIlquham’s tenure as head coach. The current school records in 29 different events, including nine of the 10 relays, have been set since he took over the reins in the summer of 2003. One of the most impressive aspects of the Tide’s record breaking ways is the variety of events. From the sprints to distance events and from the stroke to diving events, McIlquham has built a program that can score from anywhere in the pool.

Success in the pool has come at all levels under McIlquham - conference, national and international. Vlad Polyakov , a two-time Olympic finalist, won the FINA World 200 Breaststroke Championship in 2006, as well as the 2005 and 2007 NCAA 200 breaststroke titles and five Southeastern Conference titles. At the start of McIlquham’s tenure as the Tide’s head coach, Lane Bassham won the 2004 NCAA Platform Championship, the first national diving title by a member of the Tide women’s team. A member of the United States National team, Bassham also earned NCAA Championships Diver of the Meet honor in 2004. In 2010, senior Mark Randall, the school record holder in the 500, 1000 and 1650 freestyles, was an All-American and All-SEC performer as well as a U.S. Open Champion and top-10 finisher at the 2010 Pan Pacific Championships. Agustina de Giovanni, another 2010 senior, earned AllAmerican honors, set the school 400 IM record and competed at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics during her career. And yet another 2010 senior, Aaron Fleshner, the school record holder in all three diving events, won a trio of SEC titles and finished as high as third at the NCAA Championships before competing for the U.S. National team at last summer’s FINA World Championships and World University Games. Sophomore Kristel Vourna also competed at the 2011 FINA World Championships after earning her Olympic “A” cut earlier in the summer. Vourna’s international success came on the heels of an outstanding rookie campaign that included the school record in the 100 butterfly and a spot on the Freshman All-SEC team.

As successful as the Tide has been in the water, it has been even better in the classroom, where Alabama stands among the nation’s best. Last season, Alabama’s men posted the highest team grade point average in the nation for the spring semester with a 3.44 while the UA women were second, one-hundreth of a point behind Yale with a 3.63. Over the last seven years, UA swimmers and divers have earned a place on the prestigious ESPN the Magazine Academic All-American at-large team nine times, including Polyakov, a threetime honoree, 2009 senior Kevin Greer, 2010 senior Elizabeth Hughes and current senior Kyle Weeks in 2011. In addition, 16 members of the UA squad earned CSCA Scholar All-American honors last year. The swimming and diving squad has also posted the highest team grade-point average of any men’s team on campus three of the last seven years while the women had the most studentathletes named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll of any of the league’s winter sports teams in two of the last three years. McIlquham attributes much of the Tide’s recent success to the stability of the coaching staff. He and associate head coach Sonya Porter have worked together for 14 years while he and diving coaching Pat Greenwell have worked together for 13 years now. McIlquham has worked with assistant coach Stefan Gherghel for nine years and assistant coach James Barber for five. All told, the Tide’s current staff has coached a staggering number of collegiate All-Americans during their careers, with a combined total coming in at well over 300.

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For McIlquham, moving forward means winning. “We’re going to be successful in all aspects of the collegiate experience,” McIlquham said. “And we’re going to win - not just want to win - we’re going to win.” McIlquham brings that same fire to the Alabama deck every day as head coach. Success has been a constant, not just due to his hard work, but from the innovative way he trains his athletes and keeps his program on the cutting edge in all areas. “This is such a special place,” McIlquham said. “And because of that, we’re never satisfied, we’re always pushing to be better in all aspects. There’s no better way to honor the rich tradition we have here at Alabama.” McIlquham’s career has been moving fast ever since his days as a graduate assistant coach with the Tide in the early 1990s. After two years as a graduate assistant, he became a fulltime assistant coach in 1994. In his first stint with the Tide, McIlquham helped UA post three top-10 and six top-20 finishes between the men’s and women’s programs. He left Tuscaloosa in 1996 to become assistant head coach at the University of Virginia, helping turn the Cavaliers’ sprint program into one of the nation’s best, and helping lead the program to back-to-back Atlantic Coast Conference titles in 1998 and 1999. He also helped coach Shamek Pietucka to the 1999 NCAA 200 butterfly title. Another McIlquham protégé, Rebecca Cronk, was the No. 1-ranked 50 freestyler at the 1999 NCAA Championships. After his three years with Virginia, McIlquham, at the age of 28, became head coach of the West Virginia University Mountaineers, where his teams broke a combined 28 school records, produced the men’s first Big East champions, and gained the first individual NCAA appearance in 14 seasons, all in his first four years. While at WVU, McIlquham coached former Northwestern ace Amy Balcerzak-Field to an American record in the 50 breaststroke.

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Internationally, McIlquham has been a part of the Egyptian National Team coaching staff since 1995, coaching former Alabama standout Rania Elwani among others. He was head coach of the Egyptian contingent at the 2000 Olympics, where Elwani made the semi-finals in two events, set three national records and one All-African record. He was also part of the Egyptian coaching staff at the 1996 Olympics as well as the 1995 Pan Pacific Games and 1995 African Games. Seven past and present Alabama athletes competed at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, including four that made the semi-finals. In 2007, he helped former UA standout Arlene Semeco to double gold at the Pan American Games and the Pan Am record in the 50 freestyle. As an athlete, McIlquham won 15 NCAA Division II individual and relay titles while competing for Oakland University. The two-time NCAA Division II 100 butterfly champion held the national record in that event and was part of NCAA record-setting 200 and 400 medley relay and 200 freestyle relay squads. A standout in the classroom as well as the pool, McIlquham earned his bachelor’s degree from Oakland with a psychology major and a history minor. He was a CSCA Academic All-American as a senior and earned a prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship which he put to good use at Alabama, earning a Master’s degree in exercise physiology in 1996. Because of his success in the pool and classroom, McIlquham knows the importance of balancing both areas of the collegiate experience. “At Alabama, we bring in student-athletes who are going to work hard to be successful in all areas of their lives,” McIlquham said. “First and foremost, they are here to earn their degree, because that is what is going to carry them through for the rest of their lives. We’re going to be successful in all aspects of this program, there’s just no doubt.” McIlquham married the former Sharon Dinkel of Pittsburgh, Pa., in the summer of 2004. The couple has a son, Brenner Brooks, and a daughter, Breanna Lynn.

Eric McIlquham CAREER AT A GLANCE HIRED: August 2003 BIRTHDATE: March 5 HOMETOWN: Dalton, Mass. EDUCATION: • Bachelor of Arts, Psychology Oakland University, April 1992 • Master of Arts, Exercise Physiology University of Alabama, May 1996 COLLEGIATE COACHING EXPERIENCE: • Head Coach, University of Alabama 2003 - present • Head Coach, West Virginia 1999-2003 • Head Assistant Coach, Virginia 1996-99 • Assistant Coach, Alabama 1994-96 • Graduate Assistant Coach, Alabama 1992-94

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“I’m excited about the success we have enjoyed to this point,” McIlquham said. “But it’s just the starting point. We’re going to continue to grow, move forward and improve. It’s an exciting time to be a part of this program.”

COLLEGIATE HEAD COACHING RECORD: • Men — 65-54 (12 years) • Women — 55-70-1 (12 years) CLUB COACHING EXPERIENCE: • Head Coach, Mountaineer Aquatic Clubs 2000-03 • Head Coach, Tuscaloosa Swim Club 1992-96 INTERNATIONAL COACHING EXPERIENCE: • Head Coach, Egyptian Olympic Team 2000 Sydney • Assistant Coach, Egyptian Olympic Team 1996 Atlanta • Assistant Head Coach, Egyptian National Team 1995-96 ATHLETIC HONORS: • Oakland University Hall of Honor (Inducted, April 1999) • NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship (1992) • All-American - 1989, 90, 91, 92 • NCAA Champion - 1989, 90, 91, 92 • Oakland Team Captain - 1991, 92 • NCAA Record Holder

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Sonya PORTER Alabama, 1994 An integral part of Alabama’s success, Sonya Porter is now in her ninth year as associate head coach. Since her return to the deck of the Alabama Aquatic Center, the Crimson Tide has posted seven top-25 finishes, including successive top15 finishes by the men in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Individually, Porter has helped coach 24 different athletes to a total of 93 All-American honors, including Vlad Polyakov, who in addition to earning All-American honors a dozen times, also won the 2006 FINA World Championship in the 200 breaststroke as well as the 2005 and 2007 NCAA titles, missing the NCAA record in 2007 by mere hundredths of a second. She also coached former Tide All-American Anne Poleska to a silver medal in the 200 breaststroke at the 2005 World Championships and Agustina de Giovanni to a gold medal and the meet record in the 100 breaststroke at the 2010 South American Games. Porter first joined Alabama as she was getting her bachelor’s degree in physiology and human performance with a minor in biology in the early 1990s. She was part of the Tide coaching staff in 1994 when the men and the women both finished in the top 10 for the first time since 1986. Porter saw the Tide post two top-10 finishes and four in the top 20 between the men and the women.

Sonya Porter is in her ninth season as Alabama’s Associate Head Coach and 11th overall as a member of the UA staff.

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After graduation in December of 1996, Porter made her way to Colorado State where she began work on a master’s degree in cardiopulmonary physiology and exercise science while serving as a volunteer assistant. Porter joined Northwestern University as an assistant coach in September of 1997, heading up a sprint corps that led the Wildcats to three straight top-10 NCAA finishes. Porter coached Amy Balcerzak-Field and Courtney Allen to runner-up NCAA finishes in the 100 breaststroke and 50 freestyle, respectively. Northwestern’s 200 freestyle relay was the nation’s No. 1 seed going into the 1999 NCAAs. In three years with the Wildcats, she coached 16 All-Americans, 10 Academic All-Americans and 16 Big-10 Champs. After Northwestern, she rejoined Eric McIlquham, who she had coached with at Alabama in the 1990s, at West Virginia for the 2001 season, helping the Mountaineers to their best season in 15 years. In March of 2001, she became head coach of the University of Louisville women’s team. A year later she added the men’s team to her duties. Porter coached U.S. National Team members Allen, Balcerzak-Field and Ashley Mosher. Balcerzak-Field was fourth in the 100 breaststroke at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials, the American record holder in the 50 breaststroke and high point scorer in the 2000-01 World Cup circuit.

Porter coached athletes to five gold medals at the 1999 World University Games. She coached former Alabama standout Rania Elwani at the 1999 World Short Course Championships in Hong Kong. Since 1997, she has served as a member of the Swiss National Team coaching staff, coaching at the 1997 World Championships and the 2002 European Championships. Porter coached club swimming in her native Australia, starting as an assistant coach with the Victoria Park/Carlisle S.A. in 1991 and 1992 and becoming head coach of the Wooden Valley Swimming Club in 1993. After studying exercise physiology and human performance at the University of Canberra in Australia, she came to Alabama in the summer of 1993. Academics are obviously important to Porter. She graduated Cum Laude from Alabama and was awarded a fellowship for outstanding research at Colorado State. Her emphasis on academics carries over to her athletes. Alabama swimmers and divers have earned Academic All-American honors eight times since 2005 while her Northwestern swimmers were national and conference honor roll regulars and all her Louisville teams earned Academic All-American status.

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Pat Greenwell has been named the SEC Diving Coach of the Year a league-best six times.

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Pat GREENWELL Pittsburgh, 1981 Alabama diving coach Pat Greenwell’s more than two decades at Alabama, punctuated by multiple conference and national champions, Olympians and All-Americans, is a story of soaring success. Greenwell, who started with the Crimson Tide in the fall of 1987, has been named Southeastern Conference Diving Coach of the Year a leaguerecord six times and has coached Tide divers to eight SEC Diver of the Year honors. Last season Paige McCleary earned SEC Freshman Diver of the Year, after turning in the top rookie finish on both the 1-meter and 3-meter boards as well as the platform at the SEC Championships.

Now in his 24th season with the Tide, Greenwell’s athletes have earned 68 All-American honors and won 21 SEC titles since 1988 including Fleshner’s SEC 3-meter title last season. Two of his athletes have won NCAA championships, with Brent Roberts winning the platform in 1998 and Lane Bassham winning the 3-meter board in 2004. The 2004 season also saw Greenwell recognized as the NCAA Championships Coach of the Meet after Bassham took first off the 3-meter and second off the 1-meter and both she and Crystal Rasmussen earned All-American honors, leading Alabama to 21st place overall. Bassham was also named Diver of the Meet for her efforts.

The success of Greenwell’s student-athletes isn’t limited to the pool. Last season, 2011 senior Adam Booher earned an NCAA Postgraduate This past summer, Aaron Fleshner, who won Scholarship as well as a place on the CoSIDA his third SEC title under Greenwell’s tutelage in Academic All-District IV At-Large Team. In 2010, made a pair of trips to China as part of the United States’ national team, first to Shanghai 2010 Elizabeth Hughes was named to the ESPN for the FINA World Championships and later to the Magazine Academic All-American team. In 2005, Stewart Smith earned an SEC PostShenzia for the World University Games. He finaled at both championships and has set himself graduate Scholarship, one of the league’s highest academic honors, while Jill DeVasher earned the up well for a run at the U.S. Olympic team this same award in 1998. Mark Rourke brought the summer. swimming and diving program its first NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, one of the most In 2009, Greenwell was named SEC Women’s Diving Coach of the Year and saw Aaron Flesh- prestigious awards offered on the national level, in 1991. ner earn SEC Male Diver of the Year honors while Carrie Dragland was named both the SEC Freshman and Female Diver of the Year.

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Internationally, Greenwell’s students have done very well. In addition to his double-duty this summer in China, Fleshner competed at the AT&T USA Diving Grand Prix meet in Ft. Lauderdale in the summer of 2010. Other former Greenwell students Rafael Alvarez and Rourke both finaled at the Olympic Games and Roberts was the United States Olympic team alternate on the platform in 2000 after finishing third at the Olympic Trials. Under Greenwell’s tutelage, Rourke became the first diver in conference history to win all three diving events at the SEC Championships, doing so in 1991. The Tampa, Fla., native inherited the tradition rich Alabama program in the fall of 1987, after a five-year stint at Clemson University. While coaching Clemson, Greenwell earned his master’s degree in post-secondary counseling. He dove collegiately at the University of Pittsburgh, garnering All-America honors on the way to earning a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education in 1981. An active member of U.S. Diving as both a coach and a judge, Greenwell has served as the U.S. National Coach for competitions in China and Canada. In 1997 and 1999 he served as the U.S. judge at the World University Games. Greenwell married the former Debbie Purifoy in May of 2003.

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James BARBER Auburn at Montgomery, 1996 James Barber is in his fifth season as an assistant coach with the Crimson Tide. “As an Alabama native and life-long Crimson Tide fan, James has great respect for this school and program,” head coach Eric McIlquham said. “He has excelled at all levels of coaching and brings a great depth of knowledge to the deck.” Barber brings a strong knowledge of physiology to his coaching style, an approach that works well with McIlquham’s innovative coaching system. “They say home is where the heart is, and my heart has always been with The University of Alabama,” Barber said. “It is incredible being a member of the Alabama family, to be in a place that puts such high value in excellence at every level and provides their athletes and coaches with every resource necessary to succeed. This is every coach’s and athlete’s dream.” In addition to almost two decades of collegiate and age-group coaching, Barber also worked with former Alabama swimmer and head coach Jonty Skinner as an assistant coach with the U.S. Resident National Team in Colorado Springs, Colo. While there he worked with several world class athletes, including Amy Van Dyken and B.J. Bedford. Van Dyken was the first American female athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympiad (Atlanta, 1996).

Alabama native James Barber is in his fifth season as an assistant coach with the Crimson Tide.

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Prior to joining the Crimson Tide, Barber was in charge of the distance group at Florida State for three seasons, where he coached athletes to school record marks in the 500, 1,000 and 1,650 freestyles as well as coaching the Seminoles’ first All-American in the mile. One of his athletes was named ACC Swimmer of the Meet at the conference championships. He was also nominated for Teacher of the Year for teaching Anatomy and Physiology courses to undergraduates while at FSU. As an age-group coach, Barber mentored 18 Junior National qualifiers in over 40 events and 20 national age-group top 16 performers. His athletes also earned 21 titles at the Southeastern Swimming Championships.

him in the same position for the Colorado Spring Swim Team while also coaching the USA National Team. Barber graduated with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science in 1996 from Auburn University at Montgomery and obtained a master’s degree in exercise physiology from the University of South Alabama. A native of Prattville, Ala., Barber is married to the former Angie Bixler. The couple has two sons, Benjamin Paul and Samuel James.

Barber joined the Seminoles in 2004 after a sixyear run as the head coach at Club Makos in Gulf Breeze, Fla., where he produced national caliber swimmers. Since 2005 Barber has mentored five different athletes that have qualified/represented Team USA in international competitions, in addition to five international athletes that have represented their respective countries, with many finalists and semi-finalists. He received his first coaching job as the head agegroup coach for the Montgomery YMCA Barracudas in Montgomery, Ala. From there he moved to Mobile, Ala., where he served as Senior Coach for the City of Mobile Swim Association while pursing his master’s degree. His next coaching stint had

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Assistant coach Stefan Gherghel is a two-time Olympian and a two-time NCAA Champion in the 200 butterfly.

6th Season

Stefan GHERGHEL Alabama, 2005 Stefan Gherghel brings his experience as one of the fastest athletes in the history of collegiate swimming to the deck in his sixth year as an assistant coach. “Stefan’s been there, up on those blocks, competing at the highest level and that’s nothing but an asset to our kids,” head coach Eric McIlquham said. “When things get tough in a set, he’s the first one to get in there and encourage our athletes to finish strong because he knows what it takes, he knows what being tough in those moments means down the road. He’s competed at the highest level for a very, very long time.”

The first two-time NCAA Champion in Alabama’s storied history, Gherghel won back-toback NCAA 200 butterfly crowns in 2002 and 2003. His winning time at the 2003 championship ranked third all-time in the 200 butterfly behind Olympic champions Pablo Morales and Melvin Stewart.

In addition to his two NCAA titles, Gherghel won a pair of Southeastern Conference 200 butterfly titles and earned seven All-America honors during his two-year Tide career. He still holds the Alabama 100 and 200 butterfly records and ranks fifth all-time for the Tide in the 100 backstroke.

In another tie to Olympic champions, on his way to his first NCAA title, Gherghel smashed the long-standing 200 butterfly school record then held by 1984 Olympic Gold medalist Jon Sieben.

Gherghel works primarily with the Tide’s stroke group with a special emphasis on the butterfly lane.

Internationally, Gherghel has been a force. He competed at his third Olympiad during the summer of 2008 in Beijing, resetting the Romanian national record in the semi-finals of the 200m butterfly. He also swam the 100m butterfly in China and as part of the 400m medley relay that set a new Romanian national record.

He has coached seven athletes to 25 national titles. Gherghel has also coached four different swimmers to a place on the world top-100 list.

He earned a silver medal in the 200m butterfly at the 2004 FINA World Championships and was fifth in the 200 at the 2004 Athens Olympic

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Games. He also competed for his native Romania at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.

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COACHES AND STAFF “Jessica certainly knows what it takes to be successful at the highest levels of the sport,” Alabama head coach Eric McIlquham said. “I know that she’ll be able to make our already great diving program even better by imparting her knowledge of what it takes to be a champion.”

An outstanding student, Livingston earned firstteam Academic All-Big 12 honors in 2007 and was a four-year member of the Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll. She also earned the Janet Hauber Academic Excellence Award in 2009 and the Darrell K. Royal Endowed Presidential Scholarship and the Good Right Arm Advertising Scholarship in 2007 and 2006 respectively.

The 2007 NCAA Platform Diving Champion, Livingston was a five-time All-American and four-time Big 12 diving champion for the University of Texas from 2005-09. She also led the Longhorns to four Big 12 titles, earning MVP honors each year.

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Graduate Assistant

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Jessica LIVINGSTON Texas, 2007 Jessica Livingston is in her second season with the Crimson Tide as a graduate assistant. In addition to working with the Alabama diving corps, she will be pursuing a Master’s of Business Administration at the Captstone.

On the USA Diving front, she won four national titles, taking top honors off the platform in 2006 as well as combining with Laura Wilkinson in 2005, 2007 and 2008 to win the U.S. Synchronized Platform titles. She also finaled at two USA Olympic Trials, taking fourth off the platform in 2004 and fifth in 2005 as well as finishing runner-up with Wilkinson in the synchronized platform event at the 2008 trials.

After graduating from Texas with an advertising degree, Livingston joined the staff at Ramser Media, a publication house in Texas. She followed that with a stint as a performer with the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line on the ship Oasis of the Sea, taking part in the creation and implementation of a new full-production show.

As a member of the United States National Team, Livingston competed at the 2005 FINA Grand Prix in China, the China FINA Open in 2008 and the AT&T USA FINA Grand Prix in 2008.

SWIMMING AND DIVING SUPPORT STAFF

Daniel ARMSTRONG

Amy BRAGG

Aaron DOSS

Aaron FLESHNER

Student Assistant Coach

Director of Performance Nutrition

Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer

Volunteer Assistant Diving Coach

Stephanie GODFREY

Terry JONES

Nancy PERRY

Jenna MONTGOMERY

Athletic Academic Advisor

Strength and Conditioning Coach

Administrative Assistant

Student Assistant Coach

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STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING PROGRAM It is not enough that Alabama Swimming and Diving trains in one of the nation’s premiere strength and conditioning facilities, which is located in the Mal Moore Athletics Building. To be truly effective the Crimson Tide has a comprehensive strength and conditioning program, under the direction of head coach Eric McIlquham, that is considered one of the nation’s best, and stands on the cutting edge in terms of being designed with the specific purpose of making swimmers faster. The success of the Tide’s strength and conditioning program can often be measured in seconds. “Through this program, every year we have been able to produce athletes who have done some amazing things,” McIlquham said. “We have athletes every year who seemingly come out of nowhere and make some really great leaps forward and surprise a lot of people, including themselves. There is nothing better than to watch the face of one of your athletes, after they have the swim of their lives, and see that total sense of achievement.” The Crimson Tide uses a three-pronged attack out of the water that includes weights, plyometric and core strength programs that runs six days a week. All three programs were developed by McIlquham with input from some of the leading experts in this area.

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“Everything we do here at Alabama is the result of years of research and study,” McIlquham said. “I have worked with and consulted some of the best in the business and put together a system that is specifically designed for swimmers. A lot of strength programs are created with football in mind and that doesn’t work for us. The typical football play lasts from 6-10 seconds. Our sprinters will race anywhere between 19 seconds and 2 minutes. We have different needs and have to train our systems very specifically to meet all of our needs.” The weight program at Alabama was created by McIlquham when he was an assistant coach with the Tide in the mid-90s and he has been refining it ever since. “What we’re doing in the weight program basically encompasses everything we need to do to swim fast,” McIlquham said. “It doesn’t matter if you can go in and bench press a VW Beetle. If you can’t transfer that power to the water, it doesn’t make any sense.” McIlquham, who earned his graduate degree in exercise physiology, draws on his educational background daily when creating and refining his current system. “Everything we do is based in the science of physiology,” he explained. “It’s based on muscle fibers and the anaerobic and aerobic systems. Everything we do has those two

components because during a race we are hitting different energy systems at different levels. And that’s what we do in our weight program, we hit different energy systems at different levels so that we can combine the two to make it work and be fluid throughout a race.” The Tide’s ropes workout is a new addition to its program. It consists of a series of exercise incorporating 60 feet of rope that is anywhere from an one and a quarter to two and a half inches in diameter and, depending on the exercise, is like moving 45 to 100 pounds of weight. “The ropes workout is pretty intense and it really focuses on developing explosive power throughout the body,” McIlquham said. “We’ve seen some great results from the ropes through the fall and some of the other teams on campus have started to incorporate it into their workouts as well.” Alabama also uses a dryland program that strengthens the athletes’ core, which is the key to power.

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THE 2011-12 CRIMSON TIDE MEN AT A GLANCE

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ANESTIS ARAMPATZIS

OLIVER BASSE

VLAD CACIUC

6-2 | Jr. | 2L Butterfly/Freestyle

5-11| Sr. | SQ Butterfly

6-2 | Soph. | 1L Freestyle

JAKE CARLONI

BRIAN CARR

ALEX COCI

CAMERON CONNERS

PHILLIP DEATON

PHILLIP DOCKERY

TITO EBERSOLE

5-8 | Soph. | SQ Diving

5-11 | Soph. | SQ Freestyle

5-9 | Soph. | 1L Butterfly

6-0 | Soph. | 1L Breaststroke

6-2 | Fr. | HS Backstroke/Freestyle

5-10 | Soph. | SQ Breaststroke/IM

5-11 | Fr. | HS Diving

JOHN ELLIS

CLARK GARNER

GILLES GUTNECHT

PETER HILLYER

HUNTER HINSON

BJOERN HORNIKEL

JORDAN LESSER

5-7 | Jr. | TR Freestyle

6-1 | Fr. | HS Butterfly/IM/Backstroke

6-0 | Sr. | SQ Freestyle

5-11 | Jr. | 2L Diving

5-11 | Soph. | SQ Butterfly/Backstroke

6-4 | Soph. | 1L Freestyle

5-7 | Fr. | HS Diving

BRANDON LOWE

ALEX PUJOL

ANDREW REEVES

JAKE REYNOLDS

JOHN SERVATI

REESE SHIREY

HUNTER SMITH

6-1 | Jr. | SQ Freestyle

5-10 | Soph. | SQ Backstroke

6-2 | Sr. | SQ Breaststroke

6-3 | Jr. | 1L Freestyle

5-11 | Fr. | HS Backstroke/Freestyle

6-1 | Jr. | 1L Backstroke

5-8 | Fr. | HS Diving

DEVAN TERRY

MIKE TONTILLO

KYLE WEEKS

GEORGE WONG

ANDREW WRIST

JOE ZIEGLER

LUKE ZIPPI

6-0 | Soph. | 1L Breaststroke/IM

6-2 | Soph. | SQ Freestyle

6-1 | Sr. | SQ Freestyle/ Butterfly

5-11 | Soph. | SQ Freestyle

5-9 | Soph. | SQ Freestyle/Butterfly/IM

6-2 | Sr. | 3L Freestyle/Backstroke

5-7 | Soph. | SQ Diving

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Height 6-2 5-11 6-2 5-8 5-11 5-9 6-0 6-2 5-10 5-11 5-7 6-1 6-0 5-11 5-11 6-4 5-7 6-1 5-10 6-2 6-3 5-11 6-1 5-8 6-0 6-2 6-1 5-11 5-9 6-2 5-7

Year Jr. Sr. Soph. Soph. Soph. Soph. Soph. Fr. Soph. Fr. Jr. Fr. Sr. Jr. Soph. Soph. Fr. Jr. Soph. Sr. Jr. Fr. Jr. Fr. Soph. Soph. Sr. Soph. Soph. Sr. Soph.

Exp. 2L SQ 1L SQ SQ 1L 1L HS SQ HS TR HS SQ 2L SQ 1L HS SQ SQ SQ 1L HS 1L HS 1L SQ SQ SQ SQ 3L SQ

Hometown (High School) Thessaloniki, Greece (Experimental School of Aristotle University) West Palm Beach, Fla. (Cardinal Newman) Bogdan Voda, Romania (Sportive) Branford, Conn. (Branford) New Orleans, La. (Jesuit) Bai Mare, Romania (Sportive) Huntsville, Ala. (Randolph) Madison, Ala. (Bob Jones) Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Hillcrest) Colleyville, Texas (Grapevine) Durban, South Africa (Indian River State College) Mize, Miss. (Mize) Marseille, France (Jean Moulin) Atlanta, Ga. (St. Pius) Cairo, Ga. (Brookwood) Boblingen, Germany (Stratford) North Potomac, Md. (Wootton) San Diego, Calif. (Patrick Henry) Houston, Texas (Memorial) Birmingham, Ala. (Vestavia Hills) Prattville, Ala. (Prattville) Tupelo, Miss. (Tupelo) Muscle Shoals, Ala. (Baylor School) Sacramento, Calif. (C.K. McClatchy) Louisville, Ky. (Louisville Male) Cincinnati, Ohio (St. Xavier) Poway, Calif. (Poway) Madison, Ala. (Bob Jones) Charlotte, N.C. (Mallard Creek) Tallahassee, Fla. (Leon) Melbourne, Fla. (Viera)

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SOPHOMORES

Oliver Basse Gilles Gutnecht Andrew Reeves Joe Ziegler Kyle Weeks

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JUNIORS

Vlad Caciuc Jake Carloni Brian Carr Alex Coci Cameron Conners Phillip Dockery Hunter Hinson Bjoern Hornikel Alex Pujol Devan Terry Mike Tontillo George Wong Andrew Wrist Luke Zippi

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FLORIDA

KENTUCKY

ROMANIA

Andrew Reeves George Wong Cameron Conners Phillip Dockery Jake Reynolds Reese Shirey Phillip Deaton

Oliver Basse Joe Ziegler Luke Zippi

Devan Terry

Vlad Caciuc Alex Coci

CALIFORNIA

Hunter Hinson Peter Hillyer

Kyle Weeks Brandon Lowe Hunter Smith

CONNECTICUT Jake Carloni

FRANCE Gilles Gutnecht

GEORGIA

GERMANY Bjoern Hornikel

GREECE Anestis Arampatzis

LOUISIANA Brian Carr

MARYLAND

SOUTH AFRICA

Jordan Lesser

John Ellis

MISSISSIPPI

TEXAS

Clark Garner John Servati

Alex Pujol Tito Ebersole

NORTH CAROLINA Andrew Wrist

Anestis Arampatzis John Ellis Peter Hillyer Brandon Lowe Jake Reynolds Reese Shirey

FRESHMEN Phillip Deaton Tito Ebersole Clark Garner Jordan Lesser John Servati Hunter Smith

OHIO Mike Tontillo

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2011-12 ALABAMA MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING ROSTER Name Anestis Arampatzis Oliver Basse Vlad Caciuc Jake Carloni Brian Carr Alex Coci Cameron Conners Phillip Deaton Phillip Dockery Tito Ebersole John Ellis Clark Garner Gilles Gutnecht Peter Hillyer Hunter Hinson Bjoern Hornikel Jordan Lesser Brandon Lowe Alex Pujol Andrew Reeves Jake Reynolds John Servati Reese Shirey Hunter Smith Devan Terry Mike Tontillo Kyle Weeks George Wong Andrew Wrist Joe Ziegler Luke Zippi

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2011-12 ALABAMA MEN’S OUTLOOK

2012 OUTLOOK THE 2011-12 MEN’S ALABAMA CRIMSON TIDE Back Row, from the left - Brian Carr, Devan Terry, Kyle Weeks, Andrew Reeves, Andrew Wrist, Mike Tontillo, Oliver Basse, Bjoern Hornikel, Joe Ziegler, Jake Reynolds, Anestis Arampatzis, John Servati, Phillip Deaton, Brandon Lowe, Cameron Conners, Clark Garner, Vlad Caciuc, Reese Shirey and Alex Pujol. Front Row - George Wong, Gilles Gutnecht, Phillip Dockery, Hunter Hinson, Alex Coci, John Ellis, Luke Zippi, Jordan Lesser, Hunter Smith, Jake Carloni, Tito Ebersole and Peter Hillyer.

The Alabama swimming and diving program enjoyed a youth explosion last season the likes of which is rarely seen these days. Coming on strong during the regular season, the 2010-11 rookies hit their stride at the Southeastern Conference Championships where 12 rookies scored in 18 different individual events and as part of nine relays. A league best six Crimson Tide rookies were named to the SEC All-Freshman Team, meaning that they were the top newcomer in one or more events. Devan Terry (100 breaststroke), Bjoern Hornikel (100 freestyle) and Alex Coci (200 butterfly) all earned the rookie honor. Terry and Hornikel were also named SEC Freshman Swimmers of the Week during the regular season. Vlad Caciuc and Cameron Conners also scored at the conference championships in their first appearance. The rookies also put their name in the record book when Caciuc, Hornikel and Coci joined with current senior Joe Ziegler to break the school 400 freestyle relay, posting a time of 3:53.47, to shave nearly two seconds off the previous mark, set in 2003. And while they are just shy of the school record, both Vaciuc and Hornikel broke the 20-second mark in the 50 freestyle last season, becoming just the third and fourth men in school history to do so, touching at 19.85 and 19.98 respectively. The other two men to go faster than 20 seconds in the 50 for the Tide are

Olympic gold medalist Jon Olsen and two-time Olympian Apostolis Tsagkarakis. Terry and Caciuc, as well as classmates Hunter Hinson, also put their names on Alabama’s all-time top 10 in at least one event. The best thing about having a team loaded with great freshmen is that the next year you have a team loaded with great sophomores. Last year’s tremendous success means that the nucleus of this year’s squad is not only supremely talented, but now, with a year of collegiate competition under their belt, they are also experienced as well. “We had a big freshman class last year and those guys were really fast out of the gate, getting their careers off to a great start,” head coach Eric McIlquham said. “With that core back, along with some key veterans and this year’s rookie class, we’re looking forward to taking some big steps forward this year.” Among the veterans looking to keep the Tide moving forward is senior Joe Ziegler, who competed at the NCAA Championships as a sophomore and lowered his own school mark in the 200 backstroke again last year, posting a 1:43.84 at the SEC Championships, in addition to anchoring the Tide’s school-record setting 400 freestyle relay. Ziegler will be joined among the veteran ranks by junior Anestis Arampatzis, who is ranked in Alabama’s all-time top 10 in the 100 and 200 butterfly, as well as Oliver Basse and Re-

ese Shirey, who are ranked in the Tide’s all-time top 10 in the 200 butterfly and 200 backstroke, respectively. Peter Hillyer, an SEC scorer in the diving events, is also back for his junior season. Joining Hillyer in the Tide diving corps will be sophomores Jake Carloni and Luke Zippi as well as freshmen Tito Ebersole, Jordan Lesser and Hunter Smith. Hornikel and Caciuc along with juniors Brandon Lowe and Jake Reynolds, sophomore George Wong and freshman Phillip Deaton are slated to see duty in the sprint freestyle events. Senior Gilles Gutnecht and sophomores Brian Carr, Mike Tontillo and Andrew Wrist will be joined in the middle distance and distance lane by junior college national champion John Ellis. Coci, Arampatzis and Basse along with senior Kyle Weeks and freshman Clark Garner give the Tide a potent butterfly lane. Ziegler, Coci and Shirey will again lead the way when it comes to backstroke events along with sophomore Alex Pujol and freshmen Phillip Deaton and John Servati. Terry and Conners will be joined in the breaststroke events by junior Andrew Reeves and sophomore Phillip Dockery. In the individual medley events, Hinson and Terry will be joined by Garner and Wrist.

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Oliver

Vlad

ARAMPATZIS

BASSE

CACIUC

Butterfly/Freestyle

Butterfly

Freestyle

6-2 | Jr. | 2L

5-11 | Sr. | SQ

6-2 | Soph. | 1L

Thessaloniki, Greece

West Palm Beach, Fla.

Bogdan Voda, Romania

Aristotle University

Cardinal Newman

Sportive

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Junior: Posted a career-best time in the 100 and 200 butterfly at the SEC Championships, touching at 49.20 and 1:47.31 respectively … 200 butterfly time from the SEC Championships ranks him ninth all-time for the Tide … competed in the 200 IM at the SEC Championships.

2010 - Freshman: Scored in the 100 and 200 butterfly at the SEC Championships, finishing 14th and 13th respectively ... posted a careerbest 47.83 in the 100 butterfly at the SEC Championships which ranks him fourth all-time for the Crimson Tide ... also competed in the 50 freestyle at the SEC Championships ... turned in Alabama’s top time of the season in the 100 butterfly with a 47.83 at the SEC Championships ... shared the Arne Borgstrom Most Valuable Newcomer award with Jake Reynolds.

2010 - Sophomore: Competed in the 100 and 200 IM at the SEC Championships ... posted a career-best 1:52.16 in the 200 IM at the SEC Championships.

Prep Highlights: Swam for George Houzouris at Iraklis Thessalonikis ... won the 50, 100 and 200m butterfly at the 2007 Junior Greek Championships ... won the 100m butterfly at the 2008 Junior Greek Championships ... finished second in the 100 and 200m butterfly at the 2009 Greek Open Championships ... finished sixth in the 100m butterfly and seventh in the 200m butterfly at the 2008 European Junior Championships ... won the 200m butterfly at the 2007 and 2008 Balkan Games, setting the meet record as well ... took second in the 200m butterfly at the 2007 Black Sea Games.

Prep Highlights: Swam for Nancy Brown at Cardinal Newman High School ... swam for Alf Augirre at North Palm Beach Swim Club ... four-time team MVP ... four-year All-State qualifier ... four-year Palm Beach County All-Area ... won the team leadership award ... also competed in track and football.

Personal Information: Full name: Anestis Arampatzis ... son of Athanasios Arampatzis and Clio Makridou ... management major ... born May 19, 1990.

Top Times: 200 butterfly 1:47.31 100 butterfly 49.20 200 IM 1:52.16

2009 - Freshman: Competed in the 100 and 200 butterfly and 200 IM at the SEC Championships ... scored in the 200 butterfly at the SEC Championships, taking 16th place and posting a 1:48.07 in the process ... earned the Carlos Berrocal Most Improved award.

Personal Information: Full name: Oliver Maxwell Basse ... son of Hans and Maureen Basse ... has six brothers, Martin, Christopher, Alex, Robert, Stephen and Morten ... geography major ... born April 7, 1990.

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Scored in the 50 and 100 freestyle at the SEC Championships, taking 15th in both … became the third Alabama swimmer to break the 20-second mark in the 50 freestyle … turned in career-best times in the 50 and 100 freestyle at the SEC Championships, turning a 19.86 in the prelims of the 50 and a 44.10 as the lead off leg of the 400 freestyle relay … is ranked third all-time for the Tide in the 50 freestyle behind Olympians Jon Olsen and Apostolis Tsagkarakis … part of Alabama’s school-record setting 400 freestyle relay at the SEC Championships … turned in Alabama’s top time of the season in the 50 freestyle. Prep Highlights: Swam for Adrian Gherghel at LSP-MBV ... swam the 50 and 100m freestyles at the 2009 FINA World Championships ... the Romanian Junior National record holder in the 50 and 100m freestyles ... earned a bronze medal at the 2008 European Junior Championships in the 50m freestyle ... swam the 50 and 100m freestyle as well as the 50m butterfly at the 2009 European Short Course Championships ... broke the Romanian 200m freestyle relay record along with former Tide All-Americans Catalin Cosma and Alin Mihalca and fellow sophomore Alex Coci. Personal Information: Full name: Vlad Razvan Caciuc ... son of Ioan and Mia Caciuc ... pre-major studies ... born August 7, 1990. Top Times: 50 freestyle 19.86 100 freestyle 44.10

Top Times: 50 freestyle 20.94 100 butterfly 47.83 200 butterfly 1:45.78

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Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Sophomore: Scored in the 100 and 200 butterfly at the SEC Championships, finishing 14th and 12th respectively ... posted a careerbest 1:45.78 in the 200 butterfly at the Bulldog Invitational which ranks him fifth all-time for the Crimson Tide … also competed in the 50 freestyle at the SEC Championships.

PROFILES Jake

CARLONI Diving 5-8 | Soph. | SQ Branford, Conn. Branford

Personal Information: Full name: Brian Thomas Carr, Jr. ... son of Brian and Fern Carr ... chemical engineering major ... born March 4, 1992. Top Times: 200 freestyle 1:41.50 500 freestyle 4:32.84 1650 freestyle 15:44.54

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Competed off the 1-meter, 3-meter and platform at the NCAA Zone B Championships ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll.

Personal Information: Full name: Jacob Mayhew Carloni ... son of Hope and Phil Carloni ... sisters, Hannah and Charlotte ... management major ... born March 20, 1992.

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Brian

CARR Freestyle 5-11 | Soph. | SQ New Orleans, La. Jesuit

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Competed in the 200, 500 and 1650 freestyle at the SEC Championships … just missed scoring in the mile, finishing 17th … posted career-best times in 200 and 500 freestyles at the UT Invite in December … posted a career-best time in the mile at the SEC Championships with a 15:44.54 ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll … inducted into Phi Eta Sigma and Alpha Lambda Delta honor societies ... named to the President’s List (4.0 grade point average) for the fall and spring semester ... carries a perfect 4.0 GPA for his career. Prep Highlights: Swam for Mike Fallati at Crescent City Swim Club ... led Jesuit to four straight state titles ... captain of 2010 Jesuit squad ... won state championships in the 200 and 500 freestyle titles and as part of the 200 medley and 400 freestyle relays ... two-time USA Swimming Scholastic All-American ... valedictorian.

CONNERS Breaststroke 6-0 | Soph. | 1L Huntsville, Ala. Randolph

Alex

COCI Butterfly 5-9 | Soph. | 1L

Prep Highlights: Dove for Steve Sawyer at Branford High School and Jesse Cyr at SoCo Diving Club ... school record holder for both six and 11 dives ... also competed in track, earning All-Oronoque Division honors in pole vaulting.

Cameron

Bai Mare, Romania Sportive

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Freshman All-SEC … turned in the league’s top freshman finish in the 200 butterfly, taking sixth in the championship finals … also scored in the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke at the SEC Championships, taking 12th place and 14th respectively … posted career-best times in the 100 and 200 butterfly at the SEC Championships, clocking in at 47.35 and 1:45.43 respectively … also posted a career-best time in the 100 backstroke at the SEC Championships, touching at 48.27 which ranks him fourth all-time at Alabama … ranked third and sixth all-time for the Tide in the 100 and 200 butterfly respectively … part of Alabama’s school-record setting 400 freestyle relay at the SEC Championships … turned in Alabama’s top time of the season in the 100 and 200 butterfly … earned the Crimson Tide’s Coach’s Award. Prep Highlights: Swam for Adrian Gherghel at CSM Brasov ... Romanian national champion ... swam the 100 and 200-meter butterfly at the 2010 European Championships, posting a career-best time of 43.83 in the 100 and 1:59.95 in the 200 ... swam the 50, 100 and 200m butterfly at the 2009 European Championships ... swam the butterfly events at the 2007 European Junior Championships ... competed at the Balkan Games ... broke the Romanian 200m freestyle relay record along with former Tide swimmers Catalin Cosma and Alin Mihalca as well as fellow sophomore Vlad Caciuc.

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Scored in the 200 breaststroke at the SEC Championships, taking 14th place … also competed in the 100 breaststroke and the 200 IM at the SEC Championships … posted career-best times in the 100 and 200 breaststroke, shaving a second off his time in the 100 with a 56.07 and five seconds of his time in the 200 breaststroke with a 2:01.95 ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll … qualified for the 2012 USA Olympic Trial in the 100 and 200 breaststroke ... named to the Dean’s List (3.5 or better grade point average) for the fall semester. Prep Highlights: Swam for Marvin Chou at the Randolph School and Brooke Pate and Matt Webber at the Huntsville Swim Association ... All-American/ Scholastic All-American qualifier ... USA Senior National and US Open qualifier in the 100 and 200 breaststroke ... 2009 Alabama state champion and state record holder in the 100 breaststroke ... led the Randolph School to a fourth place finish at the 2009 AHSAA 1-6A State Championships ... four time AHSAA AllState in swimming ... two-time Randolph School MVP ... National Honor Society ... three time cross country championship team and AHSAA All-State Cross Country ... Tri M Music Honor Society ... three-year first chair trumpet ... Eagle Scout … qualified for the 2008 USA Olympic Trial in the 100 breaststroke. Personal Information: Full name: Cameron Alexander Conners ... son of Karen and Rex Conners ... brother, Braxton ... sisters, Amelia and Olivia ... electrical engineering major ... born July 13, 1992. Top Times: 100 breaststroke 56.07 200 breaststroke 2:01.95 200 IM 1:53.28

Personal Information: Full name: Alexandru Coci ... son of Dumitru and Viorica Coci ... brother, Mircea ... telecommunications and film major ... born October 31, 1989. Top Times: 100 butterfly 47.35 200 butterfly 1:45.43 100 backstroke 48.27

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DEATON Backstroke/Freestyle 6-2 | Fr. | HS Madison, Ala. Bob Jones

Prep Highlights: Swam for Mike Gunner and Kate Wade at Bob Jones High School and Matt Webber at Huntsville Swim Association … team captain … member of six Alabama High School State Championship teams … 2010 Alabama High School State 100 Backstroke and 100 freestyle champion … Alabama State High School record holder as part of the 400 freestyle relay … 2009 and 2010 High School All American … U.S. Open qualifier … USA Junior National qualifier … Physics Club… National Honor Society. Personal Information: Full name: Phillip Gerald Deaton, Jr. ... son of Wendy and Phil Deaton ... brother, Mitchell ... chemical engineering major ... born January 13, 1993. Top Times: 100 freestyle 46.19 200 freestyle 1:40.12 100 backstroke 50.65 200 backstroke 1:51.32

Phillip

DOCKERY Breaststroke/IM 5-10 | Soph. | SQ Tuscaloosa, Ala. Hillcrest

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Posted career-best times in the 100 and 200 breaststrokes and the 200 and 400 IMs, touching at 57.59 in the 100 breaststroke, 2:06.25 in the 200 breaststroke and 1:55.52 in the 200 IM at the Bulldog Invitational and a 4:13.97 in the 400 IM at the UT Invite ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll … inducted into Phi Eta Sigma and Alpha Lambda Delta honor societies ... named to the President’s List (4.0 grade point average) for the fall and spring semester ... carries a perfect 4.0 GPA for his career.

Don Gambril Achievement Award ... member of Southern Zone Team ... valedictorian ... named a top senior ... National Honors Society ... member of the Key Club, Hillcrest Ambassadors and Leadership Team three-time USA Scholastic All-American. Personal Information: Full Name: Philip William Dockery ... son of George and Kay Dockery ... brothers, Jeff and Steven ... sister, Jessica ... chemical engineering and math major ... born October 3, 1991 Top Times: 100 breaststroke 57.59 200 breaststroke 2:06.25 200 IM 1:55.52 400 IM 4:13.97

Tito

EBERSOLE Diving 5-11 | Fr. | HS Colleyville, Texas Grapevine

Prep Highlights: Coached by Jeff Bro and Krista Klein at G.C. Divers … 2012 USA Olympic Trials qualifier … took 10th in the finals of the 3-meter board at the 2010 USA Senior National Championships … third at the 2011 USA Junior National Championships off both the 1-meter and 3-meter board … earned a pair of top-10 finishes at the 2010 USA Junior National Championships, taking seventh off the 3-meter board and ninth off the 1-meter board … All-American, All-District and All-Region honoree …. finished sixth at the Texas State Championships

John

ELLIS Freestyle/Backstroke 5-7 | Jr. | TR Durban, South Africa Northwood School

Collegiate Highlights: Indian River State College 2009-11: Coached by Ryan Mallam and Frank Bradley at IRSC … led Indian River State College to the 2010 and 2011 National Junior College Team Championships ... won the 2011 NJCAA 400 IM and 1650 freestyle titles and was second in the 500 freestyle … served as team captain in 2010 … won the 2010 NJCAA 200 backstroke title and was second in the 200, 500 and 1650 freestyles. Prep Highlights: Coached by Wayne Ridden at Seals Swimming Club … competed for South Africa on several occasions, including the Africa Games, medaling in the 400m freestyle, and World Cup events … finished third in the 1500-meter freestyle at the 2008 South African Olympic Trials … held South African National Age Group Records in the 400m, 800m and 1500m freestyles. Personal Information: Full Name: John Christian Ellis …. son of Kathy and John Ellis … environmental sciences major … born May 2, 1990. Top Times: 500 freestyle 4:26.35 1650 freestyle 15:29.90 400 IM 3:56.44

Personal Information: Full Name: Roberto Todd Ebersole …. son of Nancy and Craig Ebersole … brothers, Ryan and Sean … brother Ryan, swam for the University of Evansville … pre-major studies … born December 29, 1992.

Prep Highlights: Swam for John Boxmeyer at Crimson Tide Aquatics ... set the CTA records in the 50 and 100 freestyles, the 100 and 200 breaststrokes, the 200 and 400 IMs, 400 IM as well as part of the 400 medley and freestyle relays ... earned the

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PROFILES Clark

GARNER Butterfly/IM/Freestyle 6-1 | Fr. | HS Mize, Miss. Mize

Prep Highlights: Swam for Warren Holliday at Mize High School and Laurel Swim Association … Mississippi state champion in the 50 freestyle in 2009 and 2010 … current Mississippi state record holder in the 50 freestyle. Personal Information: Full name: Chrisler Clark Garner ... son of Samantha and Chris Garner ... brother, Ladd ... chemical engineering major ... born March 5, 1993.

freestyle... set a new school record in the 500 free with a time of 4:38.36... helped the Saints’ 800 freestyle relay team set a new school record of 6:49.90.

Personal Information: Full name: Gilles Gutnecht ... son of Sylviane Colombani and Jean Gutnecht ... brother, Nicolas ... sister, Fanny ... management major ... born February 7, 1989. Top Times: 500 freestyle 4:32.90 200 freestyle 1:39.02 100 freestyle 45.71

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Gilles

GUTNECHT Freestyle 6-0 | Sr. | SQ Marseille, France Jean Moulin

Alabama Highlights; 2011 - Junior: Competed at the SEC Championships in the 100, 200 and 500 freestyles … posted a career-best time in the 500 freestyle at the UT Invite, touching the wall at 4:32.90 … earned Management Department’s Recognition of Excellence in Scholarship ... named to the Dean’s List (3.5 or better grade point average) for the fall and spring semesters. Collegiate Highlights: Limestone College 2010 - Sophomore: Earned All-American honors with a 9th place finish in the 200 freestyle at the NCAA Division II Championships ... Academic All-American ... Limestone College MVP... earned All-Conference Carolinas honors in the 500 and 200 freestyle... set a new school record in the 500 freestyle (4:34.80).

HINSON Butterfly/Freestyle/Backstroke

Prep Highlights: Two-year varsity letterman... competed in the UNSS national championship... took first place in 2003 in 200 freestyle at UNSS national championships.

Peter

Top Times: 100 freestyle 47.36 100 butterfly 50.95 50 freestyle 21.49

Hunter

Atlanta, Ga. St. Pius

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Sophomore: Scored off the platform at the SEC Championships, taking 13th place ... competed off the 1-meter and 3-meter boards at the SEC Championships … competed off the 1-meter, 3-meter and platform at the NCAA Zone B Championships. 2010 - Freshman: Scored off the platform at the SEC Championships, taking 16th place ... competed off the 1-meter and 3-meter boards at the SEC Championships. Prep Highlights: Dove for Grant Segal and the Atlanta Diving Association and Scott Carter at St. Pius ... All-American off the one and 3-meter boards ... competed at the USA Diving Winter Regionals 2005-08 ... St. Pius team captain. Personal Information: Full name: Peter Hillyer ... son of Chris and Alix Hillyer ...restaurant hospitality management major ... born June 19, 1990.

5-11 | Soph. | SQ Cairo, Ga. Brookwood

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Competed in the 400 IM, 500 freestyle and 200 butterfly at the SEC Championships … posted a career-best time of 3:55.28 at the UT Invite, shaving more than seven seconds off his previous best, which ranks him ninth all-time at Alabama … posted a shaved four seconds off his best time in the 500 freestyle at the UT Invite, touching at 4:27.73 … career-best time in the 200 butterfly at the Auburn Invite, touching at 1:46.74, shaving more than a second off his previous best … turned in Alabama’s top time of the season in the 400 IM. Prep Highlights: Swam for Terry Maul at the Area Tallahassee Aquatic Club and Barbara Hinson at the Brookwood School ... finaled in the 200m butterfly at the 2010 USA Senior National Championships ... three-time All-American, twice in the 100 butterfly and once in the 100 backstroke ... holds the Georgia Independent School Association state records in the 200 and 500 freestyles as well as the 100 backstroke and 100 butterfly ... led Brookwood to a runner-up finish at the State Championships in 2009 ... USA Junior National finalist in the 100 and 200 butterfly and the 500 freestyle ... . Member of the 2004, 2006 and 2008 Florida Zone Team ... silver medalist in the 100m and 200m butterfly at the 2008 Southern Zone Championships. Personal Information: Full name: Hunter Lofley Hinson ... son of Barbara and Lofley Hinson ... sister, Haley ... education major ... born August 28, 1991. Top Times: 400 IM 3:55.28 100 butterfly 49.69 200 butterfly 1:46.74 500 freestyle 4:27.73

2009 - Freshman: All-Conference Carolinas in the 100, 200 and 500 freestyle, the 400 and 800 freestyle relays and the 400 medley relay... took second in the 200 freestyle at the conference championship... earned All-American honors as a member of the 400 freestyle relay and honorable mention All-American honors in the 200

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PROFILES Bjoern

Jordan

Alex

HORNIKEL

LESSER

PUJOL

Freestyle

Diving

Backstroke

6-4 | Soph. | 1L

5-7 | Fr. | HS

5-10 | Soph. | SQ

Boblingen, Germany

North Potomac, Md.

Houston, Texas

Stratford

Thomas S. Wootton

Memorial

Prep Highlights: Swam for Dave Horton at City of Charleston Southern Marlins Racing Team ... also swam for Stratford High School ... state high school champion in the 50 and 100 freestyle in 2009 and 2010 ... high school state record in the 100 freestyle ... two-time All-American ... four-year all-state ... Stratford MVP in 2009 and 2010 ... twice named the “Post and Courier” High School Swimmer of the Year ... won seven state titles ... holds the South Carolina state record in the 100 freestyle (short course and long course), the 50 freestyle (long course) and as part of the 400 and 800 freestyle relays ... earned City of Charleston SMRT’s “Most Outstanding” award in 2010 ... named South Carolina Swimming’s Howard Wheeler award winner ... .Stratford’s “Athlete of the Year ... two-time USA Swimming Scholastic All-American. Personal Information: Full name: Bjoern Hornikel ... son of Jochen and Angelika Hornikel ... brother, Armin ... human performance exercise science major ... born May 6, 1992.

Prep Highlights: Dove for Doug Beavers and Jeff Stabile at Montgomery Dive Club … two-time USA Senior National Qualifier … took 20th off the platform at the 2011 AT&T National Championships … USA Junior National Finalist off the platform … school record holder … finished second at the Metropolitan Championships. Personal Information: Full name: Jordan Meyer Lesser ... son of Sarah and Gary Lesser ... sisters, Rachel and Orli ... chemistry major ... born August 21, 1992.

Brandon

LOWE Freestyle 6-1 | Jr. | SQ San Diego, Calif. Patrick Henry

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Sophomore: Competed in the 100, 200 and 500 freestyle at the SEC Championships. 2010 - Freshman: Competed in the 100, 200 and 500 freestyle at the SEC Championships ... shaved more than a second off his career-best 200 freestyle time at the Bulldog Invitational with a 1:38.79.

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Competed in the freestyle and backstroke events during the regular season … Posted career-best times in the 100 and 200 backstroke as well as 50 freestyle at the Bulldog Invitational, touching the wall at 50.02, 1:52.44 and 21.40 respectively ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll … earned the Crimson Tide’s Carlos Berrocal Most Improved award ... named to the Dean’s List (3.5 or better grade point average) for the spring semester. Prep Highlights: Swam for Ray Agular at DADS Club Swim Team ... earned All-American honors in 2009 and 2010 while swimming for Memorial High School ... Texas High School state finalist ... earned All-Region, All-District and All-State honors ... 2009 district champion as part of Memorial’s 400 freestyle relay ... DADS Club team captain. Personal Information: Full name: Alejandro Tomas Pujol ... son of Ignacio and Cindy Pujol ... management major ... born February 16, 1992. Top Times: 100 backstroke 50.02 200 backstroke 1:52.44 50 freestyle 21.40

Prep Highlights: A two-time All-American ... swam for Dave Kilmer and College Area Swim Team ... holds the Patrick Henry High School record in the 200 freestyle ... competed at the 2007 and 2008 USA Junior National Championship ... qualified for the 2009 USA Senior National Championships. Personal Information: Full name: Brandon Lowe ... son of Stephen and Sheri Lowe ... geography major ... born May 9, 1990. Top Times: 100 freestyle 46.16 200 freestyle 1:38.79

Top Times: 50 freestyle 19.98 100 freestyle 43.40 200 freestyle 1:37.82

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Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Freshman All-SEC … posted the league’s top freshman finish at the SEC Championships in the 100 freestyle … scored in the 50 and 100 freestyle at the SEC Championships, taking 16th in the 50 and eighth in the 100 … turned in career-best times in the 50 and 100 freestyle at the SEC Championships, turning in a 19.98 in the prelims of the 50 and a 43.40 in the prelims of the 100 … trimmed nearly a second off his best time in the 50 freestyle and a second and a half in the 100 freestyle … ranked third all-time for the Tide in the 100 freestyle … also competed in the 200 freestyle at the SEC Championships, posting a career-best 1:37.82 … part of Alabama’s school-record setting 400 freestyle relay at the SEC Championships … turned in Alabama’s top time of the season in the 100 freestyle ... named SEC Freshman of the Week (10/12/10) … named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll … honorable mention CSCAA Scholar All-American … Arne Borgstrom Most Valuable Newcomer ... named to the Dean’s List (3.5 or better grade point average) for the fall and spring semesters.

PROFILES Andrew

REEVES Breaststroke 6-2 | Jr. | SQ

Personal Information: Full name: Andrew Russell Reeves ... son of Russell and Linda Reeves ... has two brothers, David and Charles and one sister, Joy ... his brother Charles Reeves swam for Alabama from 2000-03 ... electrical and computer engineering major ... born December 9, 1989.

Birmingham, Ala. Vestavia Hills

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Junior: Competed in the breaststroke and IM events during the regular season … named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll … inducted into Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi honor societies … earned UA’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Junior Meritorious Award ... named to the President’s List (4.0 grade point average) for the fall and spring semester ... carries a perfect 4.0 GPA for his career.

PROFILES

2010 - Sophomore: Carries a perfect 4.0 grade point average into his junior season ... competed in the 100 breaststroke and 200 IM at the SEC Championships ... posted a career-best time in the 100 breaststroke at the SEC Championships, shaving more than a second off with a 55.98 ... posted a career-best time in the 200 breaststroke at the UT Invite, with a 2:06.64, more than two seconds faster than his previous best ... earned President’s List (4.0 or better GPA) honors for the fall and spring semesters ... inducted into the Tau Beta Pi and Golden Key honor societies ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... earned the Bob Dimick Most Scholastic award. 2009 - Freshman: Competed in the 100 and 200 breaststrokes and 50 freestyle at the SEC Championships ... posted career-best times in the 100 and 200 breaststrokes at the SEC Championships, touching at 57.66 and 2:09.03, respectively ... earned President’s List (4.0 or better GPA) honors for the fall and spring semesters ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. Prep Highlights: Swam for Rick Grammer at Vestavia Hills High School ... swam for Brian Wrighton at Birmingham Swim League ... 2008 Alabama State 100 Breaststroke Champion ... member of the 2008 Zone Team for Southeastern Swimming ... took third place in 100 breaststroke at Zones Championship ... took second in the 100 and 200 breaststroke at Southeastern Winter Championships ... also competed in football ... member of the National Honor Society and Spanish Honor Society ... graduated with a 4.31 grade point average ... National Merit Finalist.

John

SERVATI Freestyle/Backstroke 5-11 | FR | HS Tupelo, Miss.

Top Times: 100 breaststroke 55.98 200 breaststroke 2:06.64

Tupelo

Jake

REYNOLDS Backstroke 6-3 | Jr. | 1L Prattville, Ala. Prattville

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Sophomore: Competed in the freestyle events during the regular season … named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. 2010 - Freshman: Turned in Alabama’s top 50 and 100 freestyle times of the season ... posted a career-best 20.77 in the 50 freestyle at the SEC Championships ... swam the 50 and 100 freestyle and 100 backstroke at the SEC Championships ... earned Dean’s List (3.5 or better GPA) honors for the spring semester ... Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... earned CSCAA Honorable Mention Scholar All-American honors ... shared the Arne Borgstrom Most Valuable Newcomer award with Anestis Arampatzis.

Prep Highlights: Coached by Lucas Smith and Barbara Aguirre at Shock Wave Aquatic Team and Tupelo High School … U.S. Open qualifier and two-time NCSA Junior National Championship competitor … set the state records in the 200 freestyle and 100 backstroke and was part of the state record setting 200 medley and freestyle relays … Tupelo Sports Council Athlete of the Year in 2007 and 2010 … Tupelo High School to four consecutive Mississippi State Championships … Rotary Scholar …. National Spanish Honor Society Personal Information: Full name: John Albert Servati … son of Janet Gaston and Albert Servati … sisters, Sarah and Catherine … marine science/biology major … born February 1, 1993. Top Times: 200 freestyle 1:40.82 200 backstroke 1:49.47 100 backstroke 50.99

Prep Highlights: Alabama High School 100 backstroke state champion in 2006 ... swam for Paul Mielke at the Montgomery YMCA ... helped lead his club soccer team to a pair of state titles. Personal Information: Full name: Jacob Maxwell Reynolds ... son of Joseph and Mary Heather Reynolds ... human performance exercise science major ... born April 26, 1990. Top Times: 50 freestyle 20.77 100 freestyle 45.53 100 backstroke 50.11

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PROFILES Reese

Hunter

SHIREY

SMITH

Backstroke

Diving

6-1 | Jr. | 1L

5-8 | FR | HS

Muscle Shoals, Ala.

Sacramento, Calif.

Baylor School

C.K. McClatchy

2010 - Freshman: Competed in the 100 and 200 backstroke and the 50 freestyle at the SEC Championships ... posted a career-best time in the 200 backstroke at the SEC Championships, clocking a 1:48.44 ... earned Dean’s List (3.5 or better GPA) honors for the spring semester ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. Prep Highlights: All-American ... coached by Dan Flack at the Baylor School ... NISCA national high school record holder in the 50-meter short course freestyle and 100m short course backstroke ... competed at the 2008 Olympic Trials ... USA Swimming Scholastic All-American ... qualified to compete at the 2009 World Championship Trials ... along with Alabama teammate Josh Sosna, led Baylor to the Independent Schools National Championships and the Tennessee State Championships in 2008 and 2009 ... NISCA national high school record holder as part of Baylor’s 200m medley and 400m freestyle relays ... school record holder in the 100 yard backstroke. Personal Information: Full name: Reese Olan Shirey ... son of David and Elizabeth Shirey ... brother, Austin Shirey, competed for the Tide from 2005-08 ... entrepreneurship major with a minor in creative writing ... born August 16, 1990. Top Times: 200 backstroke 1:46.31 100 backstroke 49.66 200 IM 1:52.91 100 freestyle 46.42 50 freestyle 21.05

Prep Highlights: Coached by Dede Crayne and Laurel Abernathy at Capital Divers … two-time All-American … two-time sectional champion posted a pair of top-20 finishes at the 2010 USA Diving Age Group Championships. Personal Information: Full name: Hunter Chastain Smith … son of Happy Chastain and Shawn Smith … brothers, Beau and Joel … communication studies major … born October 29, 1992.

Personal Information: Full name: Devan Reid Terry ... son of Scott and Crystal Terry ... marine science/biology major ... born September 2, 1991. Top Times: 100 breaststroke 55.05 200 breaststroke 1:58.85 200 IM 1:49.55 100 butterfly 49.70

Devan

TERRY Breaststroke/IM

Mike

6-0 | Soph. | 1L

TONTILLO Freestyle

Louisville, Ky.

6-2 | Soph. | SQ

Louisville Male

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Freshman All-SEC … posted the league’s top freshman finish at the SEC Championships in the 100 breaststroke … scored in the 100 and 200 breaststroke at the SEC Championships, taking 11th in both … turned in Alabama’s top time of the season in the 100 and 200 breaststroke as well as the 200 IM … turned in career-best times in the 100 and 200 breaststroke and 200 IM at the SEC Championships, touching at 55.05, 1:58.85 and 1:49.55 respectively … shaved five seconds off his previous best in the 200 breaststroke … ranked eighth in the 200 breaststroke, ninth in the 200 IM and 10th in the 100 breaststroke all-time for Alabama … turned in Alabama’s top time of the season in the 100 and 200 breaststrokes and the 200 IM ... named SEC Freshman of the Week after winning the 100 and 200 breaststroke as well as the 200 IM at the UT Invite … named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll.… honorable mention CSCAA Scholar All-American ... named to the Dean’s List (3.5 or better grade point average) for the fall semester.

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Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Sophomore: Scored in the 200 backstroke at the SEC Championships, taking 15th place, touching the wall with a career-best 1:46.31, dropping more than two seconds off his previous best … also competed in the 100 backstroke and the 200 IM at the SEC Championships … named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... named to the Dean’s List (3.5 or better grade point average) for the fall semester.

Prep Highlights: Swam for Mike DeBoor at the Lakeside Seahawks swim club and Josh Poore at Louisville Male High School ... five-time All-American ... holds six school records ... first team All-State ... USA Senior National qualifier in the 100 and 200 breaststroke ... four-time Louisville Male MVP ... swim team captain as a senior ... 21-time state champion ... holds two state records ... honor student ... member of the Beta Club and Student Senate ... member of the Latin Club and Latin Honor Society ... voted “Most School Spirited” by the senior class and was a member of the Pep Club and Homecoming Court.

Cincinnati, Ohio St. Xavier

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Competed in the distance events during the regular season ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... named to the Dean’s List (3.5 or better grade point average) for the spring semester. Prep Highlights: Swam for Jim Brower at Cincinnati St. Xavier and Aaron Dorfman at Mercy Healthplex ... member of the 2010 Ohio State Championship squad ... scored at state championships in the 200 and 500 freestyles ... named Most-Improved Swimmer three straight years... set the Mercy Healthplex team record in the 200 and 500 yard freestyle and the 200 and 400 meter freestyle ... National Merit Finalist ... National Honor Society. Personal Information: Full name: Michael Tontillo ... son of Paul and Shannon Tontillo ... brothers, Pete and Joe ... education major … born September 28, 1991. Top Times: 200 freestyle 1:41.06 500 freestyle 4:42.01

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WEEKS Freestyle/Butterfly 6-1 | Sr. | SQ Poway, Calif. Poway

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Junior: Named to the Capital One/ CoSIDA Academic All-American at-Large Team, marking the 10th time a member of the Alabama Swimming and Diving program has earned the honor … Competed in the 100 and 200 butterfly and the 500 freestyle at the SEC Championships … posted a career-best time of 50.42 in the 100 butterfly at the SEC Championships and 1:49.22 in the 200 butterfly at the UT Invite … earned UA’s Special Achievement Award in Finance award … president of Alabama’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee … named to the SEC’s Community Service Team … named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... earned the Crimson Tide’s Bob Dimick Most Scholastic award... named to the President’s List (4.0 grade point average) for the fall and spring semester ... carries a perfect 4.0 GPA for his career. PROFILES

2010 - Sophomore: Carries a perfect 4.0 grade point average into his junior season ... posted a career-best 50.89 in the 100 butterfly at the SEC Championships time trials ... posted a careerbest 1:49.89 in the 200 butterfly at the Bulldog Invitational ... swam a career-best 4:32.24 in the 500 freestyle at the UT Invite ... earned President’s List (4.0 or better GPA) honors for the fall and spring semesters ... a member of the Computer-Based Honors Program, earning its Outstanding Student-Athlete award ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. 2009 - Freshman: Competed in the 200 and 500 freestyle and 200 butterfly at the SEC Championships ... posted career-best times in the 200 freestyle and 200 butterfly at the SEC Championships, touching at 1:41.95 and 1:50.86, respectively ... earned Dean’s List (3.5 or better GPA) honors for the fall and spring semesters ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. Prep Highlights: Swam for Tim Fuller and Damion Dennis at Poway High School ... swam for Scott Lawson at Inland Coastal Aquatics Club ... 2006, 2007 and 2008 Scholastic All-American ... 2008 NISCA All-American ... led Poway to the Palomar League Championship in 2007 and 2008 ... named Poway MVP in 2006, 2007 and 2008 ... League Athlete of the Year in 2008 ... holds three Poway school records - 200 freestyle, 200

freestyle relay and 400 freestyle relay ... first team Palomar League in 2007 and 2008 ... first team All-Academic in 2007 and 2008 ... played water polo for Poway, earning MVP honors as a sophomore ... swam for Pacific Swim, serving as co-captain in 2006-08 ... holds club records in the 400m freestyle and 500 freestyle ... holds the Inland Coastal Aquatics 200m butterfly record ... U.S. Junior National Qualifier in the 200 and 400m freestyle, 200m butterfly and 1000 freestyle ... member of the National Honor Society and the California Scholarship Federation. Personal Information: Full name: Kyle Edward Weeks ... son of Dan and Toni Weeks ... has one sister, Rachel ... finance major ... born May 29, 1990. Top Times: 100 butterfly 50.42 200 butterfly 1:49.22 200 freestyle 1:41.95 500 freestyle 4:34.24

George

WONG Freestyle 5-11 | Soph. | SQ Madison, Ala. Bob Jones

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Competed in the spring freestyle events during the regular season … posted career-best times in the 50 freestyle against Auburn, touching at 21.42, the 100 freestyle at the Bulldog Invite with a 46.15 and the 200 freestyle with a 1:41.84 at the UT Invite ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... named to the Dean’s List (3.5 or better grade point average) for the fall semester. Prep Highlights: Swam for Mike Gunner at Bob Jones High School and for Roger Von Jouanne at the Madison Swimming Association ... All-American ... Alabama state champion in the 100 freestyle ... member of the Alabama state record holding 200 and 400 freestyle relays ... Bob Jones team captain ... USA Swimming Scholastic All-American ... member of the National Honor Society.

Andrew

WRIST Freestyle/Butterfly/IM 5-9 | Soph. | SQ Charlotte, N.C. Mallard Creek

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Competed in the 200 butterfly and the 200 and 400 IMs at the SEC Championships … shaved more than five seconds off his career-best 200 butterfly, posting a 1:49.56 at the Bulldog Invite … dropped more than nine seconds off his career-best 400 IM, posting a 4:00.33 at the UT Invite … touched the wall with a career-best 51.04 in a time-trial at the SEC Championships ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll … inducted into Phi Eta Sigma and Alpha Lambda Delta honor societies ... named to the Dean’s List (3.5 or better grade point average) for the fall and spring semesters. Prep Highlights: Swam for Chris Webb and David Marsh at SwimMAC Carolina ... also swam for Mallard Creek High School ... I-MECK Conference 4A record holder in the 50 free ... top-five finisher in 50 freestyle and 100 butterfly at the 2010 North Carolina High School State Championships ... 2010 All-Regional ... four-time conference champion in 200 freestyle relay, 100 breaststroke, 200 IM, and 50 freestyle ... three-year team captain ... US Swimming Scholastic All-American ... Junior National Qualifier ... helped lead SwimMAC to the men’s 2010 U.S. Long Course Junior National Championship ... National Honors Society ... student council treasurer ... 2009-2010 Scholar Athlete of the year for Mallard Creek. Personal Information: Full name: Andrew Harley Wrist ... son of Kathryn and Mike Noftzger ... brother, Michael ... sisters, Lexi and Danielle ... aerospace engineering major ... born March 12, 1992. Top Times: 100 butterfly 51.04 200 butterfly 1:49.56 400 IM 4:00.33 200 IM 1:52.40

Personal Information: Full name: George Wong ... son of Chung Ming and Qui Hong Wong ... brother, Brandon ... mechanical engineering major ... born July 30, 1992. Top Times: 50 freestyle 21.42 100 freestyle 46.15 200 freestyle 1:41.84

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PROFILES 800m freestyle relay ... swam for Julia Lawson at Leon High School ... swam for Terry Maul at Area Tallahassee Aquatic Club ... won five individual and two relay Florida State High School titles and posted four state runner-up finishes ... 2007 Florida Pinch-A-Penny Swimmer of the Year ... 2007 Florida Dairy Farmer’s Swimmer of the Year ... three-time Big Bend Swimmer of the Year ... holds eight high school records ... fourtime team MVP ... competed at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 100 and 400m freestyle and the 200m backstroke ... Club Team Southern Zone Sectionals Champions ... past member of the Boy Scouts. Personal Information: Full name: Joseph Albert Ziegler ... son of Roy and Ruth Ziegler ... brother, Stephen ... English/ creative writing major ... born March, 10, 1990.

Joe

ZIEGLER Freestyle/Backstroke 6-2 | SR | 3L Tallahassee, Fla. Leon

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Junior: Scored in the 100 and 200 backstrokes and the 200 freestyle at the SEC Championships, finishing 13th, 9th and 14th respectively … bettered his own school record in the 200 backstroke, shaving nearly a second off his previous best, touching the wall at 1:43.84 at the SEC Championships … posted a careerbest 48.19 in the 100 backstroke at the SEC Championships, which ranks him third all-time at Alabama … anchored Alabama’s schoolrecord setting 400 freestyle relay at the SEC Championships … turned in Alabama’s top time of the season in the 100 and 200 backstrokes as well as the 200 freestyle … named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. 2010 - Sophomore: Scored in the 200 backstroke at the SEC Championships, taking 11th place ... also swam the 100 backstroke and 500 freestyle at the SEC Championships ... turned in Alabama’s top 200 backstroke and 200 freestyle times of the season ... turned in a career-best 49.17 in the 100 backstroke at the UT Invite, which ranks him seventh all-time for the Crimson Tide ... earned Dean’s List (3.5 or better

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GPA) honors for the spring semester ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... earned CSCAA Honorable Mention Scholar All-American honors. 2009 - Summer: Finaled in the 200m backstroke at the USA Swimming National Championships and World Championship Trials. 2009 - Freshman: Member of the school record setting 800 freestyle relay, which broke the previous mark set in 1983 ... competed in the 200 and 500 freestyles and 200 backstroke at the NCAA Championships ... posted a career-best time of 44.33 in the 100 freestyle as the leadoff of the Tide’s 400 freestyle relay at the SEC Championships ... scored in the 200 and 500 freestyle at the SEC Championships, taking 13th and 10th, respectively with career-best times of 1:36.31 and 4:17.23 ... in addition to being ranked first all-time at Alabama in the 200 backstroke, he is ranked fourth in the 200 and 500 freestyles ... earned the Arne Borgstrom Most Valuable Newcomer award. Prep Highlights: Member of the USA National Junior Team, 2006-08 ... qualified for the USA FINA Youth World Championship Team in 2006 and 2008 ... qualified for the 2005-06 National Junior Team ... as part of the U.S. National Junior Team competed at the 2008 Victorian Championships in Melbourne, Australia, winning gold in the 800m freestyle relay and silver in the 400m freestyle relay ... also a member of the U.S. Junior Pan Pacific Championship Team winning silver in the

PROFILES

Top Times: 200 backstroke 1:43.84 SR 100 backstroke 48.19 50 freestyle 21.02 100 freestyle 44.33 200 freestyle 1:36.31 500 freestyle 4:17.23

Luke

ZIPPI Diving 5-7 | Soph. | SQ Melbourne, Fla. Viera

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Competed off the 1-meter, 3-meter and platform at the NCAA Zone B Championships ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. Prep Highlights: Dove for Michelle Sirounis at Viera High School and Gregg Servaites at Treasure Coast Dive Team ... 2009 Florida 2A State Champion ... earned a silver medal off the 3-meter board at the 2009 AAU National Championships ... also competed on Viera’s track and field team. Personal Information: Full name: Luke Carl Zippi ... son of Mary and Carl Zippi ... brothers, Zack and Blake ... premajor studies ... born April 14, 1992.

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The Crimson Tide men’s team scored at the NCAA Championships for the 38th time in the last 39 years, and 10th year in a row when it scored 10 points, taking 29th place. It marked the 37th time Alabama has finished in the top-30 nationally. Senior Adam Booher closed out his career by earning honorable mention All-American honors off the 1-meter and 3-meter boards. He took 10th off the 1-meter and 14th off the 3-meter. Senior Catalin Cosma also closed out his Tide tenure at the NCAA Championships, finishing 26th in the 1650 freestyle. At the Southeastern Conference Championships, Booher posted the Tide’s top finish, with a pair of fourth place finishes of the 1-meter and 3-meter boards while freshman Alex Coci posted the Tide’s top swimming finish, taking sixth in the 200 butterfly. Junior Joe Ziegler bettered his own school record in the 200 backstroke, touching with a 1:43.84 at the SEC Championships. He was also part of the Tide’s new school record holding 400 freestyle, joining with freshmen Vlad Caciuc, Bjoern Hornikel and Alex Coci to post a 2:53.47 at the SEC Championships. Hornikel, Coci and Devan Terry all earned Freshman All-SEC honors. There was significant movement on the Tide’s all-time top-10 lists, with 10 swimmers putting 18 swims on the lists, either jumping on or moving up. Overall swimmers on the 2010-11 squad accounted for 28 swims on the Tide’s all-time top 10, including five of 10 on the 200 butterfly list. Alabama also got it done in the classroom with a dozen upperclassmen making the SEC Academic honor roll and eight earning CSCAA Scholar All-American honors. As a team, Alabama was named to the CSCAA Scholar All-American winter and spring lists. The Tide was also the only program in the nation to put three student-athletes, Booher, junior Kyle Weeks and senior Daniel Armstrong on the CoSIDA Academic All-District IV At-Large Team. Weeks moved up to the Academic All-American At-Large Team. Booher became the eighth member of the swimming and diving program to earn an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.

2010-11 Season Results (7-2, 3-2 SEC) 10.09.10 10.23.10 11.18-20.10 12.16-18.10 01.15.11 01.22.11 01.30.10

Auburn LSU UT Invitational LSU Diving Classic at Kentucky Florida State at South Carolina vs. Georgia 02.11.11 SEC Championships 2.26-27.11 Bulldog Invite 3.5-6.11 Auburn Invite 3.11-13.11 NCAA Zone B Diving 03.17.11 NCAA Championships

Tuscaloosa, Ala. Tuscaloosa, Ala. Knoxville, Tenn. Baton Rouge, La. Lexington, Ky. Tuscaloosa, Ala. Columbia, S.C.

W. 133-110 W, 161-139 1st (1191 points) No Scoring W, 178-122 W, 157.5-141.5 L, 160-140 L, 177.5-120.5 Gainesville, Fla. 6th (271 points) Athens, Ga. No Scoring Auburn, Ala. No Scoring Athens, Ga. No Scoring Austin, Texas 29th (10 points)

Name Anestis Arampatzis Daniel Armstrong Alan Axford Oliver Basse Adam Booher Vlad Caciuc Jake Carloni Brian Carr Alex Coci Cameron Conners Catalin Cosma Phillip Dockery Ryan Dugan Gilles Gutnecht Peter Hillyer Hunter Hinson Bjoern Hornikel Brandon Lowe Alex Pujol Andrew Reeves Jake Reynolds Andrea Rezzonico Daniel Rozick Reese Shirey Devan Terry Mike Tontillo Kyle Weeks George Wong Andrew Wrist Joe Ziegler Luke Zippi Denes Zubcsek

2010-11 MEN’S ROSTER

Event(s) Butterfly/Freestyle Individual Medley Backstroke Butterfly Diving Freestyle Diving Freestyle Butterfly Breaststroke Freestyle Breast/IM Butterfly/Backstroke Freestyle Diving Butterfly/Backstroke Freestyle Freestyle Backstroke Breaststroke Backstroke Freestyle Freestyle Backstroke Breaststroke/IM Freestyle Freestyle/Butterfly Freestyle Butterfly/IM Freestyle/Backstroke Diving Butterfly

Height 6-2 6-2 6-1 5-11 5-6 5-9 5-8 5-11 5-9 6-0 6-0 5-10 6-2 5-10 5-11 5-11 6-4 6-1 5-10 6-2 6-3 6-3 5-10 6-1 6-0 6-2 6-1 5-11 5-9 6-2 5-7 5-9

2010-11 Team Awards Mike Curington Most Valuable: Adam Booher Arne Borgstrom Most Valuable Newcomer: Bjoern Hornikel Marshall Shoemaker Most Dedicated: Denes Zubcsek Carlos Berrocal Most Improved: Alex Pujol Robert Dimick Most Scholastic: Kyle Weeks Coaches’ Award: Alex Coci Captain: Daniel Armstrong Alabama Records Joe Ziegler 200 Backstroke (SEC Championships • 2.19.10) Vlad Caciuc, 400 Freestyle Relay Bjoern Hornikel, Alex Coci, Joe Ziegler (SEC Championships • 2.19.10)

1:43.84 2:53.47

All-American Adam Booher NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Adam Booher CoSIDA Academic All-America At-Large Team Kyle Weeks CoSIDA Academic All-District IV At-Large Team Kyle Lee, Daniel Armstrong and Adam Booher

Year Soph. Sr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Fr. Fr. Fr. Fr. Fr. Sr. Fr. Jr. Jr. Soph. Fr. Fr. Soph. Fr. Jr. Soph. Jr. Sr. Soph. Fr. Fr. Jr. Fr. Fr. Jr. Fr. Sr.

Hometown (Last School) Thessaloniki, Greece (Aristotle University) Madison, Ala. (Bob Jones) Oneonta, Ala. (Oneonta) West Palm Beach, Fla. (Cardinal Newman) Washington, D.C. (Gaithersburg) Bogdan Voda, Romania (Sportive) Branford, Conn. (Branford) New Orleans, La. (Jesuit) Bai Mare, Romania (Sportive) Huntsville, Ala. (Randolph) Arad, Romania Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Hillcrest) Marietta, Ga. (Marietta) Marseille, France (Jean Moulin) Atlanta, Ga. (St. Pius) Cairo, Ga. (Brookwood) Boblingen, Germany (Stratford) San Diego, Calif. (Patrick Henry) Houston, Texas (Memorial) Birmingham, Ala. (Vestavia Hills) Prattville, Ala. (Prattville) Castel San Pietro, Switzerland (Liceo Cantonale) Port Matilda, Penn. (State College Area) Muscle Shoals, Ala. (Baylor School) Louisville, Ky. (Louisville Male) Cincinnati, Ohio (St. Xavier) Poway, Calif. (Poway) Madison, Ala. (Bob Jones) Charlotte, N.C. (Mallard Creek) Tallahassee, Fla. (Leon) Melbourne, Fla. (Viera) Budapest,Hungary (Kolcsey Ferenc)

CSCAA Team Scholar All-American Recognition Fall (3.32 team grade point average), Spring (3.44 team grade point average) CSCAA Scholar All-Americans First-Team - Adam Booher, Catalin Cosma Honorable Mention - Daniel Armstrong, Alan Axford, Bjoern Hornikel, Reese Shirey, Devan Terry, Denes Zubcsek Freshmen All-SEC Southeastern Conference Devan Terry, Bjoern Hornikel and Alex Coci SEC Academic Honor Roll Daniel Armstrong, Alan Axford, Adam Booher, Jake Carloni, Brian Carr, Cameron Conners, Catalin Cosma, Phillip Dockery, Bjoern Hornikel, Alex Pujol, Andrew Reeves, Jake Reynolds, Andrea Rezzonico, Daniel Rozick, Reese Shirey, Devan Terry, Mike Tontillo, Kyle Weeks, George Wong, Andrew Wrist, Joe Ziegler, Luke Zippi, Denes Zubcsek SEC Community Service Team Kyle Weeks SEC Freshman of the Week Devan Terry (11/9/10), Bjoern Hornikel (10/12/10)

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2010-11 MENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TOP MARKS Fr. Fr. Fr. Fr. Jr.

2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 2/26-27/11 3/5-6/11 11/18-20/10

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga. Auburn Invite - Auburn, Ala. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn.

00:19.86 B 00:19.98 B 00:20.78 00:20.82 00:21.21 #

100 Butterfly Alex Coci Anestis Arampatzis Oliver Basse Denes Zubcsek Devan Terry

Fr. So. Jr. Sr. Fr.

2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 11/18-20/10

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn.

00:47.35 B 00:47.97 B 00:49.20 00:49.32 00:49.70

100 Freestyle Bjoern Hornikel Vlad Caciuc Alex Coci Gilles Gutnecht Jake Reynolds

Fr. Fr. Fr. Jr. So.

2/16-19/11 1/29/11 3/5-6/11 2/16-19/11 2/26-27/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. USC/UGA - Columbia, S.C. Auburn Invite - Auburn, Ala. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga.

00:43.40 B 00:44.10 B# 00:45.04 00:45.85 00:45.96

200 Butterfly Alex Coci Denes Zubcsek Anestis Arampatzis Hunter Hinson Oliver Basse

Fr. Sr. So. Fr. Jr.

2/16-19/11 3/5-6/11 2/26-27/11 3/5-6/11 2/16-19/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. Auburn Invite - Auburn, Ala. Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga. Auburn Invite - Auburn, Ala. SECs - Gainesville, Fla.

01:45.43 B 01:45.46 B 01:45.78 B 01:46.74 01:47.31 B

200 Freestyle Joe Ziegler Catalin Cosma Bjoern Hornikel Denes Zubcsek Gilles Gutnecht

Jr. Sr. Fr. Sr. Jr.

2/16-19/11 11/18-20/10 2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla.

01:36.61 B 01:37.81 B 01:37.82 B 01:38.76 01:39.33

200 Individual Medley Devan Terry Daniel Armstrong Alan Axford Oliver Basse Andrew Wrist

Fr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Fr.

2/16-19/11 11/18-20/10 2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 1/22/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. FSU - Tuscaloosa, Ala.

01:49.55 01:50.84 01:51.90 01:52.38 01:52.45

500 Freestyle Catalin Cosma Denes Zubcsek Hunter Hinson Brian Carr Brandon Lowe

Sr. Sr. Fr. Fr. So.

11/18-20/10 11/18-20/10 11/18-20/10 11/18-20/10 11/18-20/10

UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn.

04:19.85 B 04:26.45 B 04:27.73 B 04:29.95 04:31.49

400 Individual Medley Hunter Hinson Daniel Armstrong Andrew Wrist Cameron Conners Phillip Dockery

Fr. Sr. Fr. Fr. Fr.

11/18-20/10 11/18-20/10 11/18-20/10 1/29/11 11/18-20/10

UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. USC/UGA - Columbia, S.C. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn.

03:55.28 03:59.23 04:00.33 04:12.83 04:13.97

1000 Freestyle Catalin Cosma Brian Carr Andrew Wrist

Sr. Fr. Fr.

11/18-20/10 1/29/11 10/09/2010

UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. USC/UGA - Columbia, S.C. Auburn - Tuscaloosa, Ala.

09:05.57 # 09:38.49 09:44.46

200 Freestyle Relay Caciuc, Hornikel, Coci, Ziegler

2/16-19/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla.

01:19.45 B

400 Freestyle Relay Caciuc, Hornikel, Coci, Ziegler

2/16-19/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla.

02:53.47 B SR

800 Freestyle Relay Zubcsek, Cosma, Hornikel, Ziegler

2/16-19/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla.

06:27.92 B

200 Medley Relay Axford, Armstrong, Coci, Caciuc

2/16-19/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla..

01:28.01 B

400 Medley Relay Axford, Terry, Coci, Hornikel

2/16-19/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla.

03:13.06 B

1650 Freestyle Catalin Cosma Brian Carr Joe Ziegler Andrew Wrist

Sr. Fr. Jr. Fr.

11/18-20/10 2/16-19/11 11/18-20/10 11/18-20/10

UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn.

15:02.08 B 15:44.54 15:54.90 16:23.33

100 Backstroke Joe Ziegler Alex Coci Alan Axford Reese Shirey Alex Pujol

Jr. Fr. Sr. So. Fr.

2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 11/18-20/10 2/26-27/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga.

00:48.19 B 00:48.27 B 00:48.64 B 00:49.90 # 00:50.02

200 Backstroke Joe Ziegler Reese Shirey Alan Axford Ryan Dugan Alex Pujol

Jr. So. Sr. Jr. Fr.

2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 11/18-20/10 2/26-27/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga.

01:43.84 B SR 01:46.31 B 01:47.22 01:52.15 01:52.44

100 Breaststroke Devan Terry Daniel Armstrong Cameron Conners Andrew Reeves Phillip Dockery

Fr. Sr. Fr. Jr. Fr.

2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 12/10/10 11/18-20/10 2/26-27/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. USA Jr. Nationals - Atlanta, Ga. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga.

00:55.05 B 00:55.73 00:56.07 00:57.09 00:57.59

200 Breaststroke Devan Terry Cameron Conners Daniel Armstrong Phillip Dockery Andrew Reeves

Fr. Fr. Sr. Fr. Jr.

2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 2/26-27/11 11/18-20/10

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn.

01:58.85 B 02:01.95 02:02.98 02:06.25 02:07.11

One Meter Diving Adam Booher Luke Zippi Jake Carloni Peter Hillyer

Sr. Fr. Fr. So.

12/16-18/11 2/26-27/11 2/26-27/11 1/11-13/11

LSU Invitational - Baton Rouge, La. Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga. Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga. SECs - Gainesville, Fla.

396.70 Z 299.78 285.59 277.00

Three Meter Diving Adam Booher Jake Carloni Luke Zippi Peter Hillyer

Sr. Fr. Fr. So.

12/16-18/11 1/22/11 2/26-27/11 2/11-13/11

LSU Invitational - Baton Rouge, La. FSU - Tuscaloosa, Ala. Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga. SECs - Gainesville, Fla.

404.50 Z 384.73 Z 333.10 Z 297.15

Platform Diving Peter Hillyer Adam Booher Jake Carloni Luke Zippi

So. Sr. Fr. Fr.

2/26-27/11 12/16-18/11 12/16-18/11 12/16-18/11

Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga. LSU Invitational - Baton Rouge, La. LSU Invitational - Baton Rouge, La. LSU Invitational - Baton Rouge, La.

315.89 Z 281.20 254.05 204.75

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50 Freestyle Vlad Caciuc Bjoern Hornikel Jake Reynolds Alex Coci Joe Ziegler

SR = School Record | # Leadoff Split | A = A Standard | B = B Standard | Z = Qualified for Zone Championships

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ALABAMA IN THE 2011 CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON AT THE 2011 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS March 24-26 at Minneapolis, Minn. 1. California 2. Texas 3. Stanford 4. Arizona 5. Florida 6. Auburn 7. Southern Cal 8. Virginia 9. Michigan 10. Georgia 29. Alabama

Prelims 493.0 470.5 403.0 302.0 291.0 269.5 206.0 200.0 181.0 125.5 10.0

Finals

1-METER DIVING 10. Adam Booher

Sr.

332.10

375.85

Sr.

359.35

359.95

3-METER DIVING 14. Adam Booher

Finals

26. Catalin Cosma

Sr.

15:16.88

Sr.

4:28.32

Sr.

1:41.20

500 FREESTYLE

PLATFORM DIVING 21. Adam Booher

Prelims

1650 FREESTYLE

Sr.

45. Catalin Cosma

200 FREESTYLE 270.80

48. Catalin Cosma

AT THE 2011 SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS February 11-13, 16-19 at Gainesville, Fla. 1. Auburn 2. Florida 3. Tennessee 4. Georgia 5. LSU 6. Alabama 7. South Carolina 8. Kentucky

50 FREESTYLE 15 Vlad Caciuc 16 Bjoern Hornikel 41 Anestis Arampatzis

Fr. Fr. Soph.

100 FREESTYLE

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8 15 30 34

Bjoern Hornikel Vlad Caciuc Gilles Gutnecht Brandon Lowe

Joe Ziegler Bjoern Hornikel Catalin Cosma Gilles Gutnecht Brandon Lowe Brian Carr

Catalin Cosma Hunter Hinson Denes Zubcsek Brian Carr Brandon Lowe Gilles Gutnecht Kyle Weeks

Finals 43.68 44.29

Jr. Fr. Sr. Jr. Soph. Fr.

Prelims 1:38.32 1:37.82 1:38.11 1:39.33 1:39.51 1:41.76

Finals 1:37.35

Sr. Fr. Sr. Fr. Soph. Jr. Jr.

Prelims 4:23.88 4:29.07 4:30.66 4:32.84 4:34.39 4:34.70 4:40.44

Finals 4:21.69

1650 FREESTYLE 12 Catalin Cosma 17 Brian Carr

Finals 20.00 20.34

Prelims 43.40 44.27 45.85 46.41

500 FREESTYLE 10 23 25 27 28 29 32

Prelims 19.86 19.98 22.47

Fr. Fr. Jr. Soph.

200 FREESTYLE 14 17 19 23 24 35

799.0 782.0 602.5 496.0 271.5 271.0 217.0 199.0

Sr. Fr.

Prelims 15:44.54

100 BACKSTROKE 13 14 16 23

Jr. Fr. Sr. Soph.

200 BACKSTROKE 9 Joe Ziegler 15 Reese Shirey 16 Alan Axford

Prelims 1:45.22 1:46.31 1:47.22

Jr. Soph. Sr.

100 BREASTSTROKE 11 Devan Terry 16 Dan Armstrong 19 Cameron Conners

11 Devan Terry 14 Cameron Conners 18 Dan Armstrong

Fr. Fr. Sr.

Prelims 2:00.16 2:01.95 2:02.98

Finals 1:58.85 2:02.28

Fr. Jr. Sr. Jr.

Prelims 47.43 49.20 49.32 50.42

Finals 47.35

200 BUTTERFLY 6 12 18 19 20 ---

Alex Coci Anestis Arampatzis Oliver Basse Denes Zubcsek Hunter Hinson Kyle Weeks Andrew Wrist

Devan Terry Alan Axford Dan Armstrong Oliver Basse Reese Shirey Andrew Wrist Cameron Conners

400 IM 18 Hunter Hinson 26 Andrew Wrist

Fr. Fr.

200 MEDLEY RELAY 7 Alabama Alan Axford, Dan Armstrong Alex Coci, Vlad Caciuc

400 MEDLEY RELAY 6 Alabama

Prelims 3:55.56 4:02.33

Finals

Prelims

Finals 1:28.01

Prelims

Finals 3:13.06

Alan Axford, Devan Terry, Alex Coci, Bjoern Hornikel

200 FREESTYLE RELAY 6 Alabama Vlad Caciuc, Bjoern Hornikel, Alex Coci, Joe Ziegler

Prelims

400 FREESTYLE RELAY 3 Alabama Vlad Caciuc, Bjoern Hornikel, Alex Coci, Joe Ziegler

Prelims

800 FREESTYLE RELAY

Fr. Soph. Jr. Sr. Fr. Jr. Fr.

Prelims 1:45.99 1:46.02 1:47.31 1:47.50 1:48.56 1:49.78 1:50.76

Finals 1:45.43 1:45.98

Fr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Soph. Fr. Fr.

Prelims 1:49.55 1:51.90 1:52.08 1:52.38 1:52.91 1:52.93 1:53.89

Finals

200 IM 22 30 33 34 35 36 37

Finals 1:43.84 1:47.29 1:47.39 Finals 55.08 55.83

100 BUTTERFLY Alex Coci Oliver Basse Denes Zubcsek Kyle Weeks

Finals 48.19 48.27 49.25

Prelims 55.05 55.73 56.09

Fr. Sr. Fr.

200 BREASTSTROKE

12 24 26 29

Finals 15:23.53

Joe Ziegler Alex Coci Alan Axford Reese Shirey

Prelims 48.50 48.34 48.64 50.09

4 Adam Booher 20 Peter Hillyer

3-METER DIVING 4 Adam Booher 17 Peter Hillyer

Finals 6:27.92

Sr. Soph.

357.00 277.00

380.45

Sr. Soph.

340.10 297.15

382.20

PLATFORM DIVING 9 Adam Booher 13 Peter Hillyer

Finals 2:53.47

Prelims

6 Alabama Denes Zubcsek, Catalin Cosma, Bjoern Hornikel, Joe Ziegler

1-METER DIVING

Finals 1:19.45

Sr. Soph.

ALABAMA SWIMMING AND DIVING

306.25 285.10

RECORDS & HISTORY

TWO-TIME NCAA CHAMPION VLAD POLAKOV (2003-07)

ALABAMA ON THE NATIONAL SCENCE with current UA assistant coach Stefan Gherghel winning the 200 butterfly in 2002 and 2003 while Vlad Polyakov won the 200 breaststroke title in 2005 and 2007. The Tide has also been prolific on the All-American front, with 21 Alabama men earning 100 All-American honors since 2000. The Crimson Tide’s highest NCAA finish came when Alabama earned the runner-up position at the 1977 championships. Alabama has finished in the top 10 a dozen times. Members of the Tide lay claim to 11 individual NCAA titles, with Jonty Skinner earning the

THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS Year 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992

Champion California Texas Auburn Arizona Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn Texas Texas Texas Auburn Stanford Auburn Texas Michigan Stanford Stanford Stanford

Alabama Finish 29th (10 points) 26th (26 points) 21st (34 points) 22nd (37 points) 14th (91.5 points) 13th (114.5 points) 14th (98 points) 34th (3 points) 12th (115 points) 20th (34 points) — 22nd (25 points) 22nd (35 points) 25th (34 points) 23rd (40 points) 30th (18 points) 26th (17 points) 10th (146 points) 18th (71.5 points) 20th (50 points)

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Site Minneapolis, Minn. Columbus, Ohio College Station, Texas Federal Way, Wash. Minneapolis, Minn. Atlanta, Ga. Minneapolis, Minn. East Meadow, N.Y. Austin, Texas Athens, Ga. College Station, Texas Minneapolis, Minn. Indianapolis, Ind. Auburn, Ala. Minneapolis, Minn. Austin, Texas Indianapolis, Ind. Minneapolis, Ind. Indianapolis, Ind. Indianapolis, Ind.

Year 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973

first one, winning the 100 freestyle in 1975, while Polyakov’s 2007 200 breaststroke championship is the latest. Members of the Tide have also set three NCAA records. Skinner set the 100 freestyle record. Casey Converse became the first man to break the 15-minute barrier in the 1650 freestyle on his way to winning the event in 1977. Converse also set an NCAA record in the 1000 freestyle during a dual meet at Auburn. All-American status has been earned by more than 100 members of the Tide since 1970.

Champion Texas Texas Texas Texas Stanford Stanford Stanford Florida Florida UCLA Texas California California Tennessee Southern California Southern California Southern California Southern California Indiana

Alabama Finish 11th (139 points) 9th (176 points) 20th (68 points) 14th (78 points) 16th (68 points) 8th (136 points) 8th (179 points) 12th (35 points) 5th (157.5 points) 7th (112 points) 8th (116 points) 13th (39 points) 8th (90 points) 7th (133 points) 2nd (204 points) 5th (135 points) 5th (165 points) 19th (12 points) 28th (1 point)

Site Austin, Texas Indianapolis, Ind. Indianapolis, Ind. Indianapolis, Ind. Austin, Texas Indianapolis, Ind. Austin, Texas Cleveland, Ohio Indianapolis, Ind. Milwaukee, Wis. Austin, Texas Cambridge, Mass. Cleveland, Ohio Long Beach, Calif. Cleveland, Ohio Providence, R.I. Cleveland, Ohio Long Beach, Calif. Knoxville, Tenn.

RECORDS & HISTORY

The Alabama Crimson Tide burst onto the national scene in the early 1970s and has never left the spotlight. Year-in and year-out, the Tide has produced some of the nation’s finest team and individual performances. Last season, Alabama finished 26th at the NCAA Championships, marking the 36th time the Crimson Tide has finished the season in the top 30, a mark that includes 32 top-25 finishes. In 2007, the Tide was 14th, which was the 20th time UA has finished in the top 15. On an individual basis, Alabama has brought home four NCAA titles over the last decade

RECORDS & HISTORY

ALABAMA’S ALL-AMERICANS

12-TIME ALL-AMERICAN APOSTOLIS TSAGKARAKIS (2003-07)

ALABAMA ALL-AMERICANS 2011

Adam Booher

2010 Aaron Fleshner Mark Randall

2009 Catalin Cosma Aaron Fleshner Mark Randall

2008

Catalin Cosma Aaron Fleshner

2007 RECORDS & HISTORY

Aaron Fleshner Chris Perry Hunor Mate Alin Mihalca Vlad Polyakov Apostolis Tsagkarakis

2006 Aaron Ashworth Spiros Bitsakis Darren Erasmus Mike Jones Ryan Latone

HM: 1-meter, 3-meter

Chris Perry Vlad Polyakov Mark Randall

3-meter, HM: platform 1650 free

HM: 500 free platform, HM: 3-meter HM: 1650 free, 500 free

Apostolis Tsagkarakis

2005

Aaron Ashworth Darren Erasmus Hunor Mate’ Vlad Polyakov

1650 free, HM: 500 free 3-meter, HM: platform

3-meter, HM: platform HM: 200 medley relay, 400 medley relay 200 breast, HM: 100 breast HM: 200 medley relay, 400 medley relay 100 breast, 200 breast, HM: 200 medley relay, 400 medley relay 50 Free, HM: 200 medley relay, 400 medley relay

Stewart Smith Franck Southon Apostolis Tsagkarakis

2004

Aaron Ashworth

2003 Spiros Bitsakis Darren Erasmus Stefan Gherghel Vlad Polyakov

HM: 1-meter, 3-meter & platform 200 free relay HM: 800 free relay, 400 medley relay 200 free relay HM: 200 & 400 medley relay 200 free relay HM: 800 free relay

Stewart Smith Franck Southon Apostolis Tsagkarakis James Willcox

HM: 200 & 400 medley relay 100 & 200 breast HM: 200 & 400 medley relay 1650 free HM: 500 free, 800 free relay 200 free relay HM: 50 free, 200 medley relay, 800 free relay

HM: 3-meter & platform HM: 100 free, 200 & 400 medley relay HM: 200 breast 100 & 200 breast HM: 200 & 400 medley relay 1-meter HM: 3-meter & platform HM: 200 & 400 medley relay HM: 200 & 400 medley relay

HM: 3-meter

200 medley relay HM: 200, 400 & 800 free relay HM: 200 & 400 free relay 200 fly, 200 medley relay HM: 100 fly, 200, 400 & 800 free relay 200 breast, 200 medley relay HM: 100 breast HM: 1-meter, platform HM: 800 free relay 200 medley relay HM: 200 free & 400 free relay HM: 800 free relay

2002

Stefan Gherghel Stewart Smith

2000

Oren Azrad Mark Jollands JP Richard Glen Walshaw

1999 Brent Roberts

200 fly 1-meter

HM: 800 free relay HM: 200, 500, 1650 free, 800 free relay HM: 800 free relay HM: 800 free relay

1-meter, 3-meter, platform

1998 Brent Roberts

1997 Brent Roberts Mark Jollands Donald Morrison Arnar Olafsson Glen Walshaw

1996 Brent Roberts

1995 Rafael Alvarez Alex Voris

1994 Rafael Alvarez Josh Luber Dustin McDaniels Russell McDowell Stavros Michaelides

1-meter, platform; HM: 3-meter

1-meter, platform; HM: 3-meter 800 free relay 800 free relay 800 free relay 800 free relay

platform; HM: 3-meter

HM: platform, 1-meter HM: 100 free

platform diving, HM: 3-meter HM: platform diving 200, 400 medley relay 200, 400 medley relay 200 medley relay; HM: 200 free relay

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13-TIME ALL-AMERICAN TRAVIS MYERS (1991-94)

ALABAMA ALL-AMERICANS Rick Richmond Bruce Snodgrass David Strassburg Alex Voris

1993 Dustin McDaniels Russell McDowell Stavros Michaelides Jamey Myers Travis Myers David Strassburg Mike Tamberino

1992 Dan Lacina Keith Martin Stavros Michaelides Jamey Myers Travis Myers Stefan Parlklo

100, 200 breast, 200, 400 medley relay; HM: 200, 400 free relay HM: 3-meter HM: 100 fly, 200, 400, 800 free relay 400 medley relay, HM: 200, 400, 800 free relay HM: 200 free, 200, 400, 800 free relay

HM: 200 free relay 200 medley relay; HM: 400 medley relay 200 medley relay; HM: 200 free relay 200 medley relay; HM: 400 medley relay 200 medley relay; HM: 100 breast, 400 medley relay, 200 free relay HM: 200 free, 200 free relay, 400 medley relay HM: 3-meter

HM: 400 medley relay 200 medley relay; HM: 200 free relay, 400 medley 200 medley relay; HM: 400 medley relay, 200 free relay 200 medley relay; HM: 100 back, 400 medley relay 200 medley relay; HM:100 breast, 200 free relay HM: 200 free relay, 400 medley relay

1991

Dan Lacina Keith Martin Stavros Michaelides Jamey Myers Jon Olsen Stefan Parlklo Mark Rourke

1990 Craig Ammon Scott Hamlet Keith Martin Chris McDaniels Ed Morse Jamey Myers Jon Olsen Stefan Parlklo Richard Patino Scott Pomerleau Mark Rourke

1989 Craig Ammon Keith Martin Chris McDaniels Dave Meck Jon Olsen Richard Patino

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200 medley relay 200 medley relay, HM: 200, 400 free relay HM: 200, 400 free relay 200 medley relay, HM: 100 back 50, 100, 200 free, 200 medley relay, HM: 200, 400 free relay HM: 200, 400 free relay 1-meter, 3-meter & platform

800 free relay, HM: 200 medley relay, 200,400 free relay 1650 free, 800 free relay, HM: 500 free HM: 200, 400 free relay, 200 medley relay HM: 100 breast, 200, 400 medley relay, 200 free relay platform, HM: 3-meter HM: 200, 400 medley relay 100, 200 free, 800 free relay, HM: 50 free, 200, 400 free relay, 400 medley relay HM: 400 medley relay 800 free relay, HM: 400 free relay HM: 1-meter, platform 1-meter, 3-meter

Mark Rourke Torsten Wiegel

1988 Jim Askervold Bruce Gennari Frank Iacono Chris McDaniels Dave Meck Mark Nieuwenhuis Jon Olsen Mark Rourke

1987

Ricardo Aldabe Jim Askervold Peter Berndt Chris McDaniels Mark Nieuwenhuis Enrique Romero Perry White

1986 Ricardo Aldabe Don Berger Peter Berndt

HM: 200, 800 free relay HM: 200 free relay HM: 100 breast HM: 200, 800 free relay 100, 200 free, HM: 200, 800 free relay HM: 800 free relay

Filiberto Colon Mike Davidson Bruce Gennari Frank Iacono Bryan Jennings

3-meter, HM: 1-meter HM: 800 free relay

100 fly, 400 free relay, HM: 400 medley relay 800 free relay 800 free relay HM: 1650 free HM: 100 breast, 200 breast, 400 medley relay 400, 800 free relay, HM: 400 medley relay 400 free relay 400, 800 free relay, HM: 400 medley relay HM: 1-meter, 3-meter

HM: 400 medley relay HM: 400 medley relay 200 IM, 200 back HM: 400 IM HM: 400 medley relay HM: 400 medley relay HM: 200 breast 1-meter, 3-meter

RECORDS & HISTORY

Travis Myers

800 free relay, HM: 100, 200 back, 400 free relay 800 free relay HM: 200 free, 400 free relay 200, 400 IM, 200 back, HM: 400 free relay HM: 200 fly HM: 1650 free 800 free relay 1650 free, 800 free relay HM: 500 free 200 back

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ALABAMA ALL-AMERICANS Ricardo Valdivia Tom Virag

HM: 1650 free HM: 400 free relay

1985 Ricardo Aldabe Don Berger Peter Berndt Filiberto Colon Bryan Jennings Justin Lemberg Felix Morf Jay Posey Andreas Schmidt Jon Sieben

400, 800 free relay 200 free, 400, 800 free relay 200, 400 IM HM: 200 fly 100, 200 back, 400 medley relay 800 free relay 400 medley relay 400, 800 free relay 400 free relay, 400 medley relay 100, 200 fly, 400 medley relay

1984 Don Berger Filiberto Colon Bryan Jennings Marcello Juca Glenn Mills Matt Mullane Jay Posey Andreas Schmidt

1983

Don Berger Filiberto Colon Greg Higginson Bryan Jennings Marcello Juca Ron Kutzavitch Mike Marmann Brendan McCarthy Glenn Mills Matt Mullane Jay Posey Andreas Schmidt

1982 Arne Borgstrom Brett Chambless Greg Higginson Marcello Juca Brendan McCarthy

RECORDS & HISTORY

Brian McGuire Glenn Mills Matt Mullane Jay Posey Brian Smith

1981

Arne Borgstrom Keith Clinton Cam Henning Greg Higginson Don Hornby Brendan McCarthy Glenn Mills Matt Mullane Robert Ramoska Brian Smith

400 free relay, HM: 200 free 400 medley relay, HM: 200 fly 400 medley relay HM: 1650 free 200 breast, 400 medley relay 400 free relay 400 free relay 400 free relay 400, 800 free relay 200 fly, 400 medley relay 100, 200 breast, 200 IM, 400 medley relay 200 back, 400 medley 1650 free, 400 IM 200, 400 IM 3-meter 400, 800 free relay 100, 200 breast 800 free relay 400 free relay 50, 100, 200 free, 400, 800 free relay, 400 medley relay 500, 1650 free, 400 IM, 800 free relay 400 medley relay 100, 200 breast, 400 medley relay 1650 free 400, 800 free relay, 400 medley relay 400 medley relay 100, 200 breast 400, 800 free relay 400 free relay 400, 800 free relay 500, 1650 free, 400 IM, 800 free relay 400 medley relay 200 back, 400 medley relay 100, 200 breast, 400 medley relay 400 free relay 100, 200 free, 400 free relay, 400 medley relay 200 breast 400, 800 free relay 800 free relay 400, 800 free relay

1980 Arne Borgstrom Keith Clinton Bob Dimick Greg Higginson Don Hornby Brendan McCarthy Robert Ramoska

1979

Carlos Berrocal Arne Borgstrom Wayne Chester Don Hornby Don Larsson Kevin Mills Bill Neville Mark Tonelli

1978

Carlos Berrocal Bob Bugg Wayne Chester Casey Converse Mike Curington Bob Dimick Kevin Mills Bill Neville Jonty Skinner Mark Tonelli

1977

Rick Abbott Jack Babashoff Robin Backhaus Carlos Berrocal Bob Bugg Casey Converse Mike Curington Scott MacDonald Kevin Mills John Prins Jonty Skinner Mark Tonelli

1976 Rick Abbott Jack Babashoff Carlos Berrocal Mike Curington Scott MacDonald Kevin Mills John Prins Jonty Skinner Mark Tonelli

1975 500 free, 400 IM, 800 free relay 400 free relay, 400 medley relay 400, 800 free relay, 400 medley relay 100 breast, 400 medley relay 400 free relay, 400 medley relay 400, 800 free relay 800 free relay 100 back, 400 medley relay 1650 free, 800 free relay 1-meter 400 free relay, 400 medley relay 800 free relay 400 medley relay 400 free relay 100, 200 back, 400, 800 free relay, 400 medley relay

100 back, 400 medley relay 400, 800 free relay 1-meter 500 free, 800 free relay 200 IM, 100, 200 fly, 400 medley relay 400, 800 free relay 100 breast, 400 medley relay 400 free relay 50, 100 free, 400, 800 free relay, 400 medley relay 100, 200 back

Jack Babashoff Mike Curington Scott MacDonald Tim Norris John Prins Jonty Skinner Kevin Williams

1974

Jack Babashoff Guy Gibbens Jim Hahn Jon Perkowski Kevin Williams

1973

Randy Midkiff

1970

Leo French Paul Herring James LaMontagne Jeff Wade

100 free, 400, 800 free relay 100, 200 fly, 200 IM, 400, 800 free relay, 400 medley relay 400, 800 free relay 1650 free 400 medley relay 50, 100 free, 400, 800 free relay, 400 medley relay 100, 200 breast, 400 medley relay

400 free relay 400 free relay 400 free relay 50 free, 400 free relay 100 breast

100 breast

800 free relay 800 free relay 800 free relay 800 free relay

50 free, 400 free relay 100 free, 400, 800 free 200 fly, 500 free, 800 free relay 100 back, 400 medley relay 800 free relay 200, 500, 1650 free 200 IM, 100, 200 fly, 400 medley relay 400 free relay 100, 200 breast, 400 medley relay 100 back 50, 100 free, 400 free relay, 400 medley relay 100 back

50, 100 free, 400, 800 free relay 100 free, 400, 800 free relay 100 back 100, 200 fly, 200 IM, 400, 800 free relay, 400 medley relay 200 free, 800 free relay 400 medley relay 100, 200 back 50, 100 free, 400, 800 free relay, 400 medley relay 200 back, 400 medley relay

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RECORDS & HISTORY

ALABAMA AND THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE The conference’s high watermark for teams in the top 10 at the NCAA Championships came in 1978, 1979, 1994, 2004, 2008 and 2009. Each of those years the conference had four teams place in the final 10. In 2001 there were seven conference schools in the top 20 and over the last decade there have been at least five. Eleven times in the history of the NCAA Championships a conference team has come away with the team title. Tennessee won the first in 1978. Florida won back-to-back titles in 1983 and 1984. In 1997, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009 Auburn came away with the crown. Alabama, Auburn, Florida and Tennessee have all finished in the runner-up position at the NCAA Championships. Individually, sprinting is the conference’s forte as SEC athletes have won the 50 freestyle 14 times and the 100 freestyle NCAA title 12 times. Georgia’s Reid Patterson won the first national title, taking the 100 freestyle in 1953. Alabama’s addition to the conference’s national championship legacy is the mile. Twice Tide swimmers have won the 1650 freestyle, including Casey Converse, who set an NCAA and American record on the way to the 1977 title, becoming the first swimmer in history to swim under 15 minutes in the mile. All told, the SEC owns more than 80 individual NCAA titles and 25-plus relay titles. Currently, the SEC holds nine NCAA records.

Champion Auburn Auburn

UA 6th 5th

2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn

5th 6th 5th 5th 5th 6th 5th 5th 7th 6th

1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990

Auburn Auburn Auburn Tennessee Auburn Auburn Florida Florida Florida Florida

6th 6th 6th 6th 5th 4th 5th 3rd 3rd 3rd

Year 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980

Champion Tennessee LSU Alabama Florida Florida Florida Florida Alabama Florida Florida

UA 3rd 5th 1st 3rd 2nd 2nd 2nd 1st 2nd 4th

1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970

Florida Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Florida Florida

4th 4th 2nd 2nd 2nd 4th 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd

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SEC SWIMMER OF THE YEAR 1982 1975

Arne Borgstrom Casey Converse

SEC DIVER OF THE YEAR

SEC CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS Year 2011 2010

AARON FLESHNER

Year 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960

Champion Tennessee Florida Florida Florida Florida Florida Florida Florida Florida Florida

UA 3rd 3rd 3rd 2nd 2nd 2nd 2nd 4th 4th 6th

2009 1998 1997 1995 1991 1990 1987 1984 1982 1981

Aaron Fleshner Brent Roberts Brent Roberts Rafael Alvarez Mark Rourke Ed Morse Perry White Mike Marmann Craig Ford Wayne Chester

SEC FRESHMAN DIVER OF THE YEAR 2003 2002

J.R. Hillis Stewart Smith

SEC COACH OF THE YEAR 1987 1982 1981

Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril

RECORDS & HISTORY

Alabama owns two Southeastern Conference team titles since swimming and diving was introduced at the Capstone in 1960. The first came in 1982 and the second in 1987. The Crimson Tide has been in the runner-up position a total of 11 times, first in 1963 and most recently in 1985. Individually, Alabama has 93 SEC titles, the first coming in 1962 when John Rangley won the 50 free and the latest coming when Aaron Fleshner won the 3-meter diving championship in 2010 which followed his 2009 one-meter and 2008 three-meter titles. Four Tide swimmers are tied for the most individual SEC titles by an Alabama athlete in a career. Vlad Polyakov, Jonty Skinner, Gregg Higginson and Jon Olsen all claimed five championships during their tenures. The Tide also lays claim to 10 relay titles. In 1964, the 400 freestyle relay of Peck, Putman, Horn and Bretheron won Alabama’s first conference title in a time of 3:25.0. Alabama came up with relay win number 10 in 1994 when Dustin McDaniels, Travis Myers, Russell McDowell and Stavros Michaelides combined to win the 200 medley relay. First team All-SEC honorees number 58 on the Tide’s all-time roster. In the classroom, Alabama swimmers have earned Academic All-SEC honors more than 100 times since the award’s inception in 1984. The Crimson Tide had a program high 15 athletes named to the squad in 2010. The Southeastern Conference has long been one of the nation’s premiere athletic conferences both in overall strength and in nearly every sport individually. Swimming and diving is certainly no exception. The SEC has placed at least one team in the top 10 of the NCAA Championships every year since 1969 when Florida placed ninth.

SEC DIVING COACH OF THE YEAR 1997 1995 1991 1990 1987 1986 1984 1982 1981

Pat Greenwell Pat Greenwell Pat Greenwell Pat Greenwell Mike Finneran Mike Finneran Bob Webster Bob Webster Bob Webster

RECORDS & HISTORY

SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS 2010 Aaron Fleshner

1987 3-meter

Peter Berndt Perry White

1-meter

1986

2009 Aaron Fleshner

2008

Aaron Fleshner

3-meter

100 breaststroke

2006 Vlad Polyakov

100 and 200 breaststroke

2005 Vlad Polyakov

2003

Stefan Gherghel

2002 Stefan Gherghel

1999

Mark Jollands

1997 Brent Roberts

1995 Rafael Alvarez

1994

McDaniels, Myers, McDowell, Michaelides

1992

Travis Myers J. Myers, T. Myers, Martin, Michaelides Martin, T. Myers, Parlklo, Michaelides

RECORDS & HISTORY

1991 Jon Olsen Mark Rourke

1990 Chris McDaniels Scott Hamlet Jon Olsen Edward Morse Olsen, Martin, Ammon, McDaniels

100 and 200 breaststroke

200 fly

500 free

3-meter & platform

1-meter & platform

Bryan Jennings Mike Marmann

1982 Arne Borgstrom Craig Ford Greg Higginson Posey, Schmidt, Mullane, McCarthy Chambless, Higginson, Schmidt, McGuire

1981 Arne Borgstrom Wayne Chester Greg Higginson Cam Henning

Carlos Berrocal Wayne Chester

1978 100 breast 200 medley relay 200 free relay

Wayne Chester

1977

Jonty Skinner Casey Converse

1976 100, 200 free 1-meter, 3-meter & platform

100, 200 breast 1650 free 50, 100, 200 free 3-meter & platform 200 free relay

Jonty Skinner Scott MacDonald Tim Norris Mike Curington Kevin Mills Carlos Berrocal Mark Tonelli Berrocal, Mills, Curington, Skinner

1975 100, 200 breast platform

Jonty Skinner Tim Norris Mike Curington

100 breast 50 free

Jeff Wade Jacques LeLoup

200 back 200 fly

1970 Jeff Wade French, Herring, Wade, LaMontagne

200 IM 800 free relay

1969 100 back 1-meter & 3-meter

1982

1979 200 medley relay

100 fly 100 back

1984

Craig Ford Greg Higginson

1989 Chris McDaniels Mark Rourke

Jon Sieben Bryan Jennings

Kevin Williams Jon Perkowski

1971 500 free 3-meter 200 back

1985

2007 Vlad Polyakov

Frank Iacono Perry White Bryan Jennings

1974 200,400 IM 1-meter & 3-meter

1-meter 100 breast

1650 free, 400 IM 1-meter & 3-meter 100, 200 breast, 200 IM 400 free relay 400 medley relay

400 IM 3-meter 100 breast 200 back

Dennis Pursley Jeff Wade Wright, French, LaMontagne, Wade

1968 Ralph Wright Leo French

1967

Ralph Wright

1966 Kirt Myers Doug Long Levente Batizy Doug Tamplin

1965 Tom Allen Bob Smith

1964 100 back 1-meter

1-meter

100 free 500, 1650 free

Peck, Putman, Horn, Bretherton

1963 Dave Bond

1962 John Rangley

200 breast 200 IM 800 free relay

200 back 1650 free

500, 1650 free, 400 IM

1650 free 500 free 400 IM 100 fly

500 free 1650 free

400 free relay

100 breast

50 free

50, 100 free 200 free 1650 free 200 fly 100 breast 100 back 200 back 400 medley relay

50, 100 free 1650 free 200 fly

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ALL-SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE 1987

1970

1988

1976

1981

Pete Berndt Perry White

Jeff Wade

Frank Iacono

Brendan McCarthy

1969

1987

Robert Bugg John Prins Marshall Shoemaker

1986

2010

Frank Iacono Bryan Jennings Perry White

Aaron Fleshner

2009 Aaron Fleshner

1985 Bryan Jennings Jon Sieben

2008 Aaron Fleshner

Dennis Pursley Jeff Wade

1968 Leo French Ralph Wright

1967 Ralph Wright

1984

2007

Bryan Jennings Mike Marmann Glenn Mills

Vlad Polyakov

2006

Vlad Polyakov

1983 Craig Ford Gregg Higginson

2005 Vlad Polyakov

1982

2003

Stefan Gherghel

1966 Levente Batizy Doug Long Kirt Myers Doug Tamplin

1965 Tom Allen Bob Smith

Arne Borgstrom Craig Ford Gregg Higginson

1963

1981

1962

David Bond

2002

Stefan Gherghel

Arne Borgstrom Wayne Chester Cam Henning Greg Higginson

1999 Mark Jollands

1997

1979

Brent Roberts

Wayne Chester Carlos Berrocal

1995 Rafael Alvarez

1978

Wayne Chester

1994

Dustin McDaniels Russell McDowell Stavros Michaelides Travis Myers

1977 Casey Converse Jonty Skinner

1976

1992 Keith Martin Jamey Myers Travis Myers Stavros Michaelides Stefan Parlklo

1991

Jon Olsen Mark Rourke

Carlos Berrocal Mike Curington Scott McDonald Kevin Mills Tim Norris Jonty Skinner Mark Tonelli

Craig Ammon Scott Hamlet Keith Martin Edward Morse Jon Olsen

1989 Chris McDaniels Mark Rourke

SECOND TEAM ALL-SEC 2010

Adam Booher Mark Randall

2009

Mark Randall

2003 2001

Jordie Proffitt

1999

Brent Roberts

1994

Casey Converse Tim Norris Jonty Skinner

1974

1993

Jon Perkowski Kevin Williams

Travis Myers

1971

Mark Colwill Jon Olsen

Jacque LeLoup Jeff Wade

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1986 Don Berger

1998 Brent Roberts

1985

1989

1974 1971

Mike Curington Kevin Mills John Prins

John Kagan Charles Noonan John Perkowski

1984

1994

Filiberto Colon

David Strassburg Jimmy Pestrichelli

Bryan Jennings Marcello Juca Ron Kutzavitch Mike Marmann Glenn Mills Andreas Schmidt

1982 Brett Chambless Marcello Juca Brendan McCarthy Brian McGuire Glenn Mills Matt Mullane Jay Posey Andreas Schmidt

1981 Don Hornby Max Metzgar Glenn Mills Brian Smith

1980 Wayne Chester Don Hornby Gregg Higginson

1979 Kevin Mills Mark Tonelli

1978 Casey Converse Mike Curington Mark Tonelli

1977

Robin Backhaus Hilary Bergman Carlos Berrocal Monty Daley

Arne Borgstrom

1977

HONORABLE MENTION ALL-SEC

1983

1980

Jack Babashoff

Don Berger Craig Ford Frank Iacono

Vlad Polyakov

Rafael Alvarez Dustin McDaniels Travis Myers Russell McDowell Stavros Michaelides

1975

1990

John Rangeley

Bruce Gennari

1978 Jonty Skinner

1976 Rick Abbott Hilary Bergman Monte Daley Dan Griebel Gregg Hook

1992

1974

1991

1973

1989

1972

Dustin McDaniels

Stefan Parlklo

Craig Ammon Keith Martin David Meck Torsten Wiegel

1988

Jim Askervold Mark Colwill Chris McDaniels Jon Olsen Mark Rourke Eric White

1987

Jay Thompson

Jacque LeLoup Jay Thompson

Jacque LeLoup Ray Midkiff

1971 Colin Herring Jay Thompson

1970 Ray Bolt Leo French Colin Herring Charles Noonan

Ricardo Aldabe Chris McDaniels

FRESHMAN ALL-SEC*

1986

2011

Peter Berndt Filiberto Colon

1985 Ricardo Aldabe

Alex Coci Bjoern Hornikel Devan Terry

2008

Catalin Cosma

1984 Don Berger Marcello Juca

* started in 2008

RECORDS & HISTORY

FIRST TEAM ALL-SEC

1983 Don Berger

1982 Don Hornby

RECORDS & HISTORY

A FAST HISTORY OF ALABAMA SWIMMING & DIVING The John Foster Years

RECORDS & HISTORY

The University of Alabama swim program started with the 1960 season when John Foster came from coaching an age-group swim team in the Atlanta area and working in the Georgia Tech Physical Education department to be the Crimson Tide’s first head coach. For the next 14 years Foster was the Tide’s task master, nurturing the fledgling program into a perennial SEC contender and bringing Alabama to the national level. In addition to his duties with the swim team, Foster also served as the Natatorium Director, Supervisor of Intramural and Recreational Swimming and assistant professor in the Department of Physical Education. Foster was responsible for cultivating swimming not only at the collegiate level, but on the high school and age-group swimming level as well, organizing high school and junior high school state swimming championships and running clinics around the state, anything to get Alabama’s youth involved in swimming. Foster’s hard work paid big dividends. During his tenure, Alabama finished no lower than third at the SEC Championships after its first two seasons and finished runner-up four times. Tide swimmers won 21 individual SEC titles under Foster’s direction. That number includes the three won by Ralph Wright in 1967, when he became the first man in Alabama history to sweep his events at the SEC championships. Wright’s feat would not be matched for fifteen years. On the national level, Foster coached the Tide to its first NCAA Championship placing in 1973 when the team finished 28th. Five swimmers won All-American honors under Foster. After compiling a 124-40 dual meet record to go along with his record in the SEC and NCAA, Foster left coaching following the 1973 season to devote more time to his teaching and aquatics program and above all, to spend more time with his family. Foster’s team was the winningest of all that competed at the Capstone during his 14-year run, outside of football. Before retiring, Foster tapped his successor for the job of taking the Tide into the future. Don Gambril became head coach on May 2, 1973.

The Don Gambril Years Don Gambril led his first Alabama team into the 1974 season, a year that saw the Tide post an 8-1 dual meet season, a fourth place finish at the SEC Championship meet and its first NCAA top-20 finish, taking 19th. Alabama jumped two places in the SEC the next year and an astounding 14 places at the NCAA Championships, giving Alabama a fifth place finish. The ‘75 squad was the first to produce an individual national champion when freshman Jonty Skinner won the 100 freestyle in

an NCAA and U.S. Open record time of 43.92. Alabama produced the first 400 freestyle relay in history to break the three minute barrier. Skinner, Mike Curington, Scott MacDonald and Jack Babashoff combined in the prelims of the 1975 NCAA Championships to swim a 2:59.98. The 1976 squad posted the Tide’s first undefeated season. On its way to posting that undefeated season, Alabama snapped Tennessee’s string of 85 dual meet wins, which spanned seven seasons. Alabama won the meet 65-48. The 1976 squad also produced a singleseason record of nine SEC individual and relay titles on its way to reprising its fifth place finish in the NCAA. The 1977 season proved to be one of the program’s high watermarks as the Tide posted its highest NCAA finish to date, taking second behind Southern California. Casey Converse shone in ‘77, winning the NCAA 1650 freestyle title in an NCAA and American record time of 14:57.30. Converse’s time made him the first man in the history of swimming to go under 15 minutes in the 1650 freestyle. Freshman Wayne Chester won the 1978 NCAA 1-meter diving competition and Carlos Berrocal won the 1979 100 backstroke title. Alabama won its first SEC team championship in 1982. Gregg Higginson added the points of three SEC titles to the Tide’s team total, making him the second man in Tide swimming history to win all of his races at the SEC Championships. Alabama went undefeated during the 1983 dual meet season with a 12-0 slate on the way to a runner-up SEC finish and a fifth place NCAA finish. Senior Glenn Mills won the 1983 200 breaststroke title. The Tide returned to the top of the SEC team standings in 1987. In addition to going undefeated in 1990 with a 12-0 record, the Tide captured nine SEC individual and relay titles matching the team record that was set in 1976. In 1990, junior Jon Olsen became the third man in Tide history to sweep his events at the SEC Championships, bringing home three individual titles. After 17 seasons, 170 wins against 21 losses, six NCAA champions, more than 60 All-Americans, 60 SEC individual and relay titles, and two SEC team titles, Don Gambril ended his coaching career with the Crimson Tide after the 1990 season. Gambril was named SEC Coach of the Year in 1981, 82 and 87. In addition he served as an assistant coach with the U.S. Olympic team in 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1980. He served as the head coach of the highly successful 1984 U.S. Olympic team. The 1991 U.S. World Championship team was the last U.S. National team he coached. He left his coaching position to become an Assistant Athletic Director at Alabama, in charge of all men’s sports with the exception of football and basketball. Women’s

track and swimming also fell under his auspices. He retired from that position in 1997. Gambril tapped Alabama’s first individual NCAA Champion, Jonty Skinner, to lead Alabama into the 1991 season and beyond.

The Jonty Skinner Years Jonty Skinner made the most of a short tenure with the Tide. The former Tide champion led Alabama to four straight top-20 and one top-10 showing at the NCAA Championships. Jon Olsen became the Tide’s most decorated and successful athlete under Skinner’s tutelage. Olsen finished out his career with five SEC titles, three school records and a runner-up finish at the 1991 NCAAs in the 100 freestyle. After his stint with the Tide, Olsen went on to become a mainstay of the U.S. National team, winning five medals at two Olympics. Also in 1991, Mark Rourke became the first diver to win all three boards at the SEC Championships, three years after he won the inaugural platform diving title at the 1989 SEC Championships. Travis Myers led Alabama to a 10th place finish at the 1994 NCAA Championships, while finishing second in the 100 breaststroke. It was the Tide’s first top-10 finish since 1990. Skinner left Alabama in August of 1994 to become the head coach of the U.S. Resident National Team.

The Chuck Horton Years Chuck Horton was the Tide’s next mentor, serving as head coach from 1994-98. The former Tide assistant and Villanova front man led Alabama to four top-30 national finishes. Ed Reed served as interim coach during the 199899 season.

The Don Wagner Years Don Wagner’s tenure saw Alabama return to the top 20, including a 12th place finish in 2003, his final year at the Capstone. Stefan Gherghel became the first swimmer to win an NCAA Championship since 1983 when he took top honors in the 200 butterfly in 2002 and the first Alabama swimmer to ever repeat as an NCAA Champion when he took the 2003 title as well. During Wagner’s time at Alabama, the Tide broke 10 school records including four of the five relays.

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ALL-TIME HEAD COACHES

Eric McIlquham Don Wagner

Ed Reed

Chuck Horton

2004-present

1999 (Interim)

1995-1998

2000-03

COACH DON GAMBRIL

Jonty Skinner

Don Gambril

John Foster

1991-94

1974-90

1960-73

ALABAMA’S RECORD BY HEAD COACH Head Coach Eric McIlquham Don Wagner Ed Reed (interim) Chuck Horton Jonty Skinner Don Gambril John Foster Total

Years 2004-present 2000-03 1998-99 1995-98 1991-94 1974-90 1960-73

Seasons 8 4 1 4 4 17 14 52

Won 43 15 0 21 16 170 122 387

Lost 31 14 6 19 16 21 53 160

Pct. .581 .517 .000 .525 .500 .890 .697 .707

ALL-TIME DUAL MEET RECORDS Opponent Arizona Arkansas Auburn Ball State Birmingham Southern Centenary Cincinnati Clemson Delta State Drury Duke East Carolina Eastern Kentucky Evansville Florida Florida Atlantic Florida State Georgia Georgia Tech Hendrix Houston Illinois Illinois State Indiana Iowa Iowa State Kansas Kentucky LaSalle College Louisiana Monroe Louisville LSU Maryland Miami Michigan

Last Meeting 1987-88 1985-86 2010-11 1996-97 1969-70 2008-09 1994-95 2002-03 2008-09 2004-05 1978-79 1978-79 1972-73 1966-67 2006-07 2009-10 2010-11 2010-11 2009-10 1966-67 1977-78 1969-70 1977-78 1984-85 1996-97 1970-71 1987-88 2010-11 1986-87 2004-05 1994-95 2010-11 1989-90 1986-87 1978-79

UA-Opp 1-0 7-0 17-24 1-0 1-0 2-0 7-0 6-2 11-0 2-0 1-0 3-0 5-0 0-1 10-20 1-0 12-5 13-18 6-1 1-0 2-0 1-0 1-0 3-4 6-1 1-0 3-1 16-6 1-0 3-0 2-0 29-9 1-0 10-2 1-0

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Opponent Missouri Moorehead New Orleans North Carolina N.C. State NE Louisiana Northwestern Notre Dame Ohio State Penn State Pepsi Marlin Princeton Sewanee SMU South Carolina South Florida Southern Illinois Southern Mississippi SW Missouri SW Missouri State Team Canada Tennessee Texas Texas A&M Texas-Arlington Tulane UCLA Union (KY) Vanderbilt Virginia Virginia Tech West Virginia Wright State

Last Meeting 1996-97 1969-70 2009-10 1979-80 1996-97 1997-98 1996-97 1987-88 1984-85 1989-90 1983-84 1984-85 1968-69 1990-91 2010-11 1981-82 1996-97 1986-87 1966-67 2002-03 1978-79 2010-11 1992-93 1971-72 1971-72 1988-89 1975-76 1969-70 1986-87 1987-88 2010-11 1983-84 1996-97

*Series records start with the 1967 season.

UA-Opp 8-0 1-0 2-0 2-0 5-2 10-2 1-0 1-0 4-0 1-1 1-0 3-0 3-0 2-1 13-12 5-0 8-0 5-0 1-0 1-0 2-0 10-16 2-2 1-0 1-0 21-1 1-0 1-0 8-0 3-0 2-0 1-0 1-0

Year 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960

Record 7-2 7-2 3-5 2-6 8-3 4-5 6-4 6-4 7-2 3-3 3-4 2-5 0-6 2-5 9-6 4-4 7-4 5-4 5-4 2-4 4-4 12-0 9-1 10-3 10-1 9-2 12-1 11-2 12-0 8-1 8-2 8-2 11-2 12-1 9-1 10-0 11-1 8-1 5-5 10-2 10-3 13-2 10-3 12-4 9-6 9-4 10-3 11-2 10-2 10-3 3-8 0-6

SEC Finish 6th 5th 5th 6th 5th 5th 5th 6th 5th 5th 8th 7th 6th 6th 6th 6th 4th 4th 5th 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd 5th 1st 3rd 2nd 2nd 2nd 1st 2nd 4th 4th 4th 2nd 2nd 2nd 4th 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd 2nd 2nd 2nd 2nd 3rd 4th 6th

NCAA Finish 29th 26th 21st 22nd 14th 13th 15th 34th 12th 20th — 22nd 22nd 25th 23rd 30th 26th 10th 18th 20th 11th 9th 20th 14th 16th 8th 8th tie-12th 5th tie-7th 8th tie-13th 8th 7th 2nd 5th 5th 19th 28th — — — — — — — — — — — — —

Coach Eric McIlquham Eric McIlquham Eric McIlquham Eric McIlquham Eric McIlquham Eric McIlquham Eric McIlquham Eric McIlquham Don Wagner Don Wagner Don Wagner Don Wagner *Ed Reed Chuck Horton Chuck Horton Chuck Horton Chuck Horton Jonty Skinner Jonty Skinner Jonty Skinner Jonty Skinner Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril John Foster John Foster John Foster John Foster John Foster John Foster John Foster John Foster John Foster John Foster John Foster John Foster John Foster John Foster

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YEAR-BY-YEAR RESULTS

* interim

RECORDS & HISTORY

ALL-TIME ROSTER A

Rick Abbott Waleed Al-Qahtani Marcio Alberquerque Oscar Aldabe Ricardo Aldabe Zig Allan Craig Allen Tom Allen Jerry Alldredge Rafael Alvarez (MVP ‘95) Mike Ames Craig Ammon (Capt. ‘90) Jens Anderson Robert Anderson Anestis Arampatzis Brent Arckey Daniel Armstrong (Capt. ‘11) Guido Arroyo Brendan Ashby Bobby Ashford Aaron Ashworth (Capt. ‘05) Jim Askervold Alan Axford Oren Azrad

RECORDS & HISTORY

Jack Babashoff Robin Backhaus JR Baker Jack Ball (Capt. ‘62) Bira Barbosa Oliver Basse Levente Batizy Scott Bell Don Berger (Capt. ‘84, ’85) Hilary Bergman Peter Berndt (MVP ‘87) Carlos Berrocal Spiros Bitsakis (Capt. ‘05, ‘06) Steve Blaisdell Larry Blewitt Elan Blumberg Carlos Bodega Ray Bolt David Bond Bruno Bonfim Adam Booher (MVP ‘11) Arne Borgstrom (Capt. ‘82 • MVP ‘82) Riley Boulden (Capt. ‘10) Luke Boutwell Lance Braughton Dennis Bretherton Collin Brosko Beau Brothers Darren Brudos Jay Bucki (Capt. ‘91) Bob Bugg Torsten Buhre

1976-77 2003-06 2000-01 2010 1984-87 2007-08 1972 1965 1963-65 1994-95 1998 1987-90 1980-81 1970 2010-present 2003-04 2008-11 2003-06 2001-04 1989 2001, ‘04-06 1987-88 2008-11 1998-01

1974-77 1977 1965 1960-62 2002 2009-present 1965-68 1994-97 1983-86 1975-78 1985-87 1976-79 2002-06 1970-71 1986 1999 1995-96 1970 1960-63 2001 2008-11 1979-82 2007-10 2007-10 1981-84 1963 2007 2008 1990-93 1990-92 1976-79 1977

Daniel Burch Will Burke James Burns James Burton Robert Busby

Vlad Caciuc Jake Carloni Brian Carr Brett Chambless (Capt. ‘83) Wayne Chester Chip Chipman Cliff Clifton Timothy Cline Keith Clinton (Capt. ‘82) Alex Coci Filiberto Colon Mark Colwill Phil Comstock Cameron Connors Zac Conrad Casey Converse Catalin Cosma Dan Cox Andy Craft James Cramer Jay Crampton Milo Crawford Mark Crocker Mike Curington (Capt. ‘78) Stroud Curran

Monty Daley (Capt. ‘77) Cary Davenport (Capt. ‘67) Mike Davidson (Capt. ‘87) Troy Davidson Bruce Davis Ken de Gruy David Dean Phillip Deaton Tayt Dencer John DeShazo Craig Devitt Luke Dickson Van Diehl Anthony DiGiacco Bob Dimick Kyle Ditzler (Capt. ‘81) Paul Dixon Philip Dockery Peter Doig Ryan Dugan

Tito Ebersole James Edwards Hamp Eichold Durham Ellis (Capt. ‘60) John Ellis Darren Erasmus

2001 2005-06 1974-77 1981-82 1960

Igor Erhartic Bill Erickson Kline Estess Larry Everingham

F 2011-present 2011-present 2011-present 1979-83 1978-81 1989 1979 2007 1980-83 2011-present 1983-86 1988-91 1963 2011-present 2007-08 1977-78 2008-11 1976 1994 1988 1993-94 1992-95 1975-78 1975-78 1960

1974-77 1964-67 1985-87 2003-04 1989 1973-75 1973-74 2012-present 1975-76 1964 1992-95 2006-07 2006-09 2002 1977-80 1978-81 2000 2011-present 1991-94 2009-11

2012-present 2008-10 2006-07 1960-62 2012-present 2003-06

Keith Favreau John Ferguson Drew Finelli Kris Fisher (Capt. ‘97) Chris Flamion Aaron Fleshner (MVP ‘08, ‘09) Craig Ford Tom Forrest (Capt. ‘96) Thomas Fox Jeb Franklin Leo French Chad Frichtl

Bill Gaines Dale Gannon Clark Garner Bruce Gennari (Capt. ‘88) Eric Gennari Ken Gerard Stefan Gherghel (MVP ‘02, ‘03) Guy Gibbens Travis Gilliland Nicholas Giometti Bill Giovine Rod Godwin Marc Greenberg Kevin Greer (Capt. ‘09) Dan Griebel Bob Griffin Gilles Gutnecht

Harold Hagler Joel Hagler Jim Hahn (Capt. ‘75) Kirk Hale Adam Hall Jacob Halpern Scott Hamlet Tim Hansen Dan Harle Allan Harris Eugene Harris Mark Harris George Hart Paul Hayes Chris Hearn Cam Henning Kirk Henry Alex Hermeto (Capt. ‘92, ‘93, ‘94) Brooke Herr Colin Herring Harold Hicks Greg Higginson (Capt. ‘83 • MVP ‘83) Peter Hillyer

2004-06 1978-79 1979-82 1965-66

1974-75 1993-96 2007-10 1996-99 2002-05 2007-10 1982-85 1995-96 1960 2000-01 1968-70 2005-06

1960-61 1978 2012-present 1985-88 1991-93 1977-81 2002-03 1973-74 1993-94 2008 1979-81 1960-61 1985 2006-09 1976-77 1960-63 2011-present

1960-61 1988-89 1972-75 1980-81 2001-04 1991-94 1990 2004-07 1995 2003-06 1960-61 1976 1975-76 1973-74 2008 1979-81 1981-84 1991-94 1974 1970-73 1963 1980-83 2010-present

Scott Hinkle Hunter Hinson Tony Hobart DuWayne Hoffert Eric Hole John Holter Greg Hook Jack Horn Don Hornby Bjoern Hornikel Tom Horton Clint Huddleston Carter Hull Greg Hutt

Frank Iacono Hakan Iverson

1980 2011-present 1974-75 1975 1999 1963-65 1975-76 1960-63 1979-82 2011-present 1975 1988 1997-98 1970

1985-88 1975

Bryan Jennings 1983-86 (MVP ‘85) Brad Jensen 1980-81 Steve Jensen 1989 Will Johnson 1991 Grant Jollands 1999-02 (Capt. ‘02) Mark Jollands 1997-2000 (Capt. ‘99, ‘00 • MVP ‘99, ‘00) JT Jones 2003-05 (Capt. ‘05) Mike Jones 2005-08 (Capt. ‘08) Marcello Juca 1982-85

John Kagan Jason Kalange Toby Karlsson Ken Kaufman Tsukasa Kawabuchi Chuck Kays Curtis Kelly Scott King William Kinsey Rob Kite (Capt. ‘88) Dennis Kone Ron Kutzavitch Francis Kyle

Dan Lacina David Lammel James LaMontagne Mike Lamothe (Capt. ‘95) John Langford Jon Larson Dan Larsson Ryan Latone Kyle Lee Jacque LeLoup Justin Lemberg Chris LeMieux Jordan Lesser Rory Lewis Tommy Lindell Steven Loccisano

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1971-73 1996 1985-87 1974-77 1991-94 1990 2006 1989-90 1969 1987-88 1969-72 1983-84 1972

1990-93 1985 1968-71 1993-96 1960 1985-86 1979 2005-06 2007-10 1971-74 1985 1994-95 2012-present 1980-82 1979-80 2008

RECORDS & HISTORY

Scott MacDonald Tom Maddocks John Mahaffey Jesse Maple Mike Marmann Keith Martin Hunor Mate’ Henry Mather David Mayer Frank McArthur Adam McBride (Capt. ‘97) Mike McCardle Brendan McCarthy Clint McClendon Chris McCormick Chris McDaniels (Capt. ‘89 - ‘90) Dustin McDaniels Scott McDonald Russell McDowell Brian McGuire John McHaffey Larry McHaffie James McKay Ken McKee Scott McNamee James McNeal Dave Meck Rob Mellor Jon Melton Max Metzgar Stavros Michaelides Randy Midkiff Alin Mihalca Dave Miller Glenn Mills Kevin Mills Chris Mitten John Moles Brent Moore (Capt. ‘76) Luis Morell Felix Morf Sam Morgan Edward Morse Brendan Moynihan Evan Mueller Matt Mullane Sean Muncie Jamey Myers (Capt. ‘92) Kirt Myers Travis Myers (MVP ‘92, ‘93, ‘94)

1960 1964-67 1991-93 1963 1990 1960-61 1984-86 2010-present 1994-97 1982-83 1978-81

1975-78 1978 1960 2004 1983-86 1989-92 2005-07 1989 1977-79 1963 1993-97 1974-77 1980-83 2007-10 2007-08 1987-90 1992-94 1975-77 1993-96 1979-82 1960-61 1980-82 1960-61 1977 1973-75 1960 1988-89 1975 1988 1981 1991-94 1972-74 2006-09 1978-79 1981-84 1976-79 1993-94 1983 1974-77 1989 1983-86 2007-10 1990 1983-84 2002-03 1981-84 1996-99 1990-93 1966 1991-94

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Andrew Neff Jim Neidhoefer Bill Neville Mark Nieuwenhuis Charles Noonan Tim Norris

Arnar Olafsson Jon Olsen (Capt. ‘90, ’91 • MVP ‘88, ‘89, ‘90, ‘91) Wylee Orton Steve Otto David Owen

Clayton Page Nicos Papadopoulos Bob Parker Chip Parker Stefan Parlklo Richard Patino David Patterson Don Peck Eric Peet Matt Pendleton Jon Perkowski Chris Perry Gunnar Persson Jimmy Pestrichelli (Capt. ‘95) Rick Peterson Michael Pigassou J.J. Poland Vlad Polyakov (MVP ‘05, ‘06, ‘07) Scott Pomerleau (Capt. ‘91) Tony Portela Jay Posey John Potts Scott Powell Roger Power Rick Pratt (Capt. ‘98, ‘00) Brent Pridgen John Prins Jordie Proffitt Alex Pujol Dennis Pursley Joseph Putman

Steve Rains Eduardo Ramirez Robert Ramoska Mark Randall (MVP ‘10) John Rangeley Jermey Raths John Ravenhall Scott Reeder Andrew Reeves Charles Reeves Rick Rell Ron Ressegieu Jake Reynolds Andrea Rezzonico Joaquim Ribeiro JP Richard

2005-06 1987-88 1978-81 1987-89 1968-71 1975-77

1994-97 1988-91 1980 1976 1964

1988-89 1993-94 1975-76 1981-82 1989-92 1988-91 1978 1960-63 1981-83 1998-99 1971-74 2006-09 1981 1992-95 1979 2001-02 1992 2003, 05-07 1987-90 1985-89 1982-85 1995 1972-74 1981 1997-2000 2000-01 1975-78 2001-02 2011-present 1969-72 1965

1989 2008 1980-82 2006-10 1960-62 1972 1980-82 1980-81 2009-present 2000-03 1979 1972-75 2010-present 2009-11 1995-96 2000-01

(Capt. ‘01) Rick Richmond Steve Rieser Brent Roberts (Capt. ‘97, ‘98, ‘99 • MVP ‘96, ‘97, ‘98, ‘99) Jimmy Roberts Bill Robertson Bernardo Romero (Honorary Capt. ‘05) Enrique Romero Alan Rose Ronald Rosenberger Chris Ross Mark Rourke (Capt. ‘91 • MVP ‘91) Philippe Rousseau Daniel Rozick Stephen Ryan

Maviael Sampaio Webb Sanders Gerald Schlupp Andreas Schmidt (Capt. ‘85 • MVP ‘83) Matt Schmidt Andy Schnack Marc Schrader Gregg Scott (Capt. ‘80) Robert Scrip John Servati Austin Shirey Reese Shirey Marshall Shoemaker (Capt. ‘79) Jon Sieben (MVP ‘85) Todd Siegfried Jerry Silverstein Jonty Skinner (Capt. ‘77) Bob Smith Brian Smith (Capt. ‘81) Brian Smith Charles Smith Henkel Smith Hunter Smith Jeff Smith Matt Smith Stewart Smith Todd Smith Bruce Snodgrass Harris Sopheocelous Josh Sosna Franck Southon Dennis Spencer Casey Spiegle Chip Sprigg Greg St. Cyr James Steward Nic Stoel (Capt. ‘01 • MVP ‘01) Harry Stopp David Strassburg Bill Sulzby Wayne Sykes

1992-95 1972-75 1996-99 1988-89 1970-73 2003-04 1984-87 1997-2000 1981-83 1996-97 1988-91 1998-99 2008-11 2005

1983 1976-79 1983-84 1982-85 2003-04 2006-09 1996-98 1977-80 2010 2012-present 2006-08 2010-present 1976-79 1985 1977-78 1980-81 1975-78 1965 1980-82 1989-90 1980 1992 2012-present 2001-04 1999-2000 2002-05 1998 1994 1989-91 2010 2002-05 1983 1991-94 1972-73 2005 1960 2000-01 1964-65 1992-95 1960-61 1971-74

Mike Tamberino Doug Tamplin Charles Tennimon Devan Terry Jay Thompson Mark Tonelli Mike Tontillo John Townsend Tom Townsend Brian Tribble Apostolis Tsagkarakis (Capt. ‘07) Tim Tucker (Capt. ‘74) Walt Turner

Ricardo Valdivia Jeff Van de Graaf Marcus Vechinni Ken Vincens Tom Virag Alex Voris

Jeff Wade Jeff Waldrop Stan Walker (Capt. ‘62) Glen Walshaw John Warren Ken Wear Scott Weaver (Capt. ‘02) Kyle Weeks Greg Whelan Eric White Perry White Torsten Wiegel Brad Willard James Willcox (Capt. ‘02, ‘03) James Williams Kevin Williams (Capt. ‘75) Matt Wilsie Joe Wilson Larry Wilson Zach Winchester Ro Wintzinger TJ Wolters George Wong Chris Wood Mark Woods Ben Worby Todd Worthington John Worthinton Greg Wright Ralph Wright Brian Wrighton Andrew Wrist

Bobby Yann

Joe Ziegler Luke Zippi Denes Zubcsek

1992-95 1966 1960 2011-present 1971-74 1976-79 2011-present 1999-01 1975-76 1994-96 2003, 05-07 1971-74 1962

1984-87 1978-79 1996 1991-92 1986 1993-96

1969-72 1981-82 1960-62 1997-00 1978-79 1983-85 2001-03 2009-present 1978 1987-90 1986-87 1989 2001-04 2001-04 1965 1974-75 1998-2001 1973-74 1974-75 2000-03 1981 1999-01 2011-present 1997-98 1973 2001-04 1977 1978-79 1978-79 1966-68 1992-93 2011-present

RECORDS & HISTORY

Jeffery London Doug Long (Capt. ‘67) Juan Lopez Ray Loree Jim Losloe Bay Lott (Capt. ‘60) Marcus Lourenco Brandon Lowe Josh Luber Craig Ludwick Cubby Lyons

1968-71

2009-present 2011-present 2008-11

RECORDS & HISTORY

MEN’S ALL-TIME TOP 10 50 Freestyle Apostolis Tsagkarakis Jon Olsen Vlad Caciuc Bjoern Hornikel Darren Erasmus Andreas Schmidt Jonty Skinner Travis Myers Spiros Bitsakis Stavros Michaelides

1650 Freestyle 19.32 19.74 19.86 19.98 20.06 20.11 20.18 20.19 20.21 20.25

2007 1991 2011 2011 2005 1983 1977 1994 2002, 2003 1994

42.69 43.21 43.40 43.54 43.82 43.90 43.92 43.93 43.97 44.04

1991 2005 2011 2006 1986 1994 1975 1994 2001 2003

1:33.91 1:35.73 1:35.93 1:36.31 1:36.42 1:36.56 1:36.72 1:36.81 1:36.84 1:36.88

1990 1985 2009 2009 1981 1995 1994 2000 2000 1983

4:14.82 4:16.57 4:16.80 4:17.23 4:18.43 4:19.10 4:20.41 4:20.90 4:21.87 4:22.22

2010 2009 1982 2009 1986 2000 1984 1990 1977 1985

8:54.69 8:59.83 9:03.50 9:03.89 9:04.57 9:04.90 9:06.70 9:08.28 9:08.63 9:09.85

2009 1986 1982 1977 1990 2009 1981 1982 1985 1989

100 Freestyle Jon Olsen Darren Erasmus Bjoern Hornikel Apostolis Tsagkarakis Andreas Schmidt Alex Voris Jonty Skinner David Strassburg Oren Azrad Spiros Bitsakis

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47.97 47.97 48.19 48.27 48.48 48.57 48.73 48.92 49.18 49.36

2001 2009 2011 2011 1993 2009 2003 2000 2005 2008

Joe Ziegler Franck Southon Reese Shirey Jordie Proffitt Alan Axford Peter Berndt Bryan Jennings Chris Perry Mark Tonelli Peter Doig

1:43.84 1:46.10 1:46.31 1:47.11 1:47.22 1:47.65 1:47.83 1:48.02 1:48.20 1:48.21

2011 2005 2011 2002 2011 1987 1986 2009 1979 1994

47.04 47.33 47.35 47.71 47.83 47.84 48.25 48.40 48.59 48.79

2003 2009 2011 2003 2010 1985 1994 1996 1996 1998

Stefan Gherghel Denes Zubcsek Jon Sieben Filiberto Colon Anestis Arampatzis Alex Coci Russell McDowell Hunter Hinson Oliver Basse JT Jones

1:42.35 1:43.30 1:44.07 1:45.74 1:45.78 1:45.83 1:47.01 1:46.71 1:47.31 1:47.52

2003 2009 1985 1983 2011 2011 1994 2011 2011 2005

1:45.54 1:47.14 1:47.76 1:47.79 1:48.65 1:48.71 1:49.37 1:49.47 1:49.55 1:50.16

2010 1986 2001 2004 1983 2005 1983 1985 2011 1994

3:47.29 3:50.77 3:51.57 3:52.31 3:53.77 3:54.82 3:54.84 3:55.25 3:55.28 3:55.58

1986 2002 1982 2002 1983 1983 1988 2001 2010 2001

200 IM

Vlad Polyakov Hunor Mate’ Greg Higginson Travis Myers Riley Boulden Chris McDaniels Charles Reeves Nic Stoel Luke Boutwell Devan Terry

Riley Boulden Peter Berndt Jordie Proffitt Ben Worby Ron Kutzavitch Franck Southon Greg Higginson Bryan Jennings Devan Terry Russell McDowell

400 IM 52.25 53.73 53.83 53.93 54.01 54.27 54.79 54.85 54.71 55.05

2007 2007 1982 1994 2010 1989 2003 2001 2009 2011

1:52.71 1:55.95 1:56.78 1:58.29 1:58.31 1:58.33 1:58.35 1:58.85 1:58.96 1:59.03

2007 2007 2010 1989 1994 1983 1982 2011 2001 2010

Peter Berndt Franck Southon Arne Borgstrom Ben Worby Ron Kutzavich Marcello Juca Eric White Scott Weaver Hunter Hinson Grant Jollands 2011-12 Swimmers in Bold

200 Breaststroke Vlad Polyakov Hunor Mate’ Riley Boulden Chris McDaniels Travis Myers Glenn Mills Greg Higginson Devan Terry Nic Stoel Daniel Armstrong

Stefan Gherghel Denes Zubcsek Alexi Coci Apostolis Tsagkarakis Anestis Arampatzis Jon Sieben Bruce Snodgrass Russell McDowell Tom Forrest Carter Hull

200 Butterfly

Jordie Proffitt Chris Perry Joe Ziegler Alex Coci Jamey Myers Alan Axford Stefan Gherghel Oren Azrad Franck Southon Clint McClendon

100 Breaststroke

1000 Freestyle Mark Randall Frank Iacono Arne Borgstrom Casey Converse Scott Hamlet Catalin Cosma Max Metzger Marcello Juca Mike Davidson Luis Morell

2006 1986 1977 2008 1990 1982 1981 1982 1990 1986

200 Backstroke

500 Freestyle Mark Randall Catalin Cosma Arne Borgstrom Joe Ziegler Frank Iacono Mark Jollands Don Berger Scott Hamlet Casey Converse Justin Lemberg

100 Butterfly 14:48.25 14:56.42 14:57.30 14:57.43 14:58.13 14:58.44 15:02.74 15:05.48 15:08.30 15:10.31

100 Backstroke

200 Freestyle Jon Olsen Don Berger Denes Zubcsek Joe Ziegler Brendan McCarthy Alex Voris David Strassburg Mark Jollands Oren Azrad Andreas Schmidt

Mark Randall Frank Iacono Casey Converse Catalin Cosma Scott Hamlet Arne Borgstrom Max Metzger Marcello Juca Mark Colwill Mike Davidson

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Event 50 FREESTYLE 100 FREESTYLE 200 FREESTYLE 500 FREESTYLE 1000 FREESTYLE 1650 FREESTYLE 100 BACKSTROKE

200 BACKSTROKE 100 BREASTSTROKE 200 BREASTSTROKE 100 BUTTERFLY 200 BUTTERFLY 200 IM 400 IM 200 MEDLEY RELAY

400 MEDLEY RELAY

200 FREESTYLE RELAY

400 FREESTYLE RELAY

800 FREESTYLE RELAY

1-meter DIVING (6 Dives) 3-meter DIVING (6 Dives) PLATFORM DIVING (6 Dives)

School Record Apostolis Tsagkarakis 19.32 in 2007 Jon Olsen 42.69 in 1991 Jon Olsen 1:33.91 in 1990 Mark Randall 4:14.82 in 2010 Mark Randall 8:54.69 in 2009 Mark Randall 14:48.25 in 2006 Jordie Proffitt in 2001 Chris Perry in 2009 47.97 Joe Ziegler 1:43.84 in 2011 Vlad Polyakov 52.25 in 2007 Vlad Polyakov 1:52.71 in 2007 Stefan Gherghel 47.04 in 2003 Stefan Gherghel 1:42.35 in 2003 Riley Boulden 1:45.54 in 2010 Peter Berndt 3:47.29 in 1986 1:26.73 in 2007 Chris Perry Vlad Polyakov Alin Mihalca Apostolis Tsagkarakis 3:11.91 in 2007 Chris Perry Vlad Polyakov Alin Mihalca Apostolis Tsagkarakis 1:18.78 in 2006 Apostolis Tsagkarakis Darren Erasmus Mike Jones Spiros Bitsakis 2:53.47 in 2011 Vlad Caciuc Bjoern Hornikel Alex Coci Joe Ziegler 6:24.98 in 2009 Denes Zubcsek Catalin Cosma Joe Ziegler Alin Mihalca Aaron Fleshner 414.15 in 2009 Aaron Fleshner 449.15 in 2010 Aaron Fleshner 427.90 in 2010

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University of Alabama Aquatic Center Record Cesar Cielo (AU) 18.91 in 2008 Cesar Cielo (AU) 41.25 in 2008 Shaune Fraser (UF) 1:34.23 in 2008 Sebastian Rouault (UGA) 4:13.75 in 2008 Steve Herron (AZ) 9:02.55 in 1988 Sebastien Rouault (UGA) 14:35.47 in 2008 Michael Gilliam (UT) 46.37 in 2001

SEC Championship Record Matt Targett (AU) 18.52 in 2009 Matt Targett (AU) 41.55 in 2008 Conor Dwyer (UF) 1:31.73 in 2011 Conor Dwyer (UF) 4:11.36 in 2011

NCAA Record Cesar Cielo (Auburn) 18.47 in 2008 Cesar Cielo (Auburn) 40.92 in 2008 Simon Burnett (Arizona) 1:31.20 in 2006 Peter Vanderkaay (Michigan) 4:08.60 in 2006

Sebastian Rouault (UGA) 14:35.47 in 2008 Ryan Lochte (UF) 45.19 in 2005

Chris Thompson (Michigan) 14:26.62 in 2001 Ryan Lochte (Florida) 44.60 in 2006

Omar Pinzon (UF) 1:41.85 in 2008 Jeremy McDonnell (UT) 53.11 in 2001 David Denniston (AU) 1:55.37 in 2001 Alexei Puninski (AU) 45.60 in 2008 Mark Dylla (UGA) 1:42.23 in 2008 Ally Bradley (UF) 1:44.45 in 2008 Greg Reeves (UF) 3:43.13 in 2001 Auburn 1:24.81 in 2008 Scott Goodrich Michael Silva Alexei Puninski Cesar Cielo Florida 3:08.57 in 2008 Kohlton Norys Michael Silva Alexei Puninski Cesar Cielo Auburn 1:16.92 in 2008 Cesar Cielo Alexei Puninski Scott Goodrich Steve Scheren Auburn 2:50.49 in 2008 Cesar Cielo Scott Goodrich Steve Scheren Alexei Puninski Florida 6:19.18 in 2008 Nolan Morrell Jonas Perrson Andrew Thirlwell Michael Wolfe Andy Bradley (USC) 378.60 in 2005 Aaron Fleshner (UA) 417.15 in 2009 Dan Mazzaferro (AU) 444.65 in 2008

Ryan Lochte (UF) 1:38.29 in 2005 Jeremy Linn (UT) 51.86 in 1997 Neil Versfeld (UGA) 1:52.07 in 2009 Matt Targett (AU) 45.02 in 2009 Mark Dylla (UGA) 1:41.35 in 2011 Ryan Lochte (UF) 1:41.76 in 2005 Conor Dwyer (UF) 3:37.75 in 2011 Auburn 1:23.69 in 2009 Jared White Michael Silva Matt Targett Jakob Andkjaer Auburn 3:04.58 in 2009 Pascal Wollach Adam Klein Logan Madson Matt Targett Auburn 1:15.47 in 2009 Jakob Andkjaer Matt Targett Kohlton Norys Gideon Louw Auburn 2:46.03 in 2009 Jakob Andkjaer Gideon Louw Kohlton Norys Matt Targett Florida 6:13.74 in 2011 Conor Dwyer Brett Fraser Balazs Gercsak Sebastien Rousseau Chris Colwill (UGA) 441.05 in 2006 Chris Colwill (UGA) 454.40 in 2006 Dan Mazzaferro (AU) 488.90 in 2009

Tyler Clary (Michigan) 1:37.58 in 2009 Damir Dugonjic (California) 50.86 in 2009 Neil Versfeld (Georgia) 1:51.40 in 2009 Austin Staab (Stanford) 44.18 in 2009 Mark Dylla (Georgia) 1:40.60 in 2011 Bradley Ally (Florida) 1:40.49 in 2009 Tyler Clary (Michigan) 3:35.98 in 2009 Auburn 1:22.36 in 2009 Jared White Michael Silva Matt Targett Gideon Louw Auburn 3:01.39 in 2009 Pascal Wollach Adam Klein Tyler McGill Matt Targett Auburn 1:14.08 in 2009 Jakob Andkjaer Gideon Louw Kohlton Norys Matt Targett Auburn 2:46.03 in 2009 Jakob Andkjaer Gideon Louw Kohlton Norys Matt Targett Texas 6:10.16 in 2009 Dave Walters Ricky Berens Scott Jostes Michael Klueh David Boudia (Purdue) 468.65 in 2010 David Boudia (Purdue) 494.90 in 2010 Nick McCrory (Duke) 548.90 in 2011

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THE 2011-12 CRIMSON TIDE WOMEN AT A GLANCE

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LISA BOGOSIAN

CALLAN BUCK

KAYLIN BURCHELL

KAYLA DE BOER

EMILY FACCHINE

KARA FEENEY

5-0 | Fr. | HS Diving

5-7 | Soph. | 1L Diving

5-6 | Fr. | HS Breaststroke

5-8 | Fr. | HS Backstroke

5-7 | Fr. | HS Freestyle/IM

5-0 | Sr. | SQ Diving

JENNA GALLO

ANNA RAE GWARJANSKI

HILLARY HAHMANN

CAITLYN HARRISON

SHELBY HIXON

STEPHANIE KINSEY

5-8 | Jr. | 2L Freestyle

5-9 | Soph. | 1L Butterfly/Freestyle/IM

5-8 | Soph. | 1L Freestyle

5-5 | Sr. | SQ Freestyle

5-5 | Sr. | SQ Freestyle/IM

5-9 | Soph. | TR Backstroke/Freestyle

ANGELY MARTINEZ

PAIGE MCCLEARY

KATHERYNE MUTH

CALLIE NETTLES

BRITTANY PARKEY

IDA PERSSON

5-2 | Fr. | HS Diving

5-3 | Soph. | 1L Diving

5-8 | Fr. | HS Freestyle

5-6 | Soph. | SQ Backstroke

5-7 | Fr. | HS Breaststroke

5-7 | RS-Sr. | 3L Freestyl/Butterfly

LAUREN PIPER

ALEX POPA

KATIE SCHROEDER

SUZANNE SCHWEE

SAM STANLEY

KRISTEL VOURNA

5-6 | Soph. | 1L IM/Backstroke

5-7 | Soph. | 1L Breaststroke/Butterfly

5-8 | Soph. | SQ Freestyle

5-6 | Sr. | 3L Butterfly/Backstroke

5-5 | Fr. | HS Freestyle/Backstroke

5-8 | Soph. | 1L Butterfly/Freestyle

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2011-12 ALABAMA WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING ROSTER Event(s) Diving Diving Breaststroke Backstroke Freestyle/IM Diving Freestyle Butterfly/Freestyle/IM Freestyle Freestyle Freestyle/IM Backstroke/Freestyle Diving Diving Freestyle Backstroke Breaststroke Freestyle/Butterfly IM/Backstroke Breaststroke/Butterfly Freestyle Butterfly/Backstroke Freestyle/Backstroke Butterfly/Freestyle

Height 5-0 5-7 5-6 5-8 5-7 5-0 5-8 5-9 5-8 5-5 5-5 5-9 5-2 5-3 5-8 5-6 5-7 5-7 5-6 5-7 5-8 5-6 5-5 5-8

Year Fr. Soph. Fr. Fr. Fr. Sr. Jr. Soph. Soph. Sr. Sr. Soph. Fr. Soph. Fr. Soph. Fr. RS-Sr. Soph. Soph. Soph. Sr. Fr. Soph.

Exp. HS 1L HS HS HS SQ 2L 1L 1L SQ SQ TR HS 1L HS SQ HS 3L 1L 1L SQ 3L HS 1L

Hometown (High School) Knoxville, Tenn. (Bearden) Keller, Texas (Keller) Richmond, Ky. (Madison Central) Mckinney, Texas (Mckinney Boyd) Raleigh, N.C. (William G. Enloe) Cockeysville, Md. (Dulaney) Lake Worth, Fla. (Park Vista) Ft. Payne, Ala. (Baylor School) Tampa, Fla. (H.B. Plant) Manassas, Va. (Osbourn Park) Woodstock, Ga. (Etowah) Harrisburg, Pa. (Trinity) Miami, Fla. (St. Brendan) Lake Worth, Fla. (Palm Beach Central) Sarasota, Fla. (Sarasota) Acworth, Ga. (North Cobb) Alpharetta, Ga. (Alpharetta) Ostersund, Sweden (Nykoping) St. Petersburg, Fla. (Northeast) Pitesti, Romania (Pitesti) Mechanicsville, Va. (Atlee) Ashburn, Va. (Stone Bridge) Birmingham, Ala. (Mountain Brook) Patpas, Greece (Universal)

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ALABAMA Anna Rae Gwarjanski Sam Stanley

FLORIDA

CRIMSON TIDE BY CLASS SENIORS

JUNIOR

SOPHOMORES

FRESHMEN

Kara Feeney Caitlyn Harrison Shelby Hixon Ida Persson Suzanne Schwee

Jenna Gallo

Stephanie Kinsey Paige McCleary Lauren Piper Kristel Vourna Katie Schroeder Hillary Hahmann Callie Nettles Callan Buck Anna Rae Gwarjanski Alex Popa

Sam Stanley Lisa Bogosian Kaylin Burchell Kayla de Boer Katheryne Muth Emily Facchine Brittany Parkey Angely Martinez

Jenna Gallo Hillary Hahmann Angely Martinez Paige McCleary Katheryne Muth Lauren Piper

GEORGIA Shelby Hixon Callie Nettles Brittany Parkey

GREECE

NORTH CAROLINA Emily Facchine

PENNSYLVANIA Stephanie Kinsey

ROMANIA Alexa Popa

SWEDEN Ida Persson

TENNESSEE Lisa Bogosian

TEXAS

Kristel Vourna

Callan Buck Kayla de Boer

KENTUCKY

VIRGINIA

Kaylin Burchell

MARYLAND Kara Feeney

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Name Lisa Bogosian Callan Buck Kaylin Burchell Kayla de Boer Emily Facchine Kara Feeney Jenna Gallo Anna Rae Gwarjanski Hillary Hahmann Caitlyn Harrison Shelby Hixon Stephanie Kinsey Angely Martinez Paige McCleary Katheryne Muth Callie Nettles Brittany Parkey Ida Persson Lauren Piper Alex Popa Katie Schroeder Suzanne Schwee Sam Stanley Kristel Vourna

Caitlyn Harrison Katie Schroeder Suzanne Schwee

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2011-12 ALABAMA WOMEN’S OUTLOOK

2012 OUTLOOK THE 2011-12 WOMEN’S ALABAMA CRIMSON TIDE Back Row, from the left - Brittany Parkey, Suzanne Schwee, Sam Stanley, Kaylin Burchell, Katie Schroeder, Jenna Gallo, Anna Rae Gwarjanski, Hillary Hahmann, Katheryne Muth, Kristel Vourna, Stephanie Kinsey, Lauren Piper, Callie Nettles and Kayla de Boer. Front Row - Ida Persson, Callan Buck, Shelby Hixon, Caitlyn Harrison, Emily Facchine, Alexa Popa, Lisa Bogosian, Angely Martinez, Kara Feeney and Paige McCleary.

Last season, the Alabama women’s swimming and diving team went into the season with a very young squad, but that didn’t stop the Crimson Tide’s preponderance of newcomers from making their mark immediately. Coming on strong during the regular season, the 2010-11 rookies hit their stride at the Southeastern Conference Championships where seven rookies scored in 11 different events. A league best three Tide rookies were named to the SEC All-Freshman Team, meaning that they were the top finishing newcomer in one or more events. Diver Paige McCleary was the top rookie in all three diving events and was named the SEC Freshman Diver of the Year by the league’s coaches at the end of the championships. McCleary (1-meter, 3-meter and platform) was joined on the women’s Freshman All-SEC team by Alex Popa (200 breaststroke) and Kristel Vourna (100 butterfly). Lauren Piper, Anna Rae Gwarjanski, Hillary Hahmann and Callan Buck also scored in their first appearance at the conference championships. In addition to her honors, Vourna shaved nearly a second off the school 100 butterfly record, posting a 52.16, just shy of becoming the first UA woman under 52 seconds in that event. She parlayed that success into a trip to the NCAA Championships where she competed in the 100 butterfly as well as the 50 and 100 freestyle. She just missed scoring in the 100 butterfly, coming in 17th in prelims.

Vourna kept the success of her sparkling freshman season going well into the summer. She set a new Greek national record in the 100m butterfly, touching the wall with a time of 58.39 at the Banja Luka Open, which ranked her 17th in the world this year. That mark not only qualified her for this summer’s FINA World Championships, where she posted a top-25 finish, but also the 2012 London Olympics. The best thing about having a team loaded with great freshmen is that the next year, you have a team loaded with great sophomores. Last year’s tremendous success means that the nucleus of this year’s squad is not only supremely talented, but now, with a year of collegiate competition under their belt, they are also experienced as well. “We were very young last year, but we still enjoyed a lot of success, both in the pool and in the classroom,” head coach Eric McIlquham said. “Now we want to take that success and experience and build on it. We’re still young this year, but we’re much more experienced throughout our lineup and everyone is looking to be better and make a bigger impact this year.” That’s not to say that this year’s sophomores are the only ones coming into the season on a hot streak. Ida Persson, the school record holder in the 100 freestyle and as part of the 200 and 400 medley relays and the 200 and 400 freestyle relays, returns to action for her senior season after redshirting last year. Suzanne Schwee, the school record holder in the 200 butterfly, is back

for her senior season, ready to finish things off with a bang. Both women are veterans of the NCAA Championships. Distance ace Jenna Gallo is back for her junior season with her eye on the school record in the mile. Joining Buck and McCleary in the diving events will be senior Kara Feeney and freshmen Angely Martinez and Lisa Bogosian. In the breaststroke events, Popa will be joined by freshmen Kaylin Burchell and Brittany Parkey while Schwee, Vourna and Gwarjanski along with Popa and sophomore Katie Schroeder will take care of the butterfly duties. Piper will get help from sophomores Stephanie Kinsey and Callie Nettles along with freshmen Kayla de Boer and Sam Stanley in the backstroke lane. In the sprint freestyle events, Vourna, Persson, Popa and Gwarjanski will lead the way while Kinsey, Schroeder, freshman Katheryne Muth, and senior Shelby Hixon look to make their marks as well. In the middle distance and distance events Gallo and Hahmann along with freshman Emily Facchine and senior Caitlyn Harris will all be in the mix. The versatility of this year’s squad also means that there are several candidates for the individual medley events including Popa, Gwarjanski and Facchine.

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PROFILES

BOGOSIAN Diving 5-0 | Fr. | HS Knoxville, Tenn. Bearden

Prep Highlights: Dove for Brian Pritt at Tennessee Diving … 2011 Tennessee State 1-meter champion … team captain … diver of the year … Key Club … finaled off the 1-meter board at the USA Diving Spring Junior East Championships … finaled at the USA Diving Summer Junior Zone D Championships off the 1-meter and 3-meter boards. Personal Information: Full name: Lisa Ann Bogosian ... son of Martha and Michael Riordan ... brother, James ... mother, Martha, dove for Virginia Tech … marine science/biology major ... born April 17, 1993.

Callan

BUCK Diving 5-7 | Soph. | 1L Keller, Texas Keller

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Scored off the 1-meter board at the SEC Championships … also competed off the 3-meter board and platform at the SEC Championships …. Competed off the 1-meter and 3-meter boards as well as the platform at the NCAA Zone B Championships ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... earned CSCAA Honorable Mention Scholar All-American honors ... named to the President’s List (4.0 grade point average) for the fall and spring semester ... carries a perfect 4.0 GPA for her career. Prep Highlights: Dove for Jefferson Bro at GC Divers and Katie Beth Bryant at Keller High School ... member of the USA National Team ... took sixth off the 3-meter board at the 2010 Junior World Championships ... took second off the 3-meter board at the 2010 USA Diving Junior National Championships ... finished fifth off the 3-meter at the 2009 Junior National Championships ... took fourth off the platform at the 2007 Junior National Championships ... 3-meter champion at both USA Diving Junior Region and Zone Championships in 2008 and 2009 ... three-year

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captain and three-time MVP of the Keller squad ... placed first at the Texas Region 2 Championships and 3rd in the Texas 5A State High School Championships in 2010 ... took third off the 3-meter board at USA Diving 2010 National Zone C preliminary ... member of the National Honor Society. Personal Information: Full name: Callan Elizabeth Buck ... daughter of Gerald and Tamara Buck ... sister, Laurel ... premajor studies ... born January 22, 1992.

Kaylin

BURCHELL Breaststroke 5-6 | Fr. | HS Richmond, Ky. Madison Central

Prep Highlights: Coached by Rick Babuka at Telford YMCA and the late Tim Cahill at Colonel Aquatics … competed in Australia as a member of the United States Junior National Team, setting the Australian Open record in the 50-meter breaststroke … Kentucky State record holder in the 100 breaststroke … won the Kentucky state 100 breaststroke title five years in a row and won the 200 IM in 2008 … six-time Kentucky All-State and All-Region team …. earned the 2011 KHSAA Outstanding Performance award … USS National Age Group Record holder in the 50 breaststroke … silver medalist in the 100 breaststroke athe 2009 USA Junior National Championships … USA Olympic Trials qualifier in 2008. Personal Information: Full name: Patricia Kaylin Burchell ... daughter of Lynne and Todd Burchell ... sister, Laylee ... pre-occupational therapy major ... born May 4, 1993. Top Times: 100 breaststroke 1:01.61 200 breaststroke 2:14.94 200 IM 2:01.85

Kayla

DE BOER Backstroke 5-8 | Fr. | HS Mckinney, Texas Mckinney Boyd

Prep Highlights: Coached by Brent Mitchell at Metroplex Aquatics … McKinney Boyd High School’s team captain … earned All-State honors in six individual events and three relays … two-year MBHS MVP … Texas State Championship qualifier in the 200 IM and as part of three relays … won the 200m backstroke at Sectionals … USA Junior National qualifier in the 200 backstroke … Key Club … National Honor Society … earned USA Swimming’s prestigious Scholastic All-American award. Personal Information: Full name: Kayla de Boer ... daughter of Cindy and John de Boer ... sister, Emma ... civil engineering major ... born August 2, 1993. Top Times: 200 backstroke 2:01.48 100 backstroke 58.31

PROFILES

Lisa

Emily

FACCHINE Freestyle/IM 5-7 | Fr. | HS Raleigh, NC William G. Enloe

Prep Highlights: Coached by Paul Silver at Marlins of Raleigh Swim Club … Enloe High School 2011 MVP … four-year All-Conference … four-year North Carolina State Championship finalist … AP Scholar … four-year “A” Honor Roll … Enloe Scholar … four-year member of the Enloe Orchestra. Personal Information: Full name: Emily Facchine ... daughter of Lindsay and Kevin Facchine ... sisters, Hannah and Libby ... chemical engineering major ... born February 22, 1993. Top Times: 400 IM 4:28.21 200 Butterfly 2:06.12 1000 Freestyle 10:11.31 500 Freestyle 5:05.00 1650 Freestyle 17:24.42

PROFILES Kara

FEENEY Diving 5-0 | Sr. | SQ Cockeysville, Md. Dulaney

Alabama Highlights: 2012 - Junior: Competed off the 1-meter and 3-meter boards during the regular season … named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll... named to the Dean’s List (3.5 or better grade point average) for the fall semester. 2010 - Sophomore: Returned to diving as a sophomore after taking several years off from the sport ... inducted into Phi Eta Sigma, Alpha Lambda Delta and Sigma Alpha Lambda honor societies as well as the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.

PROFILES

Prep Highlights: A competitive gymnast, trained at Docksiders Gymnastics for Bob Ouellette ... competed as a Level 10 gymnast for five years ... competed at the Level 10 Region VII Championships from 2004-08 ... member of the National Honor Society at Dulaney High School. Personal Information: Full name: Kara Elizabeth Feeney ... daughter of Patrick and Lauri Feeney ... sister, Kali ... brother, Brian ... interior design major ... born April 21, 1990.

Jenna

GALLO Freestyle 5-8 | Jr. | 2L Lake Worth, Fla. Park Vista

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Sophomore: Scored in the 1650 freestyle at the SEC Championships, taking 14th place … also competed in the 200 and 500 freestyle at the SEC Championships … shaved three seconds off her best 500 freestyle time, posting a 4:49.14, and four seconds off her best time in the mile, turning in a 16:27.11, both at the SEC Championships … turned in Alabama’s top time of the season in the 500, 1000 and 1650 freestyles … named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. 2010 - Freshman: Turned in a 4:52.46 in the 500 freestyle at the UT Invite, which ranks her seventh all time for the Crimson Tide ... posted a 16:36.72 in the mile at the UT Invite which ranks her fourth all-time at Alabama ... posted

a 10:02.20 in the 1000 freestyle on the way out in the mile at the UT Invite, which ranks her sixth all time for the Tide ... swam the 200, 500 and 1650 freestyle at the SEC Championships ... turned in Alabama’s top times of the season in the 500 and 1650 freestyles ... earned the Angelika Knipping Most Valuable Newcomer award. Prep Highlights: Three-year All-American ... holds the Palm Beach County record in the 500 freestyle ... finaled at the 200 and 500 freestyles at the 2009 Florida High School championships ... swam for Tim Bruce at Park Vista Community High School and Sid Cassidy at Saint Andrew’s Swimming ... USA Senior National qualifier ... served as team captain of both her Park Vista and Saint Andrew’s teams. Personal Information: Full name: Jenna Gallo ... daughter of Susan and Paul Gallo ... health science major ... born October 6, 1990. Top Times: 200 freestyle 1:51.12 500 freestyle 4:49.14 1000 freestyle 9:54.15 1650 freestyle 16:27.11

2009 ... state champion as part of the 400 freestyle and 200 medley relays in 2009 and 2010 ... took third in the 100 freestyle and fourth in the 100 butterfly at the 2010 Eastern Interscholastic Swimming Championship ... finished third in the 100 butterfly and the 100 freestyle at the 2009 Eastern Interscholastic Swimming Championship ... team captain 2009-2010 ... member of the National Honor Society ... Business Club Secretary ... member of the Round Table, French Club and Red Circle ... served as a writing and peer tutor ... dorm perfect. Personal Information: Full name: Anna Rae Gwarjanski ... daughter of David and Kelly Gwarjanski... sisters, Abigail and Ashleigh ... journalism major ... born July 15, 1992. Top Times: 100 butterfly 55.24 100 freestyle 50.75 200 IM 2:01.50

Hillary

HAHMANN Freestyle 5-8 | Soph. | 1L

Anna Rae

GWARJANSKI Butterfly/Freestyle/IM 5-9 | Soph. | 1L Ft. Payne, Ala. Baylor School

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Competed in the 100 and 200 butterfly and 200 IM at the SEC Championships … posted career-best times in the 100 freestyle, 100 and 200 butterfly and 200 IM at the SEC Championships, touching at 50.75, 55.24, 2:03.45 and 2:01.50 respectively … shaved nearly four seconds off her previous best in the 200 IM, which ranks her sixth all time at Alabama ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... earned CSCAA Honorable Mention Scholar All-American honors … earned the Crimson Tide’s Debra Hobart Perseverance, Determination and Spirit award... named to the Dean’s List (3.5 or better grade point average) for the spring semester. Prep Highlights: Swam for Dan Flack at Baylor School and for Dan Flack, Tom Smith and Laura Pitman on the Baylor Swim Club ... led the Baylor School to the Public and Independent High School National Championship in 2009 ... National Public and Independent High School record holder as part of the 200 medley relay in 2009 ... national champion as part of the 200 medley relay in

Tampa, Fla. H.B. Plant

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Competed in the 100, 200 and 500 freestyles at the SEC Championships … posted a career-best time of 4:59.93 in the 500 freestyle at the SEC Championships, dropping more than three seconds off her previous best. Prep Highlights: Coached by Gil Gonzalez at H.B. Plant High School and Jason Bowes at the Tampa Bay Aquatics swim club ... two-time All-American ... led Plant High School to three district championships and two regional championships ... won 13 district and four regional titles ... 14-time state finalist ... state champion as part of Plant’s 200 freestyle relay ... team captain in 2009 ... two-time all-county ... Plant’s 2010 Swimmer of the Year ... Plant’s Junior, Sophomore and Freshman Swimmer of the Year ... USA Swimming Junior National qualifier ... USA Swimming Scholastic All-American ... 2010 National Interscholastic Swim Coach Association Scholastic All-American ... selected as the 2009-10 Hall of Fame female for H.B. Plant High School ... an AP Scholar for 2009 and 2010 ... member of the National Honor Society, National Beta honor Society, Mu Alph Theta Math Honor Society as well as the Science and Social Studies honor societies ...member of the Latin Club and Zeta Service Club board of directors ... earned the University of Alabama SunCoast Chapter

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Personal Information: Full name: Hillary Ann Hahmann ... daughter of David and Cynthia Hahmann ... sister, Haley ... marketing major ... born August 13, 1991. Top Times: 200 freestyle 1:52.21 500 freestyle 4:59.93 1000 freestyle 10:22.90

Caitlyn

HARRISON Freestyle 5-5 | Sr. | SQ Manassas, Va. Osbourn Park

Alabama Highlights: 2011 – Junior: Competed in the 200, 500 and 1650 freestyles at the SEC Championships … posted a career-best time of 4:59.83 in the 500 freestyle at the SEC Championships … named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll … earned the Crimson Tide’s Kim Nicholson Most Improved award ... named to the Dean’s List (3.5 or better grade point average) for the fall and spring semesters. 2010 - Sophomore: Competed in the distance events during the regular season ... earned President’s List (4.0 GPA) honors for the spring semester and Dean’s List (3.5 or better GPA) honors for the fall semester ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. 2009 - Freshman: Competed in the distance events during the regular season ... earned Dean’s List (3.5 or better GPA) honors for the spring semester ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. Prep Highlights: Swam for Kate Thomas at Osbourn Park High School ... swam for Mike Yearwood at QDD Swim Team ... undefeated for four years in dual meets, district and regionals ... led her team to fifth place finishes at the Virginia High School State Championships in 2007 and 2008 ... District Champion in 100 backstroke and 50 freestyle ... two-time team MVP ... part of the Virginia state record 400 freestyle relay ... All-Area Swimmer of the Year, 2007 ... member of the National Honor Society, French Honor

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Society and the Quill and Scroll Club. Personal Information: Full name: Caitlyn Marie Harrison ... daughter of Scott and Karen Harrison ... brother, Nathaniel ... sister, Elizabeth ... finance major, Chinese minor ... born September 5, 1990. Top Times: 100 freestyle 53.31 200 freestyle 1:51.33 500 freestyle 4:59.83 1000 freestyle 10:23.04 1650 freestyle 17:15.21

Personal Information: Full name: Shelby Lyn Hixon … daughter of Stuart and Vickie Hixon … sister, Leah … biology major, psychology minor … born July 12, 1990. Top Times: 200 IM 2:05.00 50 freestyle 24.83 100 freestyle 51.96 200 freestyle 1:52.07

Stephanie

Shelby

KINSEY

HIXON

Backstroke/Freestyle

Freestyle/IM

5-9 | Soph. | TR

5-5 | Sr. | SQ

Harrisburg, Pa.

Woodstock, Ga. Etowah

Alabama Highlights: 2011 – Junior: Competed in the 100 and 200 freestyles as well as the 200 IM at the SEC Championships … posted a career-best 24.83 in the 50 freestyle at the UT Invite and a 51.96 in the 100 freestyle at the SEC Championships … named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. 2010 – Sophomore: Posted a career-best times in the 100 freestyle (52.57), 200 IM (2:05.00) and the 200 freestyle (1:52.07) at the SEC Championships ... earned Dean’s List (3.5 or better GPA) honors for the fall and spring semesters ... inducted into the National Society of Collegiate Scholars ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... earned the Debra Hobart Perseverance, Determination and Spirit Award. 2009 – Freshman: Earned Dean’s List (3.5 or better GPA) honors for the fall and spring semesters ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. Prep Highlights: Swam for Tracye Bulger at Etowah High School ... swam for Ian Goss at Stingrays Swimming … two-time USA Swimming Scholastic All-American … three-time Cherokee County Swimmer of the Year … four-time All-County … three-time Etowah MVP … captain of Etowah High School team … led Etowah to the County Championship in 2007 and 2008 … led Etowah to undefeated seasons in 2007 and 2008 … holds six individual and three relay school records … also competed in track and field for Etowah … led Stingrays to the 2007 Georgia State 400 Medley Relay Championship … earned U.S. Army Reserve National Scholar-Athlete award … seven-time Georgia All-Star.

Clemson/Trinity

Collegiate Highlights: Clemson 2010 – Freshman: Joins the Crimson Tide after spending a year at Clemson, which dropped its varsity program. Prep Highlights: Coached by Scott Zacarda and Mike Gobrecht at Northern York Aquatic Club & West Shore YMCA … USA Senior National Championship qualifier … All-American … six-time All-State honoree … led West Shore YMCA to the 2008 YMCA national championship … member of three YMCA national record setting relays … 2010 graduate of Trinity High School … jazz band … Key Club … National Honor Society … earned USA Swimming Scholastic All-American honors as a senior. Personal Information: Full name: Stephanie Rae Kinsey … daughter of Kimberly and Forrest Kinsey … brother, Alex … nursing major, psychology minor … born May 29, 1991. Top Times: 100 backstroke 55.67 100 freestyle 51.49

PROFILES

Alumni Scholarship, the Florida Swimming Pool Association Scholarship, and Plant’s Charlie Guy Scholarship.

PROFILES Angely

MARTINEZ Diving 5-2 | Fr. | HS Miami, Fla.

pion ... finished as high as second at the state championships ... National Honor Society.

Katheryne

MUTH

Personal Information: Full name: Paige Ann McCleary ... daughter of Christine and Daniel McCleary ... sister, Shelby ... human performance exercise science major ... born July 16, 1992.

Freestyle 5-8 | Fr. | HS Sarasota, Fla.

St. Brendan

Prep Highlights: Coached by Dario DiFazio at Miami Diving … Puerto Rican national champion off the 1-meter and platform … competed at the Central American Games …. three-time U.S. Junior National qualifier … coached by Tracey Taylor at Saint Brendan Catholic High School … three-time state qualifier … earned All-Dade County First Team honors … three-time district champion. Personal Information: Full name: Angely Milagros Martinez … daughter of Amalia and Eugenio Martinez … brother, Eugene .. sister, Yaneya Navarro … international studies major, French minor … born March 30, 1993.

Paige

MCCLEARY PROFILES

Diving 5-3 | Soph. | 1L Lake Worth, Fla.

Sarasota

Prep Highlights: Coached by Steve Brown and Mark Matuszak at Sarasota YMCA and Sherwood Watts at Sarasota High School … 2011 Florida High School Swimmer of the Year … nine-time Florida High School District Champion, earning titles in the 50, 100 and 200 freestyles … won the Florida High School State 200 freestyle title in 2010 … competed at both USA Junior and Senior National Championships .. led Sarasota YMCA to five national team titles … part of three YMCA National Championship relay squads. Personal Information: Full name: Katheryne Elyse Muth ... daughter of Amy and David Muth ... sister, Rachel ... exercise and sports science major ... born February 4, 1992. Top Times: 1650 free- 16:49.72 1,000 free- 9:58.57 500 freestyle 4:52.65 200 freestyle 1:48.88 100 freestyle 51.24

Palm Beach Central

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: SEC Freshman Diver of the Year ... freshman All-SEC … posted the league’s top freshman finish at the SEC Championships off the 1-meter and 3-meter boards as well as the platform … finaled off the 1-meter and 3-meter boards at the SEC Championships, taking eight and sixth respectively … also scored off the platform at the SEC Championships, taking 14th place … named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... earned CSCAA Honorable Mention Scholar All-American honors … earned the Crimson Tide’s Coach’s Award ... ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... named to the President’s List (4.0 grade point average) for the spring semester.... named to the Dean’s List (3.5 or better GPA) for the fall semester. Prep Highlights: Dove for Dave Burgering and Evan Linette at the Ft. Lauderdale Dive Team and Paul Vowles at Palm Beach Central High School ... member of the USA Diving All-Star Team ... finaled off both boards and the platform at the 2009 USA Diving Age Group National Championships, taking third off the 1-meter, fourth off the 3-meter and eight on the platform ... four-year district champion ... three-year regional cham-

Callie

NETTLES Backstroke 5-6 | Soph. | SQ Acworth, Ga. North Cobb

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Competed in the 100 and 200 backstroke and 200 IM at the SEC Championships ... posted a career-best 2:03.52 in the 200 backstroke at the UT Invite … named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll … inducted into Phi Eta Sigma and Alpha Lambda Delta honor societies ... named to the Dean’s List (3.5 or better GPA) for the fall and spring semesters. Prep Highlights: Swam for Jon Almy at North Cobb High School and Ian Gross of the Stingrays Swimming Club ... All-American ... USA Swimming Scholastic All-American ... USA Senior National qualifier ... six-time Georgia All-Star ... state qualifier in five individual events and as part of three relays ...

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Personal Information: Full name: Callie Elizabeth Nettles ... daughter of Stephen and Carol Nettles ... American studies major ... brother, Rob ... sister, Conner ... born June 26, 1992. Top Times: 100 backstroke 56.77 200 backstroke 2:03.52

Brittany

PARKEY Breaststroke 5-7 | Fr. | HS Alpharetta, Ga. Alpharetta

Prep Highlights: Coached by Rich Murphy at Dynamo Swim Club and Emily Santowski and Lisa Marshall at Alpharetta High School … three-time USA Junior National Championships participant … Alpharetta school record holder in the 100 breaststroke … runner-up in the 100 breaststroke at the 2009 Georgia State Championships … member of the 2009 Southeastern Zone team … finished second in the 200-meter breaststroke at the 2009 State Championships … National Honor Society … two-time USA Swimming Academic All-American … AP Scholar Award winner. Personal Information: Full name: Brittany Elizabeth Parkey ... daughter of Rosalie and William Parkey ... brother, Grant … sister, Sarah … nursing major ... born November 21, 1992.

Ida

PERSSON Freestyle/Butterfly 5-7 | RS-Sr. | 3L Ostersund, Sweden Nykoping

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Senior: Redshirted … named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... named to the President’s List (4.0 grade point average) for the spring semester.... named to the Dean’s List (3.5 or better GPA) for the fall semester. 2010 - Junior: Posted Alabama’s top 50 and 100 freestyle times of the season with a 23.34 in the 50 at the SEC Championships and a 50.49 in the 100 at the Bulldog Invitational ... earned Dean’s List (3.5 or better GPA) honors for the fall and spring semesters ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... earned CSCAA Honorable Mention Scholar All-American honors. 2009 - Sophomore: Set the school record in the 100 freestyle at the SEC Championships with a time of 49.26 ... set the school record as part of the 200 and 400 medley relays at the SEC Championships, swimming the freestyle leg on both ... turned a career-best time in the 50 freestyle, touching at 22.95 which ranks her third all-time at Alabama, and the 100 butterfly, 53.96, which ranks her sixth all-time for the Tide, at the SEC Championships ... scored in the 100 freestyle and 100 butterfly at the SEC Championships, taking 12th and 16th place, respectively ... earned Dean’s List (3.5 or better GPA) honors for the fall and spring semesters ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... earned CSCAA Honorable Mention Scholar All-American honors.

freestyle and 400 medley relays as well as the 50 freestyle and 100 butterfly ... posted a careerbest 23.22 in the 50 freestyle at the NCAA Championships which ranks her fifth all-time for the Tide ... swam a career-best 54.22 in the 100 butterfly at the NCAA Championships which makes her fourth all-time for the Tide ... led off the Tide’s school record setting 200 freestyle relay at the Alabama Classic, 1:30.81 ... part of the school record setting 400 freestyle relay at the Alabama Classic, 3:20.33 ... scored in the 100 freestyle and 100 butterfly, taking 15th in both, and the 50 freestyle, taking 16th, at the SEC Championships ... earned a 4.0 grade point average in the fall and spring, earning President’s List (4.0 GPA) honors both semesters ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... earned the Tide’s Angelika Knipping Most Valuable Freshman award ... earned CSCAA Scholar AllAmerican honors. Prep Highlights: Swam for Nykopings Simgymnasium, Nykoping and Sk Agir in Ostersund, Sweden ... silver medalist at the Swedish Junior Championship, in the 50 butterfly in 2004 and 2007 ... finaled in the 50 butterfly, 100 butterfly and 50 backstroke at the 2006 Swedish National Short Course Meter Championships ... took fifth in 50 butterfly at the 2007 Swedish National Long Course Meters Championships and finaled in the 100 butterfly and freestyle. Personal Information: Full name: Ida Margareta Persson ... daughter of Lars Persson and Gunilla Holm Persson ... brother, Anders ... sisters, Maria and Anna ... art and advertising major ... born October 7, 1987. Top Times: 100 freestyle 49.26 SR 50 freestyle 22.95 100 butterfly 53.96

2008 - Freshman: Competed at the NCAA Championships as part of the Crimson Tide’s 18th place 400 freestyle relay and 20th place 200

Top Times: 100 breaststroke 1:05.69 200 breaststroke 2:22.24

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holds four North Cobb records ... North Cobb MVP and captain in 2010 ... named to the allcounty team ... honor student ... senior sectional finalist ... scholar athlete.

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Alex

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POPA

Backstroke/IM

Breaststroke/IM/Butterfly

5-6 | Soph. | 1L

5-7 | Soph. | 1L

St. Petersburg, Fla.

Pitesti, Romania

Northeast

Pitesti

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Scored in the 100 backstroke at the SEC Championships, taking 13th place with a career-best 54.48 which is more than a second faster than her previous best, which ranks her fourth all-time for the Crimson Tide … also competed in the 200 backstroke and the 200 IM … shaved more than two seconds of her previous best in the 200 backstroke, touching the wall at 1:58.50 at the SEC Championships, which ranks her third all time at Alabama … turned in Alabama’s top time of the season in the 100 and 200 backstrokes.

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Prep Highlights: Coached by Fred Lewis at St. Petersburg Aquatics Swim Club ... earned USA Olympic Trial cut in the 200 IM ... earned USA Senior National cuts in the 100 and 200 backstrokes, 100 and 200 butterfly and the 200 and 400 IM ... 2006, 2007, 2008 Florida 3A State Champion Medley Relay ... four-year High School All-American ... finished second in the 200 IM at the 2007 high school state championships ... placed second in 100 backstroke and third on the 200 IM at 2008 high school state championships ... took second in the 100 backstroke at 2009 Florida high school state championships ... led Riverview High School to three consecutive Florida High School Class 3A State Championships ... set school records in the 200 IM and 100 Butterfly and 100 Breaststroke ... team captain and MVP ... member of the Marine and Literacy Clubs as well as the Student Government Association and Speech/Debate team ... International Baccalaureate student ... member of the National Honor Society ... two-year member of the Homecoming Court. Personal Information: Full name: Lauren Clara Piper ... daughter of Patrick and Rene Piper ... brother, Jacob, sisters Halie, Jessica, Paige and Madison ... communication studies major ... born May 18, 1992. Top Times: 100 backstroke 54.48 200 backstroke 1:58.50 200 IM 2:02.54

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Freshman All-SEC … posted the league’s top freshman finish at the SEC Championships in the 200 breaststroke ... finaled in the 200 breaststroke at the SEC Championships, taking a eighth place … also scored in the 100 breaststroke at the SEC Championships, taking 12th place with a career-best 1:01.33, which ranks her fourth all-time at Alabama … posted a career-best 2:11.97 in the 200 breaststroke at the Bulldog Invite, which ranks her third all time at Alabama, behind Olympians Anne Poleska and Agustina de Giovanni ranked fifth all time in the 200 IM at Alabama after posting a 2:01.35 at the SEC Championships … joined the Crimson Tide for the spring semester … turned in Alabama’s top time of the season in the 100 and 200 breaststrokes … earned CSCAA Honorable Mention Scholar All-American honors ... named to the Dean’s List (3.5 or better GPA) for the spring semester. Prep Highlights: Coached by Angela Covic at Pitesti High School … multiple age-group Romanian national champion. Personal Information: Full name: Ioana Alexandra Popa ... daughter of Stelica and Viorel Popa ... pre-criminal justice major ... born July 4, 1991. Top Times: 100 breaststroke 1:01.33 200 breaststroke 2:11.97 200 IM 2:01.35

Katie

SCHROEDER Freestyle 5-8 | Soph. | SQ Mechanicsville, Va.

Personal Information: Full name: Kaitlin Joy Schroeder ... daughter of Jeff and Cheree Schroeder ... brother, Kyle ... sister, Kristi, swims for Marshall University ... elementary education major ... born November 7, 1991. Top Times: 1650 freestyle 16:34.22 500 freestyle 4:50.23 200 freestyle 1:50.31 200 butterfly 2:00.85 400 IM 4:18.70

Suzanne

SCHWEE Butterfly/Backstroke 5-6 | Sr. | 3L Ashburn, Va. Stone Bridge

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Junior: Finaled in the 200 butterfly at the SEC Championships, taking seventh place … also competed in the 100 butterfly and 200 IM at the SEC Championships … turned in Alabama’s top time of the season in the 200 butterfly ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... named to the Dean’s List (3.5 or better GPA) for the spring semester. 2010 - Sophomore: Competed at the NCAA Championships in the 100 and 200 butterfly as well as the 200 IM ... broke her own school record in the 200 butterfly in a swim off to make the championship finals at the SEC Championships, posting a 1:57.55 ... took eighth in the 200 butterfly at the SEC Championships ... scored in the 200 IM and 100 butterfly at the SEC Championships, taking 15th and 16th place respectively ... earned Dean’s List (3.5 or better GPA) honors for the fall semester ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll.

Atlee

Alabama Highlights: 2011 - Freshman: Competed in the freestyle, butterfly and IM events during the regular season. Prep Highlights: Swam for Karen Seeber at Atlee High School and Ted Sallade at the Poseidon Swimming Club ... holds the Central Region record in the

200 and 500 freestyles ... Poseidon captain in 2009 and Atlee captain in 2009 and 2010 ... Central Region Swimmer of the Year ... finished in the top five at the Virginia State Championships four years in a row coming ... USA Junior National finalist ... USA Senior National and U.S. Open qualifier ... member of the Beta Club and the Class Council.

2009 - Freshman: Broke the school record in the 200 butterfly at the SEC Championships, touching the wall at 1:57.63, making her the first Tide swimmer to go under 1:59 in the 200 butterfly ... set the school record as part of the 400 medley relay at the SEC Championships, swimming the butterfly leg ... finaled in the 200 butterfly at the SEC Championships, finishing eighth ... turned in a career-best time of 53.71 at

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Prep Highlights: Swam for Jennifer House at Stone Bridge High School ... swam for John Flanagan at Curl Burke Swim Club ... High School All-American ... competed at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 100 backstroke ... USA Swimming Scholastic All-American ... Dulles District All-American ... 2006 and 2007 Virginia State High 100 Butterfly Champion ... Loudoun County Swimmer of the Year ... 2005, 2006 and 2007 Washington Post First-Team All-Metro ... 2005 Virginia State High 100 Backstroke Champion ... state record holder in 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke ... fourtime Stone Bridge MVP ... part of Curl Burke’s 400 medley relay that won the 2007 U.S. Junior National Championship and set a U.S. Junior National Record ... club team record holder in 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke ... National Honor Society. Personal Information: Full name: Suzanne Elisabeth Schwee ... daughter of James and Laura Schwee ... brother, Matt ... psychology major ... born November 25, 1989. Top Times: 200 butterfly 1:57.55 SR 100 butterfly 53.71 100 backstroke 55.37 200 IM 2:01.64

Sam

Kristel

STANLEY

VOURNA

Freestyle/Backstroke

Butterfly/Freestyle

5-5 | Fr. | HS

5-8 | Soph. | 1L

Birmingham, Ala.

Patpas, Greece

Mountain Brook

Universal

Prep Highlights: Coached by Nick Lambert, Suzanne Wrighton and former UA swimmer Brian Wrighton at Birmingham Swim League and John Rangely and Brook Gibbons at Mountain Brook High School … Mountain Brook High School team captain … member of the 2009 Alabama High School State championship team … part of the state champion 200 and 400 freestyle relays and 400 medley relay … Birmingham Swim League team captain … finaled in the 100 backstroke at the Southeastern Championships. Personal Information: Full name: Samantha Layne Stanley ... daughter of Sabrina and Gregory Stanley ... brother, Hunter … sisters, Savannah and Haley … human development and family studies major ... born May 8, 1993. Top Times: 50 freestyle 25.72 100 backstroke 58.75 200 backstroke 2:12.45

Alabama Highlights: 2011 – Summer: Posted a top-25 finish in the 100-meter butterfly at the FINA World Championships, touching the wall at 59.27 … set a new Greek national record in the 100m butterfly, touching at 58.39 at the Banja Luka Open, which qualified her not only for the FINA World Championships but also the 2012 London Olympics. 2011 - Freshman: Competed in the 50 and 100 freestyle and 100 butterfly at the NCAA Championships … just missed scoring the 100 butterfly at the NCAA Championships, taking 17th place with a 52.90 … Freshman All-SEC … posted the league’s top freshman finish at the SEC Championships in the 100 butterfly ... Alabama’s top individual finisher at the SEC Championships, taking fourth place in the 100 butterfly with a school-record time of 52.16 … also competed in the 50 and 100 freestyle at the SEC Championships … in addition to her school record in the 100 butterfly, she ranks third in the 50 freestyle (22.78) and fourth in the 100 freestyle (50.19) all time for the Crimson Tide … turned in Alabama’s top time of the season in the 50 and 100 freestyles as well as the 100 butterfly … earned UA’s Council of Presidents Freshman Academic Achievement Award … named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll … earned first-team CSCAA Scholar All-American honors … earned the Crimson Tide’s Angelika Knipping Most Valuable Newcomer award ... named to the Dean’s List (3.5 or better GPA) for the fall and spring semesters. Prep Highlights: Coached by Lekakis George of N.O. Patron Swim Club ... finished fifth in the 50-meter freestyle and sixth in the 50m butterfly at the World Junior Championship in Mexico ... took the bronze medal in the 50m freestyle at the 2008 and 2007 European Junior Championships ... four-year Greek National Champion. Personal Information: Full name: Kristel Vourna ... daughter of Nikolaos and Alkaterini Vourna ... brother, Andreas ... human performance exercise science major ... born February 11, 1992. Top Times: 100 butterfly 52.16 SR 50 freestyle 22.78 100 freestyle 50.19

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the SEC Championships, which ranks her fourth all-time at Alabama ... scored in the 100 butterfly at the SEC Championships, taking 12th place ... earned Dean’s List (3.5 or better GPA) honors for the fall and spring semesters ... named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll ... earned CSCAA Honorable Mention Scholar All-American honors.

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Senior Kate Shannon Gray closed out her Crimson Tide career in style, earning honorable mention All-American honors, and grabbing the points that put Alabama on the scoreboard at the national championships for the 34th time since 1975. Freshman Kristel Vourna made her NCAA Championship debut, just missing scoring after taking 17th in the 100 butterfly. Gray bettered her own school record in the 200 IM and broke the 400 IM record by more than a second. She posted a 1:58.15 in the 200 IM at the UT Invitational, shaving more than a half second off her previous best. She took the 400 IM record with a 4:09.31 at the SEC Championships. Overall Gray, a Tuscaloosa native, is ranked in the Tide’s all-time top-10 lists in six events, and bettered her position on five of those lists last season. Vourna got her Tide career off to a fast start, breaking the school record in the 100 butterfly, shaving almost a second off the previous mark, posting a 52.16 at the SEC Championships. She is also on UA’s all-time top-10 list in the 50 and 100 freestyles. Overall, the Tide put 17 swims on the all-time top 10 in 2010-11, including 14 in the top five. Vourna posted Alabama’s top finish at the SEC Championships, taking fourth in the 100 butterfly. Freshman Paige McCleary also enjoyed an outstanding SEC Championship run, scoring off both spring board events as well as the platform. For her efforts she was named the SEC Freshman Diver of the Year. McCleary, Vourna and Alex Popa, who joined Alabama for the spring semester, earned Freshman All-SEC honors. In the classroom, the Alabama women posted the second highest team grade point average in the nation for the spring semester, just one-hundreth of a point behind Yale. Individually, 16 swimmers and divers earned a place on the SEC Academic honor roll and eight were named CSCAA Scholar All-Americans. As a team, Alabama was named to the CSCAA Scholar All-American winter and spring lists. In the community, Alabama hosted it second “Power of Pink” event helping raise awareness in the fight against breast cancer, wearing pink swim suits against LSU.

2010-11 Season Results (0-9, 0-5 SEC) 10.09.10 10.23.10 11.18-20.10 12.16-18.10 01.15.11 01.22.11 01.30.10

Auburn LSU UT Invitational LSU Diving Classic Kentucky Florida State at South Carolina vs. Georgia 02.11.11 SEC Championships 2.26-27.11 Bulldog Invite 3.5-6.11 Auburn Invite 3.11-13.11 NCAA Zone B Diving 03.17.11 NCAA Championships

Tuscaloosa, Ala. Tuscaloosa, Ala. Knoxville, Tenn. Baton Rouge, La. Lexington, Ky. Tuscaloosa, Ala. Columbia, S.C. Gainesville, Fla. Athens, Ga. Auburn, Ala. Athens, Ga. Austin, Texas

L, 169-74 L 198-101 4th (745 points) No Scoring L, 152-148 L, 157-143 L, 158-142 L, 191-107 9th (195.5 points) No Scoring No Scoring No Scoring 41st (2 points)

201 0-1 1 W omen’s Ros ter

Name Cameron Bass Callan Buck Britney Busch Olivia Covey Cassandra Craddock Marissa Dressel Lauren Dunn Julia Etterer Katrice Ewanich Kara Feeney Laura Finelli Jenna Gallo Kate Shannon Gray Anna Rae Gwarjanski Hillary Hahmann Caitlyn Harrison Shelby Hixon Kelsie Ludolph Samantha Lugar Paige McCleary Callie Nettles Ida Persson Lauren Piper Alex Popa Katie Schroeder Suzanne Schwee Elle St. Charles Paige Troyan Kristel Vourna

Event(s) Freestyle Diving Breaststroke Diving Freestyle Freestyle Diving Freestyle Freestyle Diving Backstroke Freestyle IM/Freestyle Butterfly/Freestyle Freestyle Freestyle Freestyle/IM Freestyle IM Diving Backstroke Butterfly IM/Backstroke Breaststroke/Butterfly Freestyle Butterfly/Backstroke Butterfly Breaststroke Freestyle

Height 5-8 5-7 5-6 5-6 5-9 5-8 5-5 5-7 5-4 5-0 5-7 5-7 5-7 5-9 5-8 5-5 5-5 5-10 5-7 5-3 5-6 5-7 5-6 5-7 5-8 5-6 5-6 5-7 5-7

Year Jr. Fr. Sr. Sr. Sr. Fr. Sr. Soph. Sr. Jr. Fr. Soph. Sr. Fr. Fr. Jr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Fr. Fr. Sr. Fr. Fr. Fr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Fr.

Hometown (High School) Birmingham, Ala. (Briarwood Christian) Keller, Texas (Keller) Parkland, Fla. (Marjory Stoneman Douglas) Centennial, Colo. (Grandview) Jacksonville, Fla. (Bolles) Buffalo, N.Y. (Kenmore West) San Diego, Calif. (Escondido Charter) Vestavia Hills, Ala. (Vestavia Hills) Cornwall, N.Y. (Cornwell Central) Cockeysville, Md. (Dulaney) Fairfax, Va. (Robinson) Lake Worth, Fla. (Park Vista) Northport, Ala. (Tuscaloosa County) Ft. Payne, Ala. (Baylor School) Tampa, Fla. (H.B. Plant) Manassas, Va. (Osbourn Park) Woodstock, Ga. (Etowah) Peoria, Ill. (Peoria Notre Dame) Rockledge, Fla. (Cocoa Beach) Lake Worth, Fla. (Palm Beach Central) Acworth, Ga. (North Cobb) Ostersund, Sweden (Nykoping) St. Petersburg, Fla. (Northeast) Pitesti, Romania (Pitesti) Mechanicsville, Va. (Atlee) Ashburn, Va. (Stone Bridge) Signal Mountain, Tenn. (Baylor) Loveland, Ohio (Kings) Patpas, Greece (Universal)

Alabama Swimming and Diving 2010-11 Team Awards Christina Jarvis Most Valuable: Kate Shannon Gray Angelika Knipping Most Valuable Newcomer: Kristel Vourna Katie Williams Most Dedicated: Kate Shannon Gray Kim Nicholson Most Improved: Caitlyn Harrison Ellen McGrath Most Scholastic: Britney Busch Coaches Award: Paige McCleary Debra Hobart Perseverance, Determination and Spirit Award: Anna Rae Gwarjanski Captain: Katrice Ewanich

CSCAA Team Scholar All-American Recognition Fall (3.38 team grade point average) Spring (3.64 team grade point average)

Alabama Records Kate Shannon Gray 200 IM (UT Invitational • 11.19.10) Kate Shannon Gray 400 IM (SEC Championships • 2:19.11) Kristel Vourna 100 Butterfly (SEC Championships • 2:18.11)

Freshmen All-Southeastern Conference Paige McCleary, Kristel Vourna and Alex Popa

All-American Kate Shannon Gray

1:58.15 4:09.31 52.16

CSCAA Scholar All-Americans First-Team - Kate Shannon Gray, Kristel Vourna Honorable Mention - Callan Buck, Olivia Covey, Anna Gwarjanski, Kelsie Ludolph, Paige McCleary, Alex Popa SEC Freshman Diver of the Year Paige McCleary

SEC Academic Honor Roll Callan Buck, Britney Busch, Kara Feeney, Jenna Gallo, Caitlyn Harrison, Shelby Hixon, Kelsie Ludolph, Samantha Lugar, Paige McCleary, Callie Nettles, Ida Persson, Anna Rae Gwarjanski, Suzanne Schwee, Kate Shannon Gray, Paige Troyan, Kristel Vourna SEC Community Service Team Kelsie Ludolph

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2010-11 WOMENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TOP MARKS Fr. Fr. Sr. Fr. Sr.

2/16-19/11 2/26-27/11 2/16-19/11 2/26-27/11 2/16-19/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga. SECs - Gainesville, Fla.

00:22.78 B 00:23.47 00:23.52 00:23.91 00:24.09

100 Butterfly Kristel Vourna Suzanne Schwee Anna Rae Gwarjanski Kelsie Ludolph Lauren Piper

Fr. Jr. Fr. Sr. Fr.

2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 11/18-20/10

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn.

00:52.16 B SR 00:54.48 B 00:55.24 00:56.24 00:57.21

100 Freestyle Kristel Vourna Kate Shannon Gray Anna Rae Gwarjanski Kelsie Ludolph Katrice Ewanich

Fr. Sr. Fr. Sr. Sr.

11/18-20/10 2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 2/26-27/11 2/16-19/11

UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga. SECs - Gainesville, Fla.

00:50.19 B 00:50.67 00:50.75 00:50.85 00:51.63

200 Butterfly Suzanne Schwee Katie Schroeder Anna Rae Gwarjanski Lauren Piper Samantha Lugar

Jr. Fr. Fr. Fr. Sr.

2/16-19/11 2/26-27/11 2/16-19/11 10/09/2010 11/18-20/10

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. Auburn - Tuscaloosa, Ala. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn.

01:58.14 B 02:03.23 02:03.45 02:06.73 02:08.91

200 Freestyle Kate Shannon Gray Marissa Dressel Katie Schroeder Jenna Gallo Hillary Hahmann

Sr. Fr. Fr. So. Fr.

2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 2/26-27/11 2/16-19/11 11/18-20/10

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn.

01:48.64 B# 01:50.63 01:51.03 01:51.79 01:52.24

200 Individual Medley Kate Shannon Gray Alex Popa Anna Gwarjanski Suzanne Schwee Lauren Piper

Sr. Fr. Fr. Jr. Fr.

11/18-20/10 2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11

UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla.

01:58.15 B SR 02:01.35 B 02:01.50 B 02:02.29 02:03.26

500 Freestyle Jenna Gallo Marissa Dressel Caitlyn Harrison Hillary Hahmann Katie Schroeder

So. Fr. Jr. Fr. Fr.

2/16-19/11 11/18-20/10 2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 11/18-20/10

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn.

04:49.14 B 04:54.12 04:59.83 04:59.93 05:01.56

400 Individual Medley Kate Shannon Gray Lauren Piper Katie Schroeder Jenna Gallo

Sr. Fr. Fr. So.

2/16-19/11 1/29/11 11/18-20/10 1/29/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. USC/UGA - Columbia, S.C. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. USC/UGA - Columbia, S.C.

04:09.31 B SR 04:27.55 04:28.63 04:35.50

200 Freestyle Relay Popa, Vourna, Gwarjanski, Ludolph

2/16-19/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla.

01:32.06 B

400 Freestyle Relay Gray, Vourna, Gwarjansky, Ludolph

2/16-19/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla.

03:22.78 B

800 Freestyle Relay Gray, Dressel, Hahmann, Gallo

2/16-19/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla.

07:20.73 B

200 Medley Relay Piper, Popa, Vourna, Ludolph

2/16-19/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla.

01:40.99 B

400 Medley Relay Piper, Popa, Vourna, Gwarjanski

2/16-19/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla.

03:39.29 B

1000 Freestyle Jenna Gallo Katie Schroeder Caitlyn Harrison Hillary Hahmann Cameron Bass

So. Fr. Jr. Fr. Jr.

1/15/11 1/15/11 1/29/11 10/09/2010 10/09/2010

Kentucky - Lexington, Ky. Kentucky - Lexington, Ky. USC/UGA - Columbia, S.C. Auburn - Tuscaloosa, Ala. Auburn - Tuscaloosa, Ala.

10:15.11 10:28.99 10:31.10 10:33.40 10:41.57

1650 Freestyle Jenna Gallo Katie Schroeder Caitlyn Harrison Hillary Hahmann

So. Fr. Jr. Fr.

2/16-19/11 11/18-20/10 11/18-20/10 11/18-20/10

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn.

16:27.11 B 17:22.51 17:38.62 17:40.41

100 Backstroke Lauren Piper Cassie Craddock Suzanne Schwee Anna Rae Gwarjanski Callie Nettles

Fr. Sr. Jr. Fr. Fr.

2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 11/18-20/10 2/26-27/11 11/18-20/10

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn.

00:54.48 B 00:55.56 00:56.54 00:56.65 00:57.92

200 Backstroke Lauren Piper Marissa Dressel Callie Nettles Cassie Craddock Laura Finelli

Fr. Fr. Fr. Sr. Fr.

2/16-19/11 11/18-20/10 11/18-20/10 2/16-19/11 1/29/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. USC/UGA - Columbia, S.C.

01:58.50 B 02:02.26 02:03.52 02:05.18 02:11.78

100 Breaststroke Alex Popa Kate Shannon Gray Paige Troyan Britney Busch Anna Rae Gwarjanski

Fr. Sr. Sr. Sr. Fr.

2/16-19/11 11/18-20/10 2/16-19/11 2/16-19/11 2/26-27/11

SECs - Gainesville, Fla. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga.

01:01.33 B 01:03.00 01:04.44 01:05.38 01:05.40

200 Breaststroke Alex Popa Kate Shannon Gray Paige Troyan Britney Busch Samantha Lugar

One Meter Diving Paige McCleary Callan Buck Olivia Covey

Fr. Fr. Sr.

01/29/2001 01/29/2001 12/16-18/10

USC/UGA - Columbia, S.C. USC/UGA - Columbia, S.C. LSU Invitational - Baton Rouge, La.

290.90 Z 269.90 Z 259.35

Three Meter Diving Paige McCleary Callan Buck Olivia Covey

Fr. Fr. Sr.

2/26-27/11 10/23/10 01/22/11

Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga. LSU - Tuscaloosa, Ala. Florida State - Tuscaloosa, Ala.

345.65 Z 310.50 Z 286.65 Z

Platform Diving Callan Buck Paige McCleary

Fr. Fr.

12/16-18/10 11/18-20/10

LSU Invitational - Baton Rouge, La. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn.

226.90 Z 169.45

2011 REVIEW

50 Freestyle Kristel Vourna Alex Popa Kelsie Ludolph Anna Rae Gwarjanski Katrice Ewanich

SR = School Record | # Leadoff Split | A = A Standard | B = B Standard | Z = Qualified for Zone Championships Fr. Sr. Sr. Sr. Sr.

2/26-27/11 2/16-19/11 11/18-20/10 11/18-20/10 2/16-19/11

Bulldog Invite - Athens, Ga. SECs - Gainesville, Fla. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. UT Invitational - Knoxville, Tenn. SECs - Gainesville, Fla.

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02:11.97 B 02:12.77 B 02:19.84 02:21.74 02:24.68

2010-11 REVIEW

ALABAMA IN THE 2011 CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON AT THE 2011 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS March 17-19 at Austin, Texas 1. Cal Berkeley 2. Georgia 3. Southern Cal 4. Stanford 5. Arizona 6. Texas 7. Florida 8. Auburn 9. Minnesota 10. Texas A&M 41. Alabama

Prelims 424.0 394.5 351.0 272.0 266.0 232.0 226.0 202.0 192.0 182.0 2.0

200 IM

15. Kate Shannon Gray

Sr.

1:58.20

Sr.

4:11.09

Finals 1:58.92

400 IM 20. Kate Shannon Gray

17. Kristel Vourna

Fr.

52.90

Fr.

23.13

Fr.

51.64

Finals

50 FREESTYLE 57. Kristel Vourna

200 BREASTSTROKE 38. Kate Shannon Gray

Prelims

100 BUTTERFLY

Sr.

100 FREESTYLE 2:13.16

63. Kristel Vourna

AT THE 2011 SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS February 11-13, 16-19 at Gainesville, Fla. 1. Georgia 2. Florida 3. Auburn 4. Tennessee 5. LSU 6. South Carolina 7. Kentucky 8. Arkansas 9. Alabama 10. Vanderbilt

50 FREESTYLE 12 30 39 42 51

Kristel Vourna Kelsie Ludolph Katrice Ewanich Cassie Craddock Britney Busch

Fr. Sr. Sr. Sr. Sr.

2011 REVIEW

100 FREESTYLE 25 26 28 35 38

Kelsie Ludolph Kristel Vourna Katrice Ewanich Hillary Hahmann Shelby Hixon

Marissa Dressel Jenna Gallo Shelby Hixon Hillary Hahmann Caitlin Harrison

22.91

Prelims 1:50.63 1:51.79 1:53.09 1:53.15 1:51.30

Finals

Soph. Fr. Jr.

Fr. Sr. Fr.

Lauren Piper Marissa Dressel Cassie Craddock Callie Nettles

Prelims 1:58.50 2:03.38 2:05.18 2:05.48

Finals

Prelims 1:01.78 1:04.44 1:05.38 1:05.89

Finals 1:01.33

Fr. Sr. Sr. Sr.

Prelims 2:12.27 2:12.92 2:24.06 2:24.68

Finals 2:13.43 2:12.77

Fr. Jr. Fr. Sr. Sr.

Prelims 52.69 54.84 55.24 56.24 58.24

Finals 52.16

Jr. Fr.

Prelims 1:58.14 2:03.45

Finals 1:59.42

Sr. Fr. Fr. Jr. Fr. Fr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Fr.

Prelims 1:59.42 2:01.35 2:01.50 2:02.29 2:03.26 2:06.07 2:06.59 2:07.28 2:07.65 2:13.74

Finals 1:58.45

Sr.

Prelims 4:12.55

Finals 4:09.31

Fr. Fr. Sr. Fr.

100 BREASTSTROKE 12 25 28 29

Alex Popa Paige Troyan Britney Busch Sami Lugar

Fr. Sr. Sr. Sr.

200 BREASTSTROKE Alex Popa Kate Shannon Gray Britney Busch Sami Lugar

100 BUTTERFLY Kristel Vourna Suzanne Schwee Anna Rae Gwarjanski Kelsie Ludolph Katrice Ewanich

200 BUTTERFLY 7 Suzanne Schwee 26 Anna Rae Gwarjanski

200 IM Finals

Prelims

Finals 16:27.11

Prelims 54.48 55.56 58.34

17 33 36 --

4 18 21 30 37

Prelims 4:49.14 4:59.93 4:59.83

Soph. Jr. 17:15.27

200 BACKSTROKE

8 11 29 30

Fr. Soph. Jr. Fr. Jr.

100 BACKSTROKE 13 Lauren Piper 22 Cassie Craddock -- Callie Nettles

22.78 23.52 24.09 24.23 30.14

Finals

1650 FREESTYLE 14 Jenna Gallo -- Caitlin Harrison

Finals

Prelims 51.17 51.28 51.63 52.28 52.62

500 FREESTYLE 17 Jenna Gallo 28 Hillary Hahmann -- Caitlin Harrison

Prelims

Sr. Fr. Sr. Fr. Jr.

200 FREESTYLE 23 28 32 33 --

720.0 678.0 563.0 466.5 393.0 252.0 236.0 210.0 195.5 78.0

Finals 54.79

11 18 19 27 34 45 48 49 51 58

Kate Shannon Gray Alex Popa Anna Rae Gwarjanski Suzanne Schwee Lauren Piper Marissa Dressel Shelby Hixon Sami Lugar Paige Troyan Callie Nettles

400 IM 9 Kate Shannon Gray

200 FREESTYLE RELAY

Prelims 7 Alabama Alex Popa, Kristel Vourna, Anna Rae Gwarjanski, Kelsie Ludolph

400 FREESTYLE RELAY

Prelims 8 Alabama Kate Shannon Gray, Kristel Vourna, Anna Rae Gwarjanski, Kelsie Ludolph

800 FREESTYLE RELAY

Prelims 9 Alabama Kate Shannon Gray, Marissa Dressel, Hillary Hahmann, Jenna Gallo

200 MEDLEY RELAY

Finals 1:32.06

Finals 3:22.78

Finals 7:20.73

Prelims

Finals 1:40.99

Prelims -- Alabama Lauren Piper, Alex Popa, Kristel Vourna, Anna Rae Gwarjanski

Finals DQ

7 Alabama Lauren Piper, Alex Popa, Kristel Vourna, Kelsie Ludolph

400 MEDLEY RELAY

1-METER DIVING 8 Paige McCleary 15 Callan Buck 17 Olivia Covey

Fr. Fr. Sr.

3-METER DIVING 6 Paige McCleary 15 Olivia Covey 17 Callan Buck

Fr. Sr. Fr.

PLATFORM DIVING 14 Paige McCleary 16 Olivia Covey 21 Callan Buck

Fr. Sr. Fr.

Prelims 284.00 250.40

Finals 290.90 255.10

Prelims 308.20 286.65 254.35

Finals 310.10 263.55

Prelims 169.45

Finals 208.75 202.40

181.70

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RECORDS & HISTORY

ALABAMA ON THE NATIONAL SCENCE Since 1976, when they finished fourth, the Alabama Crimson Tide has finished in the top 25 nationally an astounding 26 times, including 15 finishes in the top 15. Over the past decade Alabama has posted six top-30 finishes, including three in the top 20. Over that same span, 17 members of the Tide have produced 64 All-American honors, a group that includes Olympic bronze medalist and 13-time All-American Anne Poleska who turned in four top-three NCAA 200 breaststroke finishes. The Crimson Tide women competed in the AIAW division from 1974 to 1981, after which time they moved into the NCAA. While in the AIAW the Tide had six top-20 finishes, the highest was fourth at the 1976 championships. The Tide moved to the NCAA in 1982. Since that time Alabama has posted seven top-10 finishes, the highest being a fifth-place finish at the 1983 championship. The Tide lays claim to eight individual national collegiate titles. Lane Bassham won the latest one in 2004, taking the top honors off the 3-meter diving board. She was also second off the 1-meter board that same year and was named Diver of the Meet at the NCAA Championships while Pat Greenwell was named Diving Coach of the Year at the same championships. All-Americans number 100 on the Tide’s all-time roster.

2004 NCAA CHAMPION LANE BASSHAM

Vicky Stanley

Christina Jarvis

1983 AIAW 50 Freestyle Champion

1977 AIAW 50, 100 & 200 Breaststroke Champion

Angelika Knipping 1983 NCAA 50 Breaststroke Champion

1976 AIAW 100 & 200 Breaststroke Champion

NCAA: Year 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992

Champion California Florida California Arizona Auburn Auburn Georgia Auburn Auburn Auburn Georgia Georgia Georgia Stanford Southern California Stanford Stanford Stanford Stanford Stanford

Alabama Finish 41 (2 points) 32 (19 points) 38th (9 points) 37th (11 points) — 32nd (12 points) 21st (44 points) 21st (43 points) 15th (71 points) 18th (56 points) 16th (69 points) 27th (18 points) — 33rd (6 points) 22nd (37.5 points) 13th (112.5 points) 15th (70 points) 9th (153 points) 10th (130 points) —

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Site Austin, Texas Lafayette, Ind. College Station, Texas Columbus, Ohio Minneapolis, Minn. Athens, Ga. Lafayette, Ind. College Station, Texas Austin, Texas Austin, Texas Long Island, N.Y. Indianapolis, Ind. Athens, Ga. Minneapolis, Minn. Indianapolis, Ind. Ann Arbor, Mich. Indianapolis, Ind. Indianapolis, Ind. Minneapolis, Minn. Austin, Texas

1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982

AIAW: Year 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974

Texas Texas Stanford Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas Stanford Florida

21st (41.5 points) 12th (115 points) 11th (95 points) 38th (9 points) 16th (66 points) 10th (82 points) 7th (170.5 points) 7th (107 points) 5th (185 points) 9th (115 points)

Indianapolis, Ind. Austin, Texas Indianapolis, Ind. Austin, Texas Indianapolis, Ind. Fayetteville, Ark. Tuscaloosa Indianapolis, Ind. Lincoln, Neb. Gainesville, Fla.

Champion Texas Stanford Florida Arizona State Arizona State Miami Miami Arizona State

Alabama Finish 18th (52 points) 19th (52 points) 11th (141 points) 16th (61 points) 9th (218 points) 4th (319 points) 29th —

Site Columbia, S.C. Las Vegas, Nev. Pittsburgh, Penn. Durham, N.C. Providence, R.I. Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Tempe, Ariz. Tempe, Ariz.

RECORDS & HISTORY

THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

RECORDS & HISTORY

ALABAMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ALL-AMERICANS

16-TIME ALL-AMERICAN ANNE POLESKA (2001-05)

ALABAMA ALL-AMERICANS 2011

Kate Shannon Gray

2010 Agustina de Giovanni Carrie Dragland

HM: 200 IM

HM: 200 breast platform, HM: 3-meter

2002 Lane Bassham Anne Poleska Marcy Warriner

2001 Anne Poleska

2009 Agustina de Giovanni Carrie Dragland

2008

Agustina de Giovanni

2006 Crystal Rasmussen

2005 RECORDS & HISTORY

Kathryn Hallquist Victoria Genova Anne Poleska Arlene Semeco Crystal Rasmussen

2004 Lane Bassham Crystal Rasmussen

2003

Lane Bassham Catalina Casaru Kathryn Hallquist Alison Lafevers Anne Poleska Candace Weiman

HM: 200 breast HM: 3-meter, platform

HM: 400 IM, 200 breast

HM: 1-meter

Michelle King Meghan Lynch Kelly Coellner Marcy Warriner Lisa Andersson Catalina Casaru

2000 HM: 200 & 400 medley relay HM: 200 & 400 medley relay 200 breast HM: 100 breast, 200 & 400 medley relay HM: 200 & 400 medley relay HM: 1-meter

1-meter & 3-meter HM: 1-meter

3-meter HM: 1-meter HM: 400 medley relay HM: 200 & 400 medley relay HM 200 medley relay 100 & 200 breast HM 200 & 400 medley relay HM: 100 fly, 200 IM, 200 & 400 medley relay

Lane Bassham

1998

Keri Coy Nora Zhong

1997 Dana Bleich Brooke Donoho Rania Elwani Ann-Sofie Joensson Karen Jones Nora Zhong

1996

Dana Bleich Amy DeVasher

1-meter HM: 3-meter 100 & 200 breast HM: 100 breast

100 & 200 breast HM: 200 & 400 medley relay, 400 & 800 free relay HM: 200 & 400 medley relay HM: 200 & 400 medley relay HM: 200 & 400 medley relay, 400 & 800 free relay HM: 100 breast, 400 free relay HM: 400 & 800 free relay HM: 800 free relay

3-meter HM: 1-meter

HM: 200 breast HM: 100 fly

platform HM: 200 free relay, 200 medley relay HM: 100 free, 200 free relay, 200 medley relay HM: 1650 free HM: 200 free relay, 200 medley relay HM: 200 free relay, 200 medley relay

Jenny Dudley Rania Elwani Ann-Sofie Joensson Karen Jones Laura Lloyd Francine Mathot Stacy Potter

1995

Dana Bleich Stacy Gillies Ann-Sofie Joensson Karen Jones Anna Lindberg Stacy Potter Katherine Rhodes

HM: 200 & 400 medley relay HM: 200 & 400 free relay HM: 200 & 400 medley relay 100 fly, HM: 200 & 400 free relay, 200 & 400 medley relay HM: platform HM: 200 medley relay 1650 free HM: 200 & 400 medley relay HM: 400 medley relay 100 back, 100 fly, HM: 200 & 400 medley relay HM: 200 breast, 200 & 400 medley relay

1994 Amy DeVasher

Stacy Gillies Ann-Sofie Joensson Anna Lindberg Stacy Potter

Katherine Rhodes platform HM: 200 & 400 free relay

HM: 100 & 200 back 50 &100 free, HM: 200 & 400 free relay, 200 & 400 medley relay 1650 free

200 medley relay, 200 & 400 free relay HM: 800 free relay, 400 medley relay HM: 800 free relay, 400 medley relay HM: 800 free relay HM: 100 fly 100 back, 100 fly, 200 medley relay, 200 & 400 free relay HM: 400 medley relay, 50 free 100 breast, 200 medley relay HM: 200 IM, 200 breast, 400 medley relay

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22-TIME ALL-AMERICAN STACY POTTER (1993-96)

Georgia Sewell

Helga Sigurdardottir

1993 Amy DeVasher Jo Dee Lake Anna Lindberg Jennifer Mahaney Stacy Potter Katherine Rhodes Georgia Sewell Tammy Kneer

200 medley relay, 200 & 400 free relay HM: 100 fly, 400 medley relay 200 & 400 free relay HM: 800 free relay HM: 200, 400, 800 free relay 200 & 400 medley relay, HM: 200 & 400 free relay HM: 100 fly, 800 free relay platform 100 back, 100 fly, 200 & 400 medley relay, HM: 200 & 400 free relay 200 & 400 medley relay HM: 200 breast 200 & 400 medley relay, HM: 100 fly, 800 free relay HM: 200, 400, 800 free relay

Rita Garay Michelle Harris Kym Hucal Jo Dee Lake Jennifer Mahaney Ragga Runolfsdottir

HM: 200 back HM: 200 & 400 medley relay HM: 200 & 400 medley relay HM: 200 & 400 medley relay platform, HM: 3-meter HM: 200 breast, 200 & 400 medley relay

1990

Kym Hucal Dorie Portela Kelly Purcell Lisa Raines

Katie Williams

1989

Jamie Gardner Michelle Harris Anita Harrison Kym Hucal Dorie Portela Kelly Purcell Lisa Raines Katie Williams

1988

Kelly Purcell

1991

Rita Garay Jamie Gardner Michelle Harris

Ragga Runolfsdottir

HM: 800 free relay HM: 400 free relay 400 medley relay HM: 400 & 800 free relay 400 medley relay HM: 100 back, 200 medley relay 400 medley relay HM: 200 medley relay, 400 & 800 free relay HM: 100 & 200 breast HM: 800 free relay

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100 breast, 400 medley relay, HM: 200 breast, 200 medley relay HM: 400 & 800 free relay, 200 medley relay 400 free relay, HM: 200 free relay 400 free relay, HM: 200 & 800 free relay 400 free relay, 400 medley relay, HM: 200 & 800 free relay 400 medley relay 400 medley relay 100 & 200 breast, 400 medley relay HM: 800 free relay 400 free relay, HM: 200 & 800 free relay HM: 200 breast 200 IM, 200 fly, HM: 400 IM 100 breast, HM: 400 medley relay HM: 400 & 800 free relay HM: 200 & 400 medley relay HM: 200 & 400 medley relay HM: 200, 400 & 800 free relay HM: 800 free relay HM: 400 medley relay HM: 400 medley relay, 200,400 & 800 free relay

1986 Laurence Bensimon Katrine Bomstad Charlotte Brock Carole Brook Carmel Clark Beth Gardner

1985

Laurence Bensimon Carole Brook Carmel Clark Jen Kirrstetter Angelika Knipping Lisa McClain Kim Nicholson Ellen Riley Sandi Sciples Nancy Stephens Linda Valerio

1984

1987 Katrine Bomstad Charlotte Brock Beth Gardner Anita Harrison Cynthia Kangos Jen Kirrstetter Pernille Nimb Sandi Sciples Katie Williams

Anita Harrison Jen Kirrstetter Pernille Nimb Lisa McClain

HM: 500 free 200 & 400 IM 400 medley relay, HM: 100 breast 400 medley relay 400 medley relay 400 & 800 free relay

Jennifer Brothers Angelika Knipping Carol Landry Ellen McGrath Kim Nicholson Ellen Riley Sandi Sciples Nancy Stephens Linda Valerio

1983

Jennifer Brothers Marsha Crouch Elizabeth Hobbs

400 free relay, 400 medley relay 400 & 800 free relay 800 free relay 400 & 800 free relay 400 medley relay, 400 free relay 200 fly HM: 100 & 200 back 200 & 400 free relay 100 breast, 200 & 400 medley relay, HM: 200 breast HM: 200 IM 50 free, 200 & 400 medley relay, 200 & 400 free relay, HM: 100 back 200 medley relay, 200 free relay 400 medley relay, HM: 200 fly 200 & 400 free relay 200 medley relay

200 & 400 medley relay 100 back, 200 & 400 medley relay HM: 200 back 200 & 400 free relay 3-meter 50 free, 200 & 400 free relay, 200 & 400 medley relay HM: 100 free 200 & 400 free relay 400 medley relay 200 & 400 free relay 200 medley relay

RECORDS & HISTORY

ALABAMA ALL-AMERICANS

50 & 100 back, 400 medley relay HM: 200 back HM: 1-meter HM: 50 free

RECORDS & HISTORY

10-TIME ALL-AMERICAN MARLA BROOKSBANK (2003-07)

ALABAMA ALL-AMERICANS Angelika Knipping Carol Landry Lisa McClain Ellen McGrath Kim Nicholson Nancy Stephens Linda Valerio

1982 Marla Brooksbank Molly Frantz Gina Gatti Carol Landry

RECORDS & HISTORY

Barbara Logan Ellen McGrath Anne Marie Milling Karen Nicholson Kim Nicholson Ellen Riley Linda Valerio

50, 100 & 200 breast, 200 & 400 medley relay 50 free, 200 & 400 medley relay, 200, 400 & 800 free relay 400 medley relay HM: 3-meter 200, 400 & 800 free relay, HM: 50 back, 100 back 400 & 800 free relays 200 & 400 medley relay 1650 free 100 free, 400 medley relay 400 medley relay 100 free, 200 & 400 free relay, 400 medley relay one & 3-meter 3-meter 200 free relay 200 free relay 50, 100 & 200 back, 400 medley relay, 200 & 400 free relay 100 & 200 IM, 400 free relay 400 free relay

Liz Hobbs Jan King Carol Landry Tracy Lindsay Barbara Logan Ann Marie Milling

Marla Brooksbank Karre Cox Molly Frantz Liz Hobbs Barbara Logan Ann Marie Milling Cindy Riddell Gunilla Siljeback Kathy Williams

1979

Marla Brooksbank Karre Cox Lena deVal Molly Frantz Carole Gough Carrie Hutt Barbara Logan Cindy Riddell Rosemarie Seaman Kellie Stratton Kathy Williams

1981 Marla Brooksbank Molly Frantz

1980

500 & 1650 free, 800 free relay 200 fly, 200 & 400 medley relay, 800 free relay 200, 400 & 800 free relay 200 & 400 medley relay 200, 400 & 800 free relay, 400 medley relay 200 & 400 medley relay 1-meter, 3-meter 200 & 400 free relay, 200 medley relay

1650 free, 800 free relay 200 medley relay 200 fly, 800 free relay 200 medley relay, 800 free relay 1-meter, 3-meter 200 medley relay 3-meter 800 free relay 200 medley relay

Ann Bacon Kathy Brameier Beth Hobart Carrie Hutt Christina Jarvis Rosemarie Seaman Vicky Stanley

500 & 1650 free, 400 IM, 800 free relay 50 & 100 free, 50 & 100 fly, 200 & 400 free relay 200 fly, 400 IM, 400 free relay, 200 medley relay 400 & 800 free relay 200 & 800 free relay 200 & 400 medley relay 1-meter, 3-meter 3-meter 200, 400 & 800 free relay, 200 & 400 medley relay 200 free relay 200 & 400 medley relay

1978 Ann Bacon Carole Keating Melanie MacKay Cindy Riddell Rosemarie Seaman Carol Wagner

1977

Drue Thorn Julie Turk

1976 Cary Backhaus Beth Hobart Christina Jarvis Carole Keating Beth Saunders Rosemarie Seaman Vicky Stanley

400 medley relay 400 medley relay 200 breast, 400 medley relay 3-meter 400 medley relay One & 3-meter

Drue Thorn Julie Turk

1975 Beth Hobart

100 & 200 back, 200 & 400 medley relay 200 & 800 free relay 500 free, 800 free relay 100 back, 800 free relay 50, 100 & 200 breast, 200 & 400 medley relay 200 free relay, 200 & 400 medley relay 50 free, 50 fly, 200 free relay, 200 & 400 medley relay 200, 500 & 1650 free, 200 & 800 free relay 1-meter, 3-meter

50,100 & 200 free, 200 & 400 free relay, 200 & 400 medley relay 500 free 50, 100 & 200 breast, 100 & 200 IM, 200 & 400 medley relay 50 & 100 fly 200 & 400 free relay 50 & 100 fly, 200 & 400 free relay, 200 & 400 medley relay 50 free, 200 free relay, 200 medley relay 200 & 500 free, 200 IM, 400 free relay, 400 medley relay 1-meter 200 free

1974 Betsy Saunders

50 & 100 free

ALABAMA SWIMMING AND DIVING

RECORDS & HISTORY

ALABAMA AND THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE SEC DIVER OF THE YEAR 2009 2004 1981

Carrie Dragland Lane Bassham Barbara Logan

SEC COACH OF THE YEAR 1994 1985

Jonty Skinner Don Gambril

SEC DIVING COACH OF THE YEAR 2009 2004

Pat Greenwell Pat Greenwell

SEC FRESHMAN SWIMMER OF THE YEAR 2001

Anne Poleska

SEC FRESHMAN DIVER OF THE YEAR 2011 2009

The Alabama Crimson Tide launched a youth invasion during last year’s Southeastern Conference Championships. Rookie Paige McCleary was named the SEC Freshman Diver of the Year after posting the top freshman finish off the 1-meter, 3-meter and platform at the championships. McCleary, Kristel Vourna and Alex Popa were also named Freshman All-SEC. When the Alabama won the 1985 SEC team title it became the first team to unseat the University of Florida as the SEC champion. The Tide has won 33 individual SEC titles since Barbara Logan won both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving championships in 1981. The latest Tide titles came in 2009 when Carrie Dragland won the 3-meter diving event and Elizabeth Hughes won the platform event. Anne Poleska won an Alabama-best six SEC titles during her 2001-05 career. The Tide’s latest SEC Record came in 2009 when Dragland set the 3-meter diving mark. Four relay titles belong to Alabama. The first came in 1983 when the Tide won the 800 free relay. Alabama claims 15 first-team All-SEC selections, Logan being the first while Dragland and Hughes are the latest. Poleska was named the 2001 SEC Freshman of the Year while Logan, Lane Bassham and Dragland have all been crowned SEC Diver of the Year, in 1981, 2004 and 2009, respectively. Dragland was also named SEC Freshman Diver of the Year in 2009. Academically, the Tide has earned SEC Academic Honor Roll recognition over 250 times since 1984. Alabama has led the league in this award two of the last three years, with 26 honors in 2009 and a program-best 27 in 2010. The SEC has long been one of the nation’s premiere athletic conferences both in overall strength and in nearly every sport and swimming and diving is certainly no exception. The SEC has placed at least one team in the top 10 of the NCAA Championships every year since the first title tilt in 1982. That first championship had four SEC teams among the top 10, including No. 1 Florida, No. 4 Auburn, No. 9 Alabama and No. 10 Tennessee. Individually, SEC athletes have won over 100 NCAA titles. The conference has taken home 11 NCAA team titles, including nine in a row from 1999-2007. The conference put six teams in the national top 10 in 2001 and at least five teams in the top 25 the last six seasons. League athletes currently hold a trio of NCAA records. There are 12 SEC Schools: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vanderbilt. Ten SEC schools currently sponsor swimming and diving: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vanderbilt.

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SEC CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS YEAR 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981

CHAMPION Georgia Georgia Florida Auburn Auburn Georgia Auburn Auburn Auburn Florida Georgia Georgia Georgia Georgia Georgia Florida Florida Florida Florida Florida Florida Florida Florida Florida Florida Florida Alabama Florida Florida Florida Florida

UA FINISH Ninth Fifth Sixth Eighth Seventh Seventh Sixth Eighth Fourth Fourth Fourth Seventh Seventh Sixth Sixth Fourth Sixth Third Fourth Fifth Fourth Third Fourth Sixth Third Third First Second Second Second Fourth

RECORDS & HISTORY

SIX-TIME SEC CHAMPION ANNE POLESKA (2001-05)

Paige McCleary Carrie Dragland

RECORDS & HISTORY

2009 SEC PLATFORM CHAMPION ELIZABETH HUGHES

SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS 2009 Carrie Dragland Elizabeth Hughes

2005 Anne Poleska

2004

Lane Bassham

2003 Anne Poleska

2002 Anne Poleska Lane Bassham

RECORDS & HISTORY

2001

Anne Poleska

1997 Rania Elwani

1996

Dana Bleich Rania Elwani

3-meter diving platform diving

200 breaststroke

1 & 3-meter diving

200 breaststroke

100 & 200 breaststroke 3-meter diving

100 & 200 breaststroke

50 freestyle

platform 100 freestyle

1995 Stacy Potter Jill Tappen

1994 Katherine Rhodes

1992

Jennifer Mahaney

1991 Ragga Runolfsdottir

1987 Katrine Bomstad Charlotte Brock

1985

Kim Nicholson Ellen McGrath Angelika Knipping Laurence Bensimon Knipping, Sciples, Nicholson, Bensimon Clark, Knipping, Valerio, Nicholson

100 butterfly platform diving

1984 Sandi Sciples

1983 200 breaststroke

platform diving

Landry, Riley, Stephens, Nicholson Landry, Hobbs, Stephens, Milling Carol Landry Angelika Knipping

200 breaststroke

1982

200 butterfly 100 breaststroke

1981

Kim Nicholson

Barbara Logan

100 butterfly

800 freestyle relay 200 freestyle relay 50 freestyle 200 breaststroke

100 & 200 backstroke

1 & 3-meter diving

50 freestyle & 100 backstroke 3-meter diving 100 & 200 breaststroke 200 IM 400 medley relay 200 medley relay

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RECORDS & HISTORY

1991 FIRST TEAM ALL-SEC RAGGA RUNOLFSDOTTIR

ALABAMAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ALL-SEC PERFORMERS 1994

1998

1992

1993

1997

Katherine Rhodes

Jennifer Mahaney

2009

Carrie Dragland Elizabeth Hughes

1991 Ragga Runolfsdottir

1987

Anne Poleska

2004

Lane Bassham

Anne Poleska

2002 Anne Poleska Lane Bassham

1985

1989

SECOND TEAM ALL-SEC 2006

Crystal Rasmussen

Rania Elwani

Dana Bleich Rania Elwani

1995

Stacy Potter Jill Tappen

1991

1990

Anne Poleska

1996

Jennifer Mahaney Stacy Potter

Katrine Bomstad Charlotte Brock

Laurence Bensimon Angelika Knipping Ellen McGrath Kim Nicholson

2003

1997

Stacy Potter

Sofie Rylander

2005

2001

1994

2000

Lane Bassham

Kelly Purcell

Jamie Gardner Michelle Harris Anita Harrison Katie Williams

1986 Lisa McClain

1985

Lisa McClain

HONORABLE MENTION ALL-SEC

1997

2003

1996

2002

Karen Jones

Marcy Warriner

Dana Bleich

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Lane Bassham

Nora Zhong

Ann-Sofie Joensson

1996 Laura Lloyd Stacy Potter Amy DeVasher Francine Mathot

1995 Anna Lindberg

1994

Francine Mathot Amy DeVasher Georgia Sewell Helga Sigurdardottir

1992

Sofie Rylander

1991 Rita Garay Jennifer Mahaney Georgia Sewell

1988

Leigh Ann Fleshman Kelly Purcell

1989 Leigh Ann Fleshman Kelly Purcell

1986 Katrine Bomstad Charlotte Brock

1985 Patricia Bryant Sandi Sciples Linda Valerio

FRESHMAN ALL-SEC* 2011 Paige McCleary Alex Popa Kristel Vourna

RECORDS & HISTORY

FIRST TEAM ALL-SEC

2009

Carrie Dragland * started in 2008

1990 Dorie Portela Ragga Runolfsdottir Katie Williams

RECORDS & HISTORY

A FAST HISTORY OF ALABAMA SWIMMING & DIVING The Gary Illman Years The University of Alabama added women’s swimming to its roster of sports in 1975. Gary Illman served as the women’s inaugural coach, leading the Crimson Tide through its first three seasons, posting a 14-5 dual meet record during his time at the Capstone. With Illman at the helm, 13 swimmers earned All-American honors. It was also under Illman’s tutelage that Vicky Stanley and Christina Jarvis became the Tide’s first national champions in 1976. Stanley won the 1976 AIAW 50 freestyle title, setting an AIAW record in the process. Jarvis touched first in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke becoming the AIAW champion in both events. A year later, Jarvis would successfully defend her titles from 1976 and add the 50 breaststroke title as well, giving her a two-year total of five national titles. While Illman was at the helm, the Tide finished 29th in 1975, fourth in 1976 and ninth in 1977, at the AIAW Championships.

The Harold Lanier Years Illman was followed by Harold Lanier in 1978. Lanier’s teams produced a two-year slate of 11-3 in dual meet competition and 15 swimmers earned All-America status. In the AIAW Championships, the Tide finished 16th and 11th in 1978 and 1979, respectively. During Lanier’s tenure, Marla Brooksbank started a career that would maker her one of the most successful swimmers in Alabama history. As a freshman in 1979, Brooksbank finished second at the AIAW Championships in the 1650 freestyle. The next year at the World University Games held in Mexico City, she won the 800 freestyle.

The Don Gambril Years

RECORDS & HISTORY

In 1980, Don Gambril unified Alabama’s swimming programs adding the women’s program coaching duties to a slate that already included the men’s team. After two years in AIAW competition, which saw the Tide finish 19th in 1980 and 18th in 1981, Gambril’s squad made the jump, beginning with the 1982 season, to NCAA competition. It was in 1981, Gambril’s second year as head coach of the women’s team, that Barbara Logan earned the Tide’s first individual SEC title. Logan won both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving titles. The 1983 season saw Angelika Knipping win the SEC 200 breaststroke title. She went on to win NCAA 50 breaststroke crown that year in championship record time. 1983 would also see the Tide earn its highest NCAA finish to date, taking fifth place after producing a 10-1 dual meet record and a second place finish at the SEC Championships.

In 1985, Alabama became the first, and to date only, SEC team to beat the University of Florida in a dual meet on its way to posting its first, and only undefeated dual meet season, going 12-0. Alabama added another first to its growing list by becoming the first team to unseat Florida as conference champions. The Tide won out over the Lady Gators in the University of Georgia’s Stegeman pool, breaking Florida’s string of four SEC titles. Alabama won six individual SEC titles in 1985 and two relay titles. Kim Nicholson won the 50 freestyle and the 100 backstroke in 1985, upping her career total to four, a Tide record. Alabama’s eight total SEC titles in 1985 rank as the most in a single year for the Tide. Overall, Gambril produced a dual meet record of 100-26 over the 11 years he coached the Tide women, making him one of the few coaches in the country to coach both a men’s and women’s team to 100 or more dual meet wins each. There have been 18 individual and relay SEC championships, six AIAW individual titles and one NCAA individual title for the Tide women. Jonty Skinner took control of the women’s program in the spring of 1990 when Gambril left coaching to become an assistant athletic director at Alabama.

The Jonty Skinner Years Jonty Skinner posted a short, but highly successful tenure as Alabama’s head coach. Under his direction, Alabama brought home three SEC individual titles. Ragga Runolfsdottir won the 200 breaststroke title in 1991 while Katherine Rhodes won it in 1994. In between, Jennifer Mahaney won the SEC platform diving title on her way to setting an SEC record. As a team, Alabama posted its first top-10 national finish in

seven years under Skinner’s direction when the 1993 team finished 10th. 1994 was the Tide’s best year under Skinner. The Tide broke 12 different school records and posted a ninth place finish at the NCAA Championships. In addition to winning the SEC 200 breast title in 1994, Rhodes set the Tide’s first SEC swimming record since Angelika Knipping set the 50 breast record in 1983. For his work with the 1994 squad, Skinner was named SEC Coach of the Year. Skinner left Alabama in August of 1994 to become the head coach of the U.S. Resident National Team.

The Chuck Horton Years Following Skinner’s departure, former Tide assistant coach Chuck Horton was chosen to coach Alabama. His tenure ran from 1994 through August of 1998 and included a trio of top-25 national finishes. During his tenure, three members of the Tide, Amy DeVasher, Ann-Sofie Joensson and Jill DeVasher, earned prestigious postgraduate scholarships. Amy DeVasher and Joensson earned NCAA scholarships and Jill DeVasher’s came from the Southeastern Conference. Ed Reed served as interim coach for the 1998-99 season, and Don Wagner was hired in March of 1999.

The Don Wagner Years Don Wagner’s tenure saw Alabama return to the top 20, including a 15th place finish in 2003, his final year at the Capstone. Under his tutelage, Anne Poleska set the SEC record in the 200 breaststroke and posted three top-three finishes in the 200 breaststroke at the NCAA Championships. There were 11 school records broken under Wagner, including all five relays.

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ALL-TIME HEAD COACHES RECORD BY HEAD COACH

Eric McIlquham

Don Wagner

Ed Reed

2004-present

2000-03

1999 (Interim)

Head Coach Eric McIlquham Don Wagner Ed Reed (interim) Chuck Horton Jonty Skinner Don Gambril Harold Lanier Gary Illman Total

Years Seasons 2004-present 8 2000-03 4 1999 1 1995-98 4 1991-94 4 1979-90 11 1978-79 2 1974-77 3 37

W 35 15 3 25 16 100 11 14 219

L 43 16 4 16 16 28 3 5 131

T 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Pct. .449 .484 .429 .610 .500 .781 .786 .737 .626

Chuck Horton

Jonty Skinner

Don Gambril

1995-98

1991-94

1979-90

Harold Lanier

Gary Illman

1978-79

1974-77

YEAR-BY-YEAR RESULTS Year 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004

Record 0-9-0 9-3-0 5-3-1 6-6-0 1-5-0 3-7-0 6-5-0 5-5-0

SEC Finish (pts) 9th (195.5) 5th (272) 6th (244) 8th (202.5) 7th (214) 7th (293) 6th (238) 8th (225.5)

NCAA Finish (pts) 41st (2) 32nd (19) 38th (9) 37th (11) -32nd (12) 21st (44) 21st (43)

AIAW Finish ---------

Coach Eric McIlquham Eric McIlquham Eric McIlquham Eric McIlquham Eric McIlquham Eric McIlquham Eric McIlquham Eric McIlquham

2003 2002 2001 2000

5-5-0 2-4-0 4-3-0 4-4-0

4th (316) 4th (340.5) 4th (398) 7th (251)

15th (71) 18th (56) 16th (69) 27th (18)

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Don Wagner Don Wagner Don Wagner Don Wagner

1999

3-4-0

7th (194)

Ed Reed(interim)

1998 1997 1996 1995

3-4-0 10-6-0 6-2-0 6-4-0

7th (225.5) 6th (384.5) 4th (426) 6th (396)

33rd (6) 22nd (37.5) 13th (112.5) 15th (70)

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Chuck Horton Chuck Horton Chuck Horton Chuck Horton

1994 1993 1992 1991

4-4-0 5-4-0 4-2-0 3-6-0

3rd (497) 4th (397.5) 5th (430.5) 4th (421)

9th (153) 10th (130) -21st (41.5)

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Jonty Skinner Jonty Skinner Jonty Skinner Jonty Skinner

1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980

12-2-0 8-3-0 10-4-0 12-1-0 9-2-0 12-0-0 8-3-0 10-1-0 7-3-0 7-4-0 5-5-0

3rd (446) 4th (426.5) 6th (344) 3rd (494.5) 3rd (518) 1st (803) 2nd (426) 2nd (529.5) 2nd (464) 4th (612) --

12th (112) 11th (95) 38th (9) 16th (66) 10th (82) 7th (170.5) 7th (107) 5th (185) 9th (115) ---

---------18th 19th

Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril Don Gambril

1979 1978

6-2-0 5-1 -0

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11th 16th

Harold Lanier Harold Lanier

1977 1976 1975

7-1-0 6-1-0 1-3-0

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9th 4th 29th

Gary Illman Gary Illman Gary Illman

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First Meeting 1987-88 1983-84 1977-78 1977-78 2009-10 1982-83 1981-82 1987-88 2002-03 1977-78 1975-76 2009-10 2009-10 1974-75 1977-78 1974-75 1999-2000 2001-02 2005-06 1989-90 1996-97 1996-97 1975-76 1982-83 1980-81 1982-83 1986-87 1986-87 2001-02 1974-75 1989-90 1974-75 1978-79

Last Meeting 1987-88 2005-06 2010-11 1977-78 2009-10 1985-86 2002-03 2008-09 2002-03 1977-78 2006-07 2009-10 2009-10 2010-11 1978-79 2010-11 2009-10 2009-10 2005-06 1993-94 1996-97 1996-97 1978-19 1985-86 1980-81 1984-85 2010-11 1986-87 2004-05 2010-11 1989-90 1986-87 1995-96

UA-Opp 1-0 6-1 10-24 1-0 1-0 4-0 7-1 12-0 1-0 1-0 2-25 1-0 1-0 9-10 2-0 4-20 2-0 4-0 1-0 2-0 0-1 1-0 2-1 4-0 1-0 2-0 7-8 1-0 2-1 22-11-1 1-0 2-3 1-1

1975-76 1980-81 1988-89 1986-87 1979-80 1984-85 1979-80 1996-97 1987-88 1984-85 1989-90 1984-85 1981-82 1980-81 1987-88 1985-86 2002-03 1976-77 1990-91 1979-80 1986-87 1986-87 2010-11 1998-99 1983-84 1980-81 1996-97

1976-77 1996-97 1988-89 2009-10 1979-80 1998-99 1996-97 1996-97 1987-88 1985-86 1989-90 1984-85 2010-11 1996-97 1990-91 1986-87 2002-03 2005-06 1993-94 1988-89 2009-10 1986-87 2010-11 1998-99 1983-84 1981-82 1996-97

4-0 3-0 1-0 4-0 0-1 11-0 2-2 2-0 1-0 3-0 2-0 1-0 15-6 6-0 2-0 2-0 1-0 12-3 0-2 10-0 8-0 2-1 0-1 1-0 1-0 2-0 1-0

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ALL-TIME SERIES RECORD

RECORDS & HISTORY

ALL-TIME ROSTER A

Sonya Adams Caitlin Anderson Diane Anderson Lisa Andersson Tina Andersson Virginia Andreatta Allyson Angle

2003-05 2006-09 1985 2001-03 1996-97 1984-86 2007-10

RECORDS & HISTORY

Diane Babec 1988-89 Cary Backhaus 1976-77 Ann Bacon 1977-78 Brooke Baldi 2007-10 Tara Ballentin 1995 Meagan Barnett 1999 Susan Bartholomew 1988-90, 92 (Capt. ‘92) Cameron Bass 2009-11 Lane Bassham 2001-04 (Capt. ‘02, ‘03 • MVP ‘00, ‘04) Melina Bassino 2004-07 Selma Beji 2004-07 Bridgett Belyea 2004-07 Laurence Bensimon 1985-86 Andrea Bernthal 2004 Tiffany Berry 1994-97 (Capt. ‘96) Palina Bjornsdottir 1994 Katie Black 2008-09 Dana Bleich 1994-97 Lisa Bogosian 2012-present Katrine Bomstad 1985-87 (Capt. ‘87 • MVP ‘87) Meg Bonella 1990-91 (Capt. ‘91) Katherine Bortenlanger 2000-03 Diana Brakefield 1978 Kathy Brameier 1976-78 Dawn Brandewie 1983-84 Hannah Brinks 2007-10 Charlotte Brock 1986-89 Carole Brook 1985-86 Marla Brooksbank 1979-82 (MVP ‘80) Jennifer Brothers 1983-85 Deni Brown 1978-80 Kathy Bruner 1982-85 Patricia Bryant 1982-85 Callan Buck 2011-present Jen Buffington 1996-99 Kaylin Burchell 2012-present Sarah Burns 1997-2000 (Capt. ‘99) Melissa “Sis” Burovac 1991-92 Britney Busch 2008-11

Kathleen Caldwell 1992-95 Catalina Casaru 2001-03 Carmel Clark 1985-88 Sarah Clifford 1980-82 Patricia Clug 1980 Kelly Coellner 1998-01 (Capt. ‘00-’01 • MVP ‘99) Olivia Covey 2008-11 Karre Cox 1980-81 Dawn Coy 2000-2001 Keri Coy 1996-99 (Capt. ‘99)

Cassie Craddock Marsha Crouch Lauren Cuervo Ellen Culpepper Nancy Curry

Mary Ellen Dash Katy Davidson (Capt. ‘02) Katelyn Davis Kayla de Boer Agustina de Giovanni (MVP ‘08, ‘09) Lauran Deam Lisa Denaberg Lena deVal Amy DeVasher (Capt. ‘96) Jill DeVasher Nathalie Dietiker Anna Doig Sarah Donaldson Kate Donnelly Brooke Donoho (Capt. ‘00) Emily Donohue Susie Dorrough Carrie Dragland (MVP ‘10) Marissa Dressel Vega Drew Jenny Dudley Lauren Dunn

Baylee Ellson Maria Elm Rania Elwani (MVP ‘96, ‘97) Lisa Emmons Monica Eriksson Julia Etterer Katrice Ewanich (Capt. ‘11)

Emily Facchine Darren Fagden Kara Feeney Laura Finelli Margaret Fischer Lee Ann Fleshman Holly Forbes Kristen Francis Molly Frantz

Alison Gallagher Jenna Gallo Rita Garay Beth Gardner Jamie Gardner Gina Gatti Victoria Genova Monica Geohagan Amanda Gilbert Stacy Gillies (Capt. ‘93, ’94)

2008-11 1981-84 2009-10 1976-78 1975-77

1975 1999-02 2007-08 2012-present 2006-10 1983 1979 1979-80 1993-96 1995-98 1991-93 1985-87 1991 1975-76 1997-2000 1998-01 1993 2009-10 2011 1979-80 1996-97 2008-11

2008-10 1995-98 1996-97 1978-79 1980 2010-11 2007-11

2011-present 1983-84 2010-present 2011 1979-80 1987-89 1995 1999 1979-82

1992-93 2010-present 1990-93 1984-87 1988-90 1982 2003-07 1994-97 2004-07 1992-95

Carole Gough Anna Grant Kate Shannon Gray (MVP ‘11) Belinda Green (Capt. ‘02) Drew Gunnels Anna Rae Gwarjanski

Hillary Hahmann Kathryn Hallquist (Capt. ‘05) Shelly Hansen Kim Hanson Margaret Harris Michelle Harris (MVP ‘90) Anita Harrison (Capt. ‘89 • MVP ‘89) Caitlyn Harrison Jenna Hastreiter Sarah Hickinbotham (Capt. ‘97) Pam Higgs Shelby Hixon Beth Hobart Liz Hobbs Allyson Horn Kym Hucal Carrie Huff Susan Huff Elizabeth Hughes Caroline Humphreville

Kaula Ilioupoulos Kathleen Ireland

Sarah James Christina Jarvis Ann-Sofie Joensson Jennifer Johnson Stephanie Johnson Karen Jones (Capt. ‘97, ‘98) Jennifer Joy

Cynthia Kangos Carole Ann Keating Kelly Kerr Jan King Michele King Stephanie Kinsey Jennifer Kirrstetter (Capt. ‘88) Aimee Kliewer Tammy Kneer Angelika Knipping (MVP ‘83, ‘85) Rebecca Konkel Jana Korsch Irini Kosta

1979 2003-05 2008-11 1999-02 1981-83 2011-present

2011-present 2003-06 1982-84 1985 1989-90 1989-92 1986-89 2009-present 2004-05 1994-97 1975-77 2009-present 1975-77 1980-83 1980-81 1989-92 1977-79 1989 2007-10 2006-07

1975 1980

1977 1976-77 1994-97 1991 2005-08 1995-98 1988

1987 1975-78 2000-03 1981 2001-03 2012-present 1985-88 2006 1992-94 1983-85 1983 1989-92 2002

Alison Lafevers Jo Dee Lake Carol Landry (MVP ‘81) Laura Landry Claire Leddy Anna Lindberg Tracy Lindsay Laura Lloyd (Capt. ‘98) Barbara Logan Jane Looney Barbara Losche Jennifer Lowe Kelsie Ludolph Samantha Lugar Cindy Lygutis Mary Lyles Meghan Lynch

2003-07 1991-93 1981-84 1990 1979 1993-95, 97 1981-82 1995-98 1979-82 1975 1976-78 1987-89 2008-11 2008-11 1978 1975 2001-03

Melanie MacKay Jennifer Mahaney (Capt. ‘93 • MVP ‘92) Amanda Maher Marianne Mancino Charlene Maneki Liz Manz Eleonora Markou Karen Martin Angely Martinez Leslie Mason April Mathis Francine Mathot Miranda Matias Lisa McClain Paige McCleary Erica McCollough Holly McCreless Charlene McDaniels Liz McGiffin Ellen McGrath Chrissy Menendez Katie Merriam Tammy Merrill Ashley Messmore Renata Miatto Anne Marie Milling Hanna Miluska Valery Monroe Jenna Montgomery Cindy Morris Katheryne Muth

Callie Nettles Kathryn Newland (Capt. ‘91, ’92) Karen Nicholson Kim Nicholson (MVP ‘82, ’85) Pernille Nimb Debbie Nuckolls

1975-78 1990-93 2006-07 1980 1975-77 1978-79 2003-05 1975 2012-present 1978 1995-96 1994-97 2002 1983-86 2011-present 1994 2000-02 1978 2001-04 1982-85 2000-01 2001-01 1987-88 2004 2000-02 1980-83 2005-06 1981 2008-11 1979-80 2012-present

2011-present 1989-92

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1982 1982-85 1986-89 1976-78

2001 1987 1998

RECORDS & HISTORY

Brittany Parkey 2012-present Alaina Patterson 2000-03 Beth Patty 1980 Raechel Pera 2001 Ida Persson 2008-present Lauren Piper 2011-present Anne Poleska 2001-05 (Capt. ‘02 • MVP ‘01, ‘02, ‘03, ‘05) Alex Popa 2011-present Dorie Portela 1988-91 Stacy Potter 1993-96 (MVP ‘93, ‘94, ‘95) Kelly Purcell 1987-90

Lisa Raines Barbie Rank Crystal Rasmussen (MVP ‘06 • Capt. ‘06) Regina Ray Ann Reddy Catherine Reinagel Katherine Rhodes (Capt. ‘94, ’95) Julie Richards Cindy Riddell Karin Ridderstople Ellen Riley (Capt. ‘85) Leslie Riley Emily Ritter Nicole Roberts Mary Robertson Becca Rogers Jill Rogers Ann Ross Missy Ruffner

1988-91 1994-95 2003-07 1979 1979-81 2009-10 1992-95 2007-10 1976-79 1990 1982-85 1980-82 1994-95 2007-10 1979-80 2004-05 1983-84 2001-04 1981-82

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Ragga Runolfsdottir (MVP ‘91) Sara Rutledge Sofie Rylander

Tracy Salzano Betsy Saunders Katie Schroeder Suzanne Schwee Sandi Sciples Rosemarie Seaman Mary-Kate Sellers Arlene Semeco Georgia Sewell Kimberly Sharpe Donna Jean Sheets Jenny Siegart Helga Sigurdardottir Gunilla Siljeback Jamie Silverman Susan Simpson Kim Singer (Capt. ‘08) Cami Sink Mallory Slaughter Jackie Slingerland Patti Slucher Erin Sparks (MVP ‘07 • Capt. ‘08) Beth Sprigg Kim Staab Sam Stanley Vicky Stanley Elle St. Charles Nancy Stephens Kellie Stratton Flavia Sugimori

1990-91 1977-78 1991-93

1992 1974-76 2011-present 2009-present 1984-87 1975-79 2006-09 2004-05 1991-94 2004-05 1985-86 1995-96 1992-94 1980 1985-86 1985-86 2005-08 2001 1991-92 1997-2000 1979 2005-08

Kate Tallett Kasie Talon Jill Tappen (Capt. ‘95) Karen Taylor Karli Taylor Ryann Taylor Tara Theilemann Drue Thorn Ginny Trott Paige Troyan Erin Tuite Julie Turk Stacy Turner Karissa Tuthill (Capt. ‘07) Meme Tynan (Capt. ‘80)

Linda Valerio Shannon Van Hoy (Capt. ‘09, ‘10) Gail Vasterling Vanessa Von der Heyde Kristel Vorna

W 1986-87 2012-present 1976-78 2007-10 1983-85 1979-80 2001-02

Carol Wagner Kate Wallis Marcy Warriner (Capt. ‘02) Dagmar Waxenberger Yvonne Waxenberger Nicole Weatherman Kacey Weddle

1991-92 2008 1992-95 1985 1993-96 1996-98 2004-07 1976-78 2000-01 2008-11 1989 1976-78 1982-83 2004-07 1979-80

1982-85 2007-10 1982 2006-08 2011-present

Doris Weibke Jane Weir Janna Wiegold Carina Wiberg Sharon Wilkerson Ashley Williams Kathy Williams Katie Williams (Capt. ‘90 • MVP ‘88) Teri Williams Elizabeth Wine Melaine Wirtner Brooke Wise Michelle Wise Debbie Wright

Maggie Zblewski Jill Zenter Nora Zhong

1983 1979-80 1987 1987 1978 1987 1979-81 1987-90 1990-93 1987 1988-89 2000 1996-98 1975-76

2007-10 1978 1997-98

RECORDS & HISTORY

1978 1999 1999-2002 1978 1978 2004 2007-10

RECORDS & HISTORY

WOMENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ALL-TIME TOP 10 50 Freestyle Arlene Semeco Rania Elwani Kristel Vourna Stacy Potter Ida Persson Marcy Warriner Nora Zhong Kelly Coellner Kim Nicholson Katie Merriam

1650 Freestyle 22.71 22.72 22.78 22.95 22.95 23.18 23.27 23.30 23.31 23.33

2005 1997 2011 1995 2009 2000 1997 2001 1984 2001

49.26 49.44 49.85 50.19 50.36 50.39 50.47 50.58 50.61 50.61

2009 1997 2005 2010 2008 1994 2001 1994 1990 2001

1:47.21 1:47.73 1:48.64 1:48.68 1:49.29 1:49.49 1:49.71 1:49.74 1:49.77 1:49.91

2001 1997 2011 1989 1990 2009 1999 1983 2002 2006

4:47.16 4:48.37 4:49.14 4:49.15 4:51.43 4:51.59 4:52.26 4:54.12 4:55.12 4:55.16

1985 2007 2011 1994 1986 1982 1990 2010 2004 1993

9:46.52 9:52.71 9:58.72 10:00.94 10:00.94 10:02.20 10:03.00 10:04.88 10:06.53 10:06.96

1985 1995 1982 2004 2007 2009 1976 1985 1990 2000

100 Freestyle Ida Persson Rania Elwani Arlene Semeco Kristel Vourna Erin Sparks Stacy Potter Kelly Coellner Amy DeVasher Michelle Harris Anne Poleska

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54.07 54.34 54.46 54.48 55.55 55.80 55.87 55.93 55.97 56.43

1994 2006 2009 2011 2009 2002 2008 1996 2010 1985

Jenny Dudley Julie Richards Lauren Piper Catalina Casaru Karli Taylor Kate Shannon Gray Rita Garay Allyson Angle Kathryn Hallquist Lauren Curevo

1:57.95 1:58.23 1:58.50 1:59.29 1:59.89 2:00.19 2:00.84 2:01.75 2:01.83 2:02.11

1996 2009 2011 2003 1994 2010 1993 2008 2004 2009

Anne Poleska Agustina de Giovanni Marcy Warriner Alex Popa Katherine Rhodes Erin Sparks Ragga Runolfsdottir Kate Shannon Gray Angelika Knipping Kelly Purcell

52.16 52.97 53.08 53.13 53.71 53.96 54.05 54.31 54.94 55.03

2011 2009 1995 2003 2009 2009 1998 1994 1994 1996

Suzanne Schwee Elle St. Charles Victoria Genova Candace Weiman Kacey Weddle Carole Brook Katrine Bomstad Shannon Van Hoy Sandi Sciples Catalina Casaru

1:57.55 1:58.47 1:58.91 2:00.22 2:00.44 2:00.56 2:01.00 2:01.35 2:01.63 2:01.82

2010 2009 2003 2003 2010 1985 1987 2009 1985 2002

1:58.15 1:59.97 2:00.02 2:01.05 2:01.35 2:01.50 2:01.64 2:01.84 2:01.88 2:02.65

2010 2009 2003 2001 2011 2011 2010 2001 2007 1994

4:09.31 4:10.37 4:18.34 4:19.68 4:20.20 4:20.34 4:21.57 4:22.12 4:24.32 4:24.87

2011 2008 2003 2001 1985 1985 2000 1984 2007 2001

200 IM Kate Shannon Gray Agustina de Giovanni Candace Weiman Anne Poleska Alex Popa Anna Rae Gwarjanski Suzanne Schwee Kelly Coellner Erin Sparks Katherine Rhodes

400 IM

1:00.08 1:00.75 1:01.30 1:01.33 1:02.34 1:02.42 1:02.92 1:03.00 1:03.04 1:03.13

2002 2010 2002 2011 1994 2008 1990 2010 1984 1990

Kate Shannon Gray Agustina de Giovanni Anne Poleska Catalina Casaru Katrine Bomstad Laurence Bensimon Emily Donohue Lisa McClain Erin Sparks Cami Sink 2011-12 Swimmers in Bold

200 Breaststroke Anne Poleska Agustina de Giovanni Alex Popa Kate Shannon Gray Katherine Rhodes Francine Mathot Kelly Purcell Ragga Runolfsdottir Keri Coy Marcy Warriner

Kristel Vourna Hannah Brinks Stacy Potter Candace Weiman Suzanne Schwee Ida Persson Nora Zhong Georgia Sewell Anna Lindberg Karen Jones

200 Butterfly

Stacy Potter Kathryn Hallquist Cassie Craddock Lauren Piper Suzanne Schwee Michelle King Allyson Angle Jenny Dudley Julie Richards Kim Nicholson

100 Breaststroke

1000 Freestyle Laurence Bensimon Ann-Sofie Joensson Marla Brooksbank Nicole Weatherman Agustina de Giovanni Jenna Gallo Beth Hobart Virginia Andreatta Lisa Raines Jackie Slingerland

1995 2011 1979 1985 1977 1990 2005 2004 2008 1993

200 Backstroke

500 Freestyle Laurence Bensimon Agustina de Giovanni Jenna Gallo Ann-Sofie Joensson Pernille Nimb Marla Brooksbank Lisa Raines Marissa Dressel Nicole Weatherman Stacy Gillies

100 Butterfly 16:18.10 16:27.11 16:27.57 16:33.88 16:37.45 16:45.40 16:49.14 16:50.58 16:52.05 16:53.93

100 Backstroke

200 Freestyle Anne Poleska Rania Elwani Kate Shannon Gray Katie Williams Michelle Harris Shannon Van Hoy Kelly Coellner Nancy Stephens Irini Kosta Vanessa Von der Heyde

Ann-Sofie Joensson Jenna Gallo Marla Brooksbank Laurence Bensimon Beth Hobart Lisa Raines Hanna Miluska Nicole Weatherman Agustina de Giovanni Stacy Gillies

2:07.86 2:10.50 2:11.97 2:12.77 2:13.56 2:14.83 2:15.24 2:15.36 2:15.47 2:15.80

2002 2009 2011 2011 1994 1994 1989 1991 1998 2001

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Event 50 FREESTYLE 100 FREESTYLE 200 FREESTYLE 500 FREESTYLE 1000 FREESTYLE 1650 FREESTYLE 100 BACKSTROKE 200 BACKSTROKE 100 BREASTSTROKE 200 BREASTSTROKE 100 BUTTERFLY 200 BUTTERFLY 200 IM 400 IM 200 MEDLEY RELAY

400 MEDLEY RELAY

200 FREESTYLE RELAY

400 FREESTYLE RELAY

800 FREESTYLE RELAY

1-METER DIVING (6 Dives) 3-METER DIVING (6 Dives) PLATFORM DIVING (5 Dives)

School Record Arlene Semeco 22.71 in 2005 Ida Persson 49.26 in 2009 Anne Poleska 1:47.21 in 2001 Laurence Bensimon 4:47.16 in 1985 Laurence Bensimon 9:46.52 in 1985 Ann-Sofie Joensson 16:18.10 in 1995 Stacy Potter 54.07 in 1994 Jenny Dudley 1:59.04 in 1997 Anne Poleska 1:00.08 in 2002 Anne Poleska 2:07.86 in 2002 Kristel Vourna 52.16 in 2011 Suzanne Schwee 1:57.55 in 2010 Kate Shannon Gray 1:58.15 in 2010 Kate Shannon Gray 4:09.31 in 2011 1:39.38 in 2009 Cassie Craddock Agustina de Giovanni Hannah Brinks Ida Persson 3:38.99 in 2009 Cassie Craddock Agustina de Giovanni Suzanne Schwee Ida Persson 1:30.81 in 2007 Ida Person Vanessa Von der Heyde Brooke Baldi Erin Sparks 3:20.33 in 2007 Erin Sparks Vanessa Von der Heyde Ida Persson Agustina de Giovanni 7:17.33 in 2003 Anne Poleska Candace Weiman Anna Grant Eleonora Markou Lane Bassham 325.55 in 2004 Carrie Dragland 366.50 in 2009 Carrie Dragland 320.30 in 2009

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University of Alabama Aquatic Center Record Jenny Bradford (UK) 22.00 in 2008 Christine Magnuson (UT) 48.08 in 2008 Christine Magnuson (UT) 1:43.00 in 2008 Caroline Burckle (UF) 4:34.87 in 2008 Kim Linehan (TX) 9:35.05 in 1982 Tiffany Cohen (TX) 15:53.85 in 1985 Gemma Spofforth (UF) 51.57 in 2008 Gemma Spofforth (UF) 1:50.56 in 2008 Kara Denby (AU) 1:00.37 in 2008 Anne Poleska (UA) 2:08.85 in 2001 Christine Magnuson (UT) 51.00 in 2008 Emily Kukors (AU) 1:54.97 in 2008 Ava Ohlgren (AU) 1:54.97 in 2008 Ava Ohlgren (AU) 4:05.78 in 2008 Florida 1:37.23 in 2008 Gemma Spofforth Caroline Burckle Colleen Healy Stephanie Napier Auburn 3:33.40 in 2008 Margo McCawley Kara Denby Ava Ohlgren Emily Kukors Tennessee 1:29.07 in 2008 Michele King Carly Mathes Christine Magnuson Brittany Nauta Auburn 3:13.09 in 2008 Ava Ohlgren Melissa Marik Emily Kukors Kara Denby Auburn 6:57.28 in 2008 Ava Ohlgren Caitlin Geary Melissa Marik Emily Kukors Lane Bassham (UA) 325.55 in 2004 Lauren LeRoy (UT) 344.05 in 2008 Paige Brown (LSU) 300.30 in 2008

SEC Championship Record Ariana Vanderpool-Wallace (AU) 21.34 in 2011 Ariana Vanderpool-Wallace (AU) 46.81 in 2011 Morgan Scroggy (UGA) 1:42.46 in 2011 Caroline Burckle (UF) 4:34.87 in 2008

NCAA Record Lara Jackson (Arizona) 21.27 in 2009 Ariana Vanderpool-Wallace (Auburn) 46.81 in 2011 Dana Vollmer (California) 1:41.53 in 2002 Allison Schmitt (Georgia) 4:32.71 in 2011

Wendy Trott (UGA) 15:47.55 in 2010 Gemma Spofforth (UF) 50.46 in 2009 Gemma Spofforth (UF) 1:48.34 in 2009 Jane Trepp (LSU) 58.94 in 2011 Amanda Rutqvist (USC) 2:08.56 in 2011 Christine Magnuson (UT) 51.00 in 2008 Jemma Lowe (UF) 1:52.53 in 2009 Morgan Scoggy (UGA) 1:54.58 in 2011 Elizabeth Beisel (UF) 4:00.84 in 2011 Auburn 1:36.11 in 2011 Emily Bros Lauren Norberg Olivia Scott Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace Auburn 3:30.90 in 2011 Jennifer Connolly Martina Moravcikova Kelsey Floyd Lindsay Gendron Florida 1:28.15 in 2009 Stephanie Napier Gamma Spofforth Shara Stafford Sarah Bateman Auburn 3:12.00 in 2009 Ava Ohlgren Vanderpool-Wallace Melissa Marik Caitlin Geary Georgia 6:53.58 in 2011 Morgan Scroggy Chelsea Nauta Melanie Margalis Allison Schmitt Taryn Zack (USC) 336.55 in 2011 Monica Dodson (UF) 373.85 in 2011 Monica Dodson (UF) 325.20 in 2011

Janet Evans (Stanford) 15:39.14 in 1986 Natalie Coughlin (California) 49.97 in 2002 Gemma Spofforth (Florida) 1:48.34 in 2009 Ann Chandler (Arizona) 58.06 in 2010 Rebecca Soni (Southern Cal) 2:04.75 in 2009 Natalie Coughlin (California) 50.01 in 2002 Elaine Breeden (Stanford) 1:49.92 in 2009 Julia Smit (Stanford) 1:52.31 in 2010 Julia Smit (Stanford) 3:58.23 in 2010 California 1:35.03 in 2011 Cindy Tran Caitlin Leverenz Colleen Fotsch Liv Jensen Arizona 3:28.31 in 2009 Ana Agy Annie Chandler Lara Jackson Justine Schluntz Arizona 1:26.20 in 2009 Lara Jackson Lindsey Kelly Justine Schluntz Taylor Baughman California 3:09.88 in 2009 Hannah Wilson Liv Jensen Erica Dagg Dana Vollmer California 6:52.69 in 2009 Sara Isakovic Hannah Wilson Liv Jensen Dana Vollmer Anastasia Pozdniakova (Houston 356.20 in 2010 Christina Loukas (Indiana) 437.75 in 2009

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ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AND THE CRIMSON TIDE Head coach Eric McIlquham knows the importance of a top-notch education. The former NCAA Champion also made the grade in the classroom, earning a prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, which he used to earn his master’s degree in exercise physiology from the University of Alabama in 1996. “First and foremost, our athletes are getting first rate educations,” McIlquham said. “They are going to swim fast and rip dives and we are going to win meets, but make no mistake, academics are priority one.” Alabama’s swimming and diving program is not only talking the talk about achieving a proper balance of education and athletics, it’s walking the walk. Case in point, Alabama’s men were first nationally in team grade point average for the spring semester with a 3.44 while the women were second by one-hundredth of a point to Yale with a 3.64 GPA. The Tide’s academic prowess is nothing new. During his standout career, Vlad Polyakov won a World Championship in the 200 breaststroke, twice finaled at the Olympic Games, won a pair of NCAA Championships, won five SEC titles and set the SEC 200 breaststroke record. He was just as impressive in the classroom, earning a berth on the prestigious CoSIDA Academic All-American at-large team three years running. Six other Tide athletes have earned a spot on the CoSIDA Academic All-American at-large team since 2005 – Kyle Weeks in 2011, Elizabeth Hughes in 2010, Kevin Greer in 2009, Apostolis Tsagkarakis in 2007, Guido Arroyo in 2006 and Stewart Smith in 2005. Jill DeVasher was the first

member of the UA swimming and diving team to earn a place on the at-large team in 1998. In addition to the Tide’s Academic All-Americans, Austin Shirey earn a place on the CoSIDA Academic All-Region IV At-Large team in 2008 while Adam Booher and Dan Armstrong earned the honor in 2011. The swimming and diving program earned back-to-back-to-back Postgraduate Scholarships in the mid-90s when Amy DeVasher earned one from the NCAA in 1996 and Ann-Sofie Joensson brought an NCAA award back to the Capstone in 1997. Jill DeVasher completed the trifecta in 1998 winning an SEC scholarship, an award also bestowed upon her sister, Amy DeVasher. Amy DeVasher and Joensson were standout examples of balancing outstanding academics while competing at the highest level. Both women where first team All-Americans in addition to being academic all-stars. A five-time SEC Champion and the 1991 NCAA Runner-up off the 1-meter board, Mark Rourke capped off his career by earning Alabama Swimming and Diving’s first NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship in 1991. Mark Jollands earned four All-American honors in the pool and posted the fastest 500 freestyle time in the conference as a senior in 2000 as well as earning an SEC Postgraduate Scholarship. Kevin Greer, a senior in 2009, not only earned first-team CoSIDA Academic All-American honors, but also came away with the Crimson Tide’s fourth NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. Adam Booher grabbed Alabama’s fifth NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship in 2011.

NCAA AND SEC POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

RECORDS & HISTORY

Adam Booher NCAA - 2011

Jill DeVasher SEC - 1998

Kevin Greer

NCAA - 2009

Ann-Sofie Joensson NCAA - 1997

Stewart Smith SEC - 2005

Amy DeVasher

NCAA & SEC - 1996

McIlquham’s goal to increase this level of academic success is a lofty one, but he has a formidable ally on his side. One of the secrets behind the academic success for Tide athletes is Alabama’s Center of Athletic Student Services (CASS). From the moment a recruit first walks on to campus to the moment an athlete graduates with diploma in hand, the academic services provided are outstanding. For the first year at the Capstone, freshmen and junior college transfers are required to attend nightly study halls. After that, attendance is based on the individual’s GPA and study needs. The CASS staff works as a liaison between the Athletics Department, undergraduate divisions, and administrative office of the university. The staff offers career advice and counseling, makes sure all athletes are maintaining satisfactory progress toward their degrees and monitors academic eligibility. The advisors also secure tutors and schedule study sessions. All of these services begin with the recruit’s first visit. The advisors set up individual appointments within the department of the recruit’s area of study and accompany them to the meeting. They give the recruit a tour of the campus and go over services provided by CASS. The dedicated CASS staff can only give guidance and direction. Achievement is left in the hands of the student-athlete. If the athlete wishes to succeed in the classroom as they do in competition, then Alabama’s CASS will provide them with every opportunity to achieve their highest goals.

THE BILL BATTLE ACADEMIC CENTER

Mark Jollands SEC - 2000

Mark Rourke NCAA - 1991

The Bill Battle Academic Center at Paul W. Bryant Hall is the crown jewel in Alabama’s $125 million Crimson Tradition building initiative. Through the auspices of the Crimson Tradition Fund, Alabama took its former athletic dorm and converted it into a 55,000-square foot state-of-the-art facility that benefits all 475-plus Crimson Tide student-athletes. Among the building’s many amenities is a 48-seat computer lab with brand new equipment. The computer lab also houses 25 laptop computers that can be checked out by student-athletes for use on road trips. There are math, English and writing labs as well as individual study rooms. The athletic academic advisor offices are also housed in the building along with several study lounges, two 50-seat classrooms and a 140-seat classroom. The classrooms have cutting edge teaching devices, including digital overhead projectors and “smart boards” that allow instructors to interact with students on the go. Throughout the building there are 16 information stations that provide student-athletes with news about tutorials, study sessions and even practice schedules.

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RECORDS & HISTORY

ALABAMA’S ACADEMIC HONORS All-American 1998 Jill DeVasher 2005 Vlad Polyakov Stewart Smith 2006 Guido Arroyo Vlad Polyakov 2007 Vlad Polyakov Apostolis Tsagkarakis 2009 Kevin Greer 2010 Elizabeth Hughes 2011 Kyle Weeks CoSIDA Academic All-Region 2008 Austin Shirey 2011 Daniel Armstrong Adam Booher NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships 1991 Mark Rourke 1996 Amy DeVasher 1997 Ann-Sofie Joensson 2009 Kevin Greer 2011 Adam Booher NCAA Foundation Leadership Conference 2003 Adam Hall 2007 Austin Shirey

Alpha Epsilon Rho 2002 Belinda Green Alpha Kappa Psi 2005 Stewart Smith Alpha Lambda Delta 1995 Jill DeVasher 2000 Dawn Coy 2002 Michael Pigassou 2005 Bridget Belyea 2007 Mary-Kate Sellers 2008 Shannon Van Hoy Maggie Zblewski 2010 Elizabeth Hughes Kara Feeney Robert Scrip Alpha Mu Alpha 2007 Karissa Tuthill Beta Gamma Sigma 1997 Jill DeVasher Anna Lindberg 2001 Mark Jollands 2002 Grant Jollands 2008 Austin Shirey 2011 Kate Shannon Gray Blue Key 1995 Amy DeVasher

SEC Postgraduate Scholarship 1996 Amy DeVasher 1996 Jill DeVasher 2000 Mark Jollands 2005 Stewart Smith

Cardinal Key 1996 Jill DeVasher

SEC ‘Good Works’ Team 2004 Sonya Adams 2007 Austin Shirey Karissa Tuthill 2008 Kevin Greer Allyson Angle 2009 Kevin Greer Allyson Angle 2010 Daniel Armstrong Elizabeth Hughes 2011 Kyle Weeks Kelsie Ludolph

Gamma Beta Phi 1996 Dana Bleich Jill DeVasher Josh Luber Francine Mathot 1997 Jen Buffington Keri Coy Jenny Dudley Laura Lloyd 1999 Sara Burns Kelly Coellner Brooke Donoho 2000 Katy Davidson Kristen Francis Belinda Green TJ Wolters 2001 Lainee Patterson 2003 Chris Flamion Ginny Trott 2005 Stewart Smith 2007 Mary-Kate Sellers Kevin Greer

Paul W. Bryant Student-Athlete of the Year 1995 Amy DeVasher 2000 Mark Jollands XXXI 1995 Amy DeVasher 1997 Jill DeVasher Mortar Board 1995 Amy DeVasher 2005 Sonya Adams

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Eta Kappa Nu 1997 Alex Voris 2011 Andrew Reeves

Golden Key 1996 Josh Luber 1997 Jill DeVasher Ann-Sofie Joensson Ann Lindberg 2001 Oren Azrad Katy Davidson 2002 Alaina Patterson 2004 Kat Bortenlanger Megan Lynch Charles Reeves Jeff Smith 2008 Mary-Kate Sellers 2009 Elizabeth Hughes Shannon Van Hoy 2010 Lauren Dunn Andrew Reeves Elizabeth Hughes Elle St. Charles 2011 Kate Shannon Gray Kappa Tau Alpha 2001 Katy Davidson 2010 Britney Busch Lambda Sigma 2005 Karissa Tuthill National Society of Collegiate Scholars 2004 Guido Arroyo Alison Lafevers 2007 Kevin Greer Kim Singer Erin Sparks 2008 Elizabeth Hughes Shannon Van Hoy Maggie Zblewski 2009 Britney Busch Lauren Dunn Kate Shannon Gray 2010 Shelby Hixon Elizabeth Hughes Adam Booher Kara Feeney Kate Shannon Gray Robert Scrip Omicron Delta Kappa 1994 Amy DeVasher 1997 Jill DeVasher Ann-Sofie Joensson 1998 Keri Coy 2008 Austin Shirey Kevin Greer Phi Beta Kappa 1996 Amy DeVasher 2009 Kevin Greer Mary-Katherine Sellers 2010 Brooke Baldi

Phi Eta Sigma 1995 Jill DeVasher Joaquim Ribeiro 1997 Jenny Dudley 1998 Nora Zhong 1999 Kelly Coellner 2004 Andrea Bernthal Jenna Hastreiter 2005 Kim Singer Erin Sparks 2007 Brooke Baldi Kacey Weddle 2008 Elizabeth Hughes Kelsie Ludolph 2009 Alan Axford Paige Troyan 2010 Lauren Dunn Brooke Baldi Robert Scrip Kara Feeney 2011 Andrew Wrist Callie Nettles Brian Carr Phillip Dockery Paige Troyan Phi Kappa Phi 1996 Jill DeVasher Phi Mu Epsilon 1996 Ann-Sofie Joensson Psi Chi 2008 Elizabeth Hughes Sigma Alpha Lambda 2005 Crystal Rasmussen 2007 Kevin Greer 2008 Shannon Van Hoy Ellen St. Charles 2010 Lauren Dunn Kara Feeney 2011 Kate Shannon Gray Sigma Tau Delta 1996 Francine Mathot Tau Beta Pi 2010 Andrew Reeves Council of Presidents’ Freshman Academic Achievement Awards - Human Environmental Science 2008 Paige Troyan 2009 Suzanne Schwee

RECORDS & HISTORY

CoSIDA Academic

Dept. of Journalism Boone Memorial Endowed Scholarship 2000 Katy Davidson

RECORDS & HISTORY Capstone Communication Society Memorial Endowed Scholarship 2001 Katy Davidson College of Arts and Sciences Woodrow Alvin Davis Family Student-Athlete Award 1998 Ann-Sofie Joensson Dept. of Economics Finance and Legal Studies Economic Freshman Achievement Award 1998 Mark Jollands Dept. of Economics Finance and Legal Studies Economic Faculty Award 1999 Mark Jollands Dept. of Economics Finance and Legal Studies Murray Havens Award 2000 Mark Jollands Outstanding Organic Chemistry Student 2008 Kevin Greer Outstanding Undergraduate in Economics 2000 Mark Jollands 2010 Lauren Dunn Dept. of Healthcare Management Recognition of Excellence in Scholarship 2007 Apostolis Tsagkarakis Recognition for Academic Excellence by a Psychology Major 2009 Kevin Greer RECORDS & HISTORY

Dept. of Marketing Recognition of Excellence in Scholarship 1998 Dana Bleich Marc Schrader 1999 Sarah Burns Karen Jones 2000 Brooke Donoho 2001 Brooke Donoho 2003 Charles Reeves James Willcox 2004 James Willcox 2005 Darren Erasmus Stewart Smith 2007 Tim Hansen Vlad Polyakov Austin Shirey

2008 2011

Karissa Tuthill Austin Shirey Kate Shannon Gray

Dept. of Management Recognition of Excellence in Scholarship 1998 Jill DeVasher 1999 Brooke Donoho 2002 Charles Reeves 2008 Caitlin Anderson 2010 Kate Shannon Gray Shannon Van Hoy 2011 Giles Gutnecht Outstanding Undergraduates in Finance 2002 Kat Bortenlanger Grant Jollands 2003 Kat Bortenlanger Grant Jollands 2004 Kat Bortenlanger 2010 Samantha Lugar Elle St. Charles Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Outstanding Student Branch Award 2002 Oren Azrad Austen LeGrand Bennett III Undergraduate Initiative Scholarships 2003 JT Jones 2005 Jenna Hastreiter Morris L. Mayer Endowed Scholarship in Marketing 2008 Austin Shirey

Gladys Poe Business Award 2005 Guido Arroyo Betty Loomis Distinguished Student Scholarship Award 2005 Darren Erasmus Dr. Lauris D. and Jacquelyn Graves Endowed Scholarships 2005 Jenna Hastreiter Justice Pelham J. and Gladys M. Merrill Endowed Undergraduate Initiative Scholarship 2005 JT Jones Jenna Hastreiter Parisian Inc. Endowed Undergraduate initiative Scholarship 2005 JT Jones Evelyn Sanderson Parker Endowed Scholarships 2005 Jenna Hastreiter 2009 Adam Booher J. Kelly Sisk Memorial Endowed Scholarship 2009 Britney Busch Lucile M. Smith Endowed Undergraduate Initiative Scholarship 2005 JT Jones

Louis Drolet Luckie Memorial Endowed Scholarships 2003 JT Jones

Management Information Systems Outstanding Junior 2005 Guido Arroyo

Protective Life Insurance Company Inc. Endowed Undergraduate Initiative Scholarships 2003 JT Jones

MIS Scholarship Recipient-American Management Systems 2005 Guido Arroyo

Pearce Bevill Leesburg & Moore Accounting Scholarships 2003 Jeff Smith

Vice President of Publicity-Alabama Information Management Society 2005 Guido Arroyo

Economics Freshman Achievement Award 2003 Guido Arroyo Culverhouse College of Accountancy Honors Graduate 2005 JT Smith

Blount Undergraduate Initiative 2007 Jenna Hasstreiter 2009 Mary-Katherine Sellers

TCF Academic Achievement Award for Juniors 2010 Britney Busch TCF Academic Achievement Award for Seniors 2011 Britney Busch Economics Freshmen Achievement Award 2007 Timothy Cline C&BA Management GPA Award 2010 Kate Shannon Gray Society of Newspapers Design Outstanding Student Award 2010 Allyson Angle Wilfred Galbraith Endowed Scholarship 2010 Kacey Weddle Captstone Communication Society Memorial Endowed Scholarship 2010 Britney Busch Excellence in Scholarship -General Business 2011 Andrea Rezzonico TCF John M. Forney, Jr. Endowed Scholarship 2011 Britney Busch Faculty Excellence AwardManagement 2011 Andrea Rezzonico Special Achievement Award in Finance 2011 Kyle Weeks Outstanding Undergraduates Award in Finance 2011 Samantha Lugar Council of Presidents Freshman Academic Achievement Award 2011 Kristel Vourna Electrical and Computer Engineering Junior Meritorious Award 2011 Andrew Reeves

TCF Academic Achievement Award for Sophomores 2009 Britney Busch

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RECORDS & HISTORY

2011 CSCAA SCHOLAR ALL-AMERICANS WOMEN FIRST-TEAM

MEN FIRST-TEAM

HONORABLE MENTION

Kate Shannon Gray and Kristel Vourna

Adam Booher and Catalin Cosma

Callan Buck, Olivia Covey, Anna Gwarjanski, Kelsie Ludolph, Paige McCleary and Alex Popa

Daniel Armstrong, Alan Axford, Bjoern Hornikel, Reese Shirey, Devan Terry and Denes Zubcsek

SEC ACADEMIC HONOR ROLL 2011 Callan Buck Britney Busch Kara Feeney Jenna Gallo Caitlyn Harrison Shelby Hixon Kelsie Ludolph Samantha Lugar Paige McCleary Callie Nettles Ida Persson Anna Rae Gwarjanski Suzanne Schwee Kate Shannon Gray Paige Troyan Kristel Vourna

2010 Allyson Angle Brooke Baldi Cameron Bass Hannah Brinks Britney Busch Lauren Cuervo Agustina de Giovanni Carrie Dragland Lauren Dunn Baylee Ellson Julie Etterer Kate Shannon Gray Caitlyn Harrison Shelby Hixon Elizabeth Hughes Kelsie Ludolph Samantha Lugar Jenna Montgomery Ida Persson Catherine Reinagel Julie Richards Nicole Roberts Suzanne Schwee Elle St. Charles Paige Troyan Shannon Van Hoy Kacey Weddle

2009 Caitlin Anderson Brooke Baldi Cameron Bass Hannah Brinks

Britney Busch Olivia Covey Lauren Cuervo Lauren Dunn Baylee Ellson Kate Shannon Gray Caitlyn Harrison Shelby Hixon Elizabeth Hughes Kelsie Ludolph Samantha Lugar Jenna Montgomery Ida Persson Julie Richards Nicole Roberts Suzanne Schwee Mary-Kate Sellers Elle St. Charles Paige Troyan Shannon Van Hoy Kacey Weddle Maggie Zblewski

2008 Caitlin Anderson Allyson Angle Brooke Baldi Hannah Brinks Britney Busch Agustina de Giovanni Lauren Dunn Baylee Ellson Elizabeth Hughes Mary Kate Sellers Jenna Montgomery Ida Persson Julie Richards Nicole Roberts Kate Shannon Gray Kim Singer Erin Sparks Elle St. Charles Paige Troyan Shannon Van Hoy Vanessa Von der Heyde Kacey Weddle Maggie Zblewski

2007 Caitlin Anderson Allyson Angle Brooke Baldi Melina Bassino Bridget Belyea Hannah Brinks

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Agustina de Giovanni Elizabeth Hughes Caroline Humphreville Julie Richards Nicole Roberts Mary Kate Sellers Kim Singer Erin Sparks Elizabeth St. Charles Karissa Tuthill Shannon Van Hoy Kacey Weddle Maggie Zblewski

2006 Caitlin Anderson Melina Bassino Bridget Belyea Agustina de Giovanni Caroline Humphreville Alison Lafevers Hanna Miluska Crystal Rasmussen Mary Kate Sellers Kim Singer Erin Sparks Karissa Tuthill Vanessa Von der Heyde

2005 Sonya Adams Melina Bassino Selma Beji Bridgett Belyea Jenna Hastreiter Alison Lafevers Eleonora Markou Crystal Rasmussen Becca Rogers Arlene Semeco Kim Singer Erin Sparks Karissa Tuthill

2004 Bridgett Belyea Andrea Bernthal Jenna Hastreiter Liz McGiffin Eleonora Markou Crystal Rasmussen Becca Rogers

Ann Ross Karissa Tuthill Nicole Weatherman

Kelly Coellner Keri Coy Brooke Donoho Emily Donohue

2003 Katherine Bortenlanger Kathryn Hallquist Alison Lafevers Meghan Lynch Elizabeth McGiffin Alaina Patterson Anne Poleska Crystal Rasmussen Ann Ross Ginny Trott Candace Weiman

1998 Jenny Buffington Sarah Burns Keri Coy Jill DeVasher Brooke Donoho Karen Jones Laura Lloyd Nora Zhong

1997

Lisa Andersson Kat Bortenlanger Catalina Casaru Kathryn Davidson Belinda Green Meghan Lynch Elizabeth McGiffin Alaina Patterson Anne Poleska Ann Ross Marcy Warriner

Tina Andersson Tiffany Berry Dana Bleich Jenny Buffington Keri Coy Jill DeVasher Jenny Dudley Rania Elwani Monica Geohagan Sarah Hickinbotham Ann-Sofie Joensson Anna Lindberg Laura Lloyd Francine Mathot

2001

1996

Katy Davidson Holly McCreless Lainee Patterson Katherine Bortenlanger Christine Menedez Kelly Coellner Dawn Coy Emily Donohue Belinda Green Marcy Warriner

Dana Bleich Amy DeVasher Jill DeVasher Maria Elm Monica Geohagan Sarah Hickinbotham Ann-Sofie Joensson Laura Lloyd April Mathis Francine Mathot Jenny Siegart Karli Taylor

2002

RECORDS & HISTORY

WOMEN

2000 Sarah Burns Kelly Coellner Katy Davidson Brooke Donoho Emily Donohue Belinda Green

1999 Jen Buffington Sarah Burns

1995 Dana Bleich Amy DeVasher Stacy Gillies Ann-Sofie Joensson Anna Lindberg Francine Mathot Jill Tappen Karli Taylor

RECORDS & HISTORY

SEC ACADEMIC HONOR ROLL 1994 Amy DeVasher Stacy Gillies Anna Lindberg Katherine Rhodes Helga Sigurdardottir Jill Tappen Karli Taylor

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1991

Daniel Armstrong Alan Axford Adam Booher Jake Carloni Brian Carr Cameron Conners Catalin Cosma Phillip Dockery Bjoern Hornikel Alex Pujol Andrew Reeves Jake Reynolds Andrea Rezzonico Daniel Rozick Reese Shirey Devan Terry Mike Tontillo Kyle Weeks George Wong Andrew Wrist Joe Ziegler Luke Zippi Denes Zubcsek

Meg Bonella Jana Korsch

2010

1993 Nathalie Dietiker Rita Garay Stacy Gillies Jo Dee Lake Helga Sigurdardottir Jill Tappen Teri Williams

1992 Susan Bartholomew Sis Burovac Jana Korsch Sofie Rylander Nathalie Dietiker

1986

Daniel Armstrong Alan Axford Adam Booher Catalin Cosma Kyle Lee Sam Morgan Clint McClendon Andrew Reeves Daniel Rozick Jake Reynolds Andrea Rezzonico Robert Scrip Reese Shirey Kyle Weeks Denes Zubcsek

Anna Doig Donna Jean Sheets

2009

1990 Kathryn Newland Katie Williams Susan Bartholomew Dorie Portela

1988 Charlotte Brock Tami Merrill

1987 Anna Doig

RECORDS & HISTORY

1985 Ellen McGrath Kim Nicholson

1984 Carol Landry Kim Nicholson

Daniel Armstrong Adam Booher Catalin Cosma Kevin Greer Kyle Lee Clint McClendon Sam Morgan Andrew Reeves Daniel Rozick Kyle Weeks Denes Zubcsek

2008 Daniel Armstrong Adam Booher Catalin Cosma Kevin Greer

Kyle Lee Clint McClendon Sam Morgan Daniel Rozick Andy Schnack Austin Shirey

2007 Riley Boulden Tim Cline Luke Dickson Aaron Fleshner Kevin Greer Tim Hansen Kyle Lee Hunor Mate Clint McClendon Sam Morgan Vlad Polyakov Andy Schnack Austin Shirey Apostolis Tsagkarakis

Adam Hall J.T. Jones Vlad Polyakov Charles Reeves Jeffrey Smith Stewart Smith Frank Southon Apostolis Tsagkarakis James Willcox Ben Worby

2002 Christopher Flamion Grant Jollands Evan Mueller Michael Pigassou Charles Reeves Jeffrey Smith Stewart Smith Scott Weaver James Willcox

2006

2001

Aaron Ashworth Guido Arroyo Spiros Bitsakis William Burke Darren Erasmus Igor Erhartic Chad Frichtl Tim Hansen Ryan Latone Alin Mihalca Andrew Neff Vlad Polyakov Apostolis Tsagkarakis

Oren Azrad Grant Jollands Charles Reeves TJ Wolters

2005 Guido Arroyo Darren Erasmus Igor Erhartic Tim Hansen J.T. Jones Ryan Latone Franck Southon Stewart Smith

2004 Darren Erasmus Igor Erhartic Adam Hall Tim Hansen J.T. Jones Jesse Maple Jeff Smith Stewart Smith James Willcox Ben Worby

2000 Oren Azrad Mark Jollands Matt Pendleton Alan Rose

1999 Oren Azrad Mark Jollands Matt Pendleton Alan Rose

1998 Mark Jollands Matt Pendleton Alan Rose Marc Schrader

Josh Luber Adam McBride Rick Richmond David Strassburg Brian Tribble Alex Voris

1994 Craig Devitt Peter Doig Alex Hermeto Nicos Papadopoulos Rick Richmond David Strassburg Alex Voris

1993 Darren Brudos Peter Doig Jamey Myers Juan Lopez David Strassburg

1992 Jamey Myers Juan Lopez

1991 Darren Brudos Mark Rourke Jamey Myers

1990 Mark Rourke Craig Ammon

1988 Craig Ammon Chris McDaniels

1987 Peter Berndt Thorbjorn Karlsson Ricardo Valdivia

1986

Josh Luber Adam McBride Marc Schrader

Don Berger Filiberto Colon Thorbjorn Karlsson Enrique Romero Ricardo Valdivia

1996

1985

1997

Mike Lamothe Josh Luber Adam McBride Russell McDowell Joaquim Ribeiro Alex Voris

2003

1995

Spiros Bitsakis Darren Erasmus

Craig Devitt Mike Lamothe

Donald Berger Filiberto Colon Thorbjorn Karlsson Ricardo Valdivia

1984 Filiberto Colon Brendan Moynihan

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UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SWIMMING & DIVING HALL OF FAME In 1975, legendary Crimson Tide head coach Don Gambril decided to create the Alabama Swimming Hall of Fame to honor those Tide swimmers, divers and related personnel who had made outstanding contributions to the Crimson Tide program through superb performances. Former head coach and Tide swimming legend Jonty Skinner was the first member to be inducted into the Hall of Fame on the strength of his NCAA Championship and his world record, both in the 100 freestyle. In the fall of 2011, Aaron Fleshner was inducted into the hall after earning a place on the United States’ World Championship team. Also earning a place in the hall in 2011 was Betsy Saunders, Alabama’s first female All-American. Like the 1960 men’s team, Saunders was inducted as a Crimson Tide pioneer. Since Skinner became the first inductee in 1975, the Hall of Fame has grown to 39 individual members in addition to the 1960 team. An athlete must meet one of eight requirements to be eligible for induction:

2011 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE AARON FLESHNER

JONTY SKINNER | 1975

CASEY CONVERSE | 1977

CARLOS BERROCAL | 1979

First member of the Hall of Fame ... Earned the first individual NCAA championship in Alabama’s swimming history ... His time of 43.92 in the 100 freestyle on March 29, 1975 in Cleveland, Ohio, set an NCAA record and U.S. Open record ... Set a world record in 1976 in the 100m freestyle ... Served as the Tide’s head coach from 1991-94.

Set an NCAA record and became the first man in swimming history to break the 15-minute barrier on his way to winning the 1650 freestyle when he went 14:57.30 on March 26, 1977 in Cleveland, Ohio ... Also held the NCAA record in the 1000 freestyle ... Participated in the 1976 Olympics.

Won the 1979 NCAA 100 backstroke title ... Earned a fourth-place finish at the 1976 Olympic Games in the 100 backstroke.

1976 AIAW champion in the 50 freestyle, her winning effort set an AIAW record in that event.

Finaled in the 200 backstroke at the 1976 Olympic Games for Australia ... Won the gold at the 1980 Olympic games as part of Australia’s 400 medley relay ... Former SEC record holder in the 200 backstroke ... 1979 200 backstroke runner-up at the NCAA Championships.

MIKE CURINGTON | 1978

JOHN FOSTER | 1980

Won three gold medals at the 1975 Pan Am Games ... Won four gold medals at the 1977 World University Games in addition to being a four-year All-American.

The Crimson Tide’s first coach ... From 1960 to 1973 he compiled 123-48 record in dual meet competition.

VICKY STANLEY | 1977 JACK BABASHOFF | 1976 Earned a silver medal in the 100 meter freestyle and a gold medal as part of the U.S. 400 freestyle relay at the 1976 Olympics ... Gold medalist at the 1975 Pan American games ... Four-year AllAmerican.

CHRISTINA JARVIS | 1976 Won a total of five AIAW titles, winning the 100 and 200 breaststroke in 1976 and the 50, 100 and 200 breaststroke in 1977 ... She set the U.S. open record in 1976 in the 100 meter breaststroke ... AIAW record holder in the 200 breaststroke, 2:18.79 ... U.S. Open and AIAW record holder in the 100 breaststroke, 1:04.56.

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MARK TONELLI | 1979

RECORDS & HISTORY

1. AIAW or NCAA champion in an individual event. 2. Member of the U.S. Olympic Team. 3. Finalist at the Olympic Games. 4. Member of the U.S. World Championship Team. 5. Finalist at the World Championships. 6. Pan-American or Pan-Pacific Games individual medalist. 7. One male and one female athlete is chosen as Athlete of the Decade for outstanding contribution to the program. 8. An individual or group that is deemed a pioneer of the program.

ARNE BORGSTROM | 1982 WAYNE CHESTER | 1978 Became the first Alabama diver to win a NCAA title, taking the 1-meter board at the 1978 NCAA championships.

Won the 1982 NCAA 1650 freestyle title ... Named the 1982 SEC Swimmer of the Year ... Named 1982 Alabama Athlete of the Year ... Earned All-America honors four consecutive years ... First man to swim faster than 15 minutes in winning the 1650 freestyle at the SEC Championships.

RECORDS & HISTORY

ALABAMA SWIMMING & DIVING HALL OF FAME ANGELIKA KNIPPING | 1983

MARK ROURKE | 1991

BRENT ROBERTS | 1998

Won the NCAA 50 breaststroke title on the way to setting a collegiate record in that event which still stands ... Won three SEC titles and earned All-America honors 13 times.

Finalist at the 1984 Olympics representing Canada in the platform event ... Four-time SEC champion ... At the 1991 SEC Championships, became the first diver in SEC history to win all three diving events ... School and SEC record holder for the 1-meter diving event ... Runnerup at the 1991 NCAA Championships in the 1-meter diving event ... Finalist at the 1992 Olympic Games off the 3-meter board.

1998 NCAA platform champion ... Member of the 1998 U.S. World Championship Team ... 1997 and 1998 Southeastern Conference Diver of the Year ... Two SEC titles ... Eight-time first team All-American and three-time honorable mention All-American

GLENN MILLS | 1983 Won the NCAA 200 breaststroke title ... Member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic team ... Also a member of the 1982 U.S. World Championship Team.

ELLEN (MCGRATH) OWEN | 1992 DON GAMBRIL | 1984 Head Coach of the 1984 U.S. Olympic Team in Los Angeles ... Head coach of the 1983 U.S. Pan-American squad ... Head coach of the 1991 U.S. World Championship Team ... First individual recipient of U.S. Swimming Award.

Member of the 1992 U.S. Olympic Diving Team ... Finaled off the platform at the 1992 Games ... 1985 SEC Champion off the 3-meter board ... Academic All-SEC in 1985 ... Two-time AllAmerica.

MARLA BROOKSBANK | 1992 BOB WEBSTER | 1985 Won gold medals in platform diving in the 1960 and 1964 Olympics ... Earned SEC Diving Coach of the Year, four times ... Coached an NCAA champion and 10 SEC champions.

MARCELLO JUCA | 1985 Won three medals at the 1983 Pan-American Games ... Three-time All-American ... Member of the 1984 Brazilian Olympic Team.

JENS-PETER BERNDT | 1987 World record holder in the 400 IM ... Finalist at the 1988 Olympic Games ... Two-time SEC champion.

RALPH WRIGHT | 1988 Swimmer of the 1960s Three year Most Valuable Swimmer ... 1968 SEC Most Valuable Swimmer ... Five-time SEC champion ... Held four SEC records during his career.

JON OLSEN | 1991

RECORDS & HISTORY

Five-time SEC Champion ... 1991 NCAA Championship 100 freestyle runner-up ... 50, 100 and 200 freestyle Alabama school record holder ... Four year MVP for the Tide ... Member of the 1991 & 1994 U.S. World Championship team ... Goodwill Games gold medalist ... 1991 Pan-Pacific Games gold medalist ... 1992 Olympic 400 medley and freestyle relay gold medalist and 800 freestyle relay bronze medalist ... World-record holder as part of the U.S.’s 400 medley relay ... Captain of the 1993 U.S. Pan Pacific squad ... Four-time gold medalist at the 1993 Pan Pacific Games - 50 and 100 freestyle and the 400 freestyle and medley relays ... Inaugural U.S. Resident National Team member ... 1996 Olympic double gold medalist, 400 and 800 freestyle relays ... 1996 Olympic team captain.

Swimmer of the 1970s First female Alabama swimmer to earn individual All-America honors all four years of her career ... Gold medalist at the 1979 World University Games held in Mexico ... 1979 Most Valuable Swimmer.

JEFF WADE | 1992 Swimmer of the 1970s Anchored the 800 freestyle relay at the 1970 NCAA Championships which earned Alabama’s first All-American honors ... 1970 Academic AllAmerica ... Three year team MVP and three year Captain ... Five-time SEC champion ... Three individual titles and two relay titles ... Threetime All-SEC ... Held the SEC record in the 200 IM, 200 backstroke and 800 freestyle.

GREG HIGGINSON | 1992 Swimmer of the 1980s Total of 12 All-America honors from 1980 to 1983 ... Five-time individual SEC Champion ... Winner of the 1982 Commissioners Trophy ... Member of the 1982 SEC Championship team ... Three year All-SEC.

KIM NICHOLSON | 1992 Swimmer of the 1980s Total of 23 All-America honors from 1982 to 1985 ... Seven SEC titles, four individual titles and three relay wins ... 1984 and 1985 Academic All-SEC ... Member of the 1985 SEC Championship team.

STACY POTTER | 2000 Swimmer of the 1990s 1995 NCAA Runner-up in the 100 butterfly ... 1995 SEC 100 butterfly champion ... 12-time first team All-American and 10-time honorable mention All-American ... Set the 50 and 100 freestyle school records ... Holds the 100 butterfly and backstroke school records ... SEC record setter in the 100 butterfly ... Swam on the school record 200 and 400 freestyle relays and 200 and 400 medley relays.

TRAVIS MYERS | 2000 Swimmer of the 1990s NCAA Runner-up in the 100 breaststroke in 1994 ... 1992 SEC 100 breaststroke champion ... Earned six first team All-American honors and seven honorable mention All-American honors ... Swam on the school record 200 freestyle and 400 medley relays

STEFAN GHERGHEL | 2002 Won back-to-back NCAA 200 butterfly titles, making him the first Alabama swimmer to repeat as NCAA champion ... Posted the third-fastest time in the history of the 200 butterfly behind only Pablo Morales and Melvin Stewart ... 2002 and 2003 SEC 200 butterfly Champion ... Finaled at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece, taking fifth place in the 200m butterfly ... Competed at the 2008 Beijing and 2000 Sydney Olympics ... 200m butterfly silver medalist at the 2004 FINA World Championships

LANE BASSHAM | 2004 2004 NCAA 3-meter Champion ... 2004 NCAA 1-meter Runner-up ... 2004 NCAA Championship Diver of the Meet ... 2004 SEC Diver of the Year ... Member of the U.S. National Team ... Undefeated off both the 1-meter and 3-meter boards during the regular season as a senior ... 2004 SEC 1-meter Champion ... 2003 and 2004 SEC 3-meter Champion ... Top-3 at the SEC Championships eight times, including three SEC titles

RAFAEL ALVAREZ | 1996 1995 Southeastern Conference Diver of the Year ... 1995 SEC 1-meter Champion ... 1995 SEC Platform Champion ... 1994 and 1995 AllAmerican ... 1994 and 1995 All-SEC ... Dove for Spain at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics ... Finaled off the Platform at the 1992 Olympics ... Dove for Spain in four World Championships - 1991, 1994, 1998 and 2001

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ANNE POLESKA | 2004 Earned a Bronze Medal in the 200m breaststroke at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece ... Became the first Crimson Tide swimmer to earn an individual Olympic medal since the 1984 Games ... Swam in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia and the 2008 Games in Beijing ... Finished Runner-up in the 200 breaststroke at the 2003 NCAA Championships ... Earned five SEC breaststroke titles ... SEC record holder in the 200 breaststroke ... School record holder in six individual events and as a member of all five relays.

SUSAN BARTHOLOMEW WILLIAMS | 2004 Earned a Bronze Medal in the triathlon at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece ... Became the first Alabama athlete to earn an Olympic medal in a sport other than the one they competed at the Capstone ... Captain of the 1992 Alabama team.

VLAD POLYAKOV | 2004 2006 FINA World 200m Breaststroke Gold Medalist ... Finaled in the 100 and 200m breaststrokes at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece ... Competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics ... 2005 and 2007 NCAA 200 Breaststroke Champion ... Runner-up at the 2003 and 2006 NCAA Championships in the 200 breaststroke ... 2005 and 2006 SEC 100 and 200 breaststroke champion ... 2007 SEC 100 breaststroke champion ... SEC 200 breaststroke record holder ... School record holder in both the 100 and 200 breaststrokes ... 2004 FINA World Championship Bronze medalist in the 100 and 200m breaststrokes ... 2007, 2006 and 2005 ESPN Academic All-American At-Large Team ... Four-year Coaches Association Academic All-American ...

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APOSTOLIS TSAGKARAKIS - SWIMMER OF THE ‘00 DECADE 2006 SEC Swimming and Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... Four-year Academic All-SEC.

ARLENE SEMECO | 2007 2007 Pan Am Games gold medalist in the 50 and 100m freestyles ... Pan Am Record holder in the 50m freestyle ... School record holder in the 50 freestyle ... 2004 and 2008 Olympian

THE 1960 ALABAMA MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING TEAM | 2009 Pioneer In the fall of 2009, the inaugural Crimson Tide men’s swimming and diving team was inducted in the Alabama Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame for their roles as pioneers of what has grown into a championship tradition. The 195960 team joined their coach, John Foster, who was inducted in 1980, in the Hall. Five members of the original team, Stroud Curran, Stan Walker, Durham Ellis, Bay Lott and Henry Hagler, were honored during the 2009 Alabama-Arkansas football game in front of 92,000-plus fans.

AGUSTINA DE GIOVANNI | 2010 Swimmer of the 2000s Two-time UA MVP … Swam on the school record 200 and 400 medley relays and the 400 freestyle relay … Ranked in Alabama’s all-time top-10 in seven events - 500, 1000 and 1650 freestyles, 100 and 200 breaststrokes and 200 and 400 IMs … Finaled in the 200m breaststroke at the 2007 Pan American Games … Set an Argentine and South American record in the 200m breaststroke ... Competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

APOSTOLIS TSAGKARAKIS | 2010 Swimmer of the 2000s 12-time All-American, earning three first-team and nine honorable-mention honors ... Set the 50 freestyle school records, becoming only the second swimmer in school record to go under 20 seconds ... Set the school record as part of the 200 and 400 freestyle relays and 200 and 400 medley relays … Member of the CoSIDA Academic All-American At-Large First Team … Competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics in his native Greece … Competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

BETSY SAUNDERS | 2011 Pioneer In the fall of 2011, Betsy Saunders, a member of the Crimson Tide’s inaugural women’s swimming and diving team, and its first national championship scorer and All-American, was inducted in the Alabama Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame for her role as a pioneer of Alabama’s championship tradition. The sprinter earned All-American honors in the 50 and 100 freestyles in 1974.

AARON FLESHNER | 2011 Posted a top-10 finish off the 3-meter board at the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai, China as part of the United States National Team … Competed at the 2011 World University Games in Shenzhen, China…. Four-year All-American, earning four first-team and four second-team honors … Finished as high as third off the platform at the NCAA Championships … 2009 Southeastern Conference Diver of the Year … Three-time SEC Champion, winning two 3-meter and a 1-meter title … Three-year All-SEC … Set the school record off the 1 and 3-meter boards as well as the platform.

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AGUSTINA DE GIOVANNI - SWIMMER OF THE ‘00 DECADE

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Alabama’s Olympic history is long and rich. The Crimson Tide had the most representatives at the 1984 Olympic Games held in Los Angeles. Twenty Alabama swimmers and divers would compete in Los Angeles. The 1984 Olympics also saw former Tide coach Don Gambril serve as head coach of one of the most successful U.S. Olympic squads in history. Gambril also served as an assistant coach on four other Olympic staffs: 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1980. And while he has seen the most Olympic action, Gambril isn’t the only Tide mentor to coach at the Olympics. Jonty Skinner, head coach from 1990-94, served as an assistant coach on the United States squad in 1996 and again in 2000. Current head coach Eric McIlquham was head coach of the Egyptian Olympic squad in 2000 and an assistant in 1996. In 1992, Jon Olsen started a two-Olympic

run that would make him the most decorated UA Olympian. He was the mainstay of the USA relay squads in 1992 and 1996. He anchored both the 400 freestyle and 400 medley relays to gold medals and the 800 free relay team to a bronze. Along with teammates Jeff Rouse, Nelson Diebel and Pablo Morales, Olsen swam to a world-record finish in winning the 400 medley relay. The fastest man in the history of the Crimson Tide, Olsen’s leg on the U.S.’s 400 freestyle relay stands as one of the fastest in the history of the sport. Olsen came back for another taste of Olympic glory in 1996. Selected captain of the United States squad by his peers, Olsen swam to double gold as part of the 400 and 800m freestyle relays. With a total of five Olympic medals, four of which shine gold, Olsen is the Tide’s most successful Olympian. Former Alabama diving coach Bob Webster

was a two- time Olympic champion, winning the 1960 and 1964 platform diving gold medal. Robin Backhaus won a silver in the 200 butterfly in 1972 while Jack Babashoff earned a silver medal in the 100 freestyle in 1976. In 2004, Alabama was represented by nine athletes. Anne Poleska and Susan (Bartholomew) Williams became the first Crimson Tide women to earn medals. Poleska took bronze in the 200 breaststroke, while Williams changed gears, taking bronze in the triathlon. And in 2008, seven past and present Alabama swimmers made their way to Beijing, with four, Stefan Gherghel, Poleska, Vlad Polyakov and Arlene Semeco making it to the semi-finals of their respective events.

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JACK BABASHOFF United States 1976 Silver Medal 100 Freestyle

ROBIN BACKHAUS United States 1972 Silver Medal 200 Butterfly

Stefan Gherghel, Romania • SemiFinalist Agustina de Giovanni, Argentina Hunor Mate, Austria Anne Poleska, Germany • SemiFinalist Vlad Polyakov, Kazakhstan • SemiFinalist Arlene Semeco, Venezuela • SemiFinalist Apostolis Tsagkarakis, Greece

2004 — Athens

CAM HENNING Canada 1984 Bronze Medal 200 Backstroke

MAX METZGER Australia 1980 Bronze Medal 1500 Freestyle

Brendan Ashby, Zimbabwe Spiros Bitsakis, Greece Agustina de Giovanni, Argentina Igor Erhartic, Serbia Stefan Gherghel, Romania • Finalist Hanna Miluska, Switzerland Anne Poleska, Germany • Bronze Medal - 200 breaststroke Vlad Polyakov, Kazakhstan • Finalist Arlene Semeco, Venezuela Apostolis Tsagkarakis, Greece Susan (Bartholomew) Williams, United States • Bronze Medal Triathlon

2000 — Sydney

JUSTIN LEMBERG Australia 1984 Bronze Medal 400 Freestyle

JON OLSEN United States 1992 Gold Medals 400 Freestyle & 400 Medley Relays 1992 Bronze Medal 800 Freestyle Relay 1996 Gold Medals 400 & 800 Freestyle Relays

1996 — Atlanta

Rafael Alvarez, Spain Catalina Casaru, Romania Rania Elwani, Egypt Stavros Michaelides, Cyprus Jon Olsen, United States • Gold Medal - 400m & 800m free relays (United States Captain)

1992 — Barcelona

ANNE POLESKA Germany 2004 Bronze Medal 200 Breaststroke

Oren Azrad, Israel Rafael Alvarez, Spain Spiros Bitsakis, Greece Rania Elwani, Egypt Stefan Gherghel, Romania Stavros Michaelides, Cyprus Anne Poleska, Germany Glen Walshaw, Zimbabwe

JON SIEBEN Australia 1984 Gold Medal 200 Butterfly

Rafael Alvarez, Spain Rita Garay, Puerto Rico Stavros Michaelides, Cyprus Jon Olsen, United States • Gold Medal - 400m free relay & 400 medley relay, Bronze Medal - 800m free relay Ellen (McGrath) Owen, United States • Finalist Mark Rourke, Canada • Finalist Ragga Runolfsdottir, Iceland Helga Sigurdardottir, Iceland

1980 — Moscow

*Arne Borgstrom, Norway *Cameron Henning, Canada Marcello Juca, Brazil Max Metzger, Australia • Bronze Medal - 1500m free *Glenn Mills, United States Mark Tonelli, Australia • Gold Medal - 400m medley relay

1988 — Seoul

Peter Berndt, West Germany Rita Garay, Puerto Rico Ragga Runolfsdottir, Iceland

1984 — Los Angeles Rafael Alvarez, Spain Ricardo Aldabe, Spain Laurence Bensimon, France *Peter Berndt, East Germany Katrine Bomstad, Norway Carole Brooke, Switzerland Carmel Clark, New Zealand Filiberto Colon, Puerto Rico Mike Davidson, New Zealand Anna Doig, New Zealand Cam Henning, Canada • Bronze Medal - 200m back Frank Iacono, France Marcello Juca, Brazil Angelika Knipping, West Germany Justin Lemberg, Australia • Bronze Medal - 400m Free Felix Morf, Switzerland Mark Rourke, Canada • Finalist Enrique Romero, Spain Andreas Schmidt, West Germany Jon Sieben, Australia • Gold Medal - 200m fly Tony Portela, Puerto Rico

1976 — Montreal Jack Babashoff, United States • Silver Medal - 100m free Carlos Berrocal, Puerto Rico Casey Converse, United States Mark Crocker, Hong Kong Christina Jarvis, Great Britain Mark Tonelli, Australia Jeff Van de Graaf, Australia

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2008 - Beijing

1972 — Munich

Robin Backhaus, United States • Silver Medal - 200m fly Mark Crocker, Hong Kong Colin Herring, New Zealand Jacques LeLoup, Belgium * Made countries Olympic Team, but country boycotted the Games

MARK TONELLI Australia 1980 Gold Medal 400 Freestyle Relay

SUSAN WILLIAMS United States 2004 Bronze Medal Triathlon

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Since 1975, a member of the Crimson Tide Swimming and Diving team has stood at the top of the awards stand as a collegiate national champion nineteen times, including five times in the past six years. The events range from the 50 freestyle to the 1650 freestyle and from 1-meter diving to the platform. Jonty Skinner won the first title in 1975, winning the 100 freestyle in his freshman campaign, setting an NCAA record in the process (43.92). Christina Jarvis and Vicky Stanley won titles in 1976. Jarvis won the AIAW 100 and 200 breaststroke championships setting a U.S. Open record in the 100 breaststroke. Stanley won the AIAW 50 freestyle crown, setting an AIAW record with her performance. In 1977 Jarvis became the first Alabama swimmer to repeat as national champion when she successfully defended her 100 and 200 breaststroke titles and added the 50 breaststroke crown to her haul. The 1977 season also saw Casey Converse better the American and NCAA record in the 1650 freestyle on his way to the awards stand. He became the first swimmer to break the 15-minute mark in the 1650 freestyle with his national championship swim of 14:57.30. Wayne Chester became the Tide’s first diving champion in 1978 winning the 1-meter diving title. Carlos Berrocal brought the 1979 100 backstroke crown to the Capstone while Arne Borgstrom earned Alabama’s first title of the 1980s when he won the 1982 1650 freestyle. It seemed Alabama owned the breaststroke in 1983

when Angelika Knipping won the women’s 50 breaststroke title and Glenn Mills won the men’s 200 breaststroke title. Diver Brent Roberts added to the Crimson Tide legacy of champions winning the platform in 1998. Then in 2002 and 2003 Stefan Gherghel won back-to-back 200 butterfly titles. Lane Bassham won the Tide women’s first diving title in 2004 as the NCAA 3-meter Champion. In 2005, Vlad Polyakov went from Olympic finalist to NCAA 200 Breaststroke Champion in the span of a few short months. Polyakov, who finished first or second in the NCAA 200 breaststroke finals all four years of his career, closed out his Alabama tenure by winning the 2007 NCAA 200 Breaststroke Championship.

STEFAN GHERGHEL 2002 & 2003 NCAA 200 Butterfly Champion

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2005 & 2007 NCAA 200 Breaststroke Champion

BRENT ROBERTS 1998 NCAA Platform Diving Champion

ANGELIKA KNIPPING

WAYNE CHESTER

1983 NCAA 50 Breaststroke Champion

1978 NCAA 1-meter Diving Champion

GLENN MILLS

CASEY CONVERSE

1983 NCAA 200 Breaststroke Champion

1977 NCAA 1650 Freestyle Champion

ARNE BORGSTROM

VICKY STANLEY

1982 NCAA 1650 Freestyle Champion

1976 AIAW 50 Freestyle Champion

JONTY SKINNER

CARLOS BERROCAL 1979 NCAA 100 Backstroke Champion

LANE BASSHAM 2004 NCAA 3-meter Diving Champion

1975 NCAA 100 Freestyle Champion

Christina Jarvis is the Crimson Tideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all-time leader with five collegiate national championships, repeating as the AIAW 100 and 200 breaststroke champion in 1976 and 1977 as well as adding the 50 breaststroke champion in 1977.

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VLAD POLYAKOV

CHRISTINA JARVIS 1976 AIAW 100 & 200 Breaststroke Champion 1977 AIAW 50, 100 & 200 Breaststroke Champion

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THE DON GAMBRIL OLYMPIC POOL at The Alabama Aquatic Center

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The Alabama Aquatic Center has, during the past 30 years, gained a reputation for housing one of the fastest pools not only in the Southeastern Conference, but in the nation. The pool bears the name of the man who spearheaded its construction. Don Gambril, long-time Alabama mentor and head coach of the 1984 United States Olympic Team, saw the competition pool of the aquatic center from concept to completion and then saw the Crimson Tide’s home become one of the toughest places in the nation for an opposing team to come in and win. Just before the 2002 season the pool where he ruled became The Don Gambril Olympic Pool. The home of the Crimson Tide received a full renovation over the past several years, bringing the facility back to the standard of excellence that it has enjoyed through the years. The $1.5 million renovation included: • Complete renovation of the men’s and women’s locker rooms • A new pool surface • Office space was added for coaches and administration • The pool was painted and tiled • The facility’s light fixtures were changed • A new sound system was installed

Before the 2002 season, the lobby of the Aquatic Center was converted into a Hall of Fame which not only houses the University of Alabama Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame but also mementos and informational displays of Alabama’s past and present, making it one of the nicest presentations of a program in the nation. One thing that has not changed is the facility’s reputation as one of the fastest pools in the country. One of the testaments to augment this claim occurred when Martin Zubero set a world record in the 200-meter backstroke (1:56.57) during the 1992 Rammer Jammer Invitational. It was not the first time that Zubero has had a ‘good’ time at the Alabama Aquatic Center, he set a U.S. Open record in the 200 yard backstroke (1:43.40) at the SEC Championships in 1990. Further proof was offered by the legendary Tracy Caulkins, who a short time after the pool opened. . In 2009, the nation’s best conference gathered in Tuscaloosa as the Alabama Aquatic Center played host to the SEC Championships for the seventh time since 1982. The Crimson Tide has built an impressive reputation for winning in the Aquatic Center. Since the facility opened in 1981, the Crimson Tide men’s team has only lost a handful of home

dual meets. Of the three SEC Championships the Tide won in the decade of the ‘80s, two, the 1982 and 1987 men’s titles, were won in the Aquatic Center. All this proves that the Tide is tough to beat at home. The Aquatic Center’s main competition pool is 25-yards by 50-meters. It is 6.5 feet deep at its shallowest point and 18 feet at its deepest. When set up for long-course competition, the pool boasts eight nine-foot wide lanes. When set-up for short course, the pool can accommodate up to 17 nine-foot wide lanes. The main pool has four diving boards - two 1-meter and two 3-meter springboards. The diving well also boasts a five and 10-meter platform. The main competition venue seats 1,500, every seat of which is often taken during invitational and championship swimming and diving meets. In addition to the main competition course, the Aquatic Center has an eight lane, 25-yard pool. The Aquatic Center also contains a complete weight room, dryland training areas and meeting rooms, all utilized by the Alabama swimmers in their training. Since opening its doors in 1981 the Aquatic Center has played host to more than 200 swimming competitions including some of the most prestigious in the sport.

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