ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE SWIMMING
Friday, February 14, 2003

Casey Moore Breaks Etown 200 IM Record on First Day of MAC Championships

SELINSGROVE, Pa. --- With the preliminaries of the first day of the 2003 Middle Atlantic Conference Swimming Championships at Susquehanna University completed, Elizabethtown has already racked up its share of highlights - most notably in the men's 200 yard individual medley.

Swimming in the prelims for the men's 200 IM, junior Casey Moore (Sinking Spring, PA/Wilson) set a new Elizabethtown program record in the event of 1:59.91, the top time out of all 21 competitors in the preliminary round. Moore became the first Elizabethtown swimmer ever to complete the event in under two minutes, and his preliminary time is just 0.17 second shy of the MAC Championship record in the event set in 1998.

In the men's 500 yard freestyle prelims, freshman Brian Thudium (Harleysville, PA) posted a season-best time of 5:13.11, the 11th-fastest time in the conference. In the men's 50 yard freestyle, Scott English (Southbury, CT/Pomperaug) placed ninth in the preliminaries in 22.72 seconds, three hundredths of a second behind his season-best time.

In the preliminaries of the women's 500 yard freestyle, Joanna Hyde (Willow Grove, PA/Upper Moreland), Stacey Limbach (Harleysville, PA/Souderton), Catherine Schadler (Souderton, PA/Lansdale Catholic) and Cristen Cumor (Ellicott City, MD/Mount Hebron) all topped their previous season bests in the event. Hyde swam the event in 5:37.92, Limbach took 5:43.02, Schadler improved to 5:43.25, and Cumor swam it in 5:45.61.

Holly Gish (Carlisle, PA/Carlisle) placed sixth in the prelims of the women's 200 yard individual medley with a season-best time of 2:16.84.

The 2003 MAC Championships will continue at 7:00 p.m. tonight and continue all day Saturday and Sunday.

Results of the meet can be monitored at the conclusion of each session at http://www.susqu.edu/sports/mac/macswimming.htm.