FAU Women’s Swimming & Diving Prepare for C-USA Championships

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FAU Women’s Swimming & Diving Prepare for C-USA Championships

BOCA RATON, Fla. – (Feb. 26, 2019) – The Florida Atlantic University women’s swimming and diving team will be competing at the 2019 Air Force Reserve Conference USA Swimming and Diving Championships this week at McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta. The championships will take place from Wednesday to Saturday with preliminaries starting at 10:30 a.m. and finals commencing at 6 p.m. each day except for Wednesday. Live results will be available on the MeetMobile app. Every day except for Wednesday will be streamed on ESPN+.

Meet Format:

Wednesday, Feb. 27

Starting at 4:30 p.m.

200 Medley Relay (B Final)
200 Medley Relay (Championship Final)

Starting at 5:30 p.m.

800 Freestyle Relay (B Final)
800 Freestyle Relay (Championship Final)

Thursday, Feb. 28

Starting at 10:30 a.m. (Trials)

500 Freestyle
200 IM
50 Freestyle
3-Meter Diving (Prelims/Consolation)

Starting at 6 p.m. (finals)

500 Freestyle (C Final, Consolation Final and Championship Final)
200 IM (C Final, Consolation Final and Championship Final)
50 Freestyle (C Final, Consolation Final and Championship Final)
3-Meter Diving Final
200 Freestyle Relay (B Final)
200 Freestyle Relay (Championship Final)

Friday, March 1

Starting at 10:30 a.m. (Trials)

400 IM
100 Butterfly
200 Freestyle
100 Breaststroke
100 Backstroke
1-Meter Diving (Prelims/Consolation)

Starting at 6 p.m. (finals)

400 IM (C Final, Consolation Final and Championship Final)
100 Butterfly (C Final, Consolation Final and Championship Final)
200 Freestyle (C Final, Consolation Final and Championship Final)
100 Breaststroke (C Final, Consolation Final and Championship Final)
100 Backstroke (C Final, Consolation Final and Championship Final)
1-Meter Diving Final
400 Medley Relay (B Final and Championship Final)

Saturday, March 2

Starting at 10:30 a.m. (Trials)

200 Backstroke
100 Freestyle
200 Breaststroke
200 Butterfly
Platform diving (Prelims/Consolation)

Starting at 3 p.m.

1650 Freestyle (all but last heat)

Starting at 6 p.m. (finals)

1650 Freestyle (last heat of timed finals)
200 Backstroke (C Final, Consolation Final and Championship Final)
100 Freestyle (C Final, Consolation Final and Championship Final)
200 Breaststroke (C Final, Consolation Final and Championship Final)
200 Butterfly (C Final, Consolation Final and Championship Final)
Platform Diving Final
400 Freestyle Relay (B Final and Championship Final)

Teams Competing:

FAU
FIU
Marshall
North Texas
Old Dominion
Rice

Last Time at the C-USA Championships:

The Owls finished in fifth place at the 2018 C-USA Championships last year in Atlanta. Spence Atkins walked away with two gold medals in the 1650-yard freestyle (16:22.97) and 200-yard butterfly (1:57.87). Several records were broken as well, with Abigail Marshall becoming the new school record holder in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 54.55 to earn the silver medal and the 200-yard freestyle relay team of Allyson Schwarz, Victoria Ellwood, Ashlyn Hunt and Miranda Fellowes finishing in 1:38.11 to break the freshmen record.

Up Next:

The divers who qualified for the NCAA Diving Zone B Championship will be competing from March 11 to 13 in Auburn, Alabama for the meet. Logan Downey and Malvina Catalano have qualified for the 1-meter dive.

Social Media:

For complete coverage from the conference championship and other FAU swimming and diving news, follow along on Twitter (@FAUSwimDive), Instagram (@FAUSwimDive) and Facebook.

– FAU –

Florida Atlantic University Athletics:

FAU Athletics is comprised of 21 intercollegiate teams involving 450 student-athletes that compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, volleyball, beach volleyball, cheer and dance. The Owls are a NCAA Division I-A (FBS) institution and compete in Conference USA and the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) (beach volleyball, men’s swimming). The Owls have been playing football since 2001 and are a perfect 3-0 in bowl games, the most recent being a 50-3 victory over Akron in the 2017 CheriBundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl. The dance team finished its 2014 season No. 8, nationally. FAU cheer won a national championship in 2016.

About Florida Atlantic University:

Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.