Freshly graduated Justin Anderson became the first UMW athlete and the first swimmer to receive the highly prestigeous Capital Athletic Conference Scholar Athlete Award.  Justin adds his name to an impressive list of athletes since the inception of the award in 1992. 

To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore with a 3.20 cumulative grade point average, demonstrate athletic success and be a major contributor to his program (CAC website). 

Congratulations to Justin on this great accomplishment!

Link to CAC press relaease:  http://www.cacsports.com/general_releases/gen0910/2010_Male_Scholar_Athlete

Link to UMW press release:  http://www.umweagles.com/news/2010/6/16/SWIM_0616101648.aspx

Sophomore Studio Art major, Liz Bradley (Stafford, VA) took home three awards at the school’s most recent art exhibition.

The art exhibition was held at the duPont gallery April 1st – 18th. 

Liz won the department award in drawing for “Pac Man” and the department award in digital media for “Keyboard Kid”. 

Liz also won the coveted Ann Elizabeth Collins award in graphic arts.  The endowed award was established in memory of Ann Elizabeth Collins who graduated from the university in 1973, for a student who shows great potential in graphic media. 

Congratulations to Liz for winning these outstanding awards! 

Link to press release:  http://www.umw.edu/news/?a=1873

Members of the team participated in the campuswide Relay for Life event held April 17-18. 

The event last twelve hours from 6 PM – 6 AM, where members of each team have at least one member of their team walk continuously throughout the twelve hour event.  The Eagles had a great time and supported a great cause. 

UMW Swimming Team Pictured At 6AM

Senior captains Justin Anderson and Nina Sawyer end their illustrious UMW careers as recipents of the stellar Scholar Athletes of the Year on Wednesday during the annual athletic awards banquet.  The school awards only two athletic department awards a year and this year swimmers were the recipients of both awards.  Because of this achievement, Nina is now nominated for NCAA Women’s Athlete of the Year award to be awarded later in 2010. 

Swimming has now started a tradition of naming their own awards within the team.  The award recipients will now have their name on a beautiful plaque displayed at the pool.  The award winners for this season were:

MOST IMPROVED – Adriana Lesiuk & Colin Hess

MOST VALUABLE – Sarah Crockett & Justin Anderson

EAGLE AWARD – Nina Michelle Sawyer & Justin Anderson

Congratulations to our award winners this season, and congratulations again to all members of the team for an outstanding 2009-2010 season!

The 2009-2010 school year will wrap up at the conclusion of next week, with the team striving to achieve Academic All-American status and a team GPA of over 3.0.

UMW Scholar Award Press Release:  http://umweagles.com/news/2010/4/22/SWIM_0422105931.aspx

The UMW Swim Team’s swam 9 All-American Performances, in route to the Women placing 20th in the country and the Men placing 52nd at the DIII National Championships in Minneapolis, MN.  6 of the 7 swimmers who attended NCAA’s earned All-American Honors.  The meet was highlighted by numerous school and conference records and a 7th place Women’s 400 Medley Relay. 

The next step for the Eagles is the team banquet on April 11, and the UMW athletic banquet on April 21st. 

Kevin Maloy will be representing Virginia as a coach at the Eastern Zone Championships next week.

Check out the newest swimming website around www.swimutopia.com

We will be doing a blog for each session of NCAA’s for the website, so follow our happenings at the meet and all the rest of your swiming news at swimutopia.

You can follow all the results live as they happen.

http://ncaaresults.com/ (Results)

http://all-access.cbssports.com/player.html?code=ncaa&media=173951 (Streaming Video)

Cheer on the Eagles live as they battle it out with the best in Division 3!

This will be a familiar sight for the UMW  National Team this week.  Hopefully a place of great memories, great times and great results! 

Five women and two men will be representing UMW at the DIII National Championships at the University of Minnesota next week.

Sarah Crocket – 500 Free, 200 Free, 200 Backstroke

Nina Sawyer – 200 IM, 100 Fly, 100 Back

Adriana Lesiuk – 50 Free, 100 Fly, 100 Free

Megan DeSmit – 200 IM, 100 Breast, 200 Breast

Cameron Figuers –  400 IM, 200 Breast

Nick Eckhoff – 500 Free, 400 IM, 200 Back

Stephen Clendenin – 400 IM, 200 Fly, 200 Back

The women’s 400 Medley and 800 Freestyle Relays were also invited to the meet and the Eagles will compete in all five relays including the 200 Free, 400 Free and 200 Medley.

Two St. Mary’s athletes Rachel Hotchko and Kelly Heyde were also invited to the meet.

CAC Press Release:   http://www.cacsports.com/sports/mswim/2009-10/releases/2010NCAAChampsBids

UMW Press Release:  http://www.umweagles.com/news/2010/3/5/SWIM_0305101847.aspx

NCAA Championship meet page:  http://www.ncaa.com/sports/c-swim/champpage/c-swim-div3-index.html

16 men and 10 women earned the honors of being part of the 2009-2010 All-CAC team.  The honors are awarded for being in the top eight in an individual event or in the top three relays.

Justin Anderson

Austin Clark

Andrew Cole

Stephen Clendenin

Matt DeMarr

Brad Dunn

Nick Eckhoff

Andrew Garofolo

Colin Hess

Ian McCormick

Jason McCormack

Jack McHugh

Billy Norfolk

Brian O’Donnell

Peter Slattery

Cesare Zannoni

Lindsay Ancellotti

Brittany Clawson

Sarah Crockett

Megan DeSmit

Cameron Figuers

Ashley Green

Missy Kobiela

Adriana Lesiuk

Virginia Page

Nina Sawyer

 

Link to CAC Women’s All-CAC team http://static.psbin.com/0/g/rqfkru9g4ytxz5/2010_All-CAC_Women-s_Swimming.pdf

Link to CAC Men’s All-CAC team http://static.psbin.com/e/7/jphb9tvrim3by6/2010_All-CAC_Men-s_Swimming.pdf