March 18, 2004
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Tracy Duchac, Carrie McCambridge and Amanda Miller all missed making the finals of Thursday's competitions at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. Duchac is done until Saturday, however, McCambridge and Miller go again Friday off the three-meter springboard.
"The team got off to a rough start today," said head coach Cathy Wright-Eger. "All of them realize that they are capable of performing better, and since they are all intense competitors, I know they're all more disappointed than anyone on the coaching staff. They have to remember that it was just one day, don't throw in the towel, just refocus and keep going."
McCambridge completed the one-meter competition with a final score of 230.75. The Big Ten Diver of the Year attained round-by-round scores of 42.55, 36.40, 35.10, 32.40, 37.50 and 46.80.
Miller finished her first NCAA diving competition with a mark of 224.95. Her round-by-round scores were 42.00, 31.05, 46.80, 32.40, 35.00 and 37.70.
Duchac missed making the finals of the 50-meter freestyle, placing seventh in her heat with a time of 26.04 seconds; 23.33 seconds when converted to yards. Her next attempt comes Saturday in the prelims of the 100-meter freestyle; Duchac's season best time is 51.23.
Highlights from the morning session included Georgia setting a NCAA, American and U.S. Open record of 1:38.52 in the 200-meter freestyle relay ... USC's Kalyn Keller clocked a time of 4:03.81 in the 400-meter freestyle, breaking the previous NCAA meet record of 4:04.09 set by Columbia's Christina Teuscher in 2000 ... Auburn's Kirsty Coventry set a NCAA meet and U.S. Open record of 2:09.34 in the 200-meter individual medley ... Georgia freshman Kara Lynn Joyce registered the world's second fastest time of the year in the 50-meter freestyle, with her NCAA, American and U.S. Open record-shattering time of 24.21 ... Georgia struck again in the 400 medley relay, finishing with a prelim-best time of 3:58.41, just missing its NCAA record by one second.
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