McDowell, Barbins Garner End-of-Year Awards

Complete Day 3 Results

St. Mary's City, Md. - Senior captain Brie McDowell (Doylestown, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) earned Capital Athletic Conference Female Swimmer-of-the-Year honors for the second time in her three-year career as a member of the St. Mary's College of Maryland women's swim team.  McDowell became the first swimmer in CAC history to win seven gold medals as the three-day 2009 CAC Men's & Women's Swimming Championships came to a close Sunday night.

St. Mary's head coach Andre Barbins nabbed his third career CAC Women's Swim Coach-of-the-Year citation as Barbins earned the honor in 2004 and last season.

The University of Mary Washington has now won all 19 CAC championship titles since the inception of the conference in 1991 as the Eagles registered 904 points by capturing seven of 18 events.

Along with her seven gold medals, McDowell established seven CAC meet records either individually or as part of a relay team.  She notched nine conference records as well as nine St. Mary's marks.  Four of her record-setting performances were also NCAA automatic qualifying times.

The Seahawks finished second in the team standings for the second year in a row with 631 points as SMCM won gold in 10 events.

McDowell shattered her own two-year old CAC meet, conference, and school record of 2:04.61 in the 200 back as she nearly shaved off four seconds tonight with her event winning time of 2:00.92.  Her time also blew the NCAA ‘A' cut of 2:04.38 out of the water.

Mary Washington's sophomore Sarah Crockett (Toano, Va./Lafayette) set a CAC meet and conference record in the 100 free as Crockett posted the top time in the morning's preliminaries with 52.23.  However, it was Marymount (Va.) University's senior Emily Campbell (Centreville, Va./Paul VI) who took home the CAC title in the 100 free as Campbell matched Crockett's time of 52.23 in the finals, while Crockett finished second in 52.79.

UMW's freshman Megan DeSmit (Bridgewater, Va./Turner Ashby), the 2009 CAC Rookie-of-the-Year, established the CAC meet mark in the 200 breast during the morning's preliminaries with her NCAA ‘B' cut of 2:24.23.  DeSmit went on to capture the event title in 2:24.89.

Freshman Amanda Pazouki (Silver Spring, Md./JFK) registered a St. Mary's record in the 200 breast as Pazouki placed fourth in 2:31.67, surpassing current teammate, sophomore Sofia Sokolove's (Bethesda, Md./Bethesda-Chevy Chase) two-year old mark of 2:33.44.

SMCM's junior Rachel Hotchko (Yakima, Wash./A.C. Davis) garnered a school record in the 200 fly as Hotchko captured the gold in 2:09.65, surpassing her year old mark of 2:10.16.

In the final event of the night, the Seahawks tallied a CAC meet, a conference, and a school record as well as an NCAA provisional cut in the 400 free relay as the foursome of McDowell, Hotchko, junior Dominique Perez (Rockville, Md./Holy Child), and Koerner posted a winning time of 3:31.78.

TEAM STANDINGS: 1. Mary Washington 904, 2. St. Mary's (Md.) 631, 3. Marymount (Va.) 512, 4. Salisbury 388, 5. York (Pa.) 311, 6. Gallaudet 158, 7. Hood 117.

EVENT	FIRST TEAM ALL-CAC	SECOND TEAM ALL-CAC	THIRD TEAM ALL-CAC
1650 Free	UMW - Virginia Page	UMW - Bridget Travers	UMW - Meg Anderson
200 Back	SMC - Brie McDowell	UMW - Kelly Scott	UMW - Virginia Page
100 Free	MMU - Emily Campbell	UMW - Sarah Crockett	SMC - Eleanor Koerner
200 Breast	UMW - Megan DeSmit	MMU - Ashley Smith	UMW - Nicole Hallberg
200 Fly	SMC - Rachel Hotchko	GU - Carlisle Robinson	UMW - Allie Beckenstein
400 Free Relay	SMC - Brie McDowell, Rachel Hotchko, Dominique Perez, Eleanor Koerner	UMW - Sarah Crockett, Adriana Lesiuk, Leslie Holt, Nina Sawyer	MMU - Emily Campbell, Amanda Sperling, Anna Macedonia, Alexandra Bekampis

SEAHAWK HIGHLIGHTS
Senior captain Nat Schaefer (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North) was the Seahawks' top finisher in the 1650 free as Schaefer finished seventh in 18:49.39.  Junior Monika Disque (Annapolis, Md./Annapolis) was second in the consolation finals to place 10th overall with her time of 19:09.11.

Senior Eleanor Koerner (North Potomac, Md./T.S. Wootton) garnered third team all-conference honors in the 100 free as Koerner touched the pads in 53.36.

The Seahawks came in fourth, fifth, and sixth in the 200 breast with Pazouki leading the way with her record-setting fourth-place finish.  Sophomore Rosa Trembour (Takoma Park, Md./Albert Einstein) took fifth in 2:32.53, while sophomore Sofia Sokolove (Bethesda, Md./Bethesda-Chevy Chase) finished sixth in 2:33.66.

Freshman Katelyn Grue (Ellicott City, Md./Mount de Sales) was third in the consolation finals of the 200 breast in 2:41.71 to finish 11th overall.

Junior Anna Chiplis (Silver Spring, Md./Montgomery Blair) finished fifth in the 200 fly in 2:15.62, while freshman Katie Serfling (Frederick, Md./Urbana) placed second in the consolation finals in 2:28.07 for 10th overall.