Heyde Registers Third CAC Weekly Award
York, Pa. - Kelly Heyde (Wilton, Conn./Wilton) of the St. Mary's College of Maryland women's swim team earned her third Capital Athletic Conference Women's Swimmer of the Week award of the season for the week ending December 6 as announced by CAC commissioner, Tom Byrnes, Wednesday afternoon. Heyde shares this week's honor with Marymount (Va.) University's Anna Macedonia.
The 5-2 freshman racked up two Capital Athletic Conference records and two school records as well as four NCAA cuts as St. Mary's finished sixth at the two-day 2009 Franklin & Marshall College Invitational.
Heyde picked up an NCAA automatic qualifying time in capturing the 400 individual medley in 4:28.39, establishing a CAC, school and F&M Invitational record in the process. She knocked off the conference's oldest standing record, shattering University of Mary Washington's Shannon Hutcherson's 1993 mark of 4:33.22. Heyde also displaced her own record of 4:33.71 from two weekends ago.
She then set another school and league mark in the 200 butterfly with an NCAA ‘B' cut of 2:05.57 to take second place in the event. Heyde replaced UMW's Lorena de la Garza's 2007 mark of 2:06.55 while breaking her own mark of 2:07.71 from October 31. For her final individual event, she finished second in the 200 individual medley with an NCAA ‘B' cut of 2:10.39.
Heyde helped the Seahawks stake a third-place finish in the 800 free relay (8:05.79); a fourth-place finish in the 400 medley relay (4:06.97); a sixth-place finish in the 200 free relay (1:42.64); and a ninth-place finish in the 400 free relay in 3:49.86.
2009-10 CAC
Women's Swimmer of the Week
Oct. 27 - Sarah Crockett, Jr., Mary Washington
Nov. 3 - Kelly Heyde, Fr., St. Mary's
Nov. 10 - Sarah Crockett, Jr., Mary Washington
Nov. 17 - Kelly Heyde, Fr., St. Mary's
Nov. 24 - Sarah Crockett, Jr., Mary Washington
Dec. 1 - No report
Dec. 8 - Anna Macedonia, So., Marymount
and Kelly Heyde, Fr., St. Mary's
