Heyde Unanimous December Athlete of the Month
St. Mary's City, Md. - Kelly Heyde (Wilton, Conn./Wilton) of the St. Mary's College of Maryland women's swim team was selected by the Department of Athletics and Recreation as the December Athlete of the Month after setting two Capital Athletic Conference records and two school marks along with three NCAA cuts as St. Mary's finished sixth at the 13-team Franklin & Marshall College Invitational.
The 5-2 freshman is currently ranked third in all of Division III in the 400 individual medley with her record-setting time and NCAA automatic qualifying time of 4:28.39.
Heyde picked up an NCAA ‘A' cut in capturing the 400 IM in 4:28.39, establishing a CAC, school and F&M Invitational record in the process. She knocked off the league'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 November 21.
She then set another school and conference record 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 IM with an NCAA provisional time of 2:10.39.
Heyde helped the Seahawks stake a third-place finish in the 800 free relay; a fourth-place finish in the 400 medley relay; a sixth-place finish in the 200 free relay; and a ninth-place finish in the 400 free relay.
She garnered her third CAC Swimmer of the Week accolade on December 9 and boasts the conference's top times in the 200 fly, 400 IM and 1000 freestyle while owning the second-best time in the 200 IM and the third-best in the 100 breaststroke.
NOVEMBER ATHLETE OF THE MONTH HONOR ROLL
- MEN'S BASKETBALL: CAMONTAE GRIFFIN, Sr., Guard (Baltimore, Md./Dunbar)
- WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: STEPHANIE SAINT-AUBIN, Sr., Guard (Bowie, Md./Elizabeth Seton)
PAST ATHLETES OF THE MONTH
- SEPTEMBER - Claire Kodan, Jr., Outside Hitter, Volleyball
- OCTOBER - Lauriann Parker, Fr., Forward, Field Hockey
- NOVEMBER - Camontae Griffin, Sr., Guard, Men's Basketball
