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Malcolm, Demond Qualify For NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships; Aemisegger To Compete In Three Events
March 05, 2007 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Both Stuart Malcolm and Michelle DeMond made good on their final chances to qualify for the 2007 NCAA Championships by winning their respective platform competitions at the NCAA Zone qualifying competitions this weekend at Rutgers. They join freshman Alicia Aemisegger, who will compete all three days during this week's NCAA Championships at the University of Minnesota.
Malcolm qualified with a convincing victory in the men's competition. He scored 641.60 points, well ahead of the second-place effort of 614.50 points by Buffalo's Michael McDowell. His score is a new Princeton platform record and gives him two of the three Tiger top marks; he set the 3-meter dual meet record of 350.20 points in a competition last year.
DeMond led a 1-2 Princeton finish in the women's platform competition. Her winning score of 498.55 points fell just shy of Danielle Stramandi's Princeton record, but it did punch her ticket to the NCAA championships this weekend at the University of Minnesota. She topped second-place teammate Peggy Kearns, who scored 453.50 points.
While DeMond will compete in the platform competition, Aemisegger will compete in the 500 free, the 400 IM and the 200 breast. The 2007 Ivy League Championships Swimmer of the Meet, Aemisegger enters the weekend with Top 10 times in two of the three events. Her time of 4:09.27 in the 400 IM is second-best in the nation, behind only Stanford's Julia Smit (4:04.02). The two are longtime competitors and could battle for the NCAA championship in this event; the third-best time of Texas A&M's Melissa Hain is nearly two full seconds behind Aemisegger's mark.
She also has the ninth-best time in the 500 free (4:43.48); that mark is the second-best time for any freshman in the country and is within four seconds of the No. 1 time, which Georgia's Claire Maust set at 4:40.15. Aemisegger's top 200 breast time is 2:14.19, the 16th-best time in the nation.
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