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Aemisegger Earns Another Top-5 Finish, Will Swim One Final Event Saturday
March 20, 2010 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Senior Alicia Aemisegger earned her 12th All-America honor and reached her ninth NCAA championship final Friday night at the 2010 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. Her legendary Princeton career has only one more swim coming, the 1650 final on Saturday.
Aemisegger qualified for the championship final in the 400 IM by swimming the preliminary in 4:05.75; she cut that time to 4:05.54 in the final, but that wouldn't be enough to catch American record holder and three-time NCAA 400 IM champion Julia Smit, who won the event in 4:00.90.
Aemisegger now has eight top-five finishes in her career, and she enters Saturday's 1650 with the fourth-best time in the country. She is the reigning Ivy League champion in the event and she finished third in the 2009 NCAA Championships.
Saturday will be a full day for Princeton, as each of its three student-athletes will compete. Following Aemisegger will be sophomore Meredith Monroe, who made her 2010 NCAA debut Friday by placing 42nd in the 100 back in a time of 54.69. That swim was only .01 off Monroe's lifetime best and was a positive sign for Saturday, when she swims in her specialty, the 200 back.
Freshman diver Bryna Tsai will also make her NCAA debut by competing in the platform championships. Tsai qualified by placing second at the Zone 'A' championships last weekend at Rutgers.