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Princeton Swim Teams Combines For 17 CollegeSwimming.com All-America Honors
May 04, 2011 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Nine women and eight men were chosen to represent the Ivy League champion Princeton swimming and diving teams on the 2011 CollegeSwimming.com Mid-Major All-American Team, it was recently announced. Women's senior Megan Waters, the 2011 Ivy League Championships Swimmer of the Meet, was one of 19 women to receive first-team honors based on her qualification for the NCAA Championships.
Waters capped her strong career with one of the greatest senior seasons in the proud tradition of Princeton swimming and diving. She holds Princeton records in the 50 free (22.36), the 100 free (48.66) and the 100 fly (53.28), with two of those records being either set or matched during the NCAA Championships. She was also part of three Princeton record relays, including swimming the anchor leg in both the 200 medley (1:39.80) and 400 medley (3:39.20). Waters was also part of a record-setting 400 free relay (3:20.33) two years ago.
She has also played a big role in three Ivy League championship wins for Princeton, including a thrilling 27-point win last season and a perfect 7-for-7 showing in leading the team to the 2011 championship. In her last conference meet, Waters won the 50 free, 100 free and 100 fly, and she was part of wins in the 200 and 400 free and the 200 and 400 medley relays. Her effort in the most recent championship meet, held in a loud and excited DeNunzio Pool, earned her Ivy League Championships Swimmer of the Meet honors.
Waters joins teammates Jillian Altenburger, Lisa Boyce, Andrea Kropp, Maureen McCotter, Meredith Monroe, Ming Ong, Aislinn Smalling and Carter Stephens on the Mid-Major All-American Team. Boyce and Kropp, a pair of freshmen who helped ignite a strong Class of 2014 performance this season, were both individual Ivy League champions this year, while Altenburger, Boyce, Kropp, Monroe, Stephens and Waters were all part of winning relays at the Ivy League Championships. The quintet of Altenburger, Boyce, McCotter, Monroe and Stephens also added second-team All-Ivy honors after finishing as runners-up in their respective individual events.
All individual Ivy League honors for first- or second-place finishes at the championship meet can be found here.
On the men's side, Princeton earned eight spots on the Mid-Major All-American Team: Jon Christensen, Colin Cordes, Geoffrey Faux, Colin Hanna, Will Lawley, Travis McNamara, Paul Nolle III and Kaspar Raigla. Christensen, Cordes, Hanna and Raigla were each individual champions in Princeton's thrilling 5.5-point victory over Harvard at the 2011 championship meet, while Christensen, Cordes, Faux, Lawley and Raigla were each members of relay champions. Christensen, Cordes, Nolle and Raigla were second-team honorees after finishing as runners-up in their respective individual events, while McNamara was a Top 20 individual scorer in the championship meet and had a huge final-day swim in the 1,000 to help clinch the title.
All individual Ivy League honors for first- or second-place finishes at the championship meet can be found here.