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March 16, 2009

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Northeast-10 Men’ s Swimming Athlete of the Week

Ricky Chidsey, Le Moyne (Sr., Liverpool, N.Y.) - Placed eighth in the 200-yard backstroke in a time of 1:48.82 at the NCAA Championships to earn First Team All-America honors. Also picked up Honorable Mention All-America accolades with a 12th-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke in 50.34 seconds.

Northeast-10 Women’s Swimming Athlete of the Week

Cody Hall, Southern Connecticut (Jr., Parker, Colo.) - Collected three All-America honors this past week at the NCAA National Championships. Took fourth place in the 1650-yard freestyle and eighth place in both the 1000-yard freestyle and 400-yard IM events.

Northeast-10 Men’s Diving Athlete of the Week

Greg Simoneau, Southern Connecticut (So., Sandy Hook, Conn.) - Earned two All-America accolades at the National Championships this past week. Grabbed sixth place in the three-meter (401.45) and eighth place in the one-meter (370.00) diving events.

Northeast-10 Women’s Diving Athlete of the Week

No Nominations

Northeast-10 Men’ s Freshman of the Week

Ryan Brauer, Saint Rose (Fr., Clifton Park, N.Y.) - Established himself as a three-time All-American after setting his fifth school record within a four-day span at the NCAA Division II Championships. Sliced nearly five seconds off his own school record on the way to an eighth place performance in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:08.44). Earlier in the meet, swam a 1:51.88 in the 200 butterfly to remove three seconds off his mark with a 22nd place performance. Finished 11th to garner honorable mention All-America accolades in the 400 individual medley relay with a 3:59.02 clocking. Took a staggering 21 seconds off his own school record with a 9:24.53 clocking in the 1,000 freestyle.

Northeast-10 Women’ s Freshman of the Week

Katie O'Donnell, Le Moyne (Fr., Delmar, N.Y.) - Placed 11th in the 200-yard backstroke in a school-record time of 2:03.94 at the NCAA Championships to earn Honorable Mention All-America honors. Also picked up Honorable Mention All-America accolades with a 16th-place finish in the 200-yard IM in 2:07.99 after reaching the finals with a school-record time of 2:06.77 in the preliminaries. Also set the school record in the 100-yard backstroke preliminaries with a time of 57.56 to finish 17th.

Weekly Honor Roll:

Miguel Nesrala, Southern Connecticut (Fr., Santo Domingo, D.R.) - Collected ninth place in the 200-yard freestyle event in day two of the NCAA National Championships. For his performance he was awarded an All-America honorable mention tribute.

Emily Sundel, Southern Connecticut (Jr., West Hartford, Conn.) - Grabbed two All-America Honorable mentions at the NCAA National Championships this past week. Notched 15th place in the 500-yard freestyle event, touching the wall with a time of 5:03.68. Also nabbed 14th place in the 1000-yard freestyle, swimming the heat in 10:18.93.