Women's Swimming Voted Ninth In Latest CSCAA Rankings
PHOENIX, ARIZ. (Nov. 15, 2012) – The LIU Post women's swimming team is ranked ninth in the latest College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Division 2 Swimming and Diving Team Rankings. This is the highest national ranking in program history, and the Pioneers are currently enjoying a record-breaking season to go along with this ranking.
Freshman
Joyce Kwok (Middle Village, N.Y.) has broken into the college scene in a major way, currently leading all of Division II in both the 100-yard butterfly and the 200-yard butterfly with times of 53.93 and 2:00.16, respectively. Those times also place her as the fastest in the events in Pioneer history. She also has registered the second best 200-yard individual medley time in the nation finishing with a time of 2:05.02, which is also good for the top Pioneer time in history. Right behind her in that event is junior
Tamara Garriock (Duncan, British Columbia, Canada) who has posted a time of 2:05.06, good for the third fastest time in the 200-yard individual medley. Kwok has also garnered the team record and third fastest time in the 100-yard backstroke, finishing with a time of 55.64.
Three relay teams for the Pioneers have also registered top-five times in all of Division II and are Pioneer team records. The 400-yard medley relay team compiled of Kwok, Garriock, sophomore
Johanna Pettersson (Kungalv, Sweden), and freshman
Marthe Soerensen (Stavanger, Norway) are currently ranked second after finishing the event with a time of 3:48.80. The same group of four made up the Pioneer relay team that is currently ranked fifth in all of Division II with a time of 1:44.33 in the 200-yard medley relay. Garriock, Kwok, Soerensen, and sophomore
Angelica Norrena (Solna, Sweden) also teamed up in the 800-yard freestyle event and registered a time of 7:36.99, good for fifth in all of Division II.
The Pioneers have also combined for four additional individual times and two more relay times that have cracked the top-10 nationally including Pettersson's Pioneer record time of 2.01.68 in the 200-yard backstroke, and the squad has a total of 28 different times that appear in the top-35 times for each event in all of Division II. Senior
Sandra Luiga (Jarfalla, Sweden) also broke an all-time Pioneer record, swimming a 4.34.46 400-yard individual medley.
The Pioneers look to continue their successful season after the holiday break, as they host East Stroudsburg University on Jan. 15 at 7 p.m.
NCAA Division 2 Women's Swimming and Diving Ranking as of Dec. 19, 2012
1. Drury University
2. Wayne State University
3. University of California San Diego
4. University of the Incarnate Word
5. Queens University of Charlotte
6. Grand Canyon University
7. University of Indianapolis
8. Ashland University
9. LIU Post
10. University of Tampa
11. West Chester University
12. Grand Valley State University
13. Florida Southern College
14. St Cloud State University
15. Simon Fraser University
16. Clarion University
17. Wingate University
18. Nova Southeastern University
19. Gannon University
20. Indiana University of Pennsylvania
21. University of Alaska Fairbanks
22. Northern Michigan University
23. Edinboro University
24. Shippensburg University
25. Delta State University
Others receiving votes: University of Bridgeport, Bloomsburg University, Ouachita Baptist University, Limestone College, Henderson State University, Fairmont State University, Minnesota State University Mankato, Truman State University