The Campbellsville University Swim Team found the water again after a holiday break and finished fourth out of seven teams in the Centre College Colonel Classic 2010 in Danville over the weekend. The team was rounding into form after completing the first half of its season in Berea in early December.

The Water Tigers won a dual meet against Berea and had two swimmers to post national qualifying times - Alison Lee, a freshman from Hopkinsville, Ky., in the 200-yard butterfly; and Lindsay Ritchey, a junior from Paris, Ky., in the 100 breaststroke.

That brings the total of individual national qualifiers to four in five events. Five relay teams have also qualified. Rebecca Norcross, a freshman from Indianapolis, Ind., made a national cut time in the 1650 freestyle; and Brooke Cato, a sophomore from Bowling Green, Ky. , in both the 50 and 100 free. Norcross has since transferred and is no longer a member of the team.
 

Lindsay Ritchey

At Centre, several individuals finished as high a fourth place.

Campbellsville finished ahead of Berry, Franklin and Berea colleges and behind Centre (the meet winner), Asbury and King colleges. The Tiger swimmers were 75 points out of third place.

In other Centre events, swim team members finished:

200-yard Freestyle: fourth place in 1:52.42 for Tori Reiss, Allison Lee, Carrie Wohlschlegel and Brooke Cato.

200-yard IM: Lee, 2:36.14, 13th; Brenna Irwin, 2:39.72, 14th; and Manias, 2:40.16, 15th.

50-yard Freestyle: Cato, :27.17, 13th; Reiss, :27.95, 17th; Ellen Hittson, :28.50, 22nd; Wohlschlegel :28.63, 23rd; Yukino Nagata, :29.19, 24th.

400-yard Medley Relay:  4th place, 4:35.20 (Reiss, Lee, Lyndsay Ritchey, and Cato.

200-yard Medley Relay: 4th place, 2:05.52 (Nagata, Hittson, Ritchey and Cato).

400-yard IM: Fifth place in 5:49.49 for Irwin.

100-yard Butterfly: Eighth place in 1:10.84 for Hittson.

200-yard Freestyle: 11th place in 2:11.94 for Cato; 15h place in 2:19.73 for Manias;

100-yard Breaststroke: 10th place in 1:16.45 for Ritchey; and 20th place in 1:30.64 for Wholschlegel.

100-yard Backstroke: 11th place in 1:09.93 for Yukino; and 12th place in 1:09.97 for Reiss.

800-yard Freestyle Relay:  4th place, 9:12.89 (Reiss, Manias, Lee, Cato).

200-yard Backstroke: 9th place in 2:33.15 for Yukino; and 11th place in 2:37.47 for Reiss.

100-yard Freestyle: 17 place in 1:02.84 for Manias; 18th place in 1:04.29 for Wohlschlegel; and 20th place in 1:05.46 for Hittson.

200-yard Breastroke: 7th place in 2:48.72 for Ritchey.

200-yard Butterfly: 6th place in 2:43.24 for Irwin.

400-yard Freestyle Relay: 5th place, 4:08.31 (Reiss, Hittson, Lee and manias).

Campbellsville's relay squads, whose team makeup changes according to who is swimming the best at the time, said Hines, are the 200 and 400 medley relays, and the 200, 400 and 800 freestyle relays.

At Union November 14

"I was very pleased with the entire team's effort at this meet," said Hines. " They meet did not offer the usual lineup of events, so instead we swam some longer distances."

Hittson, a sophomore from Bowling Green, was second in the 200 butterfly (2:56.34). CU's 400 freestyle relay team of Hittson, Manias, Cato and Wohlschlegal finished first in 4:18.51. Manias is a sophomores from Greenville, Ind.; Wohlschlegel is a freshman from Louisville.

Yukino Nagata, a freshman from Japan, won the 200 backstroke in 2:36.22. Also, Manias and Wohlschlegal finished third and fourth, respectively, in the 100- freestyle. Their times were 1:04.73 and 1:05.15. Irwin, a sophomore from Louisville, was second in the 400 IM in 2:43.48.

Campbellsville competed against host Union, Lindsey Wilson and Bellarmine.

At Asbury December 4-5

CU finished third out of five teams, defeating Union College and Berea.
 

Allison Lee

"Allison Lee swam a great meet," said Coach Lindsay Hines. "Our 800 freestyle relay also qualified for nationals."

Lee had a third (2:28.11) in the 200 fly, a seventh in the 200 IM (2:27.18), a sixth in the 100 back (1:09.24), and also swam on the 200 free, 200 fly and 400 freestyle relay teams.

The 800 freestyle relay team (Lee, Tori Reiss, Cato and Norcross) finished in 9:05.73. Reiss is a junior from Fairbanks, Alaska.

At Berea Colege December 12

Campbellsville beat Berea in a head-to-head meet and these swimmers posted these times:

200-yard Freestyle: Lee, 2:13.08

50-yard Freestyle: Cato, :27.87; Reiss, 28.44; Wohlschlegel, 28.47; Hittson, 29.48.

200-yard IM: Irwin, 2:39.10; Manias, 2:43.98.

100-yard Butterfly: Lee, 1:08.68

100-yard Freestyle: Cato, 1:01.74; Hittson, 1:03.21; Wohlschlegel, 1:04.76; Manias, 1:04.80.

100-yard Backstroke: Reiss, 1:10.96.

500-yard Freestyle: Irwin, 6:26.16.

100-yard Breaststroke: Ritchey, 1:15.59.