ORLANDO, Fla. – The Nova Southeastern swimming and diving teams took third place at the 2014 Sunshine State Conference Championship, which concluded Saturday.
The women's team ended the four-day meet with 600 points, 268 shy of conference champs Tampa. The men held 736 points, 178 points behind Florida Southern.
Saturday's finals started with the 1650-yard freestyle, or better known as the mile. Sara Akoubian (Sr., Run Dacula, Ga.) was the top Shark for the women with a NCAA B qualifying time of 17:19.11, good for fifth place. The men had two swimmers finish in the top five. Addison Cates (Jr., Fort Myers, Fla.) took second place in a time of 15:51.54 and Cameron Chambers (Sr., St. Petersburg, Fla.) finished fourth in a time of 15:56.79. Both were B cut times.
In the 200-yard backstroke, Emma Wahlstrom (Fr., Stockholm, Sweden) earned a B cut time in third place by a hundredth of a second at 2:04.34. The men were represented by Marco Aldabe (Fr., Alicante, Spain), who was a second off an automatic qualifying time in third place at 1:47.29.
In the 100-yard freestyle, Esau Simpson (Sr., St. David's, Grenada) claimed sixth for the men with a B cut time of 45.10. The men would place in the top-5 of the 200-yard breaststroke, as Oscar Aldabe (Sr., Alicante, Spain) clocked in at a time of 2:05.62.
The women placed two swimmers in the top three of the 200-yard butterfly, each with B standard times. Emma Lawrenz (Jr., Minnetonka, Minn.) took second at 2:05.88 and Lauren Chapple (Jr., London, England) took third at 2:06.16. The Sharks placed in the top five of the men's event, with Santiago Pombo (Jr., Bogota, Columbia) claiming fifth and clocking in at 1:52.81.
The four-day meet concluded with the 400-yard freestyle, with the women taking third and the men claiming second. NSU's women clocked in at 3:31.71 and were made up of Lawrenz, Wahlstrom, Arianna Sunyak (Jr., Naples, Fla.), and Alexandra Zatylny (Sr., Quebec, Canada). The men hit the wall in 2:59.02 and were comprised of Simpson, Magnus Lundgren (Jr., Stockholm, Sweden), Shane Kleinbeck (Jr., San Antonio, Texas) and Marco Aldabe. Both relay teams earned B cut times.
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