2012-13 Women's Swimming and Diving Roster
Biography
AS A SENIOR (2012-13)
Black garnered three All-America and three honorable mention All-America awards. Black, who was the national champion in the 500-yard freestyle, also was bestowed All-America honors in the 800-yard free relay, 1,000-yard free and the 200-yard freestyle. The senior added honorable mention All-American accolades in the 1,000-yard freestyle, 400-yard free relay, and the 400-yard medley relay. Black was named to the Sunshine State Conference second-team. At the SSC championships, Black came in third in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:55.43. She came in fourth in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:51.11. She went on to place fifth in the 1,650-yard freestyle with a time of 17:22.66...Swimming at the Shark Invitational, she took home the Michael D. Fish Outstanding Performance Award for the second year in a row She took top honors in the 200, 500 and 1,000-yard freestyle breaking the meet records with times of 1:50.62, 4:54.01 and 10:04.57, respectively. She also competed in the 100 and 200-yard backstroke where she placed fourth and fifth with times of 58.69 and 2:05.80, respectively. She was named SSC Swimmer of the Week for the weeks of Nov. 8th and Dec. 22nd.
AS A JUNIOR (2011-12)
Honored as an All-American in the 500-freestyle while being crowned the national individual title in the event, 1000-free,1650-free, and 800-free relay...She was awarded with the All-American Honorable Mention in the 200-free and 400-free relay.. Received First Team All -SSC and was named SSC Swimmer of the Year for the 2011-2012 season ...In the women’s 200-yard freestyle Black reached fifth with a time of (1:56.90). Black posted a NCAA B-qualifying time of 5:10.99, to finish in second-place in the 500- yard freestyle against Indian River & Florida International University (11/12/2011 ) … In the 1000-yard freesyle she further displayed her dominance as she blew by the B-cut time by over six seconds, clocking in, and winning, with a time of 10:35.19...She swam in the 500-yard free and recorded a B-cut qualifying time of 5:07.91 which put her in first by 10 seconds at Tampa (12/3/2011)…. Swam at the NSU Shark Invitational (12/16-19/2011) in the evening’s finals, she took another victory as she won the women’s 1650- free destroying her previous team record by over 30 seconds, clocking in at 17:06.47…she took home the Michael D. Fish Outstanding Performer Award honors.. Against Florida Southern (1/21/2012 ) she claimed the number one slot with her second B-cut time of the day, finishing at 5:03.21… At the SSC Championships (2/15-18/2012 ) she took second place with an A-cut finishing time of 16:56.53 in the 1650- free….Swimming in the Division II NCAA Championships (3/14-17/2012) she won the 500-free with a time of 4;49.86 and swam the 1,650-free and turned in a personal best time in the event at 16:51.26 and finished third overall...she was also took part in the 400-free relay and 800-free relay that are both new Sunshine State Conference and NSU records. |
PREVIOUS SCHOOL
Swam for Florida Gulf Coast University from 2009 through 2010...As a freshman she posted three top-ten freestyle performances.
HIGH SCHOOL
She swam all four years for coach Mac Kennedy at Bishop Verot High School.
CLUB EXPERIENCE
Was a member of Swim Florida and was coached by Mac Kennedy
PERSONAL
She is an exercise and sports science major…Her parents are Larry and Debra Black…She has one sibling, Lauren Black.
Historical Player Information
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2011-12Junior
Distance Free/Back
6'0"
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2012-13Senior
Distance Free/Back
5'11"
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2012-13Senior
Distance Free/Back
6'0"