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Wednesday, February 18

Atlanta, Ga.

All Day

Duke University

Day One at Women's ACC Championship

Women?s Swimming & Diving Opens Action at ACCs

2/18/2015 8:24:00 PM | Swimming & Diving

By: Duke Sports Information

ATLANTA – Duke swimmers broke a school relay record to highlight the first evening of competition at the 2015 ACC Women's Swimming and Diving Championship, hosted by Georgia Tech at the Aquatic Center. The Blue Devils competed in one diving event and two relays to open the conference championship in 10th place overall.

Freshman Isabella Paez, sophomore Brittany Friese, freshman Verity Abel and freshman Lizzie Devitt took down the previous program record in the 800-yard freestyle relay, combining for a 7:17.43 clocking to place seventh. Paez was just off of the 200 freestyle school record on the leadoff leg, touching in 1:49.24 for the fifth-fastest time in Duke history.

In the 200 medley relay, sophomore Jessie Sutherland, sophomore Ashleigh Shanley, freshman Leah Goldman and sophomore Maddie Rusch clocked a season-best 1:39.27 to finish eighth in the field. That mark also ranked second on Duke's all-time top-10 chart.

Duke's divers started off the day competing in the 3-meter preliminaries, with junior Kendall McClenney leading the way in 21st place. Her score of 258.00 surpassed the NCAA Zone Diving qualification standard for the event. Classmate Jaimee Gundry earned an award of 242.05 to come in 26th, while sophomore Kirby Quinn was 30th (236.80) and freshman MaryEllen Targonski 35th (219.10).

“We had a great start to the meet,” said head coach Dan Colella. “We had four really solid splits on the 800 free relay and broke the school record by over two seconds. We also had some really great splits on the 200 medley relay. Three of the four swims were by far lifetime bests, especially the last two – for Leah, 23.2 is big time swim, as well as for Maddie breaking the 22-second barrier. I think we're set up to do some really good things in the coming days.”

The Blue Devils were 10th out of 13 teams following the first day of action with a team score of 94 points. Virginia Tech led the field with 178 points, followed by North Carolina (158) and Miami (50).

A full day of swimming and diving is on tap for Thursday, beginning with preliminaries at 10 a.m., diving preliminaries at 12 p.m. and finals at 6 p.m. Events for the second day in Atlanta include the 500 freestyle, 200 IM, 50 freestyle, women's 1-meter diving and the 200 freestyle relay. The 6 p.m. finals session will be broadcast live on ESPN3.

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