Three Ospreys Qualify for Finals on Day 2 of @TheCCSA Championships

Thursday, February 19

Athens, Ga.

All Day

University of North Florida

CCSA Championships Day 2

Three Ospreys Qualify for Finals on Day 2 of @TheCCSA Championships

2/19/2015 11:02:00 PM | Women's Swimming

Day 2 Results
ATHENS, Ga. – North Florida had three swimmers qualify for evening finals on the second day of the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Championships. Junior Amy Taylor put together two of the best times in program history in the 500 freestyle.

In morning preliminaries, Taylor was posted the ninth fastest time, 5:01.32 to become one of 24 swimmers to qualify for finals later in the day. She finished 14^th in the evening finals, just clipping her prelim time with a 5:01.23. Both times were the eighth and ninth fastest times in the event in program history.

Kara Plocharsky also was an evening qualifier in the 500 freestyle and swam a season best time of 5:14.96 in prelims. She was able to top the prelim time for a 24^th place finish in the evening final, with another season-best, 5:14.36.

Freshman Chase Walker turned in the fastest freestyle time of any Osprey in 2014-15 in the morning preliminaries (24.27). She placed 24^th in the evening session with a time of 24.31. Her prelim time was the 10^th fastest 50 freestyle time in school history.

In the final event of the day, the Ospreys nearly made history in the 200 freestyle relay. The quartet of Walker, Amy Creech, Rebeca Bernard and Maria Bernard were less than a half a second off the school record and touched with a time of 1:36.42. The school record stands at 1:36.02 which was set back in 2010.

In the morning preliminaries, a number of Ospreys turned in their best times of the season. Senior Maria Bernard, just missed qualifying for the evening finals in the 500 freestyle. She finished 25^th with a time of 5:16.47. Classmate Lissa Janowicz placed 28^th in the 200 individual medley with her best time of the season, 2:10.80.

In the 50 freestyle, Creech (24.49), Rebeca Bernard (24.58), Taylor Schmidinger (24.89) and Angel Morrison (25.70) also had their best swims of the 2014-15 season.

The third day of the CCSA Championships will feature the 400 individual medley, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 100 backstroke and the 400 medley relay. Preliminaries will begin at 10:00 a.m. followed by the evening final sessions at 6:00 p.m.

500 Free Preliminaries
Place	Swimmer	Time
9	Taylor, Amy	5:01.32 q
*Season-Best Time, 9^th Fastest Time in UNF history
23	Plocharsky, Kara	5:14.96 q
25	Bernard, Maria	5:16.47
*Season-Best

200 IM Preliminaries
28	Janowicz, Lissa	2:10.80
*Season-Best

50 Free Preliminaries
23	Walker, Chase	24.27 q
*Season/Career Best
32	Creech, Amy	24.49
*Season/Career Best
34	Bernard, Rebeca	24.58
*Season-Best
41	Schmidinger, Taylor	24.89
*Season/Career Best
54	Morrison, Angel	25.70
*Season/Career Best