Synchronized Swimming Reclaims The Throne – Ohio State Buckeyes
3/19/2000 12:00:00 AM | Artistic Swimming
March 19, 2000
Ohio State’s Egyptian snake hissed back at the Stanford Cardinal on%^$Saturday, reclaiming the team event title and overall championship crown at%^$the 2000 U.S. Collegiate Synchronized Swimming Championships at Ohio State%^$University.%^$
%^$OSU scored a 99.067 to Stanford’s 98.600 in the team event to soundly%^$defeat the west coast rivals. In the process, Ohio State took back the team%^$event title that in 1999 eluded them for the first time in more than 13%^$years.%^$
%^$”I’m very proud of this group of swimmers,” coach Linda Witter said. “They%^$set the goal last year to win the team event and the overall championships%^$here at home. We got great performances from all our routines and were able%^$to bring the title back to Ohio State.”%^$
%^$Ohio State finished first with 95 points, followed by Stanford at 89.%^$Canisius College of Buffalo, N.Y. finished third in the overall standings%^$with 63.5 points, edging first-year program UAB, which finished with 61.%^$Brazilian Olympic hopefuls Carolina and Isabela Moraes of Ohio State went%^$2-for-2 in defending their ’99 Collegiate titles. The pair earned a 97.467%^$swimming to music composed specifically for them by a Brazilian ensemble in%^$their hometown of Sao Paulo. Stanford’s Shannon Montague and Julie Enos%^$trailed in second place by more than three points at 94.267.%^$
%^$The Moraes and Mary Hofer of Spring Valley, Calif. started the day off%^$right by taking the trio gold medal with a score of 96.933. Stanford’s%^$Ashley Ensign, Lindsey Wigginton and Kristi Wright finished second at%^$94.400.%^$
%^$Stanford’s Montague, of Irving, Texas, defeated her former duet partner,%^$OSU’s Victoria Bowen of Plano, Texas, in the solo final. Montague earned a%^$96.600 to Bowen’s 96.267.%^$
%^$Nearly 200 of the nation’s top synchronized swimmers from 19 Division I,%^$II, III and NAIA universities competed for bragging rights in the solo,%^$duet, trio and team events. The 2000 U.S. Collegiate Championships mark the%^$24th anniversary of the event. Ohio State has won 19 of 24 overall titles.%^$Top routines will advance to the 2000 Jantzen National Championships, April%^$27-29 in Landover, Md. The Moraes will swim next in the 2000 Olympic%^$Qualifying Open, April 10-13 in Sydney, Australia, in hopes of qualifying%^$for the 2000 Olympic Games.%^$
%^$2000 U.S. Collegiate Synchronized Swimming Championships
%^$Final Results
%^$Solo Final
%^$1. Shannon Montague, Stanford, 96.600
%^$2. Victoria Bowen, Ohio State, 96.267
%^$3. Lindsey Wigginton, Stanford, 95.067
%^$4. Bogdana Zareva, UAB, 91.267
%^$5. Jill Wright, Canisius, 89.733
%^$6. Becky Percey, Cal-Berkeley, 89.333
%^$7. Meghan Green, Cal-Berkeley, 88.667
%^$8. Inga Todd, Keuka, 86.600
%^$
%^$Duet Final
%^$1. Carolina Moraes, Isabela Moraes, Ohio State, 97.467
%^$2. Julie Enos, Shannon Montague, Stanford, 94.267
%^$3. Kelli Dickerson, Bogdana Zareva, UAB, 90.400
%^$4. Heather Forester, Kate Matusiak, Canisius, 88.000
%^$5T.Luna Aguilu, Erica Levine, UAB, 86.667
%^$5T.Paradi Javandel, Pamchal Javandel, Cal-Berkeley, 86.667
%^$7. Caren Gellin, Jennifer Muzyk, Canisius, 86.267
%^$8. Inga Todd, Jessica Trainer, Keuka, 85.267
%^$
%^$Trio Final
%^$1. Carolina Moraes, Isabela Moraes, Mary Hofer, Ohio State, 96.933
%^$2. Ashley Ensign, Lindsey Wigginton, Kristi Wright, Stanford, 94.400
%^$3. Julie Enos, Paige Freiheit, Stephanie Joukoff, Stanford, 92.800
%^$4. Tarin Forbes, Beth Kreimer, Heather Moore, Ohio State, 92.733
%^$5. Caren Gellin, Jennifer Muzyk, Jill Wright, Canisius, 89.600
%^$6. Heather Forester, Kate Matusiak, Jennifer Rzepecki, Canisius, 86.867
%^$7. Luna Aguilu, Kristen Kramer, Erica Levine, UAB, 86.533
%^$8. Heather Bias, Judy Chiang, Pamchal Javandel, Cal-Berkeley, 86.200
%^$
%^$Team Final
%^$1. Ohio State A, 99.067
%^$2. Stanford, 98.600
%^$3. Ohio State B, 94.667
%^$4. University of Alabama-Birmingham, 91.667
%^$5. Canisius, 90.167
%^$6. Cal-Berkeley, 87.100
%^$7. Keuka, 87.000
%^$8. Richmond, 86.150
%^$
%^$Overall Championship Ranking
%^$1. Ohio State, 95
%^$2. Stanford, 89
%^$3. Canisius, 63.5
%^$4. UAB, 61
%^$5. Cal-Berkeley, 52.5
%^$6. Keuka, 33
%^$7. Wheaton, 28
%^$8. Richmond, 22.5
%^$9. Walsh, 22
%^$10.Minnesota, 15.5
%^$11.William & Mary, 14
%^$12.Iowa, 13
%^$13.Arizona, 8
%^$14.Carleton, 7.5
%^$15.Alaska-Southeast, 6.5
%^$16.Mary Washington, 3.5
%^$17.Penn State, 3.5
%^$18.Miami (OH), 2
%^$19.Michigan, 1.5
%^$
%^$All-Americans – top 14 overall (note: must be U.S. citizens)
%^$Ohio State – Mary Hofer, Heather Moore, Beth Kreimer
%^$Stanford – Shannon Montague, Lindsey Wigginton, Julie Enos, Paige Freiheit, Stephanie Joukoff, Kristi Wright
%^$Canisius – Jill Wright, Heather Forester, Kate Matusiak, Caren Gellin, Jennifer Muzyk
