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Bio

	Daniele Surkovich
	Class: SO         Hometown: Ellicott City, Md. Position: Free/Fly     High School: Wilde Lake

2005-06: Named America East Most Outstanding Rookie after winning gold in the 50-free and silver in the 100-free and 100-fly at the America East Championships…also anchored the winning 200-free relay, led off the winning 400-free relay and anchored the second-place 200- and 400-medley relays at AEC’s…the 400-free (3:28.45) and 200-medley (1:47.51) relays set new school records…broke the school record in the 50-free twice in one day at the George Mason Invitational, swimming a 24.13 in the preliminaries and besting that with a 23.99 in the finals, winning the event…anchored the winning 200-free relay (1:36.48) and led off the winning 800-free relay (7:34.75) at the GMU Invite which broke school records and led off the winning 400-free relay which set a meet and then-school mark (3:29.02)…placed fifth in the 200-free and sixth in the 200-fly at ECAC’s…won the 50-free in dual meets against East Carolina, Navy, Binghamton and Towson; the 100-free against Navy, Bucknell and Seton Hall; the 200-free against Seton Hall and Marist; the 500-free at Marist; the 1,000-free against Bucknell; the 100-back against Howard; and the 200-fly against Binghamton and Towson…placed second in the 400-IM and swam on the winning 400-medley relay at Rider in the first meet of her collegiate career…in addition to her 50-free record, swam UMBC’s fastest 100-free (52.21) and 100-fly (57.64) times and second-fastest 200-free (1:54.51), 1000-free (10:23.40) and 200-fly (2:08.11) times of the season…led off the winning 200-free relay and anchored the winning 200-medley relay against Howard…swam on the winning 400-free relays at seven dual meets and the winning 400-medley relays twice…named team co-Most Valuable Athlete…selected to the America East Honor Roll…won the Ocean Mile Swim in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., on New Year’s Day.

Background: A Grand Prix and Speedo Championship Series qualifier…placed second in the 100-free and third in the 50-free at sectionals in the spring of 2005…placed second at the Speedo Championship Series in the spring of 2005…a member of National Honor Society and a Scholastic All-American…daughter of Kathy and Jeff Surkovich…is the second of four children…has two sisters, Brittany and Kelly, and a brother, Eric…Brittany swims at George Mason…chose UMBC over Maryland…born Nov. 25, 1987…name is pronounced DAWN-yell sur-KO-vich…majoring in graphic design and hopes to become a graphic designer.