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UMBC Swimming and Diving Takes Three of Four Weekly Conference Awards
10/24/2007
 Junior Justin Bronson was named the America East Men's Swimming Performer of the Week after earning three wins last weekend. |
 Freshman Crystal Gall earned the conference's first women's diving weekly award. |
 Freshman Seth McNew earned the conference's first men's diving weekly award. |
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The UMBC men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams accounted for three out of four weekly conference awards as junior Justin Bronson (Oshawa, Ontario, Canada/Msgr. Paul Dwyer) was named the Men’s Swimming Performer of the Week, and freshmen Seth McNew (Lakewood, Colo./Lakewood) and Crystal Gall (Balgonie, Saskatchewan, Canada/Dr. Martin LeBoldus) earned the Men’s and Women’s Diving Performers of the Week, respectively, for the week ending Oct. 22, the conference announced Wednesday.
Bronson led the Retrievers in their season-opening win over Rider on Saturday with two individual wins and one relay win. Bronson led a Retriever sweep of the 200-yard freestyle, turning in a time of 1:44.37 to outdistance his teammate and closest competitor by over two seconds and then posted a winning time of 47.33 in the 100 free to beat the second-place swimmer by over one full second. Bronson also anchored the Retrievers' 400 free relay which topped the Broncs with a time of 3:15.30.
McNew finished second in the 3-meter and third in the 1-meter diving events in his first collegiate meet on Saturday en route to the victory over Rider. The freshman posted scores of 219.63 in the 3-meter and 197.10 in the 1-meter, while Gall placed second in the 1-meter diving event in her first collegiate meet, recording a score of 247.04, just eight points shy of qualifying for the NCAA Zone Championships.
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The Retrievers will host Navy in their 2007-08 home-opener on Saturday with the men’s meet slated to begin at 12:00 p.m. and the women’s at 2:30 p.m.