Panthers End Season In Record-Breaking Fashion
March 11, 2005 Complete list of UWM record-breakers and award winners below The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee men's and women's swimming and diving teams wrapped up its seasons with a reacord-breaking showing at the Horizon League Championships in late February in Brown Deer, Wis. The Panthers hosted the meet, as the women took third and the men placed fifth, while both squads combined on 20 school marks. Sophomore Lindsay Caldwell highlighted the meet, breaking three league records on her way to five league crowns and Outstanding Swimmer of the Meet honors. The West Bend native was victorious in the 50 and 100 freestyle, in the 100 breast and with both the 400 medley and free relays. While both relays eclipsed school standards, Caldwell also swam with the school-record 200 medley and free relays. Both 400 relays went on to league titles, as Caldwell was joined by junior Julie Olson and freshmen Briana Fergusson and Kristin Skiba on the medley, and sophomores Heather Sawatzki, Bridget Fargen and freshman Jessica Kelly in the freestyle relay. Olson, Fargen and Fergusson filled out the 200 medley relay, and it was Fargen, Skiba and Kelly on the 200 free. Milwaukee was also honored by the league as junior Erin Blemberg was named the League Diver of the Meet and diving coach Todd Hill was selected as the Diving Coach of the Year. Blemberg broke the UWM's record for three-meter diving in winning her first league championship. A team captain, she also finished second from the one-meter board to earn the honor. Hill mentored Blemberg and a pair of teammates in the finals from both boards, while 11 Panthers scored over the two events. Sophomore Crystal Szymanski was the team's other diver to make the finals from both boards, including the three-meter, where she took second to Blemberg and earned all-league second-team honors. Olson swam to a pair of individual school marks herself, topping her own 100 backstroke mark during the 400 medley relay. Olson also swam to a record time in the 100 butterfly, once again topping her own standard, while Sawatzki also eclipsed the former record. In addition to her first-team all-league honor for her relay showing, she was named to the league's second team in the 100 back with her second-place finish. Another prolific record-breaker was freshman Emma McKeith. The Panther rookie set school and freshman records in both the 1000 and 1650 free events. In her third distance event, she topped the UWM freshman mark in the 500 free. McKeith was not the only Milwaukee swimmer to break the 1000 school mark, as sophomore Susan Harmsen also came in under Jen Kedinger's former record. For the men, Chase Gravengood capped his prolific freshman campaign with three freshman and two school records. He topped his own school and freshman marks in the 400 individual medley, as he took second in the finals and earned All-Horizon League Second Team honors. Gravengood also eclipsed both the freshman and school standard in the 200 IM, while swimming to a Milwaukee freshman mark in the 200 fly.
Horizon League Honors
Freshman Records
McKeith
School Records
Blemberg
League Records
Horizon League Champions/All-League First Team
All-League Second Team (Runner Up)
Blemberg
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