Vanderpool-Wallace

Published On:Friday, March 19, 2010

By RENALDO DORSETT

Tribune Sports Reporter

rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

ARIANNA Vanderpool-Wallace has a busy three days ahead of her as she competes along with seven other Auburn Tiger teammates at the NCAA Division 1 Women's Swimming & Diving Championships.

Vanderpool-Wallace will swim three individual events and is likely to swim three relays over the three-day meet.

She will swim the 50 yard and 100 yard freestyle and the 100 butterfly. She enters the meet as the SEC champion in the 100 free and 100 fly and is seeded 3rd and 10th respectively in these events at these championships.

In the preliminaries she swam the lead off leg of the 200 yard freestyle relay and posted a time of 22.27.

In the final, Vanderpool-Wallace, alongside Caitlin Geary, Hannah Riordan, and Melissa Marik, finished sixth in the A final in 1:28.80s.

Vanderpool Wallace finished ninth overall and third in the B final of the 50 yard freestyle in a time of 22.32s.

Vanderpool-Wallace and teammates Melissa Marik, Ava Ohlgren and Micah Lawrence swam to a first place finish in the B final of the 400 yard medley relay in a time of 3:34.08s.

At the end of one, the Tigers sat in seventh position with 49 points. Georgia leads the field with 112 points, Stanford second with 108.5, California - 98, Texas A&M - 76 and Florida - 75 round out the top five.

Vanderpool-Wallace competes today in the 100m fly, entering with the 10th fastest time of 52.55s and also as a member of the 200m medley team.

The NCAA Division 1 Women's Swimming & Diving Championships continue through Saturday.