• Day 1 Preliminaries
• Day 1 Finals

CANTON, Ohio (March 10) – Sophomore Melissa Gates (Lancaster, Pa./Conestoga Valley) posted an All-America finish in the 50 freestyle and freshman Georgia Emert (Lancaster, Pa./Hempfield) broke her own school record in the 200 IM on Wednesday in the first day of the 2010 NCAA Swimming National Championships at the C.T. Branin Natatorium.

Gates became the sixth different swimmer in school history to earn individual NCAA All-American honors, as she finished fourth overall in the finals of the 50 freestyle with a time of 23.32 seconds. In the preliminaries of the event, Gates posted a time of 23.50 seconds to place fifth overall in a field of 62 swimmers. Last season, the Lancaster native earned All-America Honorable Mention in the 50 freestyle after placing 11th in the finals.

Emert finished with a time of 2 minutes, 9.48 seconds in the 200 IM, eclipsing her previous school record set last month at the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championships by 49 hundredths of a second (2:09.97).

Emert and Gates were also members of the Vulcans' 200 medley relay that set a season-best time on Wednesday. The relay of Emert, freshman Caitlyn Sirkoch (Plum, Pa./Plum), graduate student Ester Bosch (Barcelona, Spain/Universidad Ramon Illull) and Gates touched the wall in 1:48.01 to finish 23rd overall. The time ranks as the fourth fastest in school history in the 200 medley relay.

After the first day of competition, defending-champion Drury is in first place in the team standings with 156 points while Wayne State (Mich.) is in second with 143 points. PSAC powerhouses Clarion and West Chester are currently third and fourth with 72 and 70.5 points, respectively.

CAL U INDIVIDUAL ALL-AMERICANS
2003 - Sandra Buehler (500, 1000, 1650 Freestyle)
2005 - Petra Zavadilova (100, 200 Butterfly)
2008 - Ester Bosch (100, 200 Freestyle)
2009 - Ester Bosch (200, 500 Freestyle)
2009 - Marianne Juhl (1650 Freestyle)
2010 - Melissa Gates (50 Freestyle)