• Day 2 Preliminaries
• Day 2 Finals

CANTON, Ohio (March 11) – The California University of Pennsylvania swimming team's 200 medley relay earned All-America Honorable Mention with a school-record time on Thursday at the 2010 NCAA Division II Swimming National Championships, hosted at the C.T. Branin Natatorium.

The relay of sophomore Melissa Gates (Lancaster, Pa./Conestoga Valley), senior Rachel Kurta (McDonald, Pa./South Fayette), freshman Caitlyn Sirkoch (Plum, Pa. / Plum) and graduate student Ester Bosch (Barcelona, Spain/Universidad Ramon Illull) broke the school record and finished 11th overall in the finals with a time of 1 minutes, 35.33 seconds. Earlier in the day, the Vulcans set the school record in the preliminaries at 1:35.60. Prior to Thursday, the school-best time was set at 1:46.13 during last season's Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championships.

Competing as individual, Bosch posted a time of 58.56 seconds in the 100 butterfly to finished 32nd overall. In the 400 IM, freshman Georgia Emert (Lancaster, Pa./Hempfield) touched the wall in 4:36.03 to place 24th overall in a field of 36 swimmers.

Emert, Gates, Bosch and Kurta combined to swim a time of 3:59.48 in the 400 medley relay, finishing 27th in the preliminaries.

In the team standings, defending-champion Drury took a sizeable lead on the second day with 343 points while Wayne State (Mich.) remains in second points with 241 points. PSAC-champion West Chester moved into third place with 155.5 points and UC-San Diego is now fourth with 142 points.