March 14-16, 2002
Sines is All-American Again
Klag Nearly Makes Finals in 200 Breast

OXFORD, OH -- Junior Stacy Sines (Wilmington, DE/Mt. Pleasant) earned All-American status for the second consecutive season in the 200 freestyle Friday at the NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships hosted by The College of Wooster and held at Miami (OH) University. Sines and sophomore Margaret Klag (Silver Spring, MD/Sherwood) represented the Shorewomen at the event which began Thursday and concludes tonight.

Sines swam a 1:55.33 in Friday's preliminaries of the 200 freestyle to earn a berth in the finals and assure herself of All-American status. In the finals, she lowered her time to 1:55.27 and finished 14th. She entered two other events, finishing 31st in 5:11.38 in the preliminaries of the 500 freestyle on Thursday and 33rd in 53.81 in the preliminaries of the 100 freestyle this morning. Sines was an All-American in the 200 and 500 freestyles last year and has now become the first Washington College swimmer to earn All-American status on three occasions.

Klag missed qualifying for the finals in the 200 breaststroke by three places and .58 seconds in this morning's preliminaries. She finished 19th in 2:26.02. The top 16 swimmers from the preliminary round qualify for the finals; the 16th-place finisher in the 200 breast completed the race in 2:25.44. Yesterday, she finished 21st in the preliminaries of the 100 breaststroke (1:07.63) and two days ago she swam a lifetime-best 25.42 to finish 52nd in the 50 freestyle preliminaries.

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