FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 15, 2004
Contact:  Dwayne Hanberry, SCAC Assistant Commissioner, Communications

Trinity Men and Women sweep 2004 SCAC Swimming and Diving titles
Van Der Kar and Land three-peat as Swimmers-of-the-Year; Greshowak repeats as Diver-of-the-Year

CLEVELAND, Miss. - The Trinity Tigers' men and women both won the team titles late Saturday at the SCAC Swimming and Diving Championships held at Delta State University.

Each team claimed its fourth championship in six years of SCAC swimming competition. It was the fourth consecutive year that a single program has swept both men's and women's titles. DePauw University's men and women won both championships last year and Trinity doubled up in 2000 and 2001.

Trinity's men won this year with 881 points to DePauw's 773. The Tiger women scored a SCAC championship meet record 1,030 points to 736 for the University of the South-Sewanee.

Trinity senior Ryan Van Der Kar was named SCAC Male Swimmer-of-the-Year for an unprecedented third straight year. Van Der Kar won the 500-yard freestyle, the 400-yard individual medley and the 200-yard butterfly and also swam on the winning teams for the 400-yard medley relay and the 800-yard freestyle relay.

Junior Elizabeth Land of the University of the South-Sewanee won SCAC Female Swimmer-of-the-Year honors - also an unprecedented third straight time. Land won three individual events this weekend - the 1,650-yard freestyle, the 500-yard freestyle and the 200-yard freestyle - to lead the UOS Tigers to a second place finish. She also swam on the winning teams for the 200-yard and the 400-yard freestyle relays.

As for the diving competition, Jill Greshowak, a sophomore from Hendrix College, won her second-consecutive SCAC Female Diver-of-the-Year honor while Dustin Schulten, a freshman from Centre College, claimed SCAC Male Diver-of-the-Year honors.

-SCAC-