While the swim season may have been over for most of the women’s swimming and diving team, one meet remained for three Princeton athletes — the 2010 NCAA women’s swimming and diving championships, held March 18–20. Senior Alicia Aemisegger, sophomore Meredith Monroe and freshman Bryna Tsai traveled to Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., to compete in the year’s final meet after helping lead Princeton to its ninth Ivy League championship in 11 years.
The NCAA championship meet was the final competition for Aemisegger in her storied college career. Aemisegger holds eight individual Princeton records, 13 All-America honors and 12 Ivy League individual championships and was named the GoPrincetonTigers.com Female Athlete of the Decade this year.
“This is my last meet,” Aemisegger said before the competition, “so I’m really excited with what’s going to happen, with what could happen. I think the 400 IM is my best bet and my favorite event, but it’s the most competitive, so my best bet will be the mile [1,650-yard freestyle], I think.”
In the NCAA championships, Aemisegger swam in the 500-yard freestyle on Thursday, the 400-yard individual medley on Friday and the 1,650-yard freestyle on Saturday. She entered all three events ranked in the top six nationally and lived up to expectations, finishing in the top five in each race.
Aemisegger opened the meet by racing in the 500 free on Thursday. After earning the third-fastest time in the preliminaries, she swam a Princeton-best 4 minutes, 37.58 seconds in the finals to take fourth place. The mark set another Princeton record and gave Aemisegger the 11th All-America honor of her career.
On Friday, Aemisegger received her 12th All-America honor, courtesy of her fifth-place finish in the 400 IM. She wrapped up the meet on Saturday in the 1,650 free. Her time of 15:57.02 was good enough for second place behind Georgia’s Wendy Trott, the defending national champion.
Head coach Susan Teeter called Aemisegger’s performance “a wonderful way to end an outstanding collegiate career.”
Monroe was competing in the NCAA championships for the second time. She competed in the 100- and 200-yard backstroke. Monroe was the Ivy League champion in the 200 back this year and finished 42nd in the country in the 100 back and 35th in the 200.
Tsai had a successful freshman season, and her contributions in the one- and three-meter boards helped Princeton win the 2010 Ivy League championship. She competed in her specialty event — the platform diving competition — on Saturday, and earned an All-America honorable mention by finishing 15th in the competition.
The impressive finishes of Aemisegger and Tsai contributed to Princeton’s 18th-place overall finish in the NCAA championships. Princeton was the only non-scholarship school to finish in the top 20, wrapping up a solid season with a stellar performance against the nation’s best.
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