SEWANEE'S CHAPMAN AND LAND HIGHLIGHT SOUTHERN COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC
CONFERENCE'S 15TH ANNIVERSARY WOMEN'S SWIMMING
& DIVING TEAM
SUWANEE, Ga. - Sewanee's Jane H.
Chapman and Elizabeth Land highlight an
impressive list of past standouts named to the Southern Collegiate
Athletic Conference's 15th Anniversary women's swimming and diving
team.
Chapman's career at Sewanee began just as the
conference adopted swimming as an official conference sport and for
her four years on the Mountain, no one dominated their sport like
she did. Her first three years in the league, Chapman earned SCAC
Swimmer-of-the-Year honors. She won a record 11 individual titles
during her career and still holds championship meet records in the
100 butterfly and the 200 individual medley. As a further
indication of her dominance at the conference championships,
Chapman still owns a top five time in six different events. An
All-America selection in both 1999 and 2000. Chapman was recognized
on the all-anniversary team for her accomplishments in the 100
freestyle and 200 individual medley.
Land took the torch from Chapman and quickly
established herself as the league's best swimmer upon her arrival
on the Mountain in 2002. Just as Chapman had done before her, Land
won three consecutive SCAC Swimmer-of-the-Year awards (2002-04) and
her 10 individual titles ranks second all-time in league history -
just one behind Chapman. For three consecutive years, Land swept
the 200 freestyle, 500 freestyle and 1,650 freestyle events - an
accomplishment unequaled in SCAC swimming history - and still holds
the all-time championship record in the 500. She is recognized on
the all-anniversary team for her performances in those three
events.
Also making the 15th anniversary team were Amy
Allen, Julie Culbertson and Katie
Reis of DePauw University, Jill Greshowak
of Hendrix College, and Jessica Isenberg,
Christy Jayne, Christina Pikla
and Stephanie Walla of Trinity University.
Allen, the 2002 SCAC Co-Swimmer-of-the-Year,
earned an anniversary team nod for the 100 butterfly - an event she
won in 2002 and 2003. Allen won five individual conference titles
in her career and was an All-American for DePauw in both 2002 and
2003. Fellow Tiger Culbertson earned three wins in
the 100 breaststroke (2000, 2001 and 2003) - the event that earned
her all-anniversary recognition. With all five of her individual
conference titles earned via the 100 or 200 breaststroke,
Culbertson can lay claim to being the discipline's most prolific
performer. And like Allen, Culbertson was an All-American in 2002
and 2003. Along with Allen and Culbertson, Reis
led DePauw to its only conference title at the 2003 Championships.
Reis won four consecutive titles in the 100 backstroke from
2000-2003 and she is recognized on the all-anniversary team for her
performance in that event. Her six individual conference titles
ranks fourth all-time in SCAC history and is best among DePauw
swimmers. She is the only female swimmer in DePauw history to earn
All-America honors in three different years (2001, 2002, 2003).
Named to the all-anniversary team for her performance for both
1-meter and 3-meter diving, Greshowak is the only
active student-athlete to be so honored. The three-time reigning
SCAC Diver-of-the-Year, Greshowak has more individual conference
titles (5) than any diver in league history. The junior holds the
scoring record for both diving events which was established at last
year's championships.
Trinity placed the most student-athletes on the all-anniversary
team with four selections. Isenberg earned a nod
on the team with her performances in the 50 freestyle - an event
she won twice and finished second two other times. A 2005
All-American and winner of five career individual conference
titles, Isenberg set the SCAC meet record in the 50 free and 100
free last year. Jayne is one of just three members
of the all-anniversary team team to earn recognition for multiple
events. Recognized for her performances in the 200 breaststroke and
400 individual medley, Jayne earned seven individual conference
titles in her career (third all-time in SCAC history), including
four consecutive wins in the 400 IM. She is one of only two
multi-year All-Americans (1999, 2001) that Trinity has produced and
the only one in the SCAC era. Trinity's Pikla was
honored for her performance in the 200 butterfly. She won the 200
fly twice (2001, 2002) in her career and finished second as a
senior in 2004. An All-American in 2001, she has the second-fastest
time in the event in SCAC championship competition.
Walla won the 200 backstroke three times in four
years (2001, 2003-04) and finished her career with four individual
conference titles. A 2001 All-American for Trinity, Walla also
added a first-place finish in the 100 back to her resume in
2004.
The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference will be announcing 15th
Anniversary teams in all 18 sports during the 2005-06 academic
year. The SCAC was formed in 1991 after a reorganization of its
predecessor, the College Athletic Conference (CAC). The CAC dates
to 1962 with four charter members: Centre College, Southwestern @
Memphis (now Rhodes College), Sewanee-The University of the South,
and Washington & Lee (Va.) University. Washington (Mo.)
University joined the CAC later that same year.
The SCAC was formed to provide an association through which the
member institutions may encourage organized competition in
intercollegiate sports among teams representative of their
respective student bodies. Members of this conference share a
commitment to priority of the overall quality of academic standards
and quality educational experiences.
The SCAC's 15th Anniversary teams were selected in each sport
through balloting by present coaches and administrators. Athletes
who participated in conference competition between the fall of 1991
through the spring of 2005 and had been named to at least two
All-SCAC teams were eligible for selection.
|
15th Anniversary Team |
SCAC Championship Event Finishes | |||||||
| Event | Name, School | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
| 50 Free | Jessica Isenberg, Trinity | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | |||
| 100 Free | Jane H. Chapman, Sewanee | 1st# | 1st# | 1st# | 1st | |||
| 200 Free | Elizabeth Land, Sewanee | 1st# | 1st# | 1st# | ||||
| 500 Free | Elizabeth Land, Sewanee | 1st# | 1st# | 1st# | 1st | |||
| 1650 Free | Elizabeth Land, Sewanee | 1st# | 1st# | 1st# | 2nd | |||
| 100 Fly | Amy Allen, DePauw | 1st# | 1st | |||||
| 200 Fly | Christina Pikla, Trinity | 1st | 1st | 2nd | ||||
| 100 Back | Katie Reis, DePauw | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | |||
| 200 Back | Stephanie Walla, Trinity | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 1st | |||
| 100 Breast | Julie Culbertson, DePauw | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 1st | |||
| 200 Breast | Christy Jayne, Trinity | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | |||
| 200 IM | Jane H. Chapman, Sewanee | 1st# | 1st# | 1st# | ||||
| 400 IM | Christy Jayne, Trinity | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | |||
| 1M Dive | Jill Greshowak, Hendrix | 1st% | 1st% | 1st% | ||||
| 3M Dive | Jill Greshowak, Hendrix | 2nd% | 1st% | 1st% | ||||
# Swimmer-of-the-Year
% Diver-of-the-Year