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Women's Swimming & Diving
Love Tabbed 2008 NWSWCAA Scholar Athlete
Love Earns First-Team All-America Status In 200 Backstroke
Love Honorable Mention All-American In 100 Backstroke
Love Earns Honorable Mention All-America Status
Love Advances To Consolation Finals of 50 Freestyle
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The Vassar College Swimming & Diving program has embarked on an epic resurgence that was highlighted by both teams 2006-2007 performances. The program has become much stronger over the last several seasons, improving overall team finishes and rewriting the College record books. During the 2006-2007 campaign, a total of 11 College records were reset, one of which reset the NYSWCAA conference mark in the 200 backstroke (2:03.32). Standout Emily Love '09 (South Windsor, CT/S. Windsor) competed in the 2007 Women's NCAA Championships in Houston, Texas. Love finished her season as a 2-time All America selection in the 100 (57.96) and 200 backstroke events. Love is the first swimming All-American in Vassar College history and joins three former Vassar Swimmers and Divers to qualify for NCAA's.
All Vassar College Swimming and Diving team members are committed to improvement. The Vassar swimmers and divers train daily from September until February with water and dry-land workouts. Water training focuses on quality work and is event-specific. Dry-land training includes strength and power training with the use of weights and plyo-metric exercises, as well as considerable flexibility and core body strength work. An early January training trip allows the team to get daily, double long-course meter sessions. This past year the team traveled to Islamorada, Florida and the experienced swimming in the Keys region. While in Florida, the team competed in the annual Orange Bowl invitational, a meet that was covered by Swimming World Magazine (March edition '07), which featured an article listing the event winners, in which Emily Love's name appeared as the winner of the women's 100 backstroke. The teams vary at the invitational and include some Division I and II competition.
Team members are successful in and out of the water. Each season Vassar has numerous finalists and semifinalists at the Seven Sisters, New York State and Liberty League championships. In addition to strong athletic performances, they are perennial academic honorees both on an individual basis within the Liberty League, the NYSWCAA, and on a team basis by the College Swim Coaches Association. This past season, both teams were recognized as Academic All America selections.
An important factor in Vassar's success has been the program's ability to attract top scholar-athletes. Conferences and associations routinely include Brewer athletes in both academic all-conference as well as all-conference lists. Practice begins in late September and is held daily, with players attending unless there is an academic conflict. Athletes are generally in the pool for two to three hours; combined with preparation and post-practice activity, the total commitment is about three hours a day.
For more information about women's swimming and diving at Vassar, please contact:
Head Coach Lisl Prater-Lee
Box 750
Vassar College
124 Raymond Ave.
Poughkeepsie NY 12604
(845) 437-7461 (W)
(845) 437-7033 (F)
E-mail: lipraterlee@vassar.edu
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