Day 1 - Prelims

The NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving Championships began early this morning in Canton, Ohio.  The Vulcans began the meet with Georgia Emert in the 200 individual medley.  Emert finished in 27th place impriving her time and school record time by a half a second with a time of 2:09.48.  Following Emert was Melissa Gates in the 50 yard freestyle.  Gates was seated second going into the event and is now seated 5th going in to finals tonight.  She swam a time of 23.50 this morning and is ready to swim faster this evening.  As Gates says “I’m going to Run This Town Tonight!”  The last event was the 200 medley relay.  Swimming was Georgia Emert, Cailtyn Sirkoch, Ester Bosch, and Melissa Gates in a time of 1:48.01 and finishing in 23rd place.

Melissa Gates is the only swimmer who will be swimming this evening in the 50 yard freestyle.  Competition begins at 6:00pm.