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Mustangs Have Several Top Finishes At NAIA Nationals
 Nichole Hagerty, a junior from Spearfish, S.D., has been named a 2006 Daktronics NAIA Women’s Swimming & Diving All-America Scholar-Athlete.
Hagerty has a 3.90 cumulative grade point average (GPA) with a major in biology. She is the first athlete in the history of Morningside’s swimming program to receive NAIA All-America Scholar-Athlete honors.
She finished 10th in the 200-meter breaststroke with a school-record time of 2:31.38 at this past weekend’s NAIA Swimming & Diving Championships at St. Peters, Mo. Hagerty is also Morningside’s record holder in the 100-yard breaststroke and is part of school- record holding relay teams in the 200-yard and 400-yard medley relays.
Daktronics NAIA Swimming & Diving All-America Scholar-Athletes must be of at least junior status, have a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher, and have met the NAIA national meet qualifying standard in at least one event.
Click here for the complete list of Daktronics NAIA Women's Swimming & Diving All-America Scholar-Athletes.
Mustangs Have Several Top Finishes At NAIA Nationals
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Casey McNare |
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Casey McNare had a pair of top 10 finishes during Saturday’s final day of competition at the 2006 NAIA Swimming & Diving Championships at St. Peters, Mo.
McNare finished ninth in the men’s 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:59.68 and finished 10th in the 1650-yard freestyle with a time of 17:17.41. McNare set a school-record in the 200-yard butterfly prelims with a time of 1:59.11 to break his former record of 1:59.55.
The Mustangs also had a top 10 finish from Scott Anderson, who placed seventh in the men’s 200-yard backstroke with a school-record time of 1:58.16 to shatter his former record of 2:00.77.
Morningside added an eighth place finish in the men’s 400-yard freestyle relay, where the quartet of Joe Disalvo, Troy Gaeth, McNare, and Kevin Alejo, who combined for a school-record time of 3:20.47 to shatter the former school mark of 3:31.90.
Disavlo swam a school-record time of 48.44 seconds in the 100-yard freestyle prelims to break his former Mustang standard of 49.40.
Morningside’s top performance in the women’s competition came from Nichole Hagerty, who placed 10th in the 200-yard breaststroke with a school-record time of 2:31.38 to break her own record of 2:33.68.
Kellie Harris finished 12th in the women’s 1650-yard freestyle with a school-record time of 19:01.65 to break the former Morningside record of 19:23.65 by Cori White in 2004.
Anderson placed eighth in the men’s 100-yard backstroke with a school-record time of 55.25 seconds during Friday’s competition.
Anderson broke his former Morningside record time of 55.90.
Anderson also swam for two Morningside relay teams that clocked school-record times on Friday.
He swam the leadoff leg for the Mustangs’ 400-yard medley relay team that finished seventh with a time of 3:39.02. The other members of the team were Kyle Heflin, Casey McNare, and Joe Disalvo. They shattered the former Morningside record time of 3:53.19 set in 2004.
Disalvo, Troy Gaeth, Anderson, and Kevin Alejo combined for a ninth place finish in the 200-yard freestyle relay with a school-record time of 1:31.96 to smash the former record of 1:34.63.
Morningside had a ninth place finish in the women’s 400-yard medley relay, where the quartet of Rachel Shoup, Nichole Hagerty, Whitney Turner, and Jena Scurry combined for a school-record time of 4:21.74 to break the former record of 4:24.02.
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Joe Disalvo |
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Morningside had a sixth place finish in the men’s 200-yard medley relay for its top finish during Thursday’s competition at the 2006 NAIA Swimming & Diving Championships at St. Peters, Mo.
The Mustangs’ quartet of Scott Anderson, Kyle Heflin, Casey McNare, and Joe Disalvo placed sixth with a school-record time of 1:41.31 in the finals to break the previous Morningside record of 1:41.54 set earlier this season.
Morningside added an eighth place finish in the men’s 800-yard freestyle relay with a time of 7:30.27 from the quartet of McNare, Anderson, Troy Gaeth, and Kevin Alejo.
Morningside’s top finish in the women’s competition came in the 800-yard freestyle relay, where the quartet of Whitney Turner, Kellie Harris, Rachel Shoup, and Jena Scurry finished ninth with a time of 8:26.16.
Turner had the Mustangs’ top individual finish with time of 5:27.95 for 12th place in the women’s 500-yard freestyle.
Disalvo finished 16th in the men’s 50-yard freestyle with a school-record time of 22.20 seconds to top his former Morningside standard of 22.32.
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