ATHENS, GEORGIA – The 2015 CCSA Swimming and Diving Championships began on Wednesday with a great start for the University of the Incarnate Word women and a poor start for the men at the University of Georgia Gabrielson Natatorium. (Day 1 Results)

The UIW women are in second place after the first day of the CCSA Championships.  They dominated the three-meter diving event by taking three of the top four spots.  Kali Lents (San Antonio/Reagan HS) won the event with 304.60 points after taking second place last year.  Kimberly Foster (Spring/Oak Ridge HS) took the bronze medal with 255.65 points while Mallory Draper (Victoria/Victoria West HS) was fourth with 242.50 points.

The 200-yard medley relay team of Abigail Meyer (Austin/Bowie HS), Celeste Morgen (San Antonio/Johnson HS), Alona Kyselova (Kiev, Ukraine/Tarasa Shevchenko) and Lana Nguyen (Kiev, Ukraine/NPD) finished fourth in a time of 1:42.90 which broke the school record in the event.

The UIW men only had two events on the day and were disqualified in one of them.  The 800-yard freestyle relay team of Mehdi El Hazzaz (Casablanca, Morocco/Al Jabr), Connor Hennessy (San Antonio/Business Careers HS), Aaron Moran (Helotes/Brandeis HS) and Oleksii Morgun (Kiev, Ukraine/Vsesvit) took second in a school-record time of 6:33.22.

Florida Gulf Coast leads the women's team rankings with 205 points and the Cardinals are right behind them with 187 points.  Georgia Southern is third with 146 points and they are followed by Liberty (112), Gardner-Webb (106), Campbell (96), Virginia Military Institute (95), North Carolina-Asheville (92), North Florida (88), North Carolina A&T (74) and Howard (34).

UMBC leads the men's standings with 74 points and they are followed by Gardner-Webb (72), New Jersey Institute of Technology (60), Virginia Military Institute (56), UIW (34) and Howard (32).

The meet continues on Thursday and continues through Saturday.
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