Lake Forest College Sports Information
February 15th, 2002 
Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID

Men and Women Both in Third After Day One of MWC Championship
Tate, Estes, Woods and Boarini each win events
  

Dana Tate (top), Randi Estes (middle)  and Eric Boarini each defended their conference championship performances from last year on Friday.
APPLETON, WI - The Lake Forest College swimming & diving teams are competing in the Midwest Conference Championship Meet this weekend (February 15-17th) and, after the first of three days of competition, both the men and women are in third place. Grinnell College leads both competitions and both the men and women from host Lawrence University are in second.

Lake Forest junior Dana Tate (Appleton, WI/Appleton East) started the Foresters off on the right foot by winning the first event of the meet, the 1-meter diving competition, with a total score of 346.70.

After the Foresters finished sixth in the women's 200-yard freestyle relay, senior Randi Estes (LaBelle, FL/Riverdale) won the 500-yard freestyle with a season-best time of 5:14.60. Junior Erin Motzer (Libertyville, IL/Libertyville) and sophomore Celeste Plautz (Downers Grove, IL/Downers Grove South) finished fifth and sixth, respectively, behind Estes.

Junior Erin Poynter (Fort Collins, CO/Ft. Collins) took sixth place in the 200-yard individual medley and freshman Emily Woods (Signal Mountain, TN/Girls Prep) became the second Lake Forest swimmer to touch the wall first when she won the 50-yard freestyle in 25.24 seconds.

The men's 200-yard medley relay finished in third place, as did junior Brandon Johnson (Phoenix, AZ/Brophy) in the first individual event, the 500-yard freestyle. Placing just ahead of Johnson was senior Joe Zemaitis (Scottsdale, AZ/Horizon), whose time of 4:48.83 was just a tenth-of-a-second slower than his own school record time. Junior Anthony Laurino (Wichita, KS/Wichita East) finished sixth.

Sophomores Aaron Lawlor (Vernon Hills, IL/Libertyville) and Jeremy Koop (Newton, KS/Newton) placed seventh and eighth, respectively in the 200-yard individual medley and the first Forester male to win an event this year was junior Eric Boarini (Wadsworth, IL/Carmel), who defended his title in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 21.70. Sophomore Joe Isaacs (Shorewood, MN/Breck) finished eighth in the meet's shortest event.

Both 400-yard medley relay teams finished in third place to close out the first day of competition.

Prelims on Saturday will begin at 10:00 AM. The women's 3-meter and men's 1-meter diving competition will start approximately an hour after the completion of prelims. Finals in Saturday's swimming events will commence at 6:00 PM. Those events include the 200-yard medley relay, 400-yard individual medley, 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard breaststroke, 100-yard backstroke and 800-yard freestyle relay.

Meet Results: Women / Men