Lake Forest College Sports Information
March 10th, 2001 Contact: Scott Rucker, SID Jie Li Wins 100-Yard
Backstroke at NCAA National Meet
Junior Jie Li (Gurnee, IL), the Foresters' lone representative in the championship, won the 100-yard backstroke on Friday (March 9th) and finished fourth in the 200-yard backstroke on Saturday (March 10th). Her time of 56.73 in the 100-yard backstroke was just six one-hundredths of a second slower than the national meet record. Li became the first female swimmer in school history to win an event at the national meet. Lake Forest's Chris Carlo ('80) and Lynn Adami ('83) won national titles in diving in 1980 and 1982, respectively. Li is the 27th Forester female swimmer or diver to earn All-American honors and the first since Kim Makar, who did it as a senior in 1998. The last Forester male to win an event at the national meet was Daniel Tarkowski ('95) in 1994.
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