Feb. 23, 2004
ATLANTA – The Georgia Tech men’s swimming and diving team will travel to Charlottesville, Va., for the 2004 Atlantic Coast Conference Championships hosted by Virginia at the Aquatic and Fitness Center. The eight-team Men’s ACC Championships will be held Wednesday through Saturday, Feb. 25-28 at the AFC. Admission to the championship is free of charge.
“This is what we’ve been training for all season long,” said head coach Seth Baron. “Virginia looks to be the heavy favorite heading into the championship meet, but you never know. I think our guys are excited about the opportunity to compete against some very stiff competition.”
Preliminaries for the championship will be held Thursday through Saturday and will begin at 11:00 a.m. (there are no prelims on the Wednesday of each championship). Finals will commence at 7:00 p.m. daily. One-meter diving preliminaries will be held approximately 90 minutes after the conclusion of swimming prelims on the Thursday of both the women’s and men’s meets with finals the same evening. Three-meter diving prelims will take place approximately 90 minutes after Friday’s second day of swimming prelims with finals being held on the fourth and final night (Saturday) of the respective championships.
Junior Jeremy Raines is the only returning ACC champion for the Yellow Jackets. Raines captured the 100-yard backstroke at last year’s meet with a school record time of 48.72.
Sophomore Sam Morgan has the only NCAA ‘B’ cut time this year for Tech in the 1650 freestyle. Morgan will compete in the mid-to-distance freestyle events for the Jackets.
The entire meet can be followed on www.ramblinwreck.com.
