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2010 All-Ivy Swim

Three Swimmers Earn All-Ivy Honors At Championship Meet

3/17/2010 6:04:48 AM

ITHACA, N.Y. -- With three Ivy League individual swimming crowns comes first-team All-Ivy honors, and the Big Red men's and women's swimming teams each took home at least one gold medal during the 2010 meets.

Spinazzola set five school records at the championship meet, including winning the 100 back on day two of the event. After earning second-team All-Ivy honors earlier in the day with a 54.09 swim in the finals of the 100 fly, the sophomore captured her first conference title with a 54.53 in the finals of the 100 back to edge out Yale's Emily Dominski (54.80). The time was an Ivy and meet record mark and also was an NCAA B cut time. For the women, it is the first Ivy champion since Jessica Brockman captured the 100 butterfly in 2005-06, which was the first time in 10 years a Cornellian took home a title at the meet. On the strength of Spinazzola's win in the 100 back, as well as a second in the 100 fly, fifth-place in the 100 free.

On the men's side, Michael Cai (200 breast) and Dean Holcomb (400 IM) took home championships over the final two days of the meet.

Cai's 1:57.17 in the 200 breast was an NCAA B time and broke his own school record set last year at the Ivy championshop by more than a second and a half. He remains the only Cornellian to post a sub-2:00 time in the event. Cai also set a school record in the 200 IM, with his time of 1:48.26 shaving .03 of Nick Campbell's time from 2009.

Holcomb won the 400 IM with an NCAA B cut time of 3:52.94, nearly a second faster than runner-up Ryan Kikuchi of Brown and two seconds ahead of Holcomb's record that sat at 3:54.77 from last year's Ivy championship. Additionally, Holcomb was a second-team All-Ivy honoree in the 200 butterfly. 1:48.30 swim in the 200 butterfly lowered his own career-best time by .2 seconds, good for third all-time at Cornell.
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