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Holy Cross men's swimming and diving
team finished the season with a 5-3 record, which is its
best finish in recent years. The Crusaders placed seventh
with 254 points at the 2002 Patriot League Championships
held at Navy in Annapolis, Md., while setting 10 new school
records. The women's team finished 5-4 overall and
eighth with 198 points at the Patriot League Championships.
The men's top swimmers included, Mike Emmons '03
(Middleboro, Mass.) and Scott Rimm '04 (Potomac, Md.)
who both captured bronze medals in 500-freestyle and 200-freestyle
respectively at the Patriot League Championships. The 200-freestyle
relay team (1:27.03), 400-freestyle relay team (3:11.59)
and 400-medley relay team (3:34.34) all set new school records,
while Emmons broke four individual school records in 500-freestyle
(4:38.11), 100-freestyle (0:52.05), 100-butterfly (0:52.05)
and 200-butterfly (1:53.62). Rimm set two individual records
in 200-freestyle (1:42.43) and 100-backstroke (0:53.74) and
Steve Finocchi '02 (North Attleboro, Mass.) broke the
50-freestyle record with a time of 0:21.59.
On the women's side, Laura Brennan '04 (Eglin
AFB, Fla.) broke the 50-freestyle school record with a time
of 0:24.34. For the second straight season, Holy Cross diver
Kim Rinaldi '02 (West Boylston, Mass.) was named the
Patriot League Diver of the Meet after winning both the one-
and three-meter diving events. Crusader diving coach Brian
Boyer also was named the Patriot League Diving Coach of the
Year for the second straight season.
Rinaldi, who dominated the diving events all season, scored
259.35 points in the one-meter diving competition and 452.15
points in the three-meter diving competition, breaking the
meet record set by Julia Bell from Army in 1996 (446.90).
This marks only the fourth time in Holy Cross history that
a Crusader has won two events at the Patriot League Swimming
and Diving Championships.
Carolyn Pucko '04 (Webster, Mass.) finished second
in one-meter diving with 247.35 points. This is the first
time in school history Holy Cross captured gold and silver
in an event at the Patriot League championships. Both Rinaldi
and Pucko qualified for Zone A - District I and II trials
in 1-meter diving, which were be held at Navy on March 15
and 16. Rinaldi also competed in 3-meter diving trails.
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