Kristen Jahn (Wonderlake, IL/McHenry) competed in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Women's Swimming and Diving Championship, hosted by Macalester College at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis March 20-21.
She swam the 100 breaststroke Friday morning (March 20),finishing eighteenth in the field of thirty-six, with the top sixteen advancing to Friday night's finals. Jahn's time was 1:05:32. The top time in the prelims was turned in by Tracy Menzel of Kenyon College, 1:03.05. Jahn will also compete in the 200 breaststroke Saturday in the NCAA III championship.
Saturday morning (March 21) Jahn swam the 200 breaststroke, finishing twenty-seventh in the preoiminaries with a time of 2:25.34, breaking the UW-Whitewater record of 2:25.41 she set at the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship at the Schroeder Aquatic Center in Brown Deer, Wisconsin exactly one month ago. The top time in the prelims was turned in by Annie Perizzolo of Claremont Mudd Scripps Colleges in 2:19.60. The top sixteen in each event advance to the finals Saturday night.
NCAA III championship web site (psych sheets, results, schedule, tickets, more)
audio interview with Kristin Jahn and UW-W head coach Joel Rollings
Animoto Video
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Jahn will compete in two events, the 100 and 200 breaststroke. Jahn will compete on Friday, March 20 in the 100 breaststroke and Saturday, March 21 for the 200 breaststroke. She set school records in both events, and the 50 breaststroke (which is not a NCAA event) at the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship February 19-21 at the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center in Brown Deer, Wisconsin. Jahn placed second in the 100 in 1:04.52, and then added a fourth place finish in the conference meet in the 200 in 2:25.41. Her school best in the 50 is 29.96.
Jahn also helped UW-W set school records in the 200 medley relay (1:49.48) and 400 medley relay (3:58.65) at the WIAC championship.
Jahn's time in the 100 is fourteenth on the psyche sheet. Emily Roberts of Calvin College owns the top time of 1:02.72. Last year's champion in the 100 was Tracy Menzel of Kenyon College with a time of 1:04.78, and the NCAA III record is 1:02.04 set by Kaitlyn Orstein of Washington and Jefferson. Jahn's 200 time is forty-eighth in the field. Moira Price has the top entry at 2:16.42, and Alisa Vereshchagin of Kenyon won the event last year in 2:20.74. Orstein also holds the D3 record in the 200 breaststroke, 2:16.29.
The top eight finishers, individual events and relays, earn first team All-America honors, and places 9-16 earn honorable mention recognition.
Jahn is making a bid to become UW-W's first member of the women's swim and dive team to earn All-America honors since diver Jan Hebert accomplished the feat in 1984. Shannon George (Fort Atkinson/Fort Atkinson), a member of last year's team, earned Academic All-America honors from the College Sports Information Directors of America last year.
For additional information: Joel Rollings, UW-W coach
