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North Carolina Claims Nike Cup Championships

Nov 18, 2001

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - North Carolina's men's and women's swimming and diving teams eased to the Nike Cup swimming and diving championships Friday night at the Maurice J. Koury Natatorium.

The Tar Heel women won the title comfortably with 874 points. Virginia Tech edged LSU for second place 639 to 637.5. In the men's competition the Tar Heels won with 875 points to 764 for runnerup LSU. Carolina's lead was so large that the Tar Heels still won by over 100 points even after Carolina's A and B 400-yard freestyle relays were disqualified on the final event of the meet.

North Carolina senior Katie Hathaway capped a brilliant meet by winning her fourth individual event on Saturday night and doing so in Nike Cup record time. Hathaway won the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:12.83, breaking her own Nike Cup mark of 2:13.87 set in 1999. Hathaway won individual championships this weekend in the 200 IM, 400 IM, 100 breast and 200 breast. Sophomore Jessi Perruquet had another brilliant swim as she won the 100-yard freestyle in 49.96 seconds, giving her a third individual championship of the meet. She also won the 50 free and 200 free, the latter in school record time. Both Hathaway and Perruquet also swam on UNC's winning 400-yard free relay which capped the meet. Sophomore Kelly Weeks won the title in the 200-yard butterfly for Carolina as she clocked a 2:01.35.

On the men's side, junior Stephen Krebs walked away Saturday night with the three-meter diving championship as he totaled 580.50 points. Tar Heel junior Judd Glasco captured the Nike Cup title in the 1650-yard freestyle in 15:27.11, less than four seconds off his career best time. However that time was done when the Richmond, Va. native was shaved and rested making his performance Saturday all the more remarkable.

Several other Tar Heels had runnerup finishes on the last night of competition. Senior Molly Sullivan finished second in the women's 1650-yard freestyle, sophomore Yuri Suguiyama finished second in the men's 1650-yard freestyle, freshman Kathleen Quinn finished second in the women's 200-yard backstroke and senior Kevin Erndl finished second in the men's 100-yard freestyle.