This Is Seriously Getting Ridiculous

Alicia Aemisegger is going to cause me to lose my job… and thats not good because I like my job. A lot.

Does anybody have any fun adjectives, adverbs or slang to describe something amazing?

Because I know when I’m a beaten man and can’t come up with anything new…

Are there any other words other than annihilated, obliterated, eradicated, wiped out, killed, eliminated that one can utilize as a synonym to destroyed?

Because I need that word… and I need it now. To save my job.

That is because Alicia Aemisegger just crushed Meet and Ivy records once held by Columbia’s Cristina Teuscher in 1997 (16:16.94) and the DeNunzio Pool record (16:13.06) set by Lezlie Mix of Tennessee in 1994.

Here’s where the word would come in handy… because Alicia Aemisegger just (insert word here) it with a 15:58.57.

Yes - 15:58.57. As in - 18 seconds faster than the old Meet and Ivy marks.

No worries - I’ve got it - she “Aemiseggered” it. I’m going straight to Merriam-Webster’s and registering it.

It may just come in handy someday.

The Final Nightcap

It all comes down to this!

Can Princeton hold off the challenge from Harvard? What schools will be 3rd through 5th when the night is over? Will there be movement up and down the boards?

Will records continue to fall at record pace? Who will emerge from the 3m Diving competition?

Does Fabio really not believe it is not butter?

We’ll find out in just a few hours. Okay, maybe not on that last one.

Beijing is Beckoning

Courtesy of Trenton Times

PRINCETON TOWNSHIP — Wherever Alicia Aemisegger is swimming at an important meet — collegiate, national, international — she knows her Princeton University teammates won’t be far behind with their encouragement.

She just doesn’t know what surprise to expect next.

There have been funny e-mails. Calls in which a phone is passed around between her friends. Snacks left in her room. Even a comical sign in which her face was superimposed over a muscular body.

Aemisegger is both appreciative and motivated that her Princeton teammates are behind her attempt to swim for the U.S. Olympic team this summer, even though during her first two years in the Tigers’ program she has spent a lot of time training off-campus at her high school alma mater, Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Pa., whose head coach, Dick Shoulberg, is renowned for training national- level swimmers.

To read the complete article, please check out the Trenton Times.

About Last Night…

What a crazy night!

And just when you thought that you would be in for a pretty nice little Saturday, “Going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, but you don’t know, you don’t know if you’ll have enough time…” — the Ivies come through with a day chock full of more awesome results.

Internationals and Creamsicles

Thus far, several entities have checked in from the good ol’ United States of America. We have also finally gone global! But the question still beckons… Juneau anybody from Alaska, or from states not represented yet? What about the Hanovers, Providences and New Havens, oh my!?

State - Cities/Towns checking in
Alabama - Dothan
California - Palo Alto; Thousand Oaks; Huntington Beach
Florida - Palm Beach Gardens; Gainesville; Seabreeze
Georgia - Atlanta; Savannah
Hawaii - Honolulu
Idaho - Boise
Illinois - Chicago
Kentucky - Louisville
Maine - Greenbush
Massachusetts - Cambridge; Boston; Cape Cod
Michigan - East Lansing; Detroit
Minnesota - Minneapolis
Missouri - Kansas City; St. Louis
Montana - Havre
Nevada - “Vegas, Baby, Vegas”
New Jersey - Princeton (x2)
New York - New York City; Ithaca
North Carolina - Chapel Hill; Wilmington; Charlotte
Pennsylvania - Langhorne; State College; Philadelphia; Warminster
South Carolina - Clemson
Texas - Houston; Fort Worth
Virginia - Richmond; Virginia Beach
West Virginia - Morgantown
Wisconsin - Milwaukee

International

AMMAN, JORDAN [Great success! I used to date a girl named Jordan... really cute girl. And this post has given me the incentive to give her a call. Ivy Swimming & Diving... bringing people back together.]

BEIJING, CHINA [Sadly I never dated a girl named China... but I met Chynna Phillips back when Wilson Phillips were kinda popular... {and have just come to the realization that with such a concession - I have officially dated (time stamped, not what you are thinking) myself.}]

Send me a little comment and let me know where you are coming in from. Best comment of the day - “The U.S. looks kind of like a ‘creamsicle’.”

No fan left behind, people! So where are you chiming in from? Comment here and let me know.

Otherwise — “Pennsylvania, you’re the big winner. I’m gonna ask you a simple question and I want you to listen to me: who’s the big winner here tonight at the blog? Huh? Pennsylvania, that’s who. Pennsylvania’s the big winner. Pennsylvania wins.”

Day Two Concludes

The competition for Day Two has finished and the scores have been team standings have been updated.

We will see you tomorrow for the final day of competition.

Get some sleep, kiddies… it’s going to be a loooooonnnnnnngggggggg day.

Of complete excitement!

Princeton Powers to 800 Free Meet Record

If there ever was a statement swim to put an exclamation point on a night — the 800 Free Relay at the Women’s Ivy Championships might be it.

In a night that seemingly had result after results come for the Tigers, it was this final swim that may have been the emphatic gesture of a door slamming shut on the competition.

Coach Susan Teeter opted to go with an “All-Academic Year” team as a freshman, a sophomore, a junior and a senior competed for the Tigers. The strategy worked to perfection as the relay left the existing Meet record in its wake — blasting nearly eight seconds off of the mark set a year ago.

Justina DiFazio and Alicia Aemisegger returned from the defending record holders and joined forces with senior Brett Shiflett and freshman Meredith Monroe to establish the new mark of 7:12.53.

And in the process, the Tigers may have built an insurmountable lead going into the final day of competition.

Harvard finished the race in a time 7:21.21 — which was an NCAA “B” cut — and Penn rounded up the top-3 with a swim time of 7:27.76.

Coenen Edges Princeton’s Monroe in 100 Back

Penn’s Sara Coenen scored a big win for the Quakers as she held back a charge from Princeton’s freshman speedster Meredith Monroe.

The win came in officially at 55.52 and helped close the gap against Columbia for 3rd place.

The sophomore — who was a major threat a year ago as she burst onto the scene for a young Quaker squad — took down her first Ivy League individual championship.

The win also broke a string of successive Princeton individual victories — who had gone undefeated on the night up until the 100 Back.

Kilkuts Takes Down 100 Breaststroke

Princeton’s Courtney Kilkuts continued the Tigers’ momentum with yet another first place finish. Her time of 1:02.97 outlasted a furious charge by Columbia’s Amy Krakauer to take the title.

Kilkuts, Krakauer, Harvard’s Jaclyn Pangilinan and Columbia first-year Mariele Dunn all put forth NCAA “B” cut times.

Shiflett Bests Teuscher’s Mark in 200 Free

It was a record that was established in 1998, and before Princeton’s Brett Shiflett came on the scene it was a formidable mark.

But there is a problem with formidable records — they tend to break in magical fashion.

Such was the case today as Shiflett seemingly pulled a gear out that nobody in DeNunzio saw coming, nor expected. She pulled away from the pack and set up the date with destiny as the Teuscher mark succumbed to a brilliant swim.

In addition to besting the meet, Ivy and pool records, Shiflett will now take her “extra gear” to the NCAA’s as an automatic “A” qualifier with 1:46.51.