The Virginia men's swimming and diving team finished the season by placing 13th at the NCAA Swimming Championships held in East Meadow, N.Y. over the weekend.
Three Cavalier swimmers -- seniors Ian Pritchard and Luke Wagner and junior Michael Raab -- earned first-team All-American honors by finishing among the nation's top eight swimmers in their respective events. Pritchard grabbed fourth place in the 1,500-meter freestyle to record the team's highest finish and his personal best finish in an NCAA championship meet. Pritchard was named a first-team All-American for the third consecutive year.
Wagner's All-American title stemmed from his seventh-place finish in the 200-meter backstroke and Raab's from a fifth-place finish in the 200-meter butterfly.
Virginia also had three swimmers named as honorable mention All-Americans. Sophomore Fran Crippen and freshman John Millen were honored for placing in the nation's top 16 in the 1,500-meter freestyle, while freshman Vania Roguli earned a tenth-place finish in the 200-meter breaststroke with a time that was just one hundredth of a second behind the eighth-place finisher.
Senior Adam Kerpelman, junior Bo Greenwood and freshman Stefan Hirniak were the other Cavalier swimmers who qualified to compete in the NCAA championship meet, but failed to advance beyond preliminary competition. Hirniak garnered a 23rd place finish in the 200-meter butterfly, while Wagner finished 23rd in the 200-meter backstroke. Kerpelman competed in the 400-meter freestyle relay.
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