{"id":21586,"date":"2013-03-24T18:02:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T22:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=21586"},"modified":"2013-03-24T18:02:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T22:02:23","slug":"svensson-finishes-50th-in-100-back-at-2013-ncaa-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/03\/svensson-finishes-50th-in-100-back-at-2013-ncaa-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Svensson Finishes 50th in 100 Back at 2013 NCAA Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sophomore\u00a0<strong>Emma Svensson (Upsala, Sweden\/Celsiusskolan)<\/strong>\u00a0of the FGCU swimming and diving team, took 50<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0place in the 100-yard backstroke preliminaries at the 2013 NCAA Division I Women\u2019s Swimming and Diving Championships on Friday at the IU Natatorium.<\/p>\n<p>The sophomore finished with a time of 55.31 as the top 16 times qualified for the finals of the event. Rachel Bootsma of California finished first in the event with a time of 50.75.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Svensson had a memorable season, garnering Most Outstanding Female Performer of the Meet at the 2013 CCSA Championship, winning the 50-free, 100-free and 100-back events.\u00a0 Her times in the 50-free and 100-free qualified for NCAA \u201cB\u201d cuts.\u00a0 She was a member of the 200-medley relay that set a meet and Conference record and qualified for NCAA \u201cB\u201d cuts, and anchored the 400-medley relay that finished first.<\/p>\n<p>She set multiple records in the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard backstroke, and was a member of the 200-yard freestyle relay, 200-yard medley relay and 400-yard medley relay that also set program records.<\/p>\n<p>The Upsala, Sweden native will be back in action tomorrow, March 23 when she competes in the 100-yard freestyle competition on the final day of the NCAA Championships<\/p>\n<p>Fans can get updates and information on FGCU swimming and diving by visiting\u00a0<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fgcuathletics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.FGCUATHLETICS.com<\/a>\u00a0or by following the team on twitter\u00a0<strong>@FGCU_WSwim<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophomore\u00a0Emma Svensson (Upsala, Sweden\/Celsiusskolan)\u00a0of the FGCU swimming and diving team, took 50th\u00a0place in the 100-yard backstroke preliminaries at the 2013 NCAA Division I Women\u2019s Swimming and Diving Championships on Friday&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}