{"id":21590,"date":"2013-03-24T18:05:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T22:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=21590"},"modified":"2013-03-24T18:05:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T22:05:39","slug":"svensson-places-31st-in-50-free-at-2013-ncaa-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/03\/svensson-places-31st-in-50-free-at-2013-ncaa-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Svensson Places 31st in 50 Free at 2013 NCAA Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sophomore\u00a0<strong>Emma Svensson (Upsala, Sweden\/Celsiusskolan)<\/strong>\u00a0of the FGCU swimming and diving team, took 31<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0place in the 50-yard freestyle preliminaries at the 2013 NCAA Division I Women\u2019s Swimming and Diving Championships on Thursday at the IU Natatorium.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The sophomore finished with a time of 22.56 as the top 16 times qualified for the finals of the event. Margo Greer of Arizona finished first in the event with a time of 21.73.<\/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 22 when she competes in the 100-yard backstroke and will finish up Saturday, March 23 with the 100-yard freestyle competition.<\/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 31st\u00a0place in the 50-yard freestyle preliminaries at the 2013 NCAA Division I Women\u2019s Swimming and Diving Championships on Thursday&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\/21590"}],"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=21590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}