University of Richmond Athletics
2013-14 Year in Review
03/25/2014 | Women's Swimming & Diving
2013-14 Swimming and Diving Year in Review
Head Coach: Matt Barany
Conference Finish: 1st of 10
Dual Season Record: 9-4
- The Spiders captured their fourth-straight Atlantic 10 Conference Swimming and Diving Championship, the 12th in the past 13 seasons.
- Matt Barany was named the Conference's Women's Swimming and Diving Coach of the Year.
- Richmond senior Mali Kobelja was Most Outstanding Performer at the A-10 Championships, her third consecutive season winning that honor. She finished her career winning 11 of her 12 individual races (with one second-place finish) and swimming a leg of 16 relay wins with the Spiders… 237 individual points and part of 640 team-relay points in four years.
- Senior Mali Kobelja and junior Allison Titley were named to the Atlantic 10 Academic All-Conference Team
- The Spiders scored 645.5 points as a team, over 150 points better than the second-place finisher.
- Richmond went five-for-five in the team relay events, using eight different swimmers in the relays.
- All three Richmond divers scored in both the 1m and 3m events for the first time since 2003.
- 16 Richmond swimmers scored points, with every scoring member of the team logging points in more than one event.
- 16 team members (swimmers or divers) scored 10 or more points.
- Spiders won eight medals (first, second or third place) and 23 times made a final in an event.
- The senior class, with all five graduating this May, won four A-10 Championships in their career.
- Freshman diver Irina Chiulli competed at the NCAA Diving Zones, making her way to the finals of the 3m spring board event, finishing 15th, the highest finish for a Richmond diver in recent years. Chiulli also set a new school record with 310.06 in the 3m, and won seven dual meets.
- The Spiders captured five Swimmer of the Week honors, with Kobelja winning on 1/28, 1/21, 1/14, 11/26 and 10/23, and Chiulli earned the three Rookie of the Week honors, on 11/13, 1/14 and 1/21.
- In the regular season, the Spiders won nine of 13 dual matchups and finished third of nine teams at the Patriot Invitational last November.
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