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Erik Zelbacher

  • Award
    Athletes of the Week
  • Week Of
    2/20/2006
  • Sport
    Men's Swimming & Diving
  • Bio
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Senior Erik Zelbacher set three individual records and was part of two relay team records at the 2006 UNYSCSA Championships. Zelbacher recorded a NCAA "A" cut time of :20.26 seconds in winning the 50-yard freestyle on Thursday. He broke his previous record of :20.98 set last season. Earlier in the day, Zelbacher recorded a time of :20.35 in the preliminaries. On Friday, he crushed his previous record of :50.25 in the 100-yard butterfly, this time winning the event in a meet record and NCAA qualifying time of :48.69 seconds. He record a time of :49.36 in the prelims earlier in the afternoon. Saturday, he broke the school record by winning the 100-freestyle in :44.91. He actually swan a :44.82 in the prelims earlier in the day.

The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Zelbacher, Ken Kania, Tyler Morrison and Jon Scibilia set a Tiger record of 1:25.03 in the preliminaries. In the finals, the relay team almost equaled the time, finishing fourth in 1:25.11. The time broke a 12-year old record by nearly three seconds. Zelabher was part of the 400-free team with Scibilia, Morrison and Phil Baudoin that recorded a record breaking time of 3:08.61.



Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
12/29/2008 Amanda Klassen Women's Hockey
12/8/2008 Andrew Favot Men's Hockey
12/8/2008 Sharon Dennis Women's Basketball
12/1/2008 Mark Carson Men's Basketball
12/1/2008 Kylie Mazzetta Women's Hockey
11/24/2008 Matt Crowell Men's Hockey
11/24/2008 Kelly Votolato Women's Basketball
11/17/2008 Sharon Dennis Women's Basketball
11/17/2008 Mark Carson Men's Basketball
11/10/2008 Luke Baum Wrestling
11/10/2008 Shireen Irani Women's Hockey
11/3/2008 Steve Rois Men's Swimming & Diving
11/3/2008 Caitlyn Burr Women's Swimming & Diving
10/27/2008 Bret Dietz Men's Soccer
10/27/2008 Sandra Grant Women's Hockey
10/20/2008 Mike Brindak Men's Cross Country
10/20/2008 Emily Traversi Women's Soccer
10/13/2008 Alan Smith Men's Soccer
10/13/2008 Arielle Januszkiewicz Women's Cross Country
10/6/2008 Sara Paduano Women's Tennis
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