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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
10/10/2005 Bonnie Harriman Women's Volleyball
10/10/2005 Kevin Smith Men's Cross Country
10/3/2005 Simon Lambert Men's Hockey
10/3/2005 Christina Anabel Women's Volleyball
9/26/2005 Jorge Ciurlizza Men's Soccer
9/26/2005 Jen Rynda Women's Soccer
9/19/2005 Trisha Sliker Women's Cross Country
9/19/2005 Jared Burdick Men's Cross Country
9/12/2005 Lindsey Brady Women's Tennis
9/12/2005 Leigh Bryson Women's Tennis
9/12/2005 Nate Lowe Men's Cross Country
9/5/2005 Jared Burdick Men's Cross Country
9/5/2005 Trisha Sliker Women's Cross Country
9/5/2005 Emily Traversi Women's Soccer
8/29/2005 Katie Werner Women's Volleyball
8/29/2005 Geoff Schmidt Men's Soccer
8/29/2005 Brittany Peters Women's Soccer
5/9/2005 Rob Ogborne Baseball
5/9/2005 John Foley Men's Lacrosse
5/9/2005 Trisha Sliker Women's Track & Field
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