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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
1/10/2005 Sean Murphy Men's Basketball
1/10/2005 Kasie Strong Women's Hockey
1/10/2005 Erik Zelbacher Men's Swimming & Diving
10/21/2003 Michael Lawson Men's Soccer
10/21/2003 Sarah Ballard Women's Volleyball
10/14/2003 Adam Cross Men's Cross Country
10/14/2003 Dani Fisher Women's Volleyball
10/7/2003 Jeff Abbott Men's Cross Country
10/7/2003 Jennifer Hume Women's Tennis
10/1/2003 Chris Anabel Women's Volleyball
10/1/2003 David Chachu Men's Tennis
9/23/2003 Sara Kula Women's Tennis
9/14/2003 Mallory Frost Women's Soccer
9/9/2003 Chris Schauerman Men's Cross Country
5/11/2003 David Thering Men's Lacrosse
5/11/2003 Shari McNamara Softball
4/27/2003 Marty Maynard Baseball
4/27/2003 Erin Canfield Women's Track & Field
4/27/2003 Zach Bednarz Men's Lacrosse
4/21/2003 Luke Faxon-St. Georges Men's Tennis
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