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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
3/24/2003 Noel Camardo Men's Tennis
3/10/2003 Pat North Wrestling
3/10/2003 Matt Knodel Baseball
3/10/2003 Michael Stanton Men's Basketball
3/3/2003 Jennie Nicholas Women's Hockey
2/24/2003 Pat North Wrestling
2/24/2003 Heidi Spalholz Women's Track & Field
2/17/2003 Mike Tarantino Men's Hockey
2/17/2003 Lauren Long Women's Basketball
2/10/2003 Alysia Park Women's Hockey
2/10/2003 Ryan Fairbarn Men's Hockey
2/10/2003 Elaine Vonderembse Women's Hockey
2/3/2003 Allison Griggs Women's Track & Field
2/3/2003 Mike Bournazakis Men's Hockey
2/3/2003 Peter Kaemmerlen Men's Swimming & Diving
1/27/2003 Bradford Johnson Men's Track & Field
1/27/2003 Jen Miazga Women's Basketball
1/20/2003 Christina Ermie Women's Basketball
1/20/2003 Tyler Euverman Men's Hockey
1/13/2003 Karli Couchman Women's Basketball
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