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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.



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Date Athlete Sport
10/30/2023 Drew Scheib Men's Swimming & Diving
10/23/2023 Mike Atanasoff Men's Swimming & Diving
10/23/2023 Madisen Pavoris Women's Swimming & Diving
10/16/2023 Emma Pickering Women's Hockey
10/16/2023 Tommy Scarfone Men's Hockey
10/10/2023 Jacob Marrer Men's Rowing
10/9/2023 Jessie Gomez Women's Soccer
10/2/2023 Sydney Neff Women's Volleyball
10/2/2023 Derick Koen Men's Cross Country
9/25/2023 Elena Onodera Women's Soccer
9/25/2023 Grahith Movva Men's Tennis
9/18/2023 Derick Koen Men's Cross Country
9/18/2023 Kira Kronenberg Women's Tennis
9/11/2023 Olivia Harris Women's Soccer
9/11/2023 Joshua Price Men's Soccer
9/5/2023 Randy Dickersbach Men's Soccer
9/5/2023 Katie Cobos Women's Cross Country
5/8/2023 Justin Jantzi Men's Track & Field
5/8/2023 Marinna Heichberger Women's Track & Field
5/1/2023 Zoe Heffernan Women's Lacrosse
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