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Swimming tallies All-American awards

Emily Albrent
March 29, 2012

The men’s and women’s swim and dive teams took home several All-American honors at the 2012 NCAA Div. III meet on Saturday. The women’s team tied for 28th place overall, while the men tied for 32nd. Women Senior Nicole Dorvinen participated in five events at Nationals, two of which were relays.... Read more »

Life of a D-3 athlete

Debora Biasutti
March 15, 2012

Student athlete. That’s how UW-Eau Claire Athletic Director Scott Kilgallon defines the nearly 560 students who are involved with a Div. III sport at the university. “I’m a big believer in that if you have your academics on top, you are going to be able to focus on your athletics,” Kilgallon... Read more »

Swimming suits up for conference

Alex Zank
February 16, 2012

Thursday marks the start of the biggest competition of the swimming and diving season for UW-Eau Claire, where both the men’s and women’s team will compete with the other schools in the conference. At the end of the season, the annual Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference men’s and women’s... Read more »

Swim teams have record-setting day

Frank F. Pellegrino
February 2, 2012

The men and women’s swimming and diving teams hosted their final dual meets against UW-Whitewater last weekend. It was the last chance for graduating swimmers to compete in front of a home crowd at McPhee Center. Coach Art Brandt said everyone just wants to be in the best condition possible heading... Read more »

AthElites: Nicole Dorvinen

November 3, 2011

Nicole Dorvinen described herself as “crazy” more than once when she sat down for her AthElites interview.   She is vice president of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee, the Mortar Board National Honor Society Treasurer AND Social Chair, and the National Society of Leadership and Success Membership’s... Read more »

Swimming, diving compete at nationals

Thom Fountain
March 25, 2010

The UW-Eau Claire swim and dive teams headed to Minneapolis this weekend for the NCAA Division III Championship and returned with a handful of broken school records. The events took place Wednesday through Saturday at the University of Minnesota’s Aquatics Center, with preliminary rounds in the... Read more »