Navy Totals Three Weekly League Swimming and Diving Awards

Griffin, Meyer and Olson receive awards after Army-Navy meets

	Adam Meyer

Dec. 4, 2007

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Members of the Navy swimming and diving programs totaled a trio of weekly awards from the Patriot League Tuesday in recognition of their respective performances during last week's Army-Navy meets. Adam Meyer (So., Bethesda, Md.) was tabbed as the league's men's swimmer of the week, while Katie Griffin (Sr., Ellicott City, Md.) and Olaf Olson (Fr., Bainbridge Island, Wash.) were selected as the league's divers of the week.

Meyer and Olson both earned their respective award for the third time this season, while Griffin picked up her fifth weekly nod of the year.

Meyer set records during each of his three individual events last week against the Black Knights. He recorded wins in the 200 butterfly with a time of 1:58.86 and the 200 individual medley with a clocking of 2:01.66 and placed second by eight-hundredth of a second in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:15.63. His clocking in each event set new Navy metric pool records, while he established new Lejeune Hall and Army-Navy metric meet records in the 200 fly and 200 IM. Additionally, his 200 fly time was an NCAA 'B' cut qualifying time.

Following the completion of the Army-Navy meet, Meyer traveled with several teammates to Atlanta to take part in the American Short Course National Championship. There, he missed qualifying for the 'C' level final in the 200 breaststroke by two places and six-tenths of a second. His time of 2:03.35 in the event ranks ninth in Navy history.

Griffin, who has now been tabbed as the women's diver of the week by the league 18 times during her career, won both boards against Army to improve to a combined 22-0 on the season. She posted winning scores of 277.05 on the one meter and 304.05 on the three meter.

The two wins pushes her career total of victories in Army-Navy meets to five, which is the second-most wins recorded by a Mid in Army-Navy series history and the third-highest tally by any female diver in the series.

After posting a score of 263.63 to place third on the one meter during the Army-Navy meet, Olson recorded 342.00 points to win the three-meter event by 19.05 points. The win improves his record on the three meter this season to 8-3 and he is now a combined 13-8 on the two boards this year.

The Navy programs will continue their regular seasons in January. The men's team will next compete Jan. 5 in Annapolis against Harvard, while the women's team will play host to Cornell and Yale, along with the Navy men, one week later in Lejeune Hall.