Get to Know a Swimmer: Lizzy Buckley

Today's swimmer du jour is freshman Elizabeth Buckley:

Name: Elizabeth Buckley
Nickname: Lizzy
Class Year: 2012
Hometown: Springfield, VA
Favorite Event: 100 Free
Favorite Hobby: Sleeping [...Sometimes through practice...-ed.]
Favorite Food: Ice Cream - coffee ice cream from Estes
Favorite R-MC Swimming Memory: Riding a massive Dino turtle
Favorite TV Show: House
Favorite Quote: "I love lamp." -Brick

Get to Know a Swimmer: Corinne Campbell

Our swimmer of the day today is sophomore Corinne Campbell. Corinne was the ODAC champion in the 200 butterfly as a freshman, and holds the R-MC school and pool records in the event.


Name: Corinne Campbell
Nickname: Naked Girl....for appropriate reasons
Class Year: 2011
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Favorite Events: 200 Fly, 100 Fly
Favorite Food: Seafood!
Favorite TV Shows: Every Caps game, The Office
Favorite Movie: Forrest Gump
Best R-MC Swimming Memory: Having my brothers surprise me by showing up for the exciting W&L meet.
Favorite Quote: "Kick his ass sea bass!" ~Dumb & Dumber

Congratulations to Us

By "us" I mean the 07-08 team, which was just recently named to the College Swimming Coaches Association of America's Division III Academic All-American team list for the Spring 2008 semester. The Academic All-American list honors those squads whose combined GPA is above 3.0. Our ladies combined for a very respectable 3.21 average last spring, and were among the 70 D3 women's programs to receive the honor. R-MC was one of only two ODAC programs named to the list. This is further proof that our swimmers strive to achieve excellence both in the pool and in the classroom.

The press release and complete list of schools can be found here: http://www.cscaa.org/

Get to Know a Swimmer: Lara O'Brien

Today we profile our freshman from the Lone Star State, the very first Texan to put on an R-MC swim cap, Lara O'Brien:


Name: Lara O'Brien
Nickname: Tex
Class Year: 2012
Hometown: Sugar Land, Texas
Favorite Events: 200 Breast, 1000 Free, Mile
Favorite Hobbies: Baking and the ever popular facebook stalking
Favorite Food: Estes Dining Hall. Just as a whole - delicious every day. Especially if you like stale cereal for dinner.
Favorite R-MC Swimming Memory: Keeping the team up until 4 am on my recruiting trip so that I could make my 6 am flight home.
Favorite Color: Green
Favorite TV Shows: South Park and Lost
Favorite Movie: Zoolander
Favorite Quote: "I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is." - Derek Zoolander

Get to Know a Swimmer: Lindsey Reid

Today we profile junior Lindsey Reid, a 3-time conference finalist who, as you will see below, is a great team player!














Lindsey (center) at the 2008 ODAC Champs.

Name: Lindsey Shafer Reid
Nickname: Mom (for the team)
Class Year: Junior
Hometown: Glen Allen, VA
Favorite Event: Whatever Ben decides for me to swim!
Favorite Hobby: Singing
Favorite Food: Cereal and Chocolate milk
Favorite R-MC Swimming Memory: Winning ODACs as a freshman!
Favorite TV Show: Jon and Kate plus 8
Favorite Movie: The Big Green
Personal Motto: Just work hard and something good will always come from it, even if it's not what you expected.