Mary Washington senior Lorena de la Garza finished 11th in the 200 yard butterfly with a time of 2:07.46 to capture All-America status for the fourth straight year, leading the contingent of Capital Athletic Conference competitors at the 2008 NCAA Division III Women's Swimming and Diving Championships in Miami, Ohio.

de la Garza finished 11th in the 200 yard butterfly with a time of 2:07.46 to become the third athlete in any sport in Mary Washington history to earn All-America status for four years.  She joined former swimmer Mariah Butler and tennis player Lea Schon as the only four-year All-Americans in school history

Also on Saturday, UMW freshman Sarah Crockett finished 30th in the 200 yard backstroke with a time of 2:09.96.

On Thursday, Crockett finished 42nd in the 500 yard freestyle with a time of 5:16.11, and on Friday, finished 19th in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:54.68. De la Garza finished 21st in the 100 yard butterfly with a time of 59.05.

Rachel Hotchko (Yakima, Wash./A.C. Davis), a St. Mary's sophomore butterflier and freestyler, also represented the CAC at the 2008 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. 

Thursday, Hotchko finished 44th in the 50 freestyle event with a time of 25.34.  She had entered the preliminaries ranked 43rd.  Friday, Hotchko placed 29th in the 100 butterfly event with a time of 59.97 after entering the field seeded 20th by virtue of her NCAA provisional time of 58.28 that she swam in capturing the same event at the 2008 Capital Athletic Conference Championships.

Hotchko took 25th in the 200 fly in 2:15.26 on Friday, her last day of competition.  She had gone into the preliminaries seeded 22nd.  Hotchko owns the school record in the 200 fly as she set that mark at the 2008 CAC Championships where she finished second in the event with her school record time.