By: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference office
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. – Former Colonels Meredith Angel, Colleen Maggard, Lis Starr and Clark Weber have been named to the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference's 30th Anniversary women's swimming & diving team, the league announced today.
Centre was a charter member of the SCAC until joining the Southern Athletic Association in 2012.
Angel earned a slot on the all-Anniversary team with four all-conference performances in the 50 freestyle, including first-place touches three consecutive years from 2007-2009. She still holds the record for the fastest time in the 50 at a SCAC championship meet, which she set in 2009. Angel finished her career with five individual SCAC titles, is one of just two swimmers in conference history to win the 50 three times and earned Honorable Mention all-American honors in the event in 2010.
Maggard, who is currently Centre's assistant coach, earned All-SCAC honors in each of her four years swimming the 100 backstroke, which included first place finishes in 2009, 2010 and 2012. One of just three swimmers in league history to win the event three or more times, Maggard still holds the fifth-fastest time in SCAC championship meet history. She finished her career with eight individual titles which is tied for sixth all-time.
Starr is one of just three swimmers in league history to earn All-SCAC honors four times in both the 100 and 200 butterfly. She is one of just two swimmers to win the 100 fly three times, taking top honors in 2006, 2007 and 2009. At the national level, Starr earned all-American honors three times, first at the 2007 NCAA Division III Championships, claiming Honorable Mention all-American accolades in the 100 fly. Starr then closed out her career as a Colonel at the 2009 national championships, receiving Honorable Mention all-American honors in both the 100 and 200 fly. The 2009 SCAC Swimmer-of-the-Year, Starr finished with four individual league titles which is tied for 31st in SCAC history.
Weber, the conference's Swimmer-of-the-Year in 2012, was a two two-time All-SCAC honoree in both the 1,650 and 500 freestyle – the events in which she received all-anniversary recognition. She earned gold medal status with first place finishes in both the 1,650 and 500 free in 2011 and 2012. Weber still holds the fastest and third-fastest time in SCAC championship meet history in the 1,650 and the second and fourth-fastest in the 500. In the 1,650, she claimed Honorable Mention all-American status at the 2011 NCAA Division III Championships before stepping up to the all-American podium in 2012 after finishing sixth. Weber closed out her SCAC career with six individual titles, tied for 14th in conference history.
The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference will be announcing 30th Anniversary teams in 21 sports throughout the 2020-21 academic year. The league selected 15th Anniversary teams during the 2005-06 academic year – those selections can be found
here. The SCAC's 30th Anniversary teams were selected through balloting by present coaches in each sport as well as administrators. Athletes who participated in conference competition between the fall of 2005 through the spring of 2020 and had been named to at least two All-SCAC teams and/or were a selected as a Player-of-the-Year in their respective sport were eligible for selection.
The SCAC was formed in 1991 after a reorganization of its predecessor, the College Athletic Conference (CAC). The CAC dates to 1962 with four charter members: Centre College, Southwestern @ Memphis (now Rhodes College), Sewanee-The University of the South, and Washington & Lee (Va.) University. Washington (Mo.) University joined the CAC later that same year.
