MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. – Senior Taylor Houseman (Rushford/Wellsville) earned All-America honors with a seventh-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke at the NCAA Div. III Women's Swimming and Diving Championships at the University of Minnesota.

In Friday's preliminaries, Houseman qualified for the championship finals with a time of 1:04.87 to break her own school record in the event. The top eight preliminary times in the 36-swimmer field advanced to the championship heat. Houseman was clocked in 1:05.13 in the finals. Houseman entered the 100-yard breaststroke with the 17th-best seed time – a 1:05.78 effort that set a school record at the SUNYAC Championships last month.

Houseman is Cortland's first women's swimming and diving first-team All-American since Laura Landry won the national three-meter diving title and finished second in one-meter diving in 1989. Houseman is Cortland's first female swimmer to earn a national top-eight finish since Cathy Humpleby placed fourth in the 200-yard backstroke in 1987. Since the 1985-86 season, the top eight finishers in each event at nationals are All-Americans and places 9-16 are honorable mention All-Americans.

Houseman will swim in the 200-yard breaststroke during the final day of the national meet on Saturday. She enters that event with the sixth-best seed time at 2:21.09.


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