Swimming - W | 3/14/2015 10:32:00 PM

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Freshman Adrian VanderHelm finished eighth in the 100-yard freestyle and the Simon Fraser University women's team placed 12th overall after the final day of the NCAA Division II National Swimming and Diving Championships Saturday in Indianapolis, IN.
 
The women's team accumulated 110 points over the five day competition and improved by six places on last year's 18^th placing. Simon Fraser trailed West Florida in 11^th spot with 117 points and 10^th place Lindenwood with 160 points.
 
Queens (NC) won the women's championship with 540 points.
 
VanderHelm, the first Clan male swimmer to qualify for the NCAA national championships, finished eighth in the 100-yard freestyle in 44.41 seconds. Thiago Sickert of Nova Southeastern won the race in 43.18.
 
Earlier in the week VanderHelm finished second in the 200-yard freestyle to become the Clan's first All-American from the men's program.
 
Senior Nicole Cossey, who finished second last year in the 100-yard freestyle, was 14^th on Saturday after narrowly missing the "A" Final during the preliminaries. Cossey was ninth overall after the preliminaries, missing the "A" final by two one hundreds of a second. She swam the prelim in 50.68 while the eighth place swimmer, the last to make the "A" cut finished in 50.48.
 
Cossey placed 14^th after swimming the consolation final in 51.02.
 
"There were a lot of international swimmers in the event this year and it was a really competitive race," said Clan coach Liam Donnelly.
 
SFU freshman Meaghan Frenks placed 23rd in the 200-yard Breaststroke on Saturday.
 
The Clan foursome of Cossey, sophomore Lauren Swistak, senior Alex Schofield and freshman Sidney Peake finished 12^th in the 400-yard freestyle relay after placing fourth in the consolation final.
 
Junior diver Elizabeth Durward was 19^th in the three-metre competition, finishing with 402.90 points. Elizabeth Rawlings of Wayne State was first with 555.70 points.
 
VanderHelm, Justin Kiedrzyn, Saveli Yungman, Gabriel Lee, Dimitar Ivanov from the men's side and Cossey, Nam and Swistak from the women's team will be competing at Canada's selection competition for the World University Games (Korea), the World Championships (Russia) and the Pan American Games (Canada) in Toronto from April 1-4.