Paguia Leads Terriers At America East Championships
February 20, 2005 | Men's Swimming & Diving
BALTIMORE, MD-Senior Victor Paguia became the first diver in America East Conference history to be named the Most Outstanding Diver in all four years of competition to highlight the performance of the Terrier men's swimming and diving team at the Conference meet hosted by UMBC on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Feb. 18-20.
In the process, Terrier diving coach Agnes Miller was named the Conference's Diving Coach of the Year. This marks the fourth straight year she has been so honored. In 2002, 2003, and 2004, she was the Conference's Men's Diving Coach of the Year, while she was also the Women's Diving Coach of the Year in 2003.
Paguia (Lake Forest, IL) earned his accolades after winning both the one- and three-meter dives. His score in the former was 325.40, while he tallied 546.40 points in the three-meter event.
Paguia's two first-place finishes earned the Terriers 40 points. In all, B.U. finished with 489 points, which placed them fourth in the competition. Host UMBC won its second straight team title with 920 points. In just their second year of competition in America East, the Retrievers coasted to a 309-point victory, as Binghamton was second with 611. Stony Brook was third with 570 points, followed by the Terriers, New Hampshire (346), and Maine (323).
While Paguia was the lone Terrier to take a first-place finish, junior Mike Kelly (Shrewsbury, NJ) was the team's top point producer with 45 points. The Terriers' premier sprinter, he finished fourth in the 50 (:21.37), 100 (:47.11), and 200 (1:43.82) freestyle.
Sophomore Griffin Moodie (Edina, MN) also accounted for multiple points, as he was third in the 100 breaststroke (:59.49), sixth in the 100 fly (:53.20), and ninth in the 200 breaststroke (2:12.97). In all, he provided 38 points to the Terrier cause with 16 in the 100 breaststroke, 13 in the 100 fly, and 9 in the 200 breaststroke.
Sophomore Michael Bear (Arlington, VA) added 16 points for the Terriers with an eighth-place finish in the 400 IM (4:28.44) and a 12th-place in the 500 free (4:52.64).
Finally, senior Chris Collins (Phoenix, AZ) turned in a :57.45 in the 100 backstroke to finish eighth and to give the Terriers 11 points.
