Kimura Named Golden Tiger of the Week

Gainesville, GA- Junior swimmer Lucianne Kimura (Mogidas Cruzes, SP-Brazil) has been named Golden Tiger of the Week for the week of Feb. 16-23 for her performance in the Appalachian Swimming Conference Championships last weekend at Marshall University in Huntington, WV. Kimura won the only gold medal for the Tigers with a school record 2:12.04 in the 200 Back and followed that up with another record 1:02.68 in the 100 Back. She also participated in five different relay teams, three of which broke records.The 200 Free Relay team of Kimura, Julia Ferreira, Mairi Morrison and Ana Galesic finished 3rd with a record breaking performance and that same group came back in the 400 Medley to finish 6th at 4:14.93, another record. Lucianne teamed up with Galesic, Morrison and Lauren Harville to place 4th in the 800 Free in a record breaking 8:23.24. Kimura, Ferreira, Morrison and Galesic also took two 4th places in the 200 Medley and 400 Free in times of 1:57.74 and 3:48.37 respectively. Coach Gabby Matthews was ecstatic about the performance of Kimura and the entire team as they finished in 5th place out of the 14 schools in attendance. The team will now prepare for the NAIA National Championships to be held in St. Charles, MO in two weeks.