The Capital Athletic Conference will send nine swimmers, including seven from the University of Mary Washington and two from St. Mary's College (Md.), to the 2010 NCAA Division III Championships March 17-20 at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center.

UMW will send two men and five women while St. Mary's will have two women compete in the national championship meet.

The UMW men will send junior Stephen Clendenin (Ashburn, Va., Home Schooled) and freshman Nick Eckhoff (Williamsburg, Va., Jamestown), while the women will send junior Sarah Crockett (Toano, Va., Lafayette), senior Nina Michelle Sawyer (Warrenton, Va. , Liberty), junior Adriana Lesiuk (Bensalem, Pa., Nazareth ), freshman Cameron Figuers (Cary, N.C., Cardinal Gibbons), and sophomore Megan DeSmit (Bridgewater, Va. , Turner Ashby).

St. Mary's will be represented by senior Rachel Hotchko (Yakima, Wash./A.C. Davis) and freshman Kelly Heyde (Wilton, Conn./Wilton).

Clendenin, the two-time CAC Men's Swimmer of the Year and 2008 CAC Rookie of the Year, will compete in the 400 IM, the 200 butterfly, and the 200 backstroke, while Eckhoff, the 2010 CAC Men's Swimming Rookie of the Year, will swim in the 500 freestyle, the 400 IM, and the 200 backstroke.

For the women, the Eagles will swim the 200 free relay, the 200 medley relay, the 400 medley relay, the 800 free relay, and the 400 free relay.

Individually, Crockett will compete in the 500 freestyle, the 200 freestyle, and the 200 backstroke; Sawyer will swim in the 200 IM, the 100 fly, and the 100 backstroke; Lesiuk will swim the 50 freestyle, the 100 fly, and the 100 freestyle; Figuers will compete in the 400 IM and 200 breaststroke; and DeSmit will compete in the 200 IM, the 100 breaststroke, and the 200 breaststroke. 

Crockett is the 2008 CAC Women's Swimming Rookie of the Year and 2010 CAC Women's Swimmer of the Year.  DeSmit is the 2009 CAC Rookie of the Year.

For SMC, Heyde, the 2010 CAC Women's Swimming Rookie of the Year, will compete in the 200 butterfly, 200 IM and 400 IM while Hotchko will swim in the 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle and 100 butterfly.