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Tricia Weaner                  Class: Senior Hometown: Gettysburg, Pa. High School: Gettysburg Area Height: 5-6 Position: Student Assistant Club: West Shore YMCA (Coach Mike Gobrecht)

Career Best Times
50y free	24.28
100y free	52.03
200y free	1:50.06
500y free	4:54.91
1000y free	10:19.76
100y fly	56.86
200y fly	2:00.16
100y back	53.71
200y back	1:55.08
200y IM	2:01.70
400y IM	4:23.14

2009-10: Swam the sixth fastest time in UT history in the 200y back (1:55.55) at the SEC Championships to finish sixth...Also ranks eighth on the top performers list in 200y fly after a time of 2:00.16 at the conference championships...Qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 100y and 200y back, and 200y fly...Took fifth in the 100y back at the Tennessee Last Chance Meet...Had three top-five finishes against Florida, including a second-place finish in the 200y back...Took third in the 200y back and fourth in the 100y back and 100y fly at Virginia...Finished third in the 100y back at Georgia and LSU...Placed runner-up in the 100y back and 200y back against South Carolina...Opened the season up at Louisville with a victory in the 200y back...Never finished below fifth in any event against a conference opponent.

2008-09: Swam a leg on the third-place and UT-record-setting 200y medley relay (1:36.82) team at the NCAA Championships...The relay had the highest finish ever of any Tennessee relay at the national championships and earned the Gettysburg, Pa., native her second-straight All-America honor in the event...Also competed in the 100y and 200y backstrokes at NCAAs as well as on the 400y medley relay team which set a new UT record (3:32.61) in the prelims...Swam a career-best time of 1:55.08 in the 200y back at the Last Chance Meet in Knoxville to qualify for the national meet...Competed on the fourth-place 400y medley relay at the Southeastern Conference Championships...Also finished 11th in the 100y back, clocking a career-best 53.71 readout, and 13th in the 200y back at the conference championships...Captured victory in the 200y back in the regular season finale at Florida...Swam a leg on the victorious 200y medley relay versus Georgia...Snagged first on the 200y medley relay and second in the 200y back at the Indiana quad in January despite missing over two months recovering from an injury...Placed first in the 100y back and was on runner-up 200y medley relay versus Arkansas/Vanderbilt...Ranks second on the Lady Vol all-time performers list in the 200y back and third in the 100y back...Named to the SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll.

2007-08: Earned All-America honors as a member of the 10th-place 200y medley relay at the NCAA Championships...Also competed at NCAAs in 200y IM, 100y back and 200y back...Her national meet time of 1:57.46 in the 200y back was a career best and placed her 24th...Swam the leadoff leg of third-place 200y medley relay that set the school record of 1:38.09 at the SEC Championships...Also scored points at SEC Championships in the 400y medley relay (5th), 100y back (10th), 200y back (12th) and 200y IM (14th)...Her times in the 200y IM (2:01.70) and 100y back (54.92) were season-bests...Led six victorious 200y medley relays...Named to the SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll.

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL: Touched in at 2:17.93 to claim 40th in the 200m back and finished 71st in the 100m backstroke with a time 1:05.15 at the 2010 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships...Swam the 100m back (1:03.77) and 200m back (2:16.60) at 2009 ConocoPhillips USA National Championships...Competed at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials, finishing 40th in the 100m back (1:03.35) and 49th in the 200m back (2:16.61).

HIGH SCHOOL: Earned eight All-America awards and five state championships at Gettysburg Area High School...Won the 100y back event at the state championships from 2004-07, along with the 100y fly in 2006...Was named the Outstanding Swimmer of the Meet in 2006 at the state championships...Is the state record-holder in the 100y back and the YMCA national record-holder in the 100y, 200y, 100m and 200m backstroke events...Won 11 YMCA National Championships...Competed in the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials...In 2004, Weaner was named the U.S. Open Champion in the 100m back and a member of the U.S. National Junior Team...In the same year, she was ranked 89th in the world in the 100m back and 46th in the 200m back...Competed at the 2007 U.S. Nationals and the U.S. Open...Named the U.S. ConocoPhillips Swimmer Rookie of the Meet in 2003...Was a member of the National Honor Society, Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD), Student Unity and the Student Council.

PERSONAL: Pursuing a double major in finance and enterprise management...Aspires to make the USA National Team...Her biggest thrill in swimming was participating in the Olympic Trials...Has a sister, Emily, 18...Tricia Elizabeth Weaner was born on April 11, 1989, in Hanover, Pa., to Bob and Sue Weaner.