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The family of a mother of four found dead six months ago outside a bar here is asking St. Louis County police to reopen her death investigation.

The body of Stephanie Dianne Carroll, 42, of Florissant,pendants, was discovered about 8:45 a.m. on Feb. 25 in the parking lot of Meyer’s Country Cottage & Irish Pub, 4960 Parker Road. The medical examiner ruled that she died of hypothermia and acute intoxication.

Some of her relatives and Zaki Baruti,key rings, president of Universal African People’s Organization, met Thursday at the site to raise questions of whether Carroll was the victim of foul play.

Juliette Carroll, who attended with her husband, Louis Carroll Sr., said their daughter had bruises over her entire body. "When we got her clothes, they were in very good condition. Her blue jeans and sweater were in good condition. No tears, smudges, scuffs, dirt or gravel were on her blue jeans or sweater. No marks on her clothes of any type showing a fall, but her body had all these abrasions and contusions and bruises from her head to her toe. Why aren’t her clothes torn or scraped up?"

She noted,necklaces, "Our daughter was found with the top part of her body exposed. Her sweater and bra up around her neck. No coat on and no shoes. It was 15 degrees that night."

Baruti said bar employees claimed she left about 1 a.m., but a credit card found on the body had been used at 2:10 a.m. He also questioned a signature on a receipt that did not appear to be in her handwriting.

Her parents said she had been to the tavern on at least three occasions and went there that night to meet a friend she had reconnected with on Facebook. They believe someone attacked Carroll in the bathroom and left her in the parking lot.

County police spokesman Rick Eckhard,Charm pendant, acknowledged Thursday that someone representing the family had contacted the lead investigator, seeking an additional review.

"We will entertain any information that someone wants to provide to us on a case," Eckhard said. "Right now,bangles, the status of the case is closed. If that individual comes forward with information that can change the status, we have to make that decision when we see the information."

Defenses in the Central Valley will be on high alert once again this season. Defensive coordinators can expect plenty of sleepless nights as they remain on the lookout for a cast of characters as scary as they are talented.

A group of running backs the Sun-Star has dubbed The Getaway Boys.

Merced County has always been fertile ground for star running backs through the years. The list of great backs in the history of Merced High alone reads longer than Eric DeAnda’s hair. The talent in the area hasn’t dried up. Last year 10 players eclipsed the 1,money clips,000-yard mark, including three from Buhach Colony.

The names shouldn’t surprise you. Dos Palos’ Kevin Schofield and Los Banos’ Darron Brown have been on the loose for three years, terrorizing defenses from Sacramento to Bakersfield.

However,pendants, this group is more than a dynamic duo. This band of game-breakers is growing quickly.

DeAnda broke into the starting lineup midway through the season and quickly became a household name after his record-setting 307-yard, four-touchdown performance in a 33-30 win over Buhach Colony. Dallon Muse made a name for himself as part of BC’s three-headed monster, and Golden Valley’s Tyler Arnsberg is the newest member of the group as he makes the move from quarterback to running back this year.

Together the quintet combined for 6,139 yards and 66 touchdowns. You can expect even bigger numbers this year. Opposing tacklers should approach with caution.

Darron Brown

"The Delivery Man"

What can Brown do for you?

The Delivery Man doesn’t need a signature to deliver a load. Brown comes into this season with something to prove after a lower back injury sidelined him for more than a month last year.

"I don’t even know how to explain it," Brown said. "I wanted to play so bad, but I couldn’t. There was nothing I could do.

"It hurt me so bad. It’s made me want to come back this year even stronger."

Brown broke on the scene with 835 yards and 10 touchdowns as a sophomore two years ago.

He was limited to just 685 yards and five touchdowns last season.

Brown missed his frequent trips to the end zone.

"Yeah,key rings, I missed it a lot," he said. "This year I plan to be in the end zone a lot. More than five or 10 times.

"It’s all up to my offensive line."

Kevin Schofield

"The Iron Horse"

One look at Schofield and you can tell he’s no stranger to the weight room.

Pumping iron is a necessity for the workload The Iron Horse is expected to shoulder this season.

Schofield set a school record with 51 carries in a 27-14 win over Yosemite last year.

His 305 carries were 130 more than any other player in the area.

"He’s a tough football player," Los Banos coach Dennis Stubbs said. "The guy can do it all. He’s so determined and has the drive, the right attitude.

"He plays full speed no matter what the situation. I’m just as impressed with him as a person, not only as a football player."

Schofield led the county with 1,926 yards.

It’s almost as if he can find another gear when he senses the defense is getting tired.

"You can kind of see it," Schofield said. "You see their hands on their knees. They’re walking back to the huddle.

"That’s when you try to break one."

Dallon Muse

"The Fuse"

This Fly Boy can definitely ignite an offense.

With Corey Chapman (1,546 yards and 19 touchdowns) out indefinitely for a school-related disciplinary issue, Muse and teammate Jarrell Davis will be an even bigger part of the offense early on.

"When we evaluated him last year we felt because of all his contributions to their team he was their best player," Merced coach Rob Scheidt said. "Not only because of him running the ball, but also his play on defense and the intangibles he brings to their team.

"He’s a great football player."

Muse has that combination of power and speed that makes him tough to bring down.

"I used to be more of a scat back,cuff Links," Muse said. "Now I’m more of a mix.

I learned that speed isn’t always enough."

Eric DeAnda

"D-Train"

The nickname says it all.

DeAnda is built like a locomotive and isn’t afraid of contact.

"I like it," DeAnda said. "It’s kind of like a challenge. Is he going to bring me down or am I going to overpower him?"

If you look at the numbers you’ll see DeAnda rose up to the challenges.

He’s the ideal combination of power and speed. One play he’s powering his way through the line picking up tough yardage. The next he may be streaking around the end, outrunning linebackers and defensive backs.

Despite not starting until midseason, he still racked up 1,bangles,152 yards with 14 touchdowns on 135 carries.

BC coach Kevin Swartwood got a good look at DeAnda during his record-setting performance.

"I immediately thought he was outstanding," Swartwood said. "He ran hard. He hit the hole fast. He didn’t tire out. He’s a very good back."

Tyler Arnsberg

"Kid Zoom"

One look at Arnsberg’s cleats and you’ll understand why the Sun-Star has dubbed him Kid Zoom.

The GV junior had the word "zoom" embroidered on his cleats.

New Golden Valley coach Jake Messina is building his offense around Arnsberg.

Messina quickly identified Kid Zoom as the player he wants to carry the ball 15 to 20 times a game.

Arnsberg tallied 1,140 yards and 16 touchdowns on the ground as a quarterback in Golden Valley’s option attack last year.

This year he moves to tailback in a Pro Style offense.

"We want to hand him the ball, let him run downhill and give him a chance to make a cut," Messina said.

Arnsberg welcomed the change.

"I was basically another running back in the Veer anyway," Arnsberg said. "I threw the ball a little. Now running the ball is all I do. I’m real excited about the change."

In all the recent hoopla over Excess Reserves and spurious rumors over whether or not they should generate any form of interest (readers will recall a key catalyst for a surge in the market two weeks ago was the expectedly false rumor that Bernanke would announce the elimination of any IOR (Interest Paid On Reserves) rather than keeping the even current minimal 0.25% rate), everyone seems to have forgotten that old staple: the Discount Window. And probably logically so: while the Excess Reserve issue is one that deals with excess liquidity in the banking system (by definition: otherwise it would be lent out to consumers), Discount Window-related concerns deal with the opposite, or a liquidity deficiency. Logically, the two are mutually exclusive: near record excess reserves held with Federal Reserve Banks simply means that banks are not in any want for money (of any term, but most specifically ultra-short term).Looking at the Fed’s H.4.1 statement confirms that for the week ended July 29, the Fed’s Primary Credit facility (aka the current version of the Discount Window, together with the Secondary Credit and the Seasonal Credit Facility) usage has plummeted to just $11 million: a negligible number for a "rescue facility" that at the peak of the crisis saw more than $100 billion in overnight borrowings. The finding is not surprising, when considering that the rate on the Primary Credit Facility is 0.75%. As this is higher than the rate on the 2 Year Treasury, there is very little banks can do in reinvesting capital that is more expensive than even long-term funding sources. In other words, with well over a trillion in Excess Reserves, banks are becoming increasingly self-funding, at least in the medium term, and seek to disintermediate themselves from the Fed. In looking at the same problem, but from the perspective of the IOR, the Atlanta Fed concludes: "One broad justification for an IOR policy is precisely that it induces banks to hold quantities of excess reserves that are large enough to mitigate the need for central banks to extend the credit necessary to keep the payments system running efficiently. And, of course, mitigating those needs also means mitigating the attendant risks." An environment in which banks are increasingly leery of relying on the Fed for funding, irrespective of whether IOR at 0.00% or 0.25%, is not one in which consumer should expect to see any incremental lending any time soon.

The chart below shows discount window borrowings since 2007, combing the Primary and Seconady Credit facilities.

A glance at the other side, or the Fed’s "excess liquidity" liabilities, reveals that while Excess Reserves have declined by almost $200 billion since their peak of $1.227 trillion on February 24, to the current $1.045 trillion, the balance has been more than made up by the Deposits with FR Banks other than Reserves, which during the same period has more than offset the Excess Reserve decline, climbing from $45 billion to $250 billion. Indeed, as the chart below demonstrates, banks continue basking in the glow of the Fed liquidity excess, whether they collect 0.25% on this capital or not. While the $205 billion increase in the latter category deserves an analysis of its own, we will put that off to a future date.

Combining the two charts yields the following observation: there are three distinct regimes visible: the first one pre Bear Stearns, was one in which the ratio of Primary Credit Borrowings to Excess Reserves was negligible. Then, at the collapse of Bear (blue shaded area), the ratio of Discount Window Borrowing to Excess Reserves surged to over 100%, at its peak hitting 250%: this was Regime 2. However, Regime 2 promptly ended when Lehman also failed,pendants, pushing the ratio back to historical levels, as Excess Reserves took off to offset for the massive surge in Fed "assets" as part of QE 1.0. With the most recent reading, the ratio of the two is back to 0.0%.

So what happens next?

If, as Bullard expects, QE 2 is imminent, then the assets imminently purchased by the Fed will result in yet another massive offset of Excess Reserves: in other words, should QE 2.0 prove to be about $2-3 trillion, all of a sudden banks will find themselves depositing instead of $1 trillion in cash with the Fed, anywhere between $3 and $4 trillion. When one considers the FRNs in circulation are less than $1 trillion (as the other main Fed liability), and this relationships starts to get problematic. If the Fed has difficulty explaining why banks are unwilling to lend to consumers when there is over $1 trillion in cash sitting and collecting dust, or 0.25% as it is technically known, the problem gets even thornier when Bernanke (and Jamie Dimon) have to defend 4 times this number. Surely,bangles, the US consumer will demand that banks open up the spigot and provide cash to everyone no matter what their creditworthiness, simply as a result of all the excess money floating around. Will lowering the IOR to 0% at that point help? Not at all due to massive problems such a move would create in the shadow banking system. Very much contrary to expectations of lowering the IOR to 0%, Bernanke in fact provided reasons for why such a move would make no sense:

"… Lowering the interest rate it pays on excess reserve–now at 0.25%–could create trouble in money markets, he said.

" ‘The rationale for not going all the way to zero has been that we want the short-term money markets, like the federal funds market, to continue to function in a reasonable way,’ he said.

" ‘Because if rates go to zero, there will be no incentive for buying and selling federal funds–overnight money in the banking system–and if that market shuts down … it’ll be more difficult to manage short-term interest rates when the Federal Reserve begins to tighten policy at some point in the future.’ "

In other words, all those who say QE2.0 will do nothing to stimulate the economy are correct, as all such a greenlighted action would encourage is the warehousing of yet more cash by banks. And since banks have no incremental incentives to lend it out, it doesn’t matter if the Fed’s liabilities are $2.5 trillion or $2.5 quadrillion. Instead of stimulating inflation, which is the end goal, all such an action would do is to create further doubts about the stability of the dollar, which in turn, as Ambrose Evans-Pritchard discussed, is a sure way to go to hyperinflation without first passing either Go,cuff Links, or inflation. Hyperinflation: not in the sense of a pull-driven rise in prices from cheap consumer credit, but a complete collapse of faith in the monetary unit of exchange, likely predicated by a rush to physical commodities and a collapse in the paper system supporting the forced shorting of commodities such as gold. And with Treasuries yielding next to zero courtesy of the expectation of the Fed becoming the end buyer for all paper, and stocks surging to infinity, on the assumption that the Fed will not allow the failure of any risk assets, the end result will be the most divergent market in history, in which both inflation and deflation are priced at the very margins with no gray area inbetween (a theme we have been observing increasingly more often on the pages of Zero Hedge). While that may be good in the short-term for long-only holders of any asset classes, in the medium run (not to mention long), it means the end of the financial system, as the Fed will be caught in a Catch 22 whereby it needs to sustain the perception that it will print into infinity to maintain the divergence,tiffany, or else the convergence will be one of catastrophic proportions. Of course,watches, even the continued decoupling between inflation and deflation will ultimately eat away at the core of the monetary system, resulting in the complete destruction of the dollar. And with both inflation and deflation priced in at the extreme margin, the only sure alternative will be non-paper based forms of exchange. And unless someone can come up with a substitute to the 2,000 year old legacy cash alternative of gold, it is obvious what real asset class will benefit at the end, as society once again reverts from a monetary system to something far simpler, and far less encumbered by the scourge of any society that are Central Banks.

Credit: Zero Hedge

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   DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before October 22, 2010.

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II. Method of Collection

   Respondents will have a choice of either electronic or paper forms. Methods of submittal include electronic forms, and mail and facsimile transmission of paper forms.

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   Type of Review: Regular submission (new collection).

   Affected Public: Non-profit institutions; State, local,money clips, or tribal government; business or other for-profit organizations; Federal Government.

   Estimated Number of Respondents: 90.

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   Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized and/or included in the request for OMB approval of this information collection; they also will become a matter of public record.

   Dated: August 18, 2010.

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Parents and guardians equipping their children for the upcoming school year say they look for deals on supplies to save extra money for new clothes.

With schools around the region opening their doors within the next few weeks, parents and children are hitting the stores and combing the shelves for the needed gear.

Students from elementary school through high school say new articles of clothing that meet current style standards are just as crucial as new pencils and paper. For parents, that means hundreds of dollars in additional spending this time of year.

"The clothes — that’s what kills you," said Kirsten Edler, a mother of four from Maryland visiting family in Portsmouth. She said that when one of her children wants a certain brand, anything else is inadequate.

On Sunday, she was at Walmart in Rochester with daughters Hannah, 17, and Isabella, 14, to pick up some school supplies. Edler also has two sons: Ian,earrings, a first-grader, and Nicholas, a 19-year-old college sophomore. Surprisingly, she said it is more expensive to supply an elementary school student with the needed gear than it is to buy what her other children need.

Once they are old enough to work,key rings, she expects them to buy most of their own new clothes. Her college-aged son is pretty much set with his Macbook, she said, but she has to buy for her younger son paper, pencils, markers, glue, a backpack, composition books and more.

To save money, she goes through newspaper advertisements to see what’s on sale each week. For a store like Walmart that she visits regularly, she said she can hold off on buying certain items until they go on sale. There was a $4 pack of colored pencils in the store Sunday, but she refused to buy them, knowing they will be on sale later on.

"I will wait for a week because it’s a store I frequent anyway," she said.

Sophomore Isabella said she is not picky about supplies and like other high school students likes to have a little fun with them. She purchased a folder with Toy Story characters on it, and said other girls in school like things with Disney princesses on them.

"I just like to play around a little," she said.

The girls said the "Indie" clothing style is fashionable — plaids, bright colors,pendants, retro graphic T-shirts and sun dresses.

At Journeys in Newington’s Fox Run Mall, store employee Chris Musk said Vans, Converse, Osiris and Sperry Top-Siders are the hot brands right now. The top-siders are boating shoes, while the others come in diverse colors and funky designs.

"Colors attract the younger crowd," Musk said, noting it is interesting the brands and styles from decades ago "are still relevant today."

Rachel Feniger, 16, from Hampton, was in the shoe store Sunday trying on gray Vans and pink Converse All-Stars. She could not decide between them and picked them both, saying she was not concerned with saving money.

"They’re shoes that match a lot of stuff," she said.

However, she passed on a pair of pink striped socks that glow in the dark.

At the Macy’s in Fox Run Mall, a mother and daughter from Portland, Maine, came down Sunday to find sales and escape Maine’s sales tax. Linda Olore and her 8-year-old daughter, Sophia, who is entering the third grade, found good deals on a gray dress, pink plaid skirt with matching knee-high socks and a neon green pair of shorts.

"My fashion sense is anything very bright, bold or unique that has its own personality," Sophia said.

Olore said she lets Sophia pick out what she wants to wear as long as it is appropriate. Concerning herself with her daughter’s style is not too important because "there’s bigger fish to fry," she said.

The Olores are fortunate in that Sophia’s school district does not send home a list of required supplies. Usually during the year, the district will ask for some donations, Olore said.

Like others interviewed, Olore said she will look in newspaper inserts for sales on school supplies at Walmart or Target.

At the Somersworth Walmart, Kaylie Sabo, 13,bangles, an incoming eighth-grader at Barrington Middle School, and her grandmother, Claire Sabo, looked to buy all the supplies Kaylie’s school district asked her to get.

Since Walmart carries notebooks, dividers, binders, pencil sharpeners, white out, calculators and pens and pencils at low prices, it is the most convenient place to shop for back-to-school, Sabo said. Any savings are a help since Kaylie estimated it cost hundreds to buy her new wardrobe as she likes the styles offered at retailers like Hollister and American Eagle.

"And I’m not done yet," she said.

A Clay County jury has recommended the death penalty for a registered sex offender who was convicted of stabbing his father’s girlfriend to death during an attempted sexual assault.

Leo L. Kaczmar III, 26, was charged with killing Maria E. Ruiz,earrings, 49, on Dec. 13, 2008. He was found guilty Thursday of first-degree murder, arson and attempted sexual battery. Friday, the jury deliberated for about a half-hour before voting 11-1 to recommend the death penalty.

The sentencing decision ultimately is up to Circuit Judge William A. Wilkes. Typically, judges tend to respect the opinion of juries. A hearing is scheduled for Sept. 3.

Investigators said Ruiz fought to her death. Jurors were shown autopsy photos depicting dozens of stab wounds all over her body.

A witness said Kaczmar had been smoking crack cocaine, acting paranoid and describing his desire to have sex with Ruiz the night she was killed.

Ruiz’s body was recovered in the Green Cove Springs home where she lived with Kaczmar. In an effort to cover up the crime,watches, Kaczmar started the house on fire, investigators said.

A La Crosse man is accused of threatening his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend by leaving a casket in his backyard.

The 26-year-old woman told police Daniel Geiwitz hauled the casket to her boyfriend’s house in the 1200 block of Green Bay Street Thursday evening,bangles, according to police reports. He then asked what the woman and her boyfriend wanted written on their headstones before driving away.

Police also found a smashed and severed snake that the woman said Geiwitz left on her car earlier this week, according to police reports.

Geiwitz, 28,Charm pendant, of 1120 S. Fourth St., No. 1, is facing charges of stalking, intimidation of a victim and disorderly conduct when he appears Monday in La Crosse County Circuit Court. He is jailed on a $2,500 cash bond.

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It’s scorching hot, but it’s also a good time to have those end-of-summer get-togethers and cookouts.

That means unexpected spills, dribbles and stains. So before that barbecue sauce ruins your hubby’s favorite linen shirt, The Clothing Doctor, Steve Boorstein,earrings, has some tips. The expert clothing restorer and dry cleaner shared these laundry disaster fix-its in the summer issue of The Nest magazine:

Ketchup and mustard: Rinse stain with cool water and blot with a dry white cloth. Next, tap a stain fighter into the fabric with your fingers and if the stain isn’t gone within five minutes,Bead bracelet, toss it in the wash. Mustard can be more stubborn; you may need to soak it in warm water with a dab of color-safe bleach.

Hamburger grease: Pretreat at home with glycerin, found at your local drugstore,bangles, which will help lubricate, break up and release the stain. Then head to the dry cleaners (even if it’s on cotton) because food oils need very hot water to come out, and most washers don’t get hot enough.

Berries: Rinse with cold water immediately before treating with a stain remover. Then launder it as usual,necklaces, but if a stain remains, use color-safe bleach.

Barbecue sauce: If the sauce is water-based and not oil-based, treat with a stain remover or even a diluted amount of grease-fighting liquid dish detergent and wash the same day.

Sangria: Rinse with cool water immediately and then blot with a dry white cloth. Treat spot with a stain remover and wash

in warm water. Air dry and if needed treat with color-safe bleach as above.

It was another hot day to play golf on Tuesday at Cascades Golf Course’s Ridge Course in Bloomington, but Allyson Hackman didn’t let that bother her one bit.

The Brownstown Central junior fired a 3-under 32 to earn medalist honors and help her team to a 184-205 win over Edgewood. It was Brownstown’s first nine-hole dual match of the season.

"She played flawless golf," Lady Braves coach Jennifer Chastain said of Hackman, whose round consisted of three birdies and six pars.

Chastain even felt the urge to quote the late professional golfer and coach Harvey Penick, who always said "Take dead aim."

"That’s what Allyson did," Chastain said. "She took dead aim. And the result…a fantastic score. She should be proud of herself. Not many girls at this level can say they ever broke par, and Allyson can say she did that."

Chastain compared the Ridge Course to the Braves’ home course, Hickory Hills Golf Club, in that some holes are tight and you have to keep it in the fairway.

"You have to play smart golf and know where to put the ball," she said. "Club selection off the tee is important here. You don’t even need to pull out your driver on every tee shot."

Hackman didn’t find trouble, but some of her teammates did,rings, Chastain said.

Erin Bane had the next-best score for Brownstown with a 49, while Haley Hackman shot a 50 and Taylor Morrow shot a 53.

"Erin and Taylor have a few things to work out with their swing,pendants, but they’ll come around," Chastain said. "Haley is coming into it each and every round."

The Braves are back in action on Thursday, playing against Floyd Central and Jennings County at Valley View Golf Club in Floyds Knobs.

Results

At Cascades Golf Course (Ridge Course),Beads necklace, Bloomington

Brownstown Central 184, Edgewood 205

Medalist: Allyson Hackman (BC) 32

Other Brownstown Central: Erin Bane 49, Haley Hackman 50,bangles, Taylor Morrow 53, Nora Silence 55, Jordan Stevens 57

Tennessee’s Lady Vols opened volleyball practice Wednesday in preparation for the season-opening Comcast Lady Vol Classic tournament Aug. 27-28.,bangles

Coach Rob Patrick hosts a free coaches clinic 1-4:30 p.m. Saturday at Thompson-Boling Arena.

Patrick welcomed back first-team All-SEC senior Nikki Fowler, who spend her summer with the U.S. Women’s National A2 Blue Team, which won gold at the USA Volleyball Open National Championships.

Four freshman have joined a veteran team that went 24-8 last season.

Wade List: Three basketball Lady Vols made the preseason Wade Watch List.

Kelley Cain, Angie Bjorklund and Shekinna Stricklen are among the 25 early candidates for the State Farm Wade Trophy, presented to the nation’s outstanding women’s player.

Connecticut had two players on the list, Maya Moore and Tiffany Hayes. Stanford (Nnemkadi Ogwumike and Kayla Pedersen) and Ohio State (Jantel Lavender and Samantha Prahalis) also had two.

Track: Phoebe Wright was named national indoor track scholar athlete of the year for 2010 by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

Wright,Charm bracelet, who graduated as NCAA 800-meter indoor and outdoor champion, follows former Lady Vol Sarah Bowman, who won the award the previous two years.

UT also was cited by the coaches as the national indoor scholar team of the year for the second straight season. The Lady Vols’ cumulative GPA was 3.14.

Swimming: Tennessee junior Jennifer Connolly finished first in the women’s 100-meter backstroke B final and ninth overall at the U.S. swimming championships on Wednesday in Irvine,money clips, Calif.

Connolly won the B final for the second consecutive year with a time of 1 minute, 01.11 seconds,tiffany, .83 seconds ahead of Lauren English at William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center.

She qualified for the B final by finishing 12th in the prelims in 1:02.68.

Senior Tricia Weaner was 71st (1:05.15) and Morgan Farrell finished 103rd (1:06.08).

In the 200 freestyle prelims, sophomore Kelsey Floyd and signee Alexandria Frasier finished 82nd (2:04.51) and 83rd (2:04.57), respectively. Marifrances Henley, a swimmer from North Carolina State and Tennessee Aquatics club team member, was 126th (2:07.65).

Ricky Henahan of UT finished 23rd in 57.04 in the 100 back. Henahan swam 56.11 in the preliminaries. Drew Craig was 85th (59.13).

UT’s Michael Christy finished 72nd in the 200 freestyle in 1:53.99. Freshmen Alex Ward of Knoxville placed 44th in the 200 butterfly (2:04.37).