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Meghan McCurley
Position: Fly, Free
Height: 5'9"
Year: Redshirt Senior
Hometown: Fair Oaks, Calif.
High School: Bella Vista HS
Club: Glen Oaks Swim Team
Experience: 3 Letters

SPARTAN NOTES: In her fifth season with the Spartans...Swims the sprint freestyle and butterfly events...Earned 2009 College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-America honorable mention...Three-time Academic All-WAC honoree and San Jose State University Scholar-Athlete...Three-time WAC medalist (one gold, two silver), all in relay events...An eight-time All-WAC (two first team, six second team)...Part of one NCAA 'B' cut and three school-record relays, with five school-record swims in all for her career, all in relays...Tops in San Jose State history in four relays: the 200 free, 400 free, 200 medley and 400 medley, as well as, third in the 50 free and seventh in the 100 free.

2010-11: Redshirt season.

2009-10:  Swam on winning relays in seven dual meets...Was the second highest scoring athlete for the Spartans at the WAC Championship (27 individual and 108 relay points)...Won a gold medal, was first-team All-WAC and set a school record in the 200 free relay...Got second team All-WAC and silver medals in the 200 medley and 400 free relays (an NCAA 'B'-Cut time and school record)...Also earned second team All-WAC honors in the 50 and 100 free...A 23.52 in the 50 free at the Toshiba Classic was the team's fastest of the season...Also had top-four team times in the 100 free, 50 back and 100 back...In relays was on the teams fastest 200 and 400 free and 200 and 400 medley in 2009-10.

2008-09: Collected nine individual and 121 relay points at the WAC Championship, as part of three school-record relay swims...Relay points tied for the team high with Lauren Mar...earned CSCAA Scholar All-America honorable mention based on criteria which included a grade point average of 3.50 or higher, and as the freestyle anchor leg of an NCAA consideration time in the 200 medley relay at the 2009 WAC Championship in San Antonio, Texas, in February...That school-record swim (1:41.28), a runner-up effort, was the first 'B' cut in a relay that San Jose State has ever produced...Second-place 400 medley was in a school-record 3:42.50 (2/27)...Led off the school-record 200 free relay (2/26) that was fifth in 1:33.55...Was 13th in the 50 free (23.83) and 12th in the 100 (51.96)...Also competed in prelims of the 100 back (59.24)...garnered WAC Swimmer of the Week honors for the first time...Anchored then-school-record 400 medley relay (3:48.80) at the UCI/Nike Cup (11/20)...Compiled seven individual and team-best 13 relay wins in dual meets...Also anchored first-place 400 medley relay at the UCI/Ayres Hotels Invitational (1/4).

2007-08: Scored four individual and helped in 40 relay points at her first WAC Championship...on the meet's second night, swam the third leg of the first-place, gold-medal-winning 200 freestyle relay in a school-record 1:33.76...In her WAC meet debut, swam a best time of 24.28 in prelims of the 50 free, before bettering it to 24.25 in the consolation final for 13th-place overall...Made the bonus consolation in the 100 free and finished 19th overall in 53.34...Placed 26th in the 200 free after timing her best of 1:57.88 in prelims...Competed in all 13 meets in her first season of college swimming...First individual dual wins of her college career came in the 100 free in back-to-back meets at CSUB (1/4-5)...also won the 100 free against CSUEB (1/26)...Worked her way into the Spartans' 'A' 200 freestyle relay that went 8-1 in dual meets on the year, with the lone loss at powerhouse Stanford...swam third leg of the 200 free relay that won at the UCI/Ayres Relay Invitational (1/6), matching the meet record in 1:36.93...Swam 100-yard anchor leg in relay wins at CSUB (1/4) in the 400 medley and at the UCI/Ayres meet (1/6) in the 400 free...swam lead leg on the first-place 200 free relay against Boise State (10/19), Idaho (10/26), Idaho (10/27) and Washington State (10/27)...Was a part of 11 relay wins in all...Other best times were 52.92 in the 100 free and 2:18.98 in the 200 IM.

BELLA VISTA HIGH SCHOOL: Was a member of the swim team (Coaches Anne Whitford, Thom Shanley) at Bella Vista High School in Fair Oaks, Calif....High school All-American in the 50 free, 200 free relay and 200 medley relay as a senior...Capital Athletic League MVP as a sophomore in 2005...All-league honoree all four years...CIF champion in the 200 free relay and 200 medley relay...Set school records in the 100 free, 200 free relay and 200 medley relay...Best times were 24.05 in the 50 free and 52.68 in the 100 free...Also played driver on the water polo team.

MEGHAN: Majoring in kinesiology, emphasis on pre-professional...Interested in moving on to graduate school in the area of physical therapy...Enjoys reading, listening to music, and Sudoku...Swam for Glen Oaks Swim Team (Coach Jeff Jungk)...Father, Steven McCurley, is president of the aquatics board at Bella Vista High School...Meghan Leigh McCurley was born in Sacramento, Calif., on May 15, 1989.

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