Auburn swimmer Micah Lawrence was named to the USA Swimming 2010 Pan Pacific Championships team, the USA Swimming office announced Tuesday.

Lawrence, of Pflugerville, Texas, earned a spot after finishing third in the 100 breast at the 2010 ConocoPhillips National Championships last week.

During the Thursday morning session, Lawrence broke her own Auburn long-course record after she touched in at 1:08.31. She went on to take third in the event in 1:08.48.

Lawrence is entering her junior season at Auburn and is the 2010 SEC champion in the 100-yard breast.

The Pan Pacific Championships are set to be held at the William Woollet Jr. Aquatics Center in Irvine, Calif., Aug. 18-22.

Soccer’s Frierson, Towne honored by SEC coaches
Auburn’s Katy Frierson and Sammy Towne were each named to the Southeastern Conference soccer coaches’ preseason All-SEC Team.

Auburn was one of just two schools from the SEC West to have multiple players voted to the team.

A First-Team All-SEC choice last season after being named to the First-Team and the SEC Freshman of the Year in 2008, Frierson enters her junior season with 45 career points, which is already just two points shy of breaking into Auburn’s career top 10.

A midfielder from Homewood, this is the second consecutive season that she was named to the preseason All-SEC Team. In 22 matches in 2009, Frierson led the team in assists (10) and points (20) while finishing tied for second in goals (five) and third in shots (55), helping the team to a 5-0-0 mark in games in which she scored and a 5-1-1 record in games in which she recorded an assist as Auburn went 10-9-3 (6-5-0 SEC) and advanced to the second round of the SEC Tournament and the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

A Second-Team All-SEC choice in 2009 as a junior, Towne is one of the key components to Auburn’s backline. A defender from Royal Palm Beach, Fla., she played 1,715 minutes last season and started 21 out of 22 matches despite playing with a cast on her forearm after deflecting a North Carolina shot in the 14th minute of the team’s 0-0 tie, missing just one match.

Named to the 2009 SEC All-Tournament team as Auburn went 1-1, she played all 90 minutes in the 2-1 win over Ole Miss in the opening round and then played all 97 minutes in the team’s 2-1 overtime loss to California in the NCAA Tournament.

Auburn, which is currently training in Orange Beach, opens its regular season Aug. 20 when it plays host to Tennessee Tech at 7 p.m. at the Auburn Soccer Complex.

Florida led all schools with five selections while Auburn, Ole Miss and South Carolina each had two. The coaches’ preseason All-SEC team consists of a minimum of 11 players.
Each SEC head soccer coach voted for five attackers, five defenders and one goalkeeper. No ties were broken.