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    Connolly And Wickland Named USC's Wells Fargo Student-Athletes Of The Week
    Swimmer sets Trojan breaststroke mark
    Shea Wickland had an impressive start to her collegiate career, winning the 10000m race at the Ben Brown Invitational in Fullerton, Calif. with the third-fastest time in school history.
    Shea Wickland had an impressive start to her collegiate career, winning the 10000m race at the Ben Brown Invitational in Fullerton, Calif. with the third-fastest time in school history.

    March 9, 2009

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    Swimmer Dillon Connolly and distrance runner Shea Wickland were named USC's Wells Fargo Student-Athletes of the Week today (March 9) for the week of March 2-8.

    The sophomore Connolly won the 200-yard breaststroke consolation final at the Pac-10 Championships while setting a USC record with a time of 1:55.47. He bettered the school record by .77 seconds and helped lead the Trojans to a fourth-place finish at the Pac-10 Championships.

    Wickland, a redshirt freshman on the track and field team, ran in her first race for USC and first-ever 10000m race at the Ben Brown Invitational in Fullerton and won with a time of 36:16.00. Her time was the third-fastest 10000m race ever run by a Trojan female.