2008 C-USA Swimming & Diving Championship Day One Results
Feb. 27, 2008
HOUSTON, Texas - The 2008 Conference USA Women's Swimming & Diving Championship and Invitational wrapped up on Wednesday evening at the CRWC Natatorium on the campus of the University of Houston with a record performance by the SMU 800-yard freestyle relay team. The squad of Jennifer Blackman, Petra Klosova, Candace Blackman and Sascha Van den Branden touched the wall in 7:04.87, shattering the meet and pool record they set last year of 7:10.49. The mark was good for an NCAA `A' qualifying time consideration. Rice came in second (7:21.75) with an NCAA `B' time, while East Carolina finished in third (7:34.43). The host Cougars finished in fourth (7:37.63) and Marshall took fifth (7:42.73). In the first event of the meet, the 200-yard medley relay, the Rice team of Angela Wo, Pam Zelnick, Skylar Craig and Diane Gu finished in 1:43.29 to take the win and grab 40 early points. Defending champion SMU finished in a record time of 1:39.32, but was disqualified and scored no points. League members East Carolina (1:45.01) and Marshall (1:47.64) officially came in second and third, respectively. Rice leads the C-USA Championship team scoring after day one with 74 points, followed by East Carolina with 66 and Marshall with 60. SMU sits in fourth with 40 points on the strength of their record-setting relay, while Houston is fifth with 30 points. First-year women's invitational members Northern Colorado (56) and Cal State Bakersfield (52) sit in fourth and fifth in the invitational team scoring.
Men's teams from league schools East Carolina and SMU along with Hawaii and Cal State Bakersfield are also competing in the C-USA men's invitational. SMU leads that event after day one with 108 points, followed by East Carolina and Hawai'i with 104 and Cal State Bakersfield with 44. The meet resumes at 10 a.m., Thursday with the preliminaries of the 500-yard freestyle, 200-yard individual medley and the 50-yard freestyle. The women's 3-meter diving preliminaries will begin around 1 p.m. The finals for those events are slated to begin around 6 p.m. All-session tickets are available for only $25 for adults and $10 for youth. Single-day tickets are available for $10 for adults and $5 for students with ID. Youth includes children from 3 years old to high school. Children who are 2 years old and younger are admitted free. All students from Conference USA schools are admitted free with a valid student ID. Fans should note that cash only will be accepted at the Tickets table. Gates will open, and tickets will be sold beginning one hour prior to the meet. In addition, a wide variety of Championship merchandise will be available near the Tickets table. Click on the links at the top of the page for complete meet results, team scores, live stats and championship information. |
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