Monday, November 10, 2008
The No. 23 Kansas Jayhawks overpowered the Division II powerhouse Drury Panthers in the pool Friday night, as well as the Evansville Purple Aces on Saturday afternoon.
Emily Lanteigne, Naperville, Ill. junior, races through the first heat of the 200 yard freestyle competion furing Friday night's meet against Drury in the KU Natatorium.
In a meet where KU swimmers turned in 24 top performances either reaching goal times or had in-season bests, the Jayhawks defeated the Panthers 140-88.
“There will be plenty of D-I teams that we’ll see this year that aren’t as good as Drury,” swimming coach Clark Campbell said. “They are a very good program and they’re going to contend for a national title which is really cool.”
The Kansas women’s swimming and diving team began Friday night with a victory in the 200-yard medley relay (1:44.29), consisting of sophomore Iuliia Kuzhil, senior Danielle Herrmann, senior Ashley Leidigh and senior Maria Mayrovich.
Herrmann swam a career-best time in the 200-yard freestyle (1:51.01) although the 200-yard freestyle was a great performance to help improve her freestyle for the individual medley.
“Danielle’s lifetime best was a big step for her,” Campbell said. “What it does is it helps give her confidence in the freestyle portion of the IM and we also know that we’re going to put her on the freestyle relays.”
Herrmann’s victory in the 200-yard freestyle with junior Emily Lanteigne and senior Anne Liggett, helped KU women sweep the event, finishing 1-2-3.
Sophomore Amanda Maez turned in an outstanding performance in the 50-yard freestyle with a season-best time of 24.45 seconds. Maez touched out Eunate Garro of Drury by .06 seconds to earn a first-place victory.
“Drury’s two 50 free swimmers are really good so I was happy to see Amanda step up and get that victory,” Campbell said. “When Maria graduates, we’re going to need Amanda and Erin Goetz to step up and take over a leadership role in the sprint freestyles.”
The Jayhawks repeated the 1-2-3 finish in the 400-yard individual medley where sophomore Joy Bunting took first place with a time of 4:27.59, followed by freshman Stephanie Payne and sophomore Alyssa Potter.
In 3-meter diving, sophomore Erin Mertz had a stellar performance, winning with a final score of 325.20, while junior Meg Proehl finished second at 273.15.
Luliia Kuzhil, Cherkasy, Ukraine sophomore, springs backward into the water during the only heat of the 200 yard medley relay Friday night. The relay was the first event o the evening's meet against Drury.
Both Goetz and Mayrovich achieved season bests in the 100-yard freestyle, with Mayrovich winning the event with a time of 50.32 seconds and Goetz finishing third.
Kuzhil pulled out a close victory in the 100-yard backstroke against Drury’s Janelle Slattery.
Junior Emily Lanteigne and senior Kendall Matous were close to their season bests in the 500-yard freestyle finishing first and fourth respectively, while senior Anne Liggett finished third and achieved an in-season best.
Proehl and Mertz flip-flopped in the 1-meter diving event as Proehl took first with a score of 289.72 and Mertz finished with a score of 273.07.
The swimmers and divers are transitioning into their second phase of training.
Bunting is excited to get started on the second phase of training.
“Usually everybody’s mind set is that you have to go in and work hard to prepare us for the next part of the meet season,” Bunting said. “Meets over and over again is very tiring for us.”
On Saturday afternoon Kansas had no problem winning events, taking first place in 11 of the 13 events. KU defeated Evansville 132-95.
Next up for Kansas is a dual meet against Nebraska-Omaha at 2 p.m. on Saturday in Omaha. This will wrap up the dual meet season for the Jayhawks until after winter break.
— — Edited by Arthur Hur
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