Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Tired after winning two back-to-back dual meets this semester, the Kansas swimming and diving squad beat the Nebraska Cornhuskers 161-139 in Lincoln Saturday. Kansas faced a rough start after losing the first three events, but turned it around to win nine of the overall sixteen, giving them an 8-3 dual meet record for the year.
Two Kansas divers, sophomore Erin Mertz and junior Meghan Proehl, won the 1-meter and 3-meter diving events, respectively.
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“We’ve got our ups and our downs and Nebraska was just a down for us."
— Emily Lanteigne, junior
Mertz said she was pleased with her 1-meter victory but came up a little short on her new 3-meter dive. “I tried a new dive, a reverse twister, but I ended up losing points because I missed it,” Mertz said.
Mertz said the coaches wanted to see how the new dive would score at a meet before trying it for the Big 12 Championship conference. “I just learned it recently but I’ve got some time to practice a lot,” Mertz said.
Proehl won the 3-meter diving event with a score of 281.03, only 0.6 points more than the second-place diver from Nebraska.
The swimmers also performed well, winning seven events and taking the second and third place spots in several others. Senior Danielle Herrmann won the 200-yard individual medley and the 200- and 100-yard breaststroke. Senior Maria Mayrovich swept the 50- and 100-yard freestyle with times of 23.39 and 50.38 seconds respectively. Sophomore Iuliia Kuzhil won the 100- and 200-yard backstroke while fellow sophomore Joy Bunting took second in 200-yard individual medley and 200-yard breaststroke.
While Kansas scored a victory over Nebraska as a team, not every competitor fared as well as the others. Junior Emily Lanteigne finished third in the 200-yard freestyle and fourth in the 200-yard freestyle relay. She did not walk away from the meet empty-handed, though.
“It was definitely a learning experience for me,” Lanteigne said, “I learned a lot about how much stress my body could take at a meet.”
Lanteigne said that overall the swimming and diving team seemed tired after coming off of two back-to-back dual meets and an intense winter training program the team has been on.
“We’ve got our ups and our downs and Nebraska was just a down for us,” Lanteigne said.
Lanteigne said she is optimistic about the meet against Arkansas this Thursday. The team will travel to Fayetteville, Ark., for a dual meet this Thursday at 4 p.m.
Arkansas is ranked No. 19 in the College Swimming Coaches of America Poll after their first two semester victories over Missouri and Kentucky. Both Lanteigne and Mertz said they expect Arkansas to be a good match-up and that the team will be better rested and prepared for Arkansas than they were for Nebraska.
— — Edited by Justin Leverett
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