Friday, October 9, 2009
The Kansas swimming and diving team will continue its year-long competition today at the intrasquad swim meet.
At the beginning of the year, the team divided into two squads: crimson and blue. These squads have clashed in intense match-ups of ultimate frisbee, various diving events and other events throughout the year.
Swimming and diving coaches Clark Campbell, Eric Elliot and Jen Fox won’t participate in the competition and will serve solely as spectators and officials. The athletes will switch roles with their coaches and assign themselves to their own events.
This task gives the swimmers and divers a chance to examine the strengths of the other squad members and decide which of their squad members best matches up against them.
“You know each other’s strengths,” said Carrah Haley, senior team captain and crimson squad member. “I could look at the blue team and know who they’re going to put in any one event.”
Placing themselves into their own events allows the members of the swimming and diving team an intriguing glimpse of what their coaches do on a daily basis.
“It’s neat to see how Clark looks at a meet,” said Joy Bunting, junior team captain and blue squad member. “Now it’s our turn to look at it and say, ‘Okay, who should we put in here?’”
As the score stands now, the crimson squad leads the blue squad by a total of 12 points to eight points. With four points up for grabs during the intrasquad meet, the stage is set for an intense struggle as the blue squad attempts to even the score with its crimson counterpart.
“It’s going to be a really competitive meet, but it’ll be fun,” Haley said.
The altered set-up of the meet also gives Campbell and his staff a unique opportunity to decide which events to place swimmers in for upcoming meets. Campbell said he and his staff would use the meet to help determine the team’s relay members for the Big 12 relays held on Oct. 16 in Columbia, Mo.
On top of relay placement, this intrasquad meet will also allow the coaches to see how their swimmers stack up in longer events. The alumni meet held on Sept. 18 didn’t allow them this opportunity because it primarily consisted of shorter events.
“This meet we get to see more of our 100-yard speed and longer events,” Campbell said. “We get to see who our best swimmers are in those events.”
— Edited by Samantha Foster
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