Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Thirteen new Kansas swimmers and divers will make their official collegiate debut this Friday when the Kansas swimming and diving team travels to Columbia, Mo., to compete in the Big 12 Relays.
After several months of offseason training, the new faces will finally get a chance to test their mettle against competition other than their teammates.
“I’m excited to swim in my first real college meet and see how we compare to other schools,” freshman Brooke Brull said.
The five other schools at the meet will bring in a high level of competition as both Texas and Texas A&M have Olympians on their teams. Both schools also finished inside the top 10 in the 2008-09 season, while Kansas finished just outside the top 25.
“We’re going to get in there and compete against some of the best swimmers in the country,” senior swimmer and team captain Carrah Haley said.
The freshmen will soon find out what competing at the college level takes.
“It will be a great experience for all of our newcomers,” coach Clark Campbell said. “They can set their hearts and minds toward what it takes to compete in this conference.”
With such a high level of competition in attendance, Campbell hopes the newcomers can help the team outperform the other schools’ talent by doing the little things better.
“We’re going to try and out-skill people as far as starts and turns go,” Campbell said.
Regardless of how the team performs, Campbell and his staff hope to use the meet as a reference point for their training for the rest of the season. It will let the team know how it needs to improve in order to be a better, more competitive team when the conference championships roll around in February.
The Kansas freshmen will not be the only new faces at the Big 12 Relays as Campbell and the rest of the team will have their first opportunity to see the almost 50 new swimmers and divers from the rest of the Big 12.
“It’s a good way to see some of the other swimmers in the conference,” Campbell said.
The meet, first conceived in the early ’90s, will consist entirely of relays. Campbell said he hopes this will help get his team excited.
“Swimmers love swimming relays,” Campbell said.
— Edited by Samantha Foster
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