Swimming finishes fourth despite illness

Monday, October 19, 2009

Tough competition provided a challenge for the Kansas swimming and diving team at the Big 12 relays.

The team finished fourth after it fought against perennially ranked teams like Texas A&M and Texas and several Jayhawk swimmers illnesses.

This forced younger swimmers to step up.

The influx of less experienced swimmers was one of the reasons the Jayhawks saw a noticeable difference in their performance from years past.

“Normally we’re up there competing really well with Missouri,” coach Clark Campbell said.

Kansas finished in a distant fourth with 43 points while Missouri captured third place with 75 points. Texas A&M barely edged out Texas for first place with 109 points. Iowa state and Nebraska-Lincoln finished fifth and sixth respectively.

“We just have to be patient,” Campbell said. “It’s going to take a few months for us to realize our potential.”

The highest any Kansas relay team placed on the day was third. That team consisted of senior Erin Goetz, juniors Iuliia Kuzhil and Joy Bunting and freshman Brooke Brull as they competed in the 200-yard medley relay. They earned a time of 1:45.35, but lost to relay teams from the University of Texas and Texas A&M.

Numerous Kansas relay teams managed to fight their way to fourth place finishes.

Among these were the 3x100 yard breaststroke relay team, the 100-yard medley relay team, the 200-yard freestyle relay team, the 400-yard medley relay team, the 3 by 50 yard backstroke relay team and the 100-yard freestyle relay team.

Several individuals within the relays performed well for Kansas. Kuzhil provided several dominating backstroke performances, earning Kansas an early lead in her backstroke leg of the medley relays. Goetz also had several solid performances on the day.

“Erin [Goetz] had an awesome meet,” Campbell said. “She really stepped up and swam some great races.”

Though some swimmers did perform well, the team as a whole struggled to finish its races strong.

Time splits for many of the Kansas swimmers were about four seconds slower at the end of their relay leg than at the beginning.

“We need to work on bringing races home,” Campbell said.

The team will work to make this correction as they enter a new stage of their training this week.

This stage focuses on building strength and endurance in the water, which will aid the swimmers in maintaining their pace throughout the course of their races.

In their next meet, Kansas faces tough duels against two of last year’s Top 25 teams, Florida and Arkansas.

“We have a really intense schedule, especially at the beginning of the season,” senior team captain Carrah Haley said.

— Edited by Alicia Banister

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