Hurricane Swimming and Diving Heads to BIG EAST Championships
Feb. 18, 2004
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The University of Miami swimming and diving team will head to East Meadow, N.Y. to take part in the 2004 BIG EAST Swimming and Diving Championships Thursday, Feb. 19 through Saturday, Feb. 21 at the Nassau County Aquatics Center.
The Hurricanes will send a total of 15 swimmers and divers to compete in 22 events at the three-day championships, including two-time All-American junior Miguel Velazquez (Mexico City, Mexico), the defending BIG EAST Champion in the 1-meter and 3-meter springboard as well as the BIG EAST’s Most Outstanding Diver in 2003.
Velazquez, along with freshman Derek Starks (Mission Viejo, Calif.), will look to improve on Miami’s impressive run at the BIG EAST Championships that has saw the Hurricane diving team win at least diving championship since 1992, while sweeping both the men’s and women’s titles every year since 1997 under the guidance of head diving coach Randy Ableman.
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Junior Katalin Ferenczi will compete in the 100 and 200-yard backstroke and the 200 IM. |
The UM women’s team will look to improve on a third-place finish at the 2003 BIG EAST Championships.
First-year head swimming coach Mariusz Podkoscielny will lead eleven swimmers to the 2004 meet including junior Katalin Ferenczi (Pa’ Pa, Hungary) who will compete in the 100-yard and 200-yard backstroke as well as the 200-yard IM. Earlier this season at the Minnesota Invitational, Ferenczi tied the school record, which she also held, in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 57.26.
The Hurricane swim team will also look to a number of newcomers, with a total of six freshman swimmers competing including Nancy Gajos (Mississauga, Ontario) and Tara Erwin (Ewing, N.J.). Gajos qualified for the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 55.54, the second fastest in the conference and Erwin touched in with the BIG EAST’s second best time in the 1650-yard freestyle with a mark of 16:45.58. Gajos will also compete in the 200-yard butterfly and the 200-yard freestyle while Erwin will compete in the 500-yard freestyle.
Miami will also send swimmers sophomore Adrien Ferguson (Oklahoma City, Okla.) (200 IM, 400 IM, 200-yard butterfly), freshman Lindsey Fox (Lake Forest, Ill.) (50-yard freestyle), freshman Kristen Lunak (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) (400 IM, 200-yard breaststroke), junior Lindsay Knapp (Walnut Creek, Calif.) (400 IM, 100-yard backstroke, 200-yard backstroke), freshman Ashley Knapp (Walnut Creek, Calif.) (200-yard freestyle, 100-yard backstroke, 200-yard backstroke), freshman Andrea Hughes (Richmond, Va.) (100-yard butterfly, 200-yard butterfly, 200-yard freestyle), sophomore Martyna Krawczyk (Looz, Poland) (100-yard breaststroke, 200-yard breaststroke) and junior Colleen Adkins (Satellite Beach, Fla.) (100-yard breaststroke, 200-yard breaststroke) to compete for the BIG EAST title.
Two-time All-American Emily Spychala (Tampa, Fla.), along with freshman Heather Bounds (Austin, Texas), will compete in the 1-meter springboard, 3-meter springboard and platform diving championships for the UM women’s dive squad.
The 2004 championships are slated to begin on Thursday at 10:30 a.m.
ORDER OF EVENTS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2004
PRELIMS: 10:30 A.M.; FINALS: 6:00 P.M.
1 Meter Diving FINAL Women
200 Yard Freestyle Relay Women
200 Yard Freestyle Relay Men
500 Yard Freestyle Women
500 Yard Freestyle Men
200 Individual Medley Women
200 Individual Medley Men
50 Yard Freestyle Women
50 Yard Freestyle Men
3 Meter Diving FINAL Men
1 Meter Diving Men
400 Yard Medley Relay Women
400 Yard Medley Relay Men
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2004
PRELIMS: 10:30 A.M.; FINALS: 6:00 P.M.
1 Meter Diving FINAL Men
200 Yard Medley Relay Women
200 Yard Medley Relay Men
400 Individual Medley Women
400 Individual Medley Men
100 Yard Butterfly Women
100 Yard Butterfly Men
200 Yard Freestyle Women
200 Yard Freestyle Men
100 Yard Breaststroke Women
100 Yard Breaststroke Men
100 Yard Backstroke Women
100 Yard Backstroke Men
3 Meter Diving FINAL Women
800 Yard Freestyle Relay Women
800 Yard Freestyle Relay Men
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2004
PRELIMS: 10:30 A.M.; FINALS: 6:00 P.M.
1,650 Yard Freestyle Women
1,650 Yard Freestyle Men
200 Yard Backstroke Women
200 Yard Backstroke Men
100 Yard Freestyle Women
100 Yard Freestyle Men
200 Yard Breaststroke Women
200 Yard Breaststroke Men
200 Yard Butterfly Women
200 Yard Butterfly Men
400 Yard Freestyle Relay Women
400 Yard Freestyle Relay Men
