Husker Swimmers Look Strong in Intrasquad Meet

Lincoln -- The 2004-05 Nebraska swimming and diving team took to the Bob Devaney Sports Center Pool on Saturday morning for its first competition of the year in the annual Red-White Intrasquad meet. 

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The women performed at a high level and produced good times to the delight of fourth-year head coach Pablo Morales.

 

“The way they have been training and performing so far this year I actually expected some fast times, and there were some really fast times. Typically you don’t get a lot of fast performances this early in the season at the intrasquad meet,” Morales said.  “The girls are showing that they are well ahead of schedule from last year and they are doing some really remarkable things already.”

 

Morales divided the teams equally to present the most competitive event as possible.  At the conclusion of the meet each team had collected five first-place finishes out of the 10 event meet. There was no team score compiled.

 

Leading their respective squads to strong performances were sophomores Kate Wheeler (Scarlet) and Lauren Bailey (Cream).  Each collected two first-place finishes and one second-place finish including an exciting 200-yard freestyle that came down to Wheeler edging out Bailey by just three-tenths of a second in 1:52.9. 

 

Three freshmen (Lynn Siemert, Betsy Grover and Adrienne Goodman) were also impressive with each picking up one first-place finish.

 

Juniors Amy Buoy and Becky Johnson split the board competitions.  Bouy won the 1-meter event while Johnson came back to win the 3-meter event by seven-tenths of a point.

 

Nebraska opens its regular season at the Big 12 relays in Lawrence, Kan. on Oct. 15.  The Huskers are looking to start the season strong and continue their success in the conference after finishing fourth last season.