ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— The University of New Mexico swimming team concludes the season at the CSCAA (College Swimming and Diving Coaches’ Association of America) National Invitational Championship on the campus of Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio starting Thursday and continuing on until Saturday.
Overall, UNM will have six swimmers, 26 individual entries and five relay teams.
As a team, the Lobos are set to swim in the 200-yard freestyle relay, 400-yard medley relay, 200-yard medley relay, 800-yard freestyle relay and 400-yard freestyle relay.
Hedda Øritsland will the heaviest workload on the three days, scheduled for six individual events. The freshman will swim the 50-yard butterfly, 50-yard backstroke, 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard butterfly, 100-yard IM and 100-yard freestyle.
Fellow freshman Katie Pollock will also have a busy schedule with five individual events on the docket in the 50-yard breaststroke, 200-yard IM, 100-yard breaststroke, 100-yard IM and 200-yard breaststroke.
Sophomore Klara Farkas will also swim five events during the meet with the 500-yard freestyle, 200-yard IM, 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard IM and 200-yard butterfly.
Mari Aoki has four events in the 200-yard IM, 400-yard IM, 100-yard IM and 200-yard breaststroke, and Asami Terada (50-yard breaststroke, 100-yard breaststroke, 200-yard breaststroke) and Brooke Zukowski (50-yard breaststroke, 100-yard breaststroke, 200-yard breaststroke) each have three events on the week.
Participants in this meet are swimmers who met NCAA Championship time standards, however did not receive an invitation to the NCAA Championship meet. Another means in which a swimmer could qualify was to have won the event at their conference championship or through attaining time standards established for the meet.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
100-yard IM: Aoki, Øritsland, Pollock, Farkas
200-yard IM: Aoki, Farkas, Pollock
400-Yard IM: Aoki
50-yard breaststroke: Pollock, Terada, Zukowski
50-yard butterfly:Øritsland
50-yard backstroke:Øritsland
50-yard freestyle: Øritsland
100-yard breaststroke: Pollock, Terada, Zukowski
100-yard butterfly: Øritsland
100-yard freestyle: Øritsland
200-yard breaststroke: Aoki, Pollock, Terada, Zukowski
200-yard freestyle: Farkas
200-yard butterfly: Farkas
500-yard freestyle: Farkas
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Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
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Preliminaries |
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50 Butterfly |
400 Individual Medley |
1000/1650 Freestyle* |
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Finals – 6:00 pm |
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200 Free Relay |
200 Medley Relay |
1000/1650 Freestyle* |