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Women's Swimming and Diving Wins MWC Championship
2/25/2006 12:00 AM | Men's Swimming & Diving
Feb. 25, 2006
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - The University of Utah women's swimming and diving team won its first Mountain West Conference Championship under Head Coach Michael Litzinger. The women's team finished with 679.5 points. The men's team finished fifth overall after tallying 513 points.
"I'm incredibly proud of our women," said Litzinger. "We've been waiting for this since I started at Utah. There is not team out there that is more deserving than us and it truly was a team effort. Our men battled hard and we had the lead for two days, but we knew it was going to be hard to maintain that lead. Slipping to fifth is a disappointment, but we set some school records and this men's team is one of the teams that I've been the most proud of."
 Head Coach Michael Litzinger was named MWC Women's Coach of the Year for the second time in his tenure at Utah.  | |
Eight new Mountain West Conference records and nine MWC championship records were set at this year's meet. New men's all-time records include the 100-yard freestyle (Joe Bartoch, UNLV [43.63]), 100-yard butterfly (Joe Bartoch, UNLV [47.12]) and the 400-yard individual medley (Chris Knaute, Air Force [3:49.33]).
The new women's all-time records were the 200-yard medley relay (Utah - 1:42.21) and freestyle relay (Utah - 1:32.47), 400 medley relay (BYU - 3:43.49), 100-yard butterfly (Angela Goodson, BYU [54.13]) and 100-yard breaststroke (Amber Walter, Utah [1:01.92]).
Kelsey Patterson captured the women's platform title with a score of 285.95 points, 76.15 points ahead of second place and provisionally qualifying for the NCAA meet. In the 1650 free, Rachael Curci won her second title in three years with a time of 16 minutes, 49.77 seconds. Curci's time also provisionally qualified her for the NCAA meet.
Alison McInturff, Amy Barefield, Jennifer Fredsall and Amber Walter won the women's 400 free relay with a time of 3 minutes, 23.79 seconds, which also provisionally qualifies them for the NCAA meet and is a new Utah school record.
Marissa Martin and Shannon McQueen finished second and third, respectively, while provisionally qualifying for the NCAA meet in the process. Martin finished in 2 minutes, 01.25 seconds, while McQueen finished in 2 minutes, 01.69 seconds.
In the women's 100 free, Walter and McInturff finished second and third, respectively. Walter posted a time of 50.44 seconds and McInturff finished in 50.51 seconds. Both times provisionally qualify Walter and McInturff for the NCAA meet.
Ariane Kich and Adrienne Coburn finished seventh and eighth, respectively, in the 200 breast. Kich posted a time of 2 minutes, 22.79 seconds, while Coburn finished in 2 minutes, 25.29 seconds. In the 200 fly, Michelle Blair placed fourth with a time of 2 minutes, 06.02 seconds. Meghan Demchuk finished seventh with a time of 2 minutes, 08.07 seconds.
On the men's side, Andrew Cole finished second in the 200 back with a time of 1 minute, 46.75 seconds. Cole set a Utah school record in the preliminary round of the 200 back with a NCAA provisional qualifying time of 1:45.96. The previous Ute record was 1:45.97 by Jim Giottonini in 1993. David Johnson finished eighth in the event with a time of 1 minute, 52.39 seconds.
In the 100 free, senior Jonathan Larsen fell short of winning his third-straight title in the event after finishing second with a time of 44.22 seconds. Larsen's time provisionally qualifies him for the NCAA meet. David Maasberg placed eighth in the event with a time of 46.22 seconds.
In the men's platform event, Andrew Jones and Damien Brown finished fourth and fifth, respectively. Jones finished with 269.20 points, while Brown tallied 244.45 points. In the 1650 free, Adam Oliver finished eighth with a time of 15 minutes, 49.14 seconds.
The men's 400 free relay team of Maasberg, Larsen, Cole and Johnson finished fifth with a time of 3 minutes, 01.67 seconds.
The UNLV men claimed their second straight MWC championship. The Rebel men finished with 763 points, followed by BYU (618), Air Force (526), Wyoming (520), Utah (513) and TCU (489). On the women's side, BYU finished second (608.50). UNLV finished third in women's action with 587 points, followed by TCU (414), Wyoming (404.50), Colorado State (371.50), New Mexico (285), Air Force (206) and San Diego State (176).
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