Amanda Smith placed fourth in the championship final with a season-best and NCAA B time of 4:50.05. |
Indiana Performs Well on Day One of Hoosierland Open
Nov. 15, 2007
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The Indiana women's swimming and diving team opened competition Thursday at the three-day Hoosierland Open being held at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center on the IU campus.
"It was kind of an up-and-down day for us," said head coach Ray Looze. "We have been ravaged by illness and are a bit tired, but we had some nice breakthroughs. We gave out two new red caps and that is a real good sign. We just need to get on a more comprehensive roll and this is a good level of competition to do that. We plan to come out swinging tomorrow."
The evening finals session began with the women's 200-yard freestyle relay where the team of Presley Bard, Donna Smailis, Brittany Epperson and Kristin Cihoski finished seventh with a time of 1:36.54. The "B" squad of Abby Cooper, Sarah Stockwell, Allison Kay and Kelsey Atchison was 11th at 1:38.78.
Amanda Smith qualified second in the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:53.68 in the prelims and placed fourth in the championship final with a season-best and NCAA B time of 4:50.05. Amilee Smith and Kay qualified for the second bonus final where Kay took seventh (5:06.33) and Smith eighth (5:07.86). Kay's time of 5:04.83 in the prelims was a season best. Christie Fuchs swam in the first bonus final where she finished sixth with a time of 5:06.89.
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Amanda Smith and Smailis were awarded red caps as the performers of the day.
Cihoski and Cooper competed in the first bonus final of the 200 individual medley with Cooper sixth (2:10.41) and Cihoski eighth (2:11.32). In the second bonus heat, Smailis touched the wall in first place with a career-best time of 2:04.62
Epperson led the Hoosiers in the second bonus final of the 50 free where she placed first in a season-best time of 24.00.
The evening session concluded with the 400-yard medley relay. Indiana's A team was in a battle for second with Penn State but Bard, Stockwell, Smailis and Epperson came up just short with a third-place and season-best time of 3:45.21. The B squad of Cihoski, Cooper, Kay and Atchison was 12th (3:55.81).
Brittany Feldman was victorious in the 1-meter springboard event with a score of 295.55. Teammate Ashley Greene was sixth (245.40), followed by Amy Korthauer in 11th (215.70).
The meet continues on Friday with preliminary heats beginning at 9 a.m. The finals session is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Friday's events include the 400 individual medley, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke and 100 backstroke. Live results will be available at http://iu.iuhoosiers.com/swimmeet/hoosierland07
