University of Tennessee Athletics
TENNESSEE SWIMMERS AND DIVERS IMPROVE TOP TIMES AT BULLDOG INVITE
February 17, 2007 | Women's Swimming & Diving
Feb. 17, 2007
ATHENS, Ga. - Several Lady Vols competed at the Bulldog Invitational in Athens, Ga., to improve on personal-best times and attempt to qualify for the NCAA Championship meet to be held in Minneapolis, Minn., March 8-10. Thirteen events were contested today at the Gabrielsen Natatorium on the University of Georgia campus.
"We had a number of people with best times," Lady Vol Head Swimming Coach Matt Kredich said. "We had a lot of races where people were faster than they were at SEC's. All in all, it was a good day of racing."
Juniors Laura Fehrman, Vicky Linnell and Danyelle Vincent, along with sophomores Maria Jugan, Betsy Lange, Sam Maccherola, Staley McCartney, Brittany Nauta and Ashley Quinn competed today. Freshmen Bryttany Curran, Jamie Saffer and Laura Tomes made their first trip to Athens for the meet.
Maccherola, who earned NCAA provisional cuts in the 200y, 500y and 1650y free, swam in the 500y free prelims (4:57.00) and 200y free prelims (1:52.25) this morning.
Jugan set new personal bests in the 100y backstroke twice, clocking a 1:00.91 in the prelims and 1:00.78 in the finals. Her 2:14.41 time in the 200y IM beats her season best of 2:19.91 and was the fourth fastest time in the finals heat.
Vincent was the second UT entrant in the 100y backstroke alongside Jugan, and was fourth in the finals session with a time of 56.45.
Saffer competed in several events including the 100y butterfly, where she clocked a new personal top time of 56.07, taking .78 seconds off her previous best. The freshman earned an NCAA provisional qualifying time of 1:03.06 in the 100y breast, the fastest time of her career. She also swam in the 200y IM prelims and recorded a time of 2:07.30.
Curran and Quinn joined Saffer in the 100y breaststroke earning times of 1:05.61 and 1:09.03, respectively. Quinn also clocked a new personal record of 23.90 in the preliminaries of the 50y free and a time of 24.18 in the "A" finals.
In the 50y free, Nauta came close to her career-best time of 23.68 when she recorded a 23.77 in the prelims, and 23.92 in the finals. In the 200y freestyle she touched the wall in 1:51.20.
Lange also swam in the morning session of the 50y free and touched the wall in 24.56.
The sophomore's 100y fly time of 56.62 put her seventh in the prelims, and was seventh in the finals with a 57.28 clocking.
Fehrman recorded a time of 1:54.29 in the "A" finals of the 200y free and 1:54.17 in the prelims.
Tomes competed in the 500y free (5:03.37) and the 200y free (1:55.06).
Tomorrow's session will begin at 10:00 a.m. ET with the preliminaries and the finals are slated to start at 4:00 p.m.
GEORGIA BULLDOG INVITATIONAL (Women's Events)
| Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007 | |
| 10:00 a.m. | 800y freestyle relay preliminaries |
| 200y backstroke preliminaries | |
| 100y freestyle preliminaries | |
| 1650y freestyle (all heats, slow to fast) | |
| 200y breaststroke preliminaries | |
| 200y butterfly preliminaries | |
| Platform diving preliminaries | |
| 400y freestyle relay preliminaries | |
| 4:00 p.m. | 800y freestyle relay finals |
| 200y backstroke finals | |
| 100y freestyle finals | |
| 200y breaststroke finals | |
| 200y butterfly finals | |
| Platform diving finals | |
| 400y freestyle relay finals | |
