Jan. 30, 2007
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IRVING, Texas - Rice downed Houston and New Orleans, but fell to LSU in its final regular season meet last weekend to improve to 10-6 on the year. The Cougars also took out UNO to close their regular season at 17-6. In other action, East Carolina (9-4) fell to Duke and Marshal (5-6) fell to Ohio. All five swimming programs will return to the waters Feb 14-17 at the 2007 C-USA Swimming and Diving Championship on the campus of Houston at the CRWC Natatorium.
SWIMMER/DIVER of the Week (1/30)
Rice junior Brittany Massengale swept both distance events at the LSU Quad Meet last weekend to earn this week's Conference USA Swimmer of the Week award. Massengale's wins helped the Owls defeat C-USA rival Houston. The Cougars were still impressive in the diving events and claim their seventh Diver of the Week award in 2006-07. Ginni Van Katwijk led the UH divers in Baton Rouge as she recorded a career-best 303.83 points on the three-meter board and notched 266.92 on the one-meter to grab the weekly honor.
SWIMMER of the Week (1/30)
BRITTANY MASSENGALE - Rice
Jr., Alma, Arkansas (Alma)
Rice junior Brittany Massengale swept both distance events last weekend at the LSU Quad Meet in Baton Rouge. Massengale won the 500-freetsyle with a time of 5:00.10 and the 1,000-free with a season-best time of 10:09.12. Her mark in the 1,000 is one of the top times in the conference this year. Massengale's wins helped the Owls defeat C-USA rival Houston, 189-152. This is Massengale's third career weekly swimming honor and her first in 2006-07.
DIVER of the Week (1/30)
GINNI VAN KATWIJK - Houston
Jr., Grootebroek, Netherlands (RSG Enkhuizen)
Van Katwijk was the Cougars' leading performer during a quad meet against Conference USA rival Rice, New Orleans and host LSU in Baton Rouge, La., last weekend. The junior finished third in both events, while scoring 266.92 points on the one-meter springboard and a career-best 303.83 points on the three-meter board. The weekly award is the first in van Katwijk's career at Houston.
2006-07 C-USA WOMEN'S SWIMMERS/DIVERS OF THE WEEK
O17 S- Szintia Szanto, Houston
D- Anna Keiss, Houston
O24 S- Anja Carman, SMU
D -Christie Icenhower, East Carolina
O31 S- Petra Klosova, SMU
D- Anastasia Pozdniakova, Houston
N8 S- Diane Gu, Rice
D- Anastasia Pozdniakova, Houston
N14 S- Jennifer Blackman, SMU
D- Kristin Schild, SMU
N21 S- Petra Klosova, SMU
D- Anastasia Pozdniakova, Houston
D5 S- Erin Mattson, Rice
D- Anastasia Pozdniakova, Houston
D19 S- Katie Roberts, SMU
D- No Diver Awarded
J9 S- Petra Klosova, SMU
D- Kristin Schild, SMU
J16 S- Sasha Schwendenwein, Houston
D- Christie Icenhower, East Carolina
J23 S- Szintia Szanto, Houston
D- Anastasia Pozdniakova, Houston
J30 S- Brittany Massengale, Rice
D- Ginni van Katwijk, Houston
2006-07 C-USA TOP TIMES
For a list of C-USA Women's Swimming Top Times, please go to: https://secure.sportssystems.com/ScoreReporting/cusa/sportID/1/g/W
ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
Conference USA will name an Swimmer and Diver of the week throughout the regular season. The Athlete of the Week awards are selected by the C-USA media relations department and announced every Tuesday throughout the season.
2007 C-USA SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIP
The 2007 C-USA Women's Swimming & Diving Championship and Men's Invitational is slated for February 14-17 in Houston, Texas. The four-day event will be hosted by Houston in the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center Natatorium. All five C-USA women's swimming and diving programs will participate in the championship, while East Carolina, SMU and Hawaii will participate in the men's invitational.
OTHER NOTABLE PERFORMANCES
(1/22 - 1/28)
REBECCA PERRY - East Carolina
Perry led the Lady Pirates with three first place finishes Saturday against Duke. She touched first in the 50 (24.37), 100 (53.45) and 200-yard (1:53.39) freestyle events. Perry was followed by a pair of teammates in the 50 and 100 to give ECU a sweep of the top three places in the freestyle sprint races.
SZINTIA SZANTO - Houston
Szanto was the Cougars' leading swimmer during a quad meet against Conference USA rival Rice, New Orleans and host LSU in Baton Rouge, La., and in a relay meet against New Orleans, She grabbed top honors in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:06.00 to finish nearly three-and-a-half seconds ahead of her closest competitor during the first half of that quad meet. Szanto finished third in the 100-yard butterfly and swam the anchor leg of the Cougars' 400-yard freestyle relay team that finished third. She posted another event win during the second half of that quad meet. Szanto won the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:02.16, the fourth-fastest time in school history and finished second in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:05.61.
MICHAELA SCELI - Marshall
Sceli swept the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke events in the Herd's season finale against Ohio Tuesday. Sceli touched the wall at 1:07.22 in the 100-yard event, inching out Ohio's Karen Liddy (1:07.66) by less than five-tenths of a second. Sceli's victory in the 200-yard discipline was much more decisive as the junior won by more than three seconds (2:24.00).
