Feb. 16, 2007

HOUSTON, Texas -The 2007 Conference USA Swimming and Diving Championship continues Friday at the CRWC Natatorium. After two days of competition defending league champion SMU continues to lead the event with 298 points overall after it won three events on Thursday. Rice remains in second with 212 points and the host Cougars sit in third with 192 points, followed by East Carolina with 182 and Marshall with 105.

The meet resumed at 10 a.m., today with the preliminaries of the 400-yard individual medley, 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard breaststroke and the 100-yard backstroke. The women's 1-meter and men's 3-meter diving preliminaries will begin around 1 p.m. The finals for those events are slated to begin around 6 p.m.

Tickets will be available for purchase near the front of the CRWC Natatorium beginning one hour prior to the meet Thursday morning. All-session passes are available for $25 for adults or $10 for students with valid ID. Day tickets can be purchased for $10 for adults and $5 for students with ID. Students from any C-USA school with a valid free will be admitted free to the meet.

Fans can buy an official C-USA meet program and that session's heat sheet for only $5 beginning Thursday morning. Fans who buy a program and present it to sellers prior to each session can purchase additional heat sheets for future sessions for only $3 each.

Click on the championship logo on the swimming and diving page to check out complete meet details. Updated event stats and times can be found at the following Live Stats link: http://uhcougars.cstv.com/livestats/w-swim/index.htm