Dec. 5, 2006
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IRVING, Texas - Both Houston and Marshall participated in the Miami (Ohio) Invitational last week. The Cougars took seventh and the Herd claimed ninth place overall. SMU sent individuals to the U.S. Open and has an impressive 13 players with top 50 times in the latest collegeswimming.com Top 50 Times list. Rice swam the only dual meet last week, falling to Texas A&M 151-101.
SWIMMER/DIVER of the Week (12/5)
Rice's Erin Mattson and Houston's Anastasia Pozdniakova are this week's Conference USA Swimmer and Diver of the Week, respectively. Mattson won the 200-yard butterfly and was also a member of Rice's winning 200-freestyle relay team in the Owls' dual meet against No. 5 Texas A&M. Pozdniakova continues to dominate in springboard competition as she won both the one- and three-meter events at the Texas Diving Invitational. She scored more than 300 points in both events and was the only diver to crack the 300 mark on the one-meter board.
SWIMMER of the Week (12/5)
ERIN MATTSON - Rice
Fr., Highland, Illinois (Highland)
Mattson won the 200-yard butterfly with a season-best time of 2:05.21 and she was a member of Rice's winning 200-freestyle relay team in the Owls' only event of the week, a dual meet on the road against fifth-ranked Texas A&M on Saturday. The freshman led from start to finish for her victory in the 200-fly. Not only was her winning time the Owls' best mark of the year, it is actually Rice's best in two years dating back to the school record set in the spring of 2005. The Rice rookie from Highland, Ill., came back later in the meet and swam a strong third leg of 200-free relay. The Owls posted a winning relay time of 1:38.10. This is Mattson's first career weekly honor.
DIVER of the Week (12/5)
ANASTASIA POZDNIAKOVA - Houston
So., Elektrosal, Russia (Secondary General Educational School No. 16)
Pozdniakova was the leading competitor for the Cougars at the Texas Invitational as she won both the one- and three-meter springboard competitions. The sophomore scored 383.10 points in the three-meter finals to win by nearly 27 points. She outscored all divers in the prelims of the three-meter as well, scoring 334.65 points. In the one-meter finals, she won by nearly 40 points, scoring 316.70. Her prelim total of 312.00 also led all divers. Pozdniakova was the only diver to crack 300 points on the one-meter board and accomplished the score in both the preliminaries and the finals. The weekly award is the fourth of the season (Oct. 31, Nov. 8 and Nov. 21) for the reigning C-USA Freshman Diver of the Year and the sixth of her career.
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
PLAYERS 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.
OTHER NOTABLE PERFORMANCES
(11/27 - 12/2)
SZINTIA SANTO - Houston
Szanto was the Cougars' leading performer at the Miami (OH) Inviational. She posted a time of 2:19.24 to win the 200-yard breastroke. The time was the seventh-fastest time in school history. Szanto also finished second in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:03.06 and was a member of the third-place 800-yard freestyle relay team that finished in 7:37.75.
MICHAELA SCELI - Marshall
Sceli saved her most impressive performance of the weekend for Saturday. Sceli shattered the school's 200-yard breaststroke record by more than three seconds, recording a mark of 2:20.85 to finish with the fifth-best time at the 13th annual Miami Invitational. Sceli's season-best time was less than three-tenths of a second off her career-best time in the 200-yard breaststroke, which she set at Southern Illinois (2:20.64). Friday, Sceli set a new school mark in the 100-yard breaststroke - a time of 1:05.58 - to finish fifth.
PETRA KLOSOVA - SMU
On the first day of the US Open, Klosova posted a time of 25.65m (22.94y) in the 50 free for ninth place. With this time, she topped several categories including the best time in the conference and an SMU team best as well. She did not swim on the second day but on the final day, Klosova came out of the prelims, tied with Teresa Wilson (unattached) as the top seed in the 100 free with a time of 57.00m (49.91y) and in the finals, Klosova powered past Wilson placing second with a time of 56.39m (49.36y) as Wilson fell to third.
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
