- Complete Meet Results
- Updated Men's Top Times
- Updated Women's Top Times
- Swimming World Magazine Recap
Basil Kaaki swam his fastest time of the year in the 50 freestyle as Penn State topped West Chester on Saturday.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; December 2, 2006 - The Penn State men??s and women??s swimming and diving teams swept visiting West Chester in a dual meet on Saturday at McCoy Natatorium. The men??s team topped the Rams by a score of 147-91 while the women won by a 152-83 score. The women improve to a perfect 5-0 in dual meets this year while the men also improve to 3-6.
The Nittany Lion women won 10 out of the 13 events contested on the women??s side and also had the top times in two other events but swam all of its swimmers as exhibitions in both of those two events. The men??s team also won 10 out of the 13 events contested on the men??s side and also had the top times in two others events as well while swimming as exhibitions.
Mike Alderman (Arlington, Va.) won both the one and three-meter springboard diving events for the Nittany Lions. Already possessing an NCAA Zone qualifying score in the one-meter from earlier this year, he put up his best score of the year in the one-meter with a 346.57 and he also put up his highest score of the year in the three-meter with a 347.40, also a zone qualifying score in the three-meter. Josh Myers (Hatfield, Pa.) finished second in the one-meter with 293.68, just missing out on a qualifying standard of 300. Myers also placed third in the three-meter.
On the women??s diving side, both Kimberlee Peifer (Camp Hill, Pa.) and Courtney Adlam (Ambler, Pa.) posted NCAA Zone qualifying scores. Peifer put up hers in the one-meter with a 277.43, over 12 points over the 265 standard while taking first place in that event. Adlam finished second with 252.38. Adlam won the three-meter with a qualifying score of 306.52, easily surpassing the standard of 280. Peifer placed second in the three-meter with 278.10. Freshman Jocelyn Avery (Norwalk, Conn.) placed fourth in both events.
Courtney Adlam won the three-meter and in doing so put up an NCAA Zone qualifying score. |
In the swimming action, the women??s day was highlighted by Kelly Nelson??s (West Chester, Pa.) swim in the 500 freestyle. Swimming in the event for the first time this year, Nelson won it with a career best time of 4:52.86, which was good enough for an NCAA ??B?? provisional qualifying score. The only NCAA cut (A or B) made on the day for the Nittany Lions, it was Nelson??s sixth NCAA cut of the year as she also already has an ??A?? cut in the 200 fly as well as ??B?? cuts in the 100 fly, 400 IM, 400 free relay and 800 free relay. The Nittany Lions also took first through third place in the 500 free as Karie Haglund (Marietta, Ga.) and Lyndsey Smith (Westminster, Md.) finished second and third.
Kailey Morris (Lewisburg, Pa.) took first place in the 1000 freestyle in a time of 10:03.37, the second-fastest time in that event for the Nittany Lions this year in her first appearance in that event this year. In the 200 free, Claire Hawley (Barnstable, Mass.) won her second race of the year as she took first in 1:53.93 while Michelle Myers (Boalsburg, Pa.), swimming in the 200 free for the first time this year, placed second in 1:54.02.
In the 200 IM, Daphne Skelos (Rockville Centre, N.Y.) took first place with a time of 2:06.76, winning by over seconds over the second place finisher in just her second entry in that event this year. Clare Clemens (Staten Island, N.Y.) and Molly Crispell (Boalsburg, Pa.) took second and third place behind Skelos.
Swimming in the 100 fly for the first time this year and only the second time in her career, Abby Hoisington (Leawood, Kans.) won the event in :59.08. Kristin Smith (Columbia, Md.) and Kaitlyn Ferguson (Mamaroneck, N.J.) also picked up points in the 100 fly with third and fourth place finishes, respectively. Kaitlin O??Brien (Caldwell, N.J.) also won the 100 backstroke while swimming in the event for only the second time in her career, coming in first with a time of :59.93 while Megan Palera (Santa Maria, Calif.) finished second and Caitlin Meehan (West Chester, Pa.) placed fourth. In the 100 free, Jessica Barnes (Glenmoore, Pa.) won the event with a season and career-best time of :52.88.
On the men??s side, the 200 medley relay team of Pat Schirk (Pottstown, Pa.), Kyle Miranda (Louisville, Colo.), Tim Williams (North Bend, Ohio) and Dan Kaiserian (Radnor, Pa.) took first place in 1:33.19, the second-fastest time of the year in that event for Penn State. The ??B?? team of Dan Fimbianti (Mahwah, N.J.), Brian Spittler (Woodstock, Ill.), Basil Kaaki (Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia) and Sean Swanepoel (Lincoln Mead, So. Afr.) finished second.
Kimberlee Peifer won the one-meter and also put up an NCAA Zone qualifying score in that event. |
Penn State dominated the 1000 free as it took first through third place. Colin Quirk (Pittsburgh, Pa.) won in a time of 9:36.46, followed by Ryan DeWeese (Midlothian, Va.) in 9:41.88 and Max Ettore (Medford, N.J.) in 9:49.08.
In the 50 free, Kaaki won in a time of :21.22 for his first first place finish of the year. He would later swim his fastest 50 free of the year (:21.02) while leading off the 200 free relay team that swam the second-fastest time of the year for the Nittany Lions in that event at 1:23.38.
Spittler won his first event of the year with a first place finish in the 200 IM with a season-best time of 1:55.15. Swanepoel also won his first event of the year with a first place finish in the 100 free in :46.33. Fimbianti did the same, winning his first race of the year in the 100 backstroke with a time of :52.35.
Williams claimed his fourth first place finish of the year as we won the 100 fly in a time of :51.05. In the 500 free, Penn State claimed first and second place in Sean Biedermann (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Quirk, respectively.
The diving teams will next be in action on January 6-7 as they travel to the Georgia Diving Invite. The swimming teams will also have over a month off prior to their next meet, as they will next compete in a meet to be announced in Florida on Friday, January 12. That TBA meet will wrap up the teams?? winter training in Florida, which will get started just after the new year.