Husky Invite Day 2 Prelims

Day 2 Prelims Result

NCAA Automatic Cut:
Sara Nicponski 1:01.73 (100 breast)

Personal Best Times from this morning include:
Courtney Bauer 1:52.44 (200 free)
Brooks Felton 1:41.52 (200 free)
Naomi Javanifard 55.89 (100 fly)
Naomi Javanifard 57.65 (100 back)
Dan Morris 1:41.86 (200 free)
Dan Nyaradi 56.62 (100 breast)

The Gaucho men and women had better morning swims than yesterday morning. Many did better preparing for the prelims while some are still struggling to get up and go in the morning. We had a few 9th seedings going into the finals tonight, and we need to do a better job squeezing into the top 8.

Let's go Gauchos!!!

Husky Invite Day 1 Finals

We hired a camera man/commentator for the finals tonight. Enjoy the comments!


NCAA Consideration Cuts from tonight's finals:
Women's 200 Free Relay 1:32.47 (School Record by .19 second)
Men's 200 Free Relay 1:20.35
Men's 200 IM Matt Bartlett 1:48.53
Women's 50 Free Anne Marie May 22.64
Women's 400 Medley Relay 3:41.03 (School Record by 3.24 seconds)

Personal Best Times:
Matt Bartlett 1:48.53 (200 IM)
Brittany Borowitz 2:05.88 (200 IM)
Courtney Bauer 23.83 (50 Free)
Nadia Dwidar 23.83 (50 Free)
Brooks Felton 4:27.83 (500 Free)
Naomi Javanifard 23.89 (50 Free)
Katie Ure 2:08.86 (200 IM)
Scott Vogelgesang 20.50 (50 Free)
Erin Yamamoto 24.00 (50 Free leading off)

There were four female swimmers who went under 49 seconds anchoring a relay in the US today. Anne Marie was one of the three college swimmers who went under while one high school senior joined those three college freestylers.

Day 1 Finals Results

Husky Invite Day 1 Prelims

Bradley is thinking about shaving this much hair. It doesn't look like he has a choice. Does it?

The online results are not up at this point (Thursday at 2 pm), so here is what Gauchos did this morning. All the relays will be swam in the evening.

Men's 500 free
Brooks Felton 4:31.50 (10th)
Pat Cary 4:34.11 (12th personal best time)

Women's 200 IM
Brittan Borowitz 2:06.05 (12th)
Sara Niponski 2:06.44 (13th)
Erin Yamamoto 2:06.98 (15th)
Courtney Jenkins 2:07.01 (16th)
Jessica Cruzat 2:07.39 (18th)
Katie Ure 2:09.51 (27th)
Katy Freeman 2:10.13 (29th)

Men's 200 IM
Matt Bartlett 1:51.26 (8th)
Chris Good 1:52.70 (17th)
Danny McClary 1:52.74 (18th)
Dan Nyaradi 1:54.09 (25th)
Chris Wiggin 1:57.87 (46th personal best time)

Women's 50 Free
Anne Marie May 23.04 (1st)
Nadia Dwidar 23.95 (11th)
Courtney Bauer 23.99 (12th personal best time tie)
Naomi Javanifard 24.32 (20th)
Jenisse DeMeulenaere 24.56 (28th)

Men's 50 Free
Matt Sullivan 20.63 (8th)
Bradley Matsumoto 20.68 (11th)
Jeff Sudbury 20.72 (12th)
Scott Vogelgesang 20.73 (14th)

Now that I finished typing these ... the results from this morning is up!
Day 1 Prelims Results

Seattle ... here we come

2007 Husky Invitational Swim Meet
Results can be found here

vs. Cal State Bakersfield

The Gaucho men and women traveled to Bakersfield for a dual meet against Cal State Bakersfield for the first time since the 2003-2004 season. The Roadrunners moved to Division I this year, and they were ready to take the next step when the Gauchos arrived to the Hilman Aquatic Center on Saturday. The Gaucho women won every event except the 200 back while the Gaucho men lost the first three events. The men responded really well when changes were made in the line-up and swam some best events instead of off events that they were excited to swim that day.


Nadia Dwidar's Speed Skater


We had many families coming to cheer for us at the meet. Thank you, Gaucho fans!!

vs Cal Poly and UC San Diego

As we don't have a block in lane 9 anymore, tri-meets seem to become long home meets for the Gauchos this season. We had a lot of energy and some life-time best times through the meet. Cal Poly won a few close races, and UCSD challenged our relays.
We definitely need to work on relay starts. Ouch! Gauchos=blue cap

Joe Plume Back in the Days

Appreciating the Youtube ...

You never know what you find on the Internet.
Joe Plume received the Rockie of the Year award for the UCSB men's swim team last year. Joe-who made this cool video of yours?