Swimming: First Day Results from Notre Dame Invite
December 03, 2004 03:41 PM | General
December 3, 2004
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - The West Virginia University men's swimming and diving team finished day one of competition at the Notre Dame Invitational in South Bend, Ind., in second place while the women finished fifth on Thursday, Dec. 2.
The men finished the first of the three-day event with 377 points trailing only host Notre Dame which leads with 858 points. The women completed their first day with 263 points just 7.5 points behind fourth place Denison (270.5).
In the men's first competition of the day the 200 free relay team comprised of Chris Hagedorn, Pedro Pinto, Kyle Williams and Matt Drozd finished second behind the Irish with a time of 1:22.26.
Senior Matt Drozd captured WVU's only individual title of the day when he took first in the 50 free in 20.57 seconds.
Freshman Pablo Marmolejo continued his stellar 2004 campaign with a second place finish in the 200 IM. Swimming in the usually unfavorable lane eight, Marmolejo finished in 1:51.95, less than 0.5 seconds behind Notre Dame's Tim Kegelman.
In diving sophomore Bob Butcher put up the Mountaineers' best performance of the day on the three-meter board with a sixth place finish.
For the women freshman Tina Gabrilo shined once again as she finished second in the 200 IM with a time of 2:07.56.
Jennifer Nyce finished in eighth on the one-meter board to give WVU its best women's diving performance of the day.
The Mountaineers also had five other swimmers put up qualifying times for the BIG EAST Championships. Those swimmers include junior Ashley Bisset in the 500 free (5:07.83), freshman Erin Tudor in the 50 free (24.37, lifetime best), senior Tommy Fletcher in the 500 free (4:41.27), junior Rick Mann in the 50 free (21.29) and 100 back (51.09, lifetime best) and junior Steve Early in the 100 back (53.57).
Updates from today's swimming can be found at www.und.com throughout the day.
