Feb. 23, 2007
OKLAHOMA CITY - The San Diego State swimming and diving team finished the third day of the Mountain West conference championship meet with three swimmers and a relay setting personal season bests. It was also a day in which the Aztecs saw their first diver compete in the platform event since the league meet was first held in 2002.
With one day of competition remaining, the Aztecs are in ninth place with 118 points, just behind eighth-place Air Force, which has a three-day score of 129. Brigham Young continues to hold onto the top spot with 542 points.
Junior Katie Smith turned in SDSU's best finish of the meet thus far, taking sixth place in the 100 backstroke. Her time of 58.32 was the season best by and Aztec by over a second and was also just .08 second off her career-best mark of 58.24.
San Diego State had a pair of swimmers score points in the 100 breaststroke as freshmen Jessica Morrill (1:07.15) and Christine Graham (1:07.51) finished fourth and fifth in the B final respectively. Graham's time of 1:07.11 in the preliminaries for the event was her best as an Aztec.
Also scoring for SDSU were Ana Dowell in the 100 butterfly (sixth in the B final at 58.18) and Kimberlee Frith (eighth in the B final with a time of 1:56.78). Dowell earlier turned in a personal season-best mark of 57.96 in the prelims for the 100 fly.
The foursome of Smith, Morrill, Dowell and Firth finished eighth in the 400 medley relay as they established the season's top time for the team in that event at 3:55.00.
In the platform diving, freshman Amy Freeberg became to first Aztec to compete in the event at an MWC title meet as she finished a very respectable 10th with a score of 197.50.
The MWC Championships wrap up on Saturday with preliminaries and finals in five individual events along with the 400 freestyle relay. Action gets underway at 10:00 a.m. (CST) at the Oklahoma City Community College Aquatic Center.