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Swimming and Diving Travel to Nebraska Invitational
11.18.2008 | Swimming and Diving
AMES, Iowa- The Iowa State swimming and diving team are back in action this week, traveling to Lincoln, Nebraska for the Nebraska Invitational. The event will take place Thursday evening through Sunday afternoon at the Devaney Natatorium. Iowa State is joined at the event by hosts and defending invitational champions Nebraska, Colorado State, Nebraska-Omaha, North Texas, Northern Colorado, Northern Iowa, Rice, and South Dakota State. Iowa State head coach Duane Sorenson is optimistic about the team's chances.
“Colorado State is going to be a very good team for us to compete against along with Rice and Nebraska,” said Sorenson. “Those teams along with ourselves will create a good four-team competition for first.”
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This is the first meet for the team in two and a half weeks, when the Cyclones clinched a double-dual meet victory over Western Illinois and South Dakota State.
“We have been working on getting our speed down these past few weeks,” said Sorenson. “We are hoping that it reflects at this meet.”
The Nebraska Invitational will give the divers the chance to do preliminary round diving and final round diving as well as the season debut of platform diving. Junior diver Tien Tran captured first on the platform at the Nebraska Invitational last season. Diving coach Jeff Warrick is excited to see the team's debut in platform.
“I am pretty excited about platform. I think that our team from top to bottom is doing extremely well,” said Warrick. “Tien won the platform at this meet last season and Kali (Fryklund) was right up there. I also expect Abby Christensen to have a good meet; she came on strong last year at the end of the season in platform. Justine (Anders) has also improved her platform list.”
Warrick also said that the two-round diving format does change up strategy a bit.
“You want to come back at night so we want to put our best dives out in the preliminaries to make the finals,” said Warrick. “So then in the finals, this is the time of year where they have some harder dives that they may want to be doing well by the end of the year but they are not quite there yet, so we may give them a shot. We will weigh our options when we get there.”
The meet also gives the team an opportunity to simulate the Big 12 Championships format.
"The four-day meet format is similar to the conference championship with preliminary heats in the mornings and finals in the evenings,” said Sorenson. “It will be a good tune up and most of our women will be just focusing on one or two events at each session.”
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