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Swimming and Diving
Big 12 Duals
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Cyclone Swimmers and Divers Compete in Illinois, Nebraska
11.18.2009 | Swimming and Diving
AMES, Iowa- After a short hiatus, the Iowa State swimming and diving teams get back into competition this weekend. The Cyclone swimmers will travel to Evanston, Ill. to compete in the Northwestern Invitational Friday through Sunday. The ISU divers will be at the Husker Invitational during the same dates.
Head coach Duane Sorenson will have a full roster to work with after illness and injuries depleted squads the last two weekends.
“The team has been training very well,” Sorenson said. “We are over our sicknesses that have been going through the team the last few weeks.”
The swimmers will also get a chance to see some competition that they usually do not see from Big Ten schools Michigan State and Northwestern, as well as Cleveland State, Illinois-Chicago and 23-time Division III national champion Kenyon College.
“It is going to be a very interesting meet because we are swimming against teams that we have never seen during my tenure at Iowa State,” Sorenson said. “Northwestern is a very good team that is solid in every event, Michigan State is a strong squad as well. Illinois-Chicago and Cleveland State have good swimmers on its teams and Kenyon College is a Division III powerhouse that is either winning the national championships or are in contention.”
The Cyclone divers travel to Lincoln, Neb. to compete in the Husker Invitational during the weekend. Diving coach Jeff Warrick is looking forward to the meet and what it can mean to the divers.
“We want this meet to be a prelude to the Big 12 Championships,” Warrick said. “It is early, but we want them to approach it like that with the three-day event with a prelims and finals format. I expect them to do well and for our many of our divers to make the finals.”
The meet also presents the divers with the chance to compete in platform diving. The Iowa State divers will only get two chances to dive on platform in a competition format leading up to the conference championships.
“It is not a make or break thing to get a platform meet in, but it is still important,” said Warrick. “We get one now and we will get another opportunity in January at Georgia. We practice it a lot but getting into a competitive situation is different.”
Like the divers, the swimmers will take experience from this meet and apply it to the Big 12 Championships down the road.
“This is a great simulation of the Big 12 meet with prelims in the morning and finals in the afternoon so the format is similar,” Sorenson said. “The kids will have to race in one or two events each session and will have to step up and be ready to race. Kids will be swimming in many different races, but that is what the Big 12 Championships are all about.”
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