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Iowa State University Athletics
Cyclones Head To Nebraska For Pair of Dual Meets
01.25.2012 | Swimming and Diving
AMES, Iowa – After an extended break the Iowa State swimming and diving team gets back into competition this weekend with a pair of away dual meets. The Cyclones (3-2) travel to Omaha to take on the Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks (2-6) at 6 p.m. CST Friday followed by a dual meet at rival Nebraska (2-2) Saturday at 1 p.m.
The swimmers have not seen competition since Iowa State's 176-124 loss to Iowa back on Dec. 9. The Cyclones are looking to get back into action after a challenging stretch of training.
“We are in a transition stage of training,” Iowa State head coach Duane Sorenson said. “We are doing more speed work and going from aerobic work to more sprinting. We are trying to fine-tune technique to increase speed.”
Nebraska-Omaha competed in the Grinnell Invitational last weekend, finishing second in the 11-team field with 980.5 points.
“Nebraska-Omaha is a very good program,” Sorenson noted. “Every year they just seem to get better and better as the season goes along. They are making the transition to Division I from Division II. They swam very fast in December so we are looking for good competition there.”
The Cornhuskers of Nebraska have had two close losses in the past two weekends, dropping duals at Kansas 155-145 and at home against Illinois 152-148. This will not be the first time the Cyclones have seen NU, as the two teams were part of the TYR Invitational. Iowa State was third at the meet with 693 points and Nebraska's swimmers-only squad took fourth with 517 points.
“They are strong in some events, the 200, 500 and 1000 free and the 100 fly and we are strong in the backstroke and breaststroke events, the IM races and the 50 free,” Sorenson noted. “It will be a trade-off where we will both win some events. The team that makes fewer mistakes will come out as the winners.”
The divers have not been out of competition as long, competing at the Georgia Diving Invitational back in early January. The Iowa State divers will not see any competition against UNO, but the diving competition in Lincoln against the Cornhuskers should be an enthralling encounter with both teams having quality talent on 1-meter and 3-meter. Nebraska's Payton Michaud has been one of the top divers in Zone D this season and NU has depth with quality divers in Kailey Harmon, Amy Herman, Alyson Ramsey, D'Arcy Schmidt and Kaitlan Walker.
This is also the first dual meet between the two schools that will not go down in the conference standings after Nebraska's move to the Big Ten over the summer, but does not change the importance of the meet to the Cyclone staff.
“We have had great dual meets over the last five, six years,” Sorenson said. “It looks like it will be another great meet. They are swimming a similar schedule from what they did last year and they have many of the same athletes from last season. Both teams will be ready for a great competition.”
The swimmers have not seen competition since Iowa State's 176-124 loss to Iowa back on Dec. 9. The Cyclones are looking to get back into action after a challenging stretch of training.
“We are in a transition stage of training,” Iowa State head coach Duane Sorenson said. “We are doing more speed work and going from aerobic work to more sprinting. We are trying to fine-tune technique to increase speed.”
Nebraska-Omaha competed in the Grinnell Invitational last weekend, finishing second in the 11-team field with 980.5 points.
“Nebraska-Omaha is a very good program,” Sorenson noted. “Every year they just seem to get better and better as the season goes along. They are making the transition to Division I from Division II. They swam very fast in December so we are looking for good competition there.”
The Cornhuskers of Nebraska have had two close losses in the past two weekends, dropping duals at Kansas 155-145 and at home against Illinois 152-148. This will not be the first time the Cyclones have seen NU, as the two teams were part of the TYR Invitational. Iowa State was third at the meet with 693 points and Nebraska's swimmers-only squad took fourth with 517 points.
“They are strong in some events, the 200, 500 and 1000 free and the 100 fly and we are strong in the backstroke and breaststroke events, the IM races and the 50 free,” Sorenson noted. “It will be a trade-off where we will both win some events. The team that makes fewer mistakes will come out as the winners.”
The divers have not been out of competition as long, competing at the Georgia Diving Invitational back in early January. The Iowa State divers will not see any competition against UNO, but the diving competition in Lincoln against the Cornhuskers should be an enthralling encounter with both teams having quality talent on 1-meter and 3-meter. Nebraska's Payton Michaud has been one of the top divers in Zone D this season and NU has depth with quality divers in Kailey Harmon, Amy Herman, Alyson Ramsey, D'Arcy Schmidt and Kaitlan Walker.
This is also the first dual meet between the two schools that will not go down in the conference standings after Nebraska's move to the Big Ten over the summer, but does not change the importance of the meet to the Cyclone staff.
“We have had great dual meets over the last five, six years,” Sorenson said. “It looks like it will be another great meet. They are swimming a similar schedule from what they did last year and they have many of the same athletes from last season. Both teams will be ready for a great competition.”
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