November 11, 2007

Slug’s Swim in Home Opener against University of Denver

The UCSC men’s and women’s swim teams swam their first home meet of the season this past Saturday.  Their meet with Division 1 University of Denver marked the first time these two teams met in the schools’ history.  The women fell with a final score of 112-185, and the men were defeated 109-171. 

Senior Erin Hunter earned an NCAA automatic qualifying time in the 400 IM with a time of 4:31.82.  That time currently ranks her first in all of Division 3 swimming.  Erin’s time of 2:11.65 was enough to place her first in the 200 butterfly as well.  Other event winners for the Slugs were Stephanie Luu in the 100 backstroke (1:02.25), Kate O’niell in the 100 breaststroke (1:08.44), and Andra Steinbergs in the 50 freestyle (25.25).

On the men’s side, the 400 free relay team of Kenton Drake, Jamie Johnson, Troy Marcikic, and Ben Ferguson achieved a winning time of 3:14.35.  Sophomore Ben Ferguson won the 100 freestyle coming in at 47.36.  Senior sprinter Troy Marcikic finished off the sweep of the sprint freestyle events by winning the 50 freestyle with a time of 22.27. 

Sophomore breaststroker Nolan Rogers stated that: “We had some really fast swims, and it was a good warm up for next weekend.” The slugs will head down to Long Beach on Wednesday to swim at Nike Cup.