East Carolina University
Conference USA Championships
Pirates In Second Place At C-USA Championships
February 27, 2008 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Feb. 27, 2008
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HOUSTON, Texas --- Sixteen East Carolina swimmers earned All-Conference USA honors Wednesday on day one of the 2008 Conference USA Women's Swimming & Diving Championship and Invitational at the CRWC Natatorium on the campus of the University of Houston.
All-conference honors are awarded to competitors who place third or higher.
The 200-yard medley relay team of Alli Miller, Stephanie Harper, Amanda Duncan and Jenna Stewart earned a second place finish with a time of 1:45.01. The women's 800-yard freestyle relay team claimed a third place finish as the squad of Rebecca Perry, Rachel Blue, Meghan Brosi and Jackie Jones touched in a time of 7:34.43.
The ECU men's 200-yard medley relay team of Greg Neville, Roman Sandler, Andrew Stoker and Adam Papendick place third in the event with a time of 1:31.22. The 800-yard freestyle relay team also claimed a third place finish as Thiago Cavalcanti, Blake Briese, Andrew Christian and Geoff Handsfield completed the race with a time of 6:49.20.
Rice leads the C-USA Championship team scoring after day one with 74 points, followed by East Carolina with 66 and Marshall with 60. SMU sits in fourth with 40 points on the strength of their record-setting relay, while Houston is fifth with 30 points.
First-year women's invitational members Northern Colorado (56) and Cal State Bakersfield (52) sit in fourth and fifth in the invitational team scoring.
Men's teams from league schools East Carolina and SMU along with Hawaii and Cal State Bakersfield are also competing in the C-USA men's invitational. SMU leads that event after day one with 108 points, followed by East Carolina and Hawai'i with 104 and Cal State Bakersfield with 44.
The meet resumes at 10 a.m., Thursday with the preliminaries of the 500-yard freestyle, 200-yard individual medley and the 50-yard freestyle. The women's 3-meter diving preliminaries will begin around 1 p.m. The finals for those events are slated to begin around 6 p.m.
