University of Houston
Louisiana Monroe
Swimming and Diving Wins Second Straight Dual Meet
10/27/2001 12:00:00 AM | Swimming & Diving
Oct. 27, 2001
MONROE, La. - The University of Houston swimming and diving team used a solid team effort Saturday to cruise to a 197-90 win over Louisiana-Monroe at the ULM Natatorium.
The Cougars, who won their second straight dual meet in as many weeks, captured first place in 10 of the 16 events during the day's schedule. In the remaining six events that UH did not place first, the Cougars rebounded to take second and third places.
Junior Falon Hopkins led all Cougar swimmers by taking first place in the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard butterfly. With her time of 25.00 in the 50 freestyle, the Houston native established a new Cougar season-best.
Hopkins also claimed first place in the 100 butterfly with a mark of 59.92. Other Cougar winners and their events were Veronica Smith (3-meter diving), Lucile Turpin (200-yard butterfly), Elissa Nelson (100-yard freestyle), Stacey Ebeling (200-yard breaststroke), Jessica Dewitt (200-yard individual medley) and Lindsay Harvey (1-meter diving).
Dewitt set a new Cougar season best in the 200-yard individual medley with her time of 2:12.39, shaving nearly a second of the previous UH best.
Two-time national champion Yulia Pakhalina was held out of the meet by the Cougar coaching staff.
In addition to the individual events, the Cougars also claimed first place in both the 200-yard medley and the 400-yard freestyle relays. In the 200 medley, the UH team of Hopkins, Ebeling, Kristin Bay and Kristen Douglass took home top honors with a time of 1:53.22.
The 400 freestyle team of Bay, Nelson, Douglass and Hopkins also won with a mark of 3:45.81.
UH returns to action at 7 p.m. Friday when it faces Arkansas at Fayetteville, Ark., to start a two-meet road swing. After facing the Razorbacks, the Cougars continue north to meet host Southwest Missouri State and Kansas in Springfield, Mo., on Saturday.
