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Swimming and Diving Swept at Southwest Missouri State
11/9/2001 12:00:00 AM | Swimming & Diving
Nov. 9, 2001
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - The University of Houston swimming and diving team dropped a pair of dual meets to Kansas and host Southwest Missouri State on Saturday.
UH (2-5) lost to SMS by a 95-45 tally and fell to Kansas 91-48.
Sophomore diver Yulia Pakhalina continued her dominance by winning first place in both the one-meter and three-meter springboard competitions. In three dual meets this weekend at Arkansas and SMS, the Moscow, Russia, native was the only diver to score more than 300 points in each event.
Cougar swimmer Jessica Blake also captured first place in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:10.63. The junior set a new season-best in that category for the Cougars, shaving nearly three seconds off the previous best mark.
Elissa Nelson (1,000-yard freestyle), Jessica Dewitt (200-yard butterfly) and the 400-yard freestyle relay team of Nelson, Kristin Bay, Stacey Ebeling and Kristen Douglass also placed second in their respective events.
The Cougar swimmers will now take advantage of the break in the schedule as they will not compete again until Nov. 29-Dec. 1 when return to Fayetteville, Ark., for the Arkansas Invitational.
However, the Cougar divers will continue their schedule when they compete at the Tennessee Invitational on Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn.
