University of Houston Athletics
Pozdniakova, van Katwijk to Compete at NCAA Championships
3/7/2007 12:00:00 AM | Swimming & Diving
March 7, 2007
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - University of Houston divers Anastasia Pozdniakova and Ginni van Katwijk will compete at the nation's top collegiate meet this weekend when they take part at the 2007 NCAA Championships at the University Aquatic Center.
The meet begins Thursday and runs through Saturday evening. Swimming preliminaries are scheduled to start at 11 a.m., each day with the diving preliminaries slated to start at 1 p.m. The finals for all events will start at 7 p.m., each day.
Divers will compete on the 1-meter springboard on Thursday, the 3-meter board on Friday and wrap up their stay on the platform Sunday.
All-session tickets are available for $52. Single-session tickets for the preliminaries are $10 each day with finals session tickets going for $12.
Both divers will make their first appearances at the NCAA Championships following impressive performances at the NCAA Zone D meet in Austin last weekend. Pozdniakova captured the titles on both the 1- and 3-meter springboards, while van Katwijk finished third on the 3-meter board to earn her place.
Pozdniakova leads the Cougar divers after winning both the 1- and 3-meter springboard events during the recent C-USA Championship at UH's own Campus Recreation & Wellness Center Natatorium on Feb. 14-17.
A four-time C-USA Diver of the Week recipient in 2006-07, the Elektrostal, Russia, native was recognized for her impressive performances as the C-USA Diver of the Meet.
van Katwijk is the newest member of the Cougar diving corps after transferring from Wyoming. However, the Grootebroek, Netherlands, native made an immediate impact during her first season and joined Pozdniakova as the only divers to finish among the Top Three individual leaders in all three diving events at the C-USA Championship.
The Cougar divers are under the leadership of Jane Figueiredo, who recently was named the C-USA Diving Coach of the Year for the sixth consecutive season. Now in her 17th season as the diving head coach, Figueiredo has led 23 divers to the NCAA Championships.
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